Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by marssaxman on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:02PM
(#24296593)
Oh god. My phone has one of those - there's some sort of swipe gesture which puts it into a split-screen mode, which I have only ever invoked accidentally, and I have no idea how to get rid of it - none of my various guesses at possible anti-swipe actions have worked. When I pull my phone out of my pocket to discover that it has gotten into this state, I just reboot.
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> Oh god. My phone has one of those - there's some sort of swipe gesture which puts it into a split-screen mode, which I have only ever invoked accidentally
Somehow my 1 year old son can invoke it repeatably every time he gets his grubby little hands on my phone...
Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by baggy_trough on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:06PM
(#24297370)
iPad multitasking modes are like that. Easy to trigger, impossible to get away from without a Google search.
You can disable it on the iPad from:
Settings | Home Screen & Dock | Multitasking | Allow Multiple Apps
No idea if the same setting exists on iPhone or if it disabled split screen through.
The whole feature is so badly designed on iPad. I was forever detaching a Safari page and ending up with two Safari apps. So tapping the Safari icon wouldn't take me back, it only takes you to the detached page, and you think you have "lost" all the other pages. You need to close the detached page (none of that would be obvious to a novice). Also getting a page to detach into a popup by mistake, and then not being able to get rid of it (I still don't know the correct swiping motions!)
Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by baggy_trough on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:44PM
(#24299507)
It's one of the most baffling UI's I've seen. Like it's actively designed to thwart you.
Usually, I don’t even know how did I trigger it. It takes me a few seconds to get out of it..
Plus that one time when you need two apps next to each other, once a year, you forget WTF the gesture was. It certainly isn't something logical.
Re:Scrollbar Blindness
by climb_stealth on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:16PM
(#24299754)
Try dragging the divider all the way to the top or bottom. This seems to work on my Android phone.