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Swiping right from left to go back is a horrible horrible way of implementing a "back button" and you should never do it, always have an actual back. Why? Becau
by mrweasel 3y ago
Swiping right from left to go back is a horrible horrible way of implementing a "back button" and you should never do it, always have an actual back. Why? Because left handed people exists. It's a not a natural of comfortable movement when done with your left thumb. You also can reverse the direction for left handed people, because if you normally read left to right, then swiping right seems like it should take you forward, not back.
Generally I'm not a fan of swiping to navigate. On iOS it's really bad, because swiping from the bottom up, you bring up some menu, which actually contain a bunch of important stuff, which you can never find when you need it, but which you will trigger constantly when scrolling a web page.
Perhaps more generally: iOS have devolved into a horribly complicated OS that is an absolute nightmare to navigate and I feel like Apple should start to take UI/UX serious again. Mostly the issue to me seems to be the expectation that the phone should handle a whole hosts of tasks for which it is ill suited.
- tanjtanjtanj 3y agoI exclusively use my phone with my left hand and I have no issue with the swipe to go back gesture in iOS.