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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by alexdbird on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:42PM (#36911316)
> it will take many years for apps to adopt it

This is the flaw with the Apple back gesture, sadly, as although it's generally really easy to support this in native app — essentially it comes for free and you just don't break it — plenty of developers just don't care about invisible quality of life things.

The gesture is properly called 'Interactive Pop'.

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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by kaba0 on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:27PM (#36912002)
How is it different to android developers breaking shit? It’s not hard to break the “atomic” back gesture either, hell, websites are getting really good at breaking my back button!

Shitty apps/developers are everywhere, we should not limit ourselves over them.

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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by alexdbird on Friday July 28, 2023 @04:30PM (#36912873)
I'm not sure I understand you. If an Android developer breaks the back gesture, surely they also break the back button, so they've completely broken the back function? An iOS app can have fully functional back buttons, but break the back gesture only.
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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by jwells89 on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:12PM (#36911774)
It's not a perfect rule but most fully native (as in written with Obj-C or Swift) tend to leave this functionality intact. For React Native and other alternative UI stacks all bets are off.
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Re:US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments ... by macintosh-hd on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:51PM (#36911451)
Proton Mail's app broke the gesture and it annoys me at least 5 times per week.
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