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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by SyrupThinker on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:03AM (#36906945)
Am I misunderstanding something, I think that gesture exists on iOS?

Swiping from the left screen edge to the right navigates back in any properly designed app.

Alternatively sheets are usually dismissed by swiping down.

Do you have particular apps or contexts in mind where this did not work?

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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by realusername on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:55PM (#36911496)
On iOS it's app dependant, it might work or not. On Android, swiping left guarantees a going back event sent from the OS, it'll always 100% work.
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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by entropy273 on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:09PM (#36911740)
90% of apps (that don’t override the default UINavigationController behavior or use some custom cross-platform framework) support the back swipe gesture.
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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by n8cpdx on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:06PM (#36911691)
Except if the gesture recognition is bad, which it has always been on the phones I’ve used it with. But maybe it improved recently.
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