The trick to this is to attach a handle to the back of it. I'm using one that telescopes from the "popsockets" brand (I'm unaffiliated and have no idea how it compares with other brands). It makes it possible for me to access all parts of my screen holding it one handed. It should be a standard feature.

I want a handle on the back of my phone even less than I want a larger phone. I also refuse to use cases and any other contraption that adds further bulk.

I have had an excellent experience with the OhSnap grip. https://ohsnap.com/products/snap-grip It is significantly smaller than the popsocket and adds a strong magnet which can attach your phone to magnetic surfaces. It looks flimsy, but I've had it two years and even moved phones and it shows no signs of breaking.

Totally agree. Apply can pry my iPhone SE 3 from my cold dead hands.

The perfect form factor. Touch ID instead of Face ID. It's the absolute pinnacle of the iPhone models, based on the iPhone 6.

I don't understand why I can't just have this same phone with a slightly better camera. That's all I want.

Occasionally I reach around the other side to press buttons as if I am using a guitar/violin grip but I don't do this enough to not be awkward

You can actually swipe down starting at the bottom third of the screen, and the top of the screen will move down so you can reach it with one hand.

Or they can make the phone human-sized and not resort to software hacks to resolve poor ergonomics.

That helps with reaching up, but my thumb also doesn't reach the far bottom corner either. I don't have a super-octave handspan but I don't have small hands either.

Thanks to their incredibly poor demos I believed until THIS MORNING that to do that maneuver, you had to start your downward swipe ON the little bar that's about 2px from the bottom of the screen (which works, but is nearly impossible with a case).

I'm glad other people have chimed in. It drives me insane that no one thought to make one-hand mode not change the width as well or be a total aspect change.

Just make it configurable yknow

I have a Unihertz Jelly Star, it fits in my hand and it works great.

Unihertz would be an amzing phone company if they updated their software literally ever.

Instead you are stuck with the OS, and security updates, that were out a year before you bought it. And you can't install LineageOS either.