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I might be dense, but what's the back gesture exactly?

EDIT: Got it, swiping from left to right, starting from the very border of the screen. Not super intuitive but simple enough

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That's Apple's native way of going back across macOS and iOS no? I'm not an Apple user and even I've come across this when handling a family member's device for a few minutes

Maybe Android's visual ←back button is the way to go after all instead of hoping someone will accidentally discover implicit gestures

It’s only intuitive when you see a page slide from the right to the left. Then you know you can go back to the previous page with a left to right slide. I’ve never seen it used to close a modal

Android can work either way. I turn off the gestures because I prefer the explicit back button.

I've been on iOS for like seven years and have never done this. But... hey, it works!

Do you already know the one where you swipe alongside the bottom of the screen from left to right, or right to left? If not it's probably one of my most used gestures to swipe between apps.

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