<story><title>Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone</title><url>https://trygalaxy.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TetOn</author><text>Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; function with or without the presence of a &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; arrow at the top-left corner.</text></item><item><author>Toutouxc</author><text>IMO it&amp;#x27;s fine. I had a Galaxy S9 a few years ago for two weeks (had to return it because of hardware issues) and it felt nice to use, smooth and modern. I&amp;#x27;ve used many kinds of phones in my life, dumb phones, Symbian, Windows on PDAs and smartphones, Android from 1.6 up until now, and even though I&amp;#x27;m firmly team Apple at this moment, I have to say that not having a dedicated &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; button or gesture and only occasionally showing a &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; arrow in the top-left corner (i.e. the one you can&amp;#x27;t reach one-handed) really stands out among the stupid UI decisions I&amp;#x27;ve seen. Yes, iOS is fast and polished, it&amp;#x27;s just that pretty often I&amp;#x27;m not sure how I got somewhere and how to get out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Toutouxc</author><text>I was actually looking forward to this coming to iOS, but it’s one of the things that work great until they suddenly don’t. Back from a photo in Photos? Swipe down or top left corner. Hide the keyboard? Middle right. Back from someone’s profile in Messages? Swipe down or top right. Back from a PDF in Files? No swipes, just top right. Some of these do make sense if you follow closely how the UI elements fly onto the screen, but are confusing if you don’t.</text></comment>
<story><title>Try Galaxy: A web app to demo Samsung’s OS on an iPhone</title><url>https://trygalaxy.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TetOn</author><text>Swiping left to right from the leftmost edge of the phone onto the screen will execute the &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; function with or without the presence of a &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; arrow at the top-left corner.</text></item><item><author>Toutouxc</author><text>IMO it&amp;#x27;s fine. I had a Galaxy S9 a few years ago for two weeks (had to return it because of hardware issues) and it felt nice to use, smooth and modern. I&amp;#x27;ve used many kinds of phones in my life, dumb phones, Symbian, Windows on PDAs and smartphones, Android from 1.6 up until now, and even though I&amp;#x27;m firmly team Apple at this moment, I have to say that not having a dedicated &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; button or gesture and only occasionally showing a &amp;quot;back&amp;quot; arrow in the top-left corner (i.e. the one you can&amp;#x27;t reach one-handed) really stands out among the stupid UI decisions I&amp;#x27;ve seen. Yes, iOS is fast and polished, it&amp;#x27;s just that pretty often I&amp;#x27;m not sure how I got somewhere and how to get out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Yizahi</author><text>You can&amp;#x27;t swipe across the opposing screen edge with your thump without letting go of the full grip on the phone and holding it only partially, risking it to fall. Glass phone body only makes things much worse. You can do it with a back button in a sane position though, without compromising a grip. Android allows navbar gestures since ver.10 and I never enable them because buttons are simply better, even though they take away some space on the screen.</text></comment>