Why iPhones Don't Have A Back Button

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  • One of the most controversial design elements of the iPhone is its lack of a back button. Something that’s standard on most Android devices. The idea is that a button to go back to the previous screen allows users to easily navigate their device. But Apple disagreed. And the story behind that decision dates back to 2007, when the original iPhone was under development.

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  • @janek485
    @janek485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6073

    Fun fact: in most apps on the IPhone when you swipe to the right from the left near the bezel of the phone it goes back to the previous page, just like a back button on android. This also works on IPad as well

    • @Tilteddog
      @Tilteddog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +355

      Many androids copied it when the industry switched to 18:9 phones

    • @HisQ
      @HisQ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      Was gonna comment this exact thing, weird that Greg didn't mention that in the video :D

    • @CybernerdShua
      @CybernerdShua 2 ปีที่แล้ว +262

      @@Tilteddog No. It was when android began adopting gesture navigation.

    • @bliblablubdiedadup742
      @bliblablubdiedadup742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@HisQ He mentioned swipe navigation?

    • @RBUKFAN
      @RBUKFAN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I use it all the time on TH-cam

  • @powerLuser
    @powerLuser 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2377

    The lack of a back button really bothered me when switching last year, but I’ve grown to really love navigation on my iPhone. Only problems now are with third-party apps that don’t work the way Apple’s do (like TH-cam)

    • @dimitriz5578
      @dimitriz5578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      The youtube app is awful on ios compared to android. On android you swipe from the left (or right bezel) to go back to the previous screen. On iphone you have to swipe down half the time.

    • @kwameasamoah8587
      @kwameasamoah8587 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Apple has to implement the universal back gestures that's present on one UI. Cos I don't get why you should swipe to go back in some apps, and in others, you have to stretch your thumb all the way to hit that dedicated back button at the upper part of their huge screens.....and no one talks about these inconsistencies

    • @Lorenna1234
      @Lorenna1234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Idk man, I just tried swipe to go back in youtube app on iPhone 13 and it works.

    • @river.
      @river. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yeah
      TH-cam is horrible in iPhone.

    • @WSsaintpeter
      @WSsaintpeter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@Lorenna1234 me too … I’ve used that feature since ios 12 so am not understanding why people are complaining 😕

  • @chancecaeden550
    @chancecaeden550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1445

    I love how apple needs people to explain the crap that they do… I love these videos

    • @kabirsingh7630
      @kabirsingh7630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      yes bro

    • @rachitp4929
      @rachitp4929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Yea even android have play school tutorials for their crap. As if we don’t know how to swipe up

    • @jirirbr
      @jirirbr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Apple doesn't need that, everybody understood the controls right away.

    • @Ryan-nq3qp
      @Ryan-nq3qp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      They don't need to explain anything.... that's the whole point. People simply "get it". The reason this question is even asked, is because of Android users either moving to iPhone or wondering about the iPhone and the differences it has compared to Android devices.
      In fact, as someone who has used Android for many years and now uses an iPhone, I can safely say that what was described in this video holds true. The back button in Android IS unpredictable, it DOES cause a weird experience when using it, it makes you hesitate at certain moments. It just never "felt right" when using the button in multiple contexts in a short period of time. It was perfectly fine for single-context use.

    • @FahadAyaz
      @FahadAyaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@jirirbr lol, no. People were shown how to use it and then got used to it as the norm. Plenty of people in the early days had to be shown how to do things on the iPhone. You learned things. It only seems intuitive because you got used to it.

  • @SelfMadeHundredaire
    @SelfMadeHundredaire ปีที่แล้ว +400

    I love my android back button. It works flawlessly and takes me exactly where I expect it to go. I have no idea what this "trust" issue is that he's talking about. I used to have an iPhone and was constantly frustrated by how limiting the iOS is. I'm still forced to use it on my iPad which is useful for Notability and propping up wobbly table legs and nothing else. I love all my MacOS computers, which is all I use, but for my phones, Android is just so much easier to use. The other issue I have with iOS is when you're typing and want to place the cursor in the middle of a word. With iOS, you have to press and hold to place the cursor where you want it between letters. On Android, you just press where you want the cursor and there it is. I don't know if there's a setting to change this on Apple but that one thing saves so much time when you're typing or texting.

    • @AI-Creations-LLC
      @AI-Creations-LLC 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      iPhone is about simplicity. Android is about productivity, usability and in some cases affordability. I like Android because it's changed over time however it doesn't go and remove nice features. It keeps the ones that work like the back button,home button and the app drawer button. I also like that people who develop android phones are willing to take risks and try something different like foldables.

    • @joshuakirkwood6680
      @joshuakirkwood6680 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      You’re totally correct. In these and many other ways Android is a superior system

    • @jayzn1931
      @jayzn1931 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I also don’t like how the keyboard works on iOS. Have problems with exactly what you are saying. It’s weird to me that some things work quite well out of the box but the keyboard and text interaction is quite unintuitive.

    • @IceBlueLugia
      @IceBlueLugia 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jayzn1931What don’t you like about the keyboard? I’ve never had a problem

    • @jayzn1931
      @jayzn1931 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​@@IceBlueLugia ​
      - Most of the time, there is no dot
      - cursor swipe is available but takes a long time to activate (I know, we are talking about a few hundred milliseconds, but this bugs me throughout the day)
      - special signs I use often are in other places than my last android keyboard (minor issue)
      - there is no number row
      - no copy/paste sign, even though the phone screen is super large (also, I had an iPad before and really really liked the keyboard there, because it has those features!! I can swipe on the letters in the top row to type numbers, have a copy/paste button and a dot, comma, "ß" (am german)
      - the argument that the iPad keyboard has all this because the screen is bigger is only fair for a few features, almost everything of it could be implemented on an iPhone
      - my android phone (A50) is only marginally bigger than the iPhone 13 Pro I have now, but there I could also fit all those things, so size is not a valid argument imo
      - swiping to type is great, when you have a very limited vocabulary
      - autocorrection is decent, but sometimes does not correct anything even though it knows the correct word and in some fields it simply does not work, so I can't rely on it
      - cursor control in iOS by tapping is horrible, why do I have to hold to put the cursor in the middle of a word? this has not been an issue on my previous phone, where I even set the font size smaller, than the iPhone allows....
      - oh and also, in gboard and other keyboards you can delete multiple words by swiping left on the delete key; on ios it's slow first and then unpredictably switches to "whole word deletion" which makes it dangerous
      - keyboard can't be closed the same way in every app, sometimes you can swipe down from above it, sometimes there is a button or you have to scroll in the app
      Eh, sorry for the long list, but you see I don't like it :D
      It's ok, but simply worse than what I am used to. Some issues could probably be fixed by using a third party keybaord app, but as there don't seem to be any (good) open source keyboards in the app store, I won't do that. If iOS implements a firewall to disable wifi access just like they do with cellular, and they properly isolate apps, I might get gboard. Until then, I'll just type like a turtle, or send voice messages nobody will listen to xD
      Edit: fixed typos

  • @14moti
    @14moti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1768

    I know in recent years iOS allows you to swipe on the bottom left/right edge to go back, but before that, it was annoying having to reach over to the top left corner, which is literally the farthest part of the screen for your typical right-handed user! It was fine in the early years when devices were very small, but as they grew in size I saw people start to have more difficulty. But Apple users usually just accept whatever Apple gives so, no one really complained. And I'm saying this as someone with larger hands than most people.

    • @dimitriz5578
      @dimitriz5578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      The back button in android was way easier to reach than the ios one, and now the back gesture is easier to reach on android than on iphone.

    • @chrisjfox8715
      @chrisjfox8715 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      More broadly speaking, literally every smartphone manufacturer and OS developer is effectively trying to optimize their UI's balance between simplicity and feature-richness. Apple just happens to have always aimed to make simplicity a first priority, *even if it means sacrifing a feature* until they figure out how to implement it their own way. Samsung's team aims for intuitive simplicity as well, they just don't suffer from "paralysis from analysis" as much as Apple does - they don't mind leaving people hanging because people typically make do with familiarity over change. Different people have different thresholds for what they consider to be an intuitive UI (back button and otherwise) for their needs.
      I have the Note 10+ and definitely make use of the back "button" but I don't recall having an issue with the lack of one when I had an iPhone.

    • @hasanbanoon5091
      @hasanbanoon5091 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@chrisjfox8715 I had the iPhone 4s a decade ago and yes the back button and navigation bar were both on top of the screen and were very easy to reach because the phone was tiny. I'm pretty sure apple put the navigation bar on the bottom of the screen few years back. Also, I think they implemented gesture based navigation few years back when they got rid of the home button.

    • @venator7889
      @venator7889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@hasanbanoon5091 Yes but still people would like to have the option of using a back button instead of being forced to use the gestures

    • @dhruvrai2170
      @dhruvrai2170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      6 plus was technically where iPhones became bigger, but it had already implemented features like, reachability and swiping to go back improving the overall usability of iPhone.

  • @lafayette1302
    @lafayette1302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1413

    That logic may work back in the age of Jobs when most phones have tiny screens. Now for phones with big sizes, it really drives users crazy to touch that "back button" at the corner up ahead.

    • @granade8333
      @granade8333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      lack of knowledge on ios

    • @venator7889
      @venator7889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      @@granade8333 They simply refuse to listen to their users' preferences.
      Not sure how they became a trillion dollar company with that kind of strategy

    • @BugsBunny071
      @BugsBunny071 2 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      You can just swipe from the left side of the screen to go back. I’m surprised you did not know that.

    • @SoftwarePrince
      @SoftwarePrince 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That doesn’t work in my country Pakistan where iOS has 5% marketshare

    • @SoftwarePrince
      @SoftwarePrince 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      In most apps

  • @friddevonfrankenstein
    @friddevonfrankenstein 2 ปีที่แล้ว +639

    Designer: Complains about unpredictability of multiple functions on a single button, proceeds to map multiple functions to single button while moving the back button to the most unergonomic position possible. Makes perfect sense. Except when it doesn't. Which is always.

    • @ausrace
      @ausrace 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      Yes brilliant comment - the explanation given in the video is a contradiction on many levels.

    • @sohanbhute7424
      @sohanbhute7424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Aha.. this comment is powerful af.

    • @venator7889
      @venator7889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@ausrace They are just making the OS harder to use.
      They don't allow you to place your icons anywhere on the homescreen but they rather order them from the top left hand corner, there's like almost 10 steps to change a wallpaper, you have to manually kill all apps from ram Management instead of there being a button called Close All like in Samsung's One UI, you have to go to settings to change Wi-Fi network, etc...

    • @Snoop_Dugg
      @Snoop_Dugg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      And having a back button wouldn't have stopped the predictable functionality of the home button

    • @SamuelLing
      @SamuelLing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      > most unergonomic position possible
      I suppose this is not true for the first few model, as the phone grows bigger, it became unergonomic

  • @supashep1
    @supashep1 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    Instead of creating a physical back button next to the home button they implemented a software one at the top of the screen which made it more difficult to reach to navigate. Makes sense.

    • @darkwoodmovies
      @darkwoodmovies ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Most apps allow you to use gestures to navigate. It's built into the dev kits. Just some developers (AKA Google) develop for Android first and just bring that same behavior to the iPhone, which technically goes against Apple's design guidelines.

    • @zryledv
      @zryledv ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@darkwoodmovies bluff

    • @darkwoodmovies
      @darkwoodmovies ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zryledv potato

    • @Eli-mx8lz
      @Eli-mx8lz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@darkwoodmoviesNo that's completely wrong the first company that invented the gesture navigation was apple... U should search things up first before commenting.

    • @darkwoodmovies
      @darkwoodmovies 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Eli-mx8lz Can you edit your comment to make sense? Not sure how this relates to anything I or anyone else said, maybe you had a typo or something.

  • @mikewheeler9011
    @mikewheeler9011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1069

    I use my back gesture on Samsung hundreds of times a day. Whenever my parents ask me what happened on their phone I tell them to press the back button (android) and 99/100 it takes them back to where they wanted to be and it's always in the same position. It's so flipping useful

    • @onion2787
      @onion2787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      Yes, I dont know what is supposed to be so unoredictable about a Button that makes your last Action retrogressive.

    • @planefan082
      @planefan082 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Doesn't even take up space. Nobody I know has the buttons (or even 'hints' like that bar at the bottom of every iPhone without a home button) and it's nice and smooth. Used to have Apple, it was still alright, not my cup of tea anymore (and nowadays too pricey unfortunately)

    • @onion2787
      @onion2787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @Aryan A So you always want to go home and relaunch the entire App to go one step back?

    • @GoogleUser-nx3wp
      @GoogleUser-nx3wp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      I know Apple people think they're smart but they really seems stupid infront of androids

    • @venator7889
      @venator7889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@GoogleUser-nx3wp They don't care about their users' complaints. They simply refuse to make software UI changes based on their users' preferences

  • @goudendynamiethd2117
    @goudendynamiethd2117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    I do get why it might be confusing for some people, but for example for my grandfather, it's more confusing to not have a back button. Because when there's a back button that's always there, he knows how to just go back to the previous screen.
    The back button just always goes back to the previous screen. That's it. If the last screen you were on was the home screen, then it takes you to the home screen. If it was some kind of page, then it takes you back there. It's that simple.

    • @lefuedebout
      @lefuedebout ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's the real reason there is no back button on iPhones. Apple doesn't want old people to be seen using them!

    • @goudendynamiethd2117
      @goudendynamiethd2117 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lefuedebout Nah man

    • @Junispro31
      @Junispro31 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@lefuedebout literally every other Apple video I watch there's gonna be that one dude that say iOS is suitable for old folks for their simplicity. Haha

    • @damnfreakingsien
      @damnfreakingsien ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My experience is the complete opposite. After working for one week teaching senior citizens how to use our mobile app, I see some struggle with the back button. They keep spamming the back button, but not behaving the way they wanted it to......

    • @jessesowards9555
      @jessesowards9555 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The person spamming the button is the problem lol Kinda hard to spam a button you gotta look for on different apps or move all the way to the top of the screen to hit or they would do the same. It doesn’t make it easier or save someone like that much time.

  • @boytheodore
    @boytheodore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The iPhone's swipe back sucks too, sometimes worse. Not all actions can be clicked in the upper left corner to return, sometimes click the upper right corner to leave or return. The sensitivity of the sliding return of each App is also different. I think the iPhone solution creates more problems.

  • @haggyadaszt
    @haggyadaszt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    I switched to Android after 12 years of using iOS. By now I know that having a back button is great so it was a failure that Apple forced me to use a back button at the top of the screen. Android is great with swipe functions.

    • @KebunH
      @KebunH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You can swipe back from most (swiping from the side of the screen) pages so you typically don’t need to use the software back button. I agree a back button would’ve been good though, although it would be more difficult to fit in the design now with the home indicator instead of physical home button (which I really wouldn’t want to return to anymore)

    • @mrwoodcat
      @mrwoodcat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Agree. on a small iphone it's not a problem but anything after iphone X I just couldn't comfortably use it with one hand

    • @bo4Elite
      @bo4Elite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Using iPhones for 12 years and not knowing the swipe gestures is Apple’s fault!?
      Swipe to the right and go back! Since 2014 with iOS 7!

    • @annonimbouz851
      @annonimbouz851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@bo4Elite not all apps can do that, that's the point. While on Android it's a system navigation that can override any any apps navigation.

    • @prosibu
      @prosibu ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@bo4Elite it is not all the apps in apps store supporting this. while android can back anytime with the back button

  • @WDCallahan
    @WDCallahan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +648

    Q: Why don't iphones have a back button?
    A: They do. But it's at the top.

    • @noice8819
      @noice8819 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Yah that's dumb tbh, if you can predict where on screen button is gonna take you, you can predict physical too
      I guess they did that to save money and charge more for removed feature

    • @shiraq07
      @shiraq07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      yes, on top left corner, hard to reach unlike android, bottom left where it can still be used with one hand. thanks apple.

    • @kuutoa
      @kuutoa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      but thats a back button with a predictable outcome, i mean, thats what they were aiming for

    • @venator7889
      @venator7889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@shiraq07 They don't care about their users' complaints they'll continue doing things the way they feel they should be done

    • @zachariah7114
      @zachariah7114 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@venator7889 true, but it so far has worked out for them. only when the market punishes them for it will they reevaluate.

  • @laurencenoble3629
    @laurencenoble3629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    I used the gesture navigation on my previous android phone and liked the consistency of always being able to go back by swiping from either edge to the middle. I favoured the right side for easy reach. Since changing to my new iPhone I now have to either track all the way up to the top left corner for a back button or sometimes I can swipe in from the left or sometimes neither works and I have to swipe down ie to close a video. The inconsistency seems very counter intuitive and I still sometimes get it wrong and it takes me a few moments to figure out how to go back

    • @melanie4179
      @melanie4179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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    • @jyeehaw
      @jyeehaw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@melanie4179 shut up

    • @michelbruns
      @michelbruns 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Well said, it's not intuitive

    • @lewiswhitfield4362
      @lewiswhitfield4362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That gesture works on iPhone too I’m pretty sure

    • @michelbruns
      @michelbruns 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@lewiswhitfield4362 but it depends on the app etc. It doesn't work reliably

  • @tpolarbeart
    @tpolarbeart ปีที่แล้ว +49

    The problem is on iPhone some times back is a gesture, sometimes it's a button very far from your thumb and other times there just isn't a way to go back if the app is poorly programmed. Android was very consistent in what back does. It's been the hardest thing for me since switching. It seems so obvious to implement a universal back gesture like android but maybe it will come out in a future update in a few years and be considered revolutionary

  • @StanKween
    @StanKween 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I changed to Andriod after 6 years of iOS, mainly because of the lack of the back button. Although Andriod later introduced the gestures just like iOS, I still keep the navigation bar on because it's easier for me to use

    • @Junispro31
      @Junispro31 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You can use gestures with back. Just turn on gestures, now by swiping from the edge of the screen, you go back to the previous screen. No matter which app you are on.

    • @ankesh1183
      @ankesh1183 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Junispro31 not any option in ios like this

    • @Junispro31
      @Junispro31 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ankesh1183 I meant on Android

  • @JustinLewisWeb
    @JustinLewisWeb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    Nope. The problem is that every app is inconsistent with the back option on iPhone which causes more issues IMO. It’s the only downside, aside from Siri, that I experience using the iPhone.

    • @Camelotsmoon
      @Camelotsmoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I agree. Without a hardware back button, Apple has less control over how the user experiences going back since they're now relying on app developers to make a consistent experience. I'm an android user, I know that Apple loves control over things like that, and even I can recognize that they have less control this way.

    • @talkysassis
      @talkysassis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Camelotsmoon Actually, their way of doing things is just: "Do it the way we want or you will not be allowed to publish your app" This is the worst way of doing things, but as Apple has always done this, people just don't complain.

    • @zihechen3111
      @zihechen3111 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@talkysassis I have experienced several bugs due to android back button logic on Samsung, pixel, Sony. The back button sht is nothing good, it forced developers to create back option on every fking page, causing all kinds of weird reactions. Or unpredictable behavior.

    • @MayankGupta-th3wt
      @MayankGupta-th3wt ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@zihechen3111 What unpredictable behaviour? Just don't freaking press it or better yet use the much better universal gesture navigation that always works. There is no real inconsistency in having a back button just don't press it, it even hides itself in many apps so you do not press it accidentally.

    • @IceBlueLugia
      @IceBlueLugia 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MayankGupta-th3wtThe back button starts bugging out and pressing itself often. Happened on two android phones to me. Switched to iPhone and never had this issue. Fuck Samsung and Google

  • @dimitriz5578
    @dimitriz5578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I love having a back gesture on android. Not only is it easier to reach because you can swipe to go back from either side, but i some apps on ios make you press a button or swipe down to go back or exit out of something and i have to think about what the app wants me to do. In android no matter what, i can use the same gesture to go back/exit out of something, even if it opened in another app.

    • @zachariah7114
      @zachariah7114 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fun fact: Andy Rubin worked at General Magic with Tony Fadell.

  • @chrisjfox8715
    @chrisjfox8715 2 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    More broadly speaking, literally every smartphone manufacturer and OS developer is effectively trying to optimize their UI's balance between simplicity and feature-richness. Apple just happens to have always aimed to make simplicity a first priority, *even if it means sacrifing a feature* until they figure out how to implement it in the most simple way possible. Samsung's team aims for intuitive simplicity as well, they just don't suffer from "paralysis from analysis"/"people will wait" as much as Apple does. Different people have different thresholds for what they consider to be an intuitive UI (back button and otherwise) for their needs.
    I have the Note 10+ and definitely make use of the back "button" but I don't recall having an issue with the lack of one when I had an iPhone.

    • @janabosi2883
      @janabosi2883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      my dad has that phone and boy oh boy its so slow and laggy compared to my ip 11 pro. I also had galaxy S8 by myself before and i will never go back to samsung

    • @lolerie
      @lolerie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@janabosi2883 You just did not try snapdargon 888 in galaxy s21 fe. It is godly.

    • @janabosi2883
      @janabosi2883 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lolerie well we have only Exynos versions of their flagships here in Europe

    • @lolerie
      @lolerie 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@janabosi2883 Galaxy S21 FE uses snap 888. No support from dual freq. GNSS no support for ESIM, whcih is just pathetic.

    • @Raphael_Campos
      @Raphael_Campos 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree that Samsung’s International variants are pretty slow but the 10+ rival at the time was the XS which is buggy and slow on iOS 15 as well.

  • @whatsindansgarage2542
    @whatsindansgarage2542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I think the back button is pretty intuitive since you already know you will go back to previous app if you open an app from another app. But that back button action wouldn’t take you back to another app if there is no app for you to go back to in the first place, like browsing webpages for example. So logically your back button action must certainly go back to previous page or a back action within the app. When I was using iOS 2.0 there was no such thing as the top back button for go back to previous app and I always need to go back to the Home Screen which was very frustrating compared to Android because I just need to hit the back button. So I agree with Jobs initial proposal since in my opinion no-back-button is only beneficial to hardware aesthetics and not user experience.

  • @ItsFreakinJesus
    @ItsFreakinJesus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The double tap to get to the app switcher wasn't an original 2007 design. That functionality didn't come into play until after the Jailbreak scene took hold as that existed purely as a jailbreak mod for far too damn long.

  • @user-me1mv4vy9q
    @user-me1mv4vy9q 2 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    I used both and am currently using an iphone, never had an issue with navigating on android and didn't even know it was an issue for some people
    One thing I can say is that iphone's one button on the bottom is very minimalistic, but on android it's easier to reach

    • @robertfrench80
      @robertfrench80 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Apple developers underestimated the user's intelligence.

    • @KurtisB
      @KurtisB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@robertfrench80 No they didn't lol. They knew that most people using the phones aren't tech savvy, which is definitely true. All the iPhone users I know barely understand how to work their own phone and wouldn't know the first thing about using a Samsung.

    • @kravy246
      @kravy246 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@KurtisB ,but ironically most people on earth use Android

    • @morinoratcha7330
      @morinoratcha7330 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@robertfrench80 No, they just wanted to keep going with iPhone 2G's design cuz it was iconic. They could have easily implemented a back button but, they just didn't want to

    • @morinoratcha7330
      @morinoratcha7330 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kravy246 that doesn't mean Android is good nor is it user-friendly/ intuitive. Android reaches a much broader audience because Google made Android open-source. There's like a thousand brands who use Android as their base operating system. Imagine if only Google made android phones.

  • @DataAnalyticsAutomation
    @DataAnalyticsAutomation 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have 13 pro max and it’s super complicated to navigate back with a back button. This is the most silly reason I have ever heard from such a huge tech giant. I will switch back to android soon.

  • @rdwok14
    @rdwok14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This is my #1 biggest annoyance about iOS. Even after a decade of using an iPad and iPhone, I just disagree with how Apple chose to implement this. It's way worse and more confusing than Android. Buttons are simple. Gestures are confusing.
    My #2 biggest gripe with iOS is how bad notifications are, but that's another story.

    • @ricmndy1
      @ricmndy1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol...mine is the fact you can't put icons anywhere on the screen. Make literally no sense whatsoever. So if you want a picture of your significant other as your background, forget about being able to see their face.

    • @AudriusN
      @AudriusN 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and they say Android users are smart and techy. as i see they are dumb

  • @prashantchauhan1440
    @prashantchauhan1440 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    i recently switched to iphone and observed that though iphone's gestures(swipe right and down) are very useful but in some apps at some instances these gestures dont work, and at that point iphone's back button is present at top left corner of the screen which is very hard to reach.
    This is very annoying issue at times, hope apple will work on this sometime.

    • @thekimstv
      @thekimstv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They actually did work on it y’all just don’t know, from the X series when it’s hard to reach the top of the screen just swipe down on the home gesture instead of swiping up it brings down the page so you can easily one touch or one swipe
      And on the non full screen series just place your thumb on the home button (do not press) and it will bring down the screen too it’s that simple

    • @leDespicable
      @leDespicable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@thekimstv Still inconsistent, though. If you have to use the one-handed mode to reach the back button it's not designed well at all. Why not just have a back gesture that works in every app? Apple has far stricter rules regarding apps' design language etc. for them to be able to be in the app store, but they can't get every developer to make their apps support a back gesture? Sounds strange, especially when you consider there's much less regulation on Android, yet still pretty much all apps have that feature.

    • @venator7889
      @venator7889 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leDespicable I think they should rather split the white swipe gesture bar at the bottom of any modern iPhone from 1 bar to 2 smaller separate bars. One would be for going to the homescreen and the other would be for the back button

    • @leDespicable
      @leDespicable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@venator7889 Well, depends I guess. Samsung used to have something akin to that. I never grew to like it, it's just not as intuitive as swiping from the right bezel

    • @E.T.BigBrother
      @E.T.BigBrother 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leDespicable I have my iPhone X for about 4 years and I haven’t saw the issue of the back gesture.
      What do you mean about that? On Instagram if I click on a user page, I can swipe back to go back where I originally was at. This applies to all apps and some would be different. On this comment section I can swipe back and instead of clicking that back button. I can swipe down on this video and go back where I was at.

  • @SuperKrepy
    @SuperKrepy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Plot twist:
    Android already copyrighted the back button feature so Apple couldn’t add it

    • @nmpoy
      @nmpoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SpencerKraisler facts lol

  • @Htimez2
    @Htimez2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Just one more reason to never buy an Apple product.

  • @keithmooore
    @keithmooore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I don't think that back button performs different things depending on context like that desighner guy said. My back button always does exactly one thing - takes me back. That simple.

    • @danielwarren3138
      @danielwarren3138 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Depends on the app, more esoteric apps (such as emulators) it usually brings up the menu

  •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    I started using an iPhone last year, and swiping right to return became a habit for me, and I now prefer it to the actual back button on Android.

    • @LennyQUMFIF
      @LennyQUMFIF 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      And your iPhone got a virus, and now your channel is owned by a bot

    • @paulsp2693
      @paulsp2693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it only works on a few apps

    • @Ria1D13
      @Ria1D13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I use Android phone but bought ipad last month. Swiping right to return and other gestures are more convenient than I thought. And now I'm saving to buy an iPhone. The costumization is suck, took me 2 days to cosutumize my home, but I can take it slow.

    • @xSlimLizardx
      @xSlimLizardx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      same except i’ve never had an android

    • @Scyth3934
      @Scyth3934 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      FYI: THIS IS A BOT THAT COPIES OTHER PEOPLES COMMENTS

  • @CyberJamSam
    @CyberJamSam 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    I remember there was a screen protector that had some wire tracing in it or something that lead from the bottom left space to the top corner where “Back” usually is in iOS. Looked pretty cool actually.

    • @ianm-y5s
      @ianm-y5s 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      The Hog Rider is a fast ground troop with medium hitpoints, low damage, and the ability to jump over enemy Walls. He is unlocked at level 2 Dark Barracks.
      The Hog Rider (person) is a bare-chested dark-skinned man holding a hammer. He has a mohawk, wears a brown leather loincloth, a red belt, and a pair of leather sandals, as well as two large golden wristbands and a gold earring.
      His ride is a large hog, about half his height. It has a brown leather bridle looped around its tusks, which in turn is held by the Hog Rider.
      Hog Riders prioritize defensive structures above all other targets, and will bypass all other types of enemy buildings and troops while any defenses remain on the battlefield. This is true even if they are under attack by enemy Clan Castle troops, heroes or Skeleton Trap skeletons. Note that like all troops that prioritize defenses, Hog Riders do not consider the Clan Castle to be a defense regardless of whether or not it contains enemy troops, but do consider the defending Grand Warden and the activated Town Hall weapon (if any) to be defensive buildings.
      Once all defenses are destroyed, Hog Riders become like any other troop with no preferred target; they will attack the nearest building to them regardless of type, and will turn and attack enemy units if they become aware of any nearby.
      Strategy
      Offensive
      He can be used to jump over any level Walls, rendering them ineffective against Hog Riders. Note that while this allows Hog Riders free access to what lies behind the Walls, it does not open up gaps for other troops to move through. If the Hog Riders need the support of other ground troops, you will still need to deploy Wall Breakers, a Jump Spell, or Earthquake Spells in order to assist them.
      Hog Riders can be used en masse, i.e. a "Hog Rider Rush", without requiring any Wall Breakers to break Walls. However, such a strategy can be costly in terms of Dark Elixir, and sports weaknesses against defending Clan Castle troops, Heroes, Giant Bombs, and Skeleton Traps, a problem which only becomes more prominent at higher levels.
      At Town Hall 10 and above, Hog Riders can be combined with Miners in a strategy known as Hog Miner or Hybrid. Both troops are able to bypass Walls innately, but Miners do not have a preferential target, allowing them to cover for Hog Riders by dealing with defending Heroes and Skeleton Traps. The combination also has weaknesses against flying Clan Castle troops, as neither are able to target air.
      At lower levels, Hog Riders are quite capable of acting as distracting troops like Giants; they have nearly as much health as a similar-level Giant, move twice as fast, and do considerably more damage.
      They work well with the Healing Spell when you group several of them together.
      A good tactic for using Healing Spells is to place them strategically on a cluster of defenses (at least about 3 or more) and also deploy them shortly before the Hog Riders arrive in the area, i.e. deploy them ahead of the Hog Riders. This is so that the Hog Riders get the most out of the Healing Spell, and destroy the defenses without losing too much HP.
      Spots where Giant Bombs or Bomb Towers are/may be should be given special attention when deploying Healing Spells. Hogs of the same level as the Giant Bomb will survive a single Giant Bomb, but they're helpless against a pair of Giant Bombs even with a Healing Spell. Heal them after they've gone through a Giant Bomb blast.
      The Hog Rider is one of the best troop types for drawing out Clan Castle troops, as it can avoid Walls to penetrate deep enough to reach centrally-placed Clan Castles (and enough health to not die before it gets there). Deploy one or a few to trigger the Clan Castle troops, then lure the reinforcement troops to the corner side, and deploy multiple Archers or Wizards to slaughter them, and then deploy the remainder of your Hog Riders. This strategy is especially effective during Clan War raids. However, Skeletons from the Skeleton Trap and Heroes can also easily kill the Hog Riders, as they can only target defenses, so make sure to have some troops that target anything, such as Wizards, which can swipe out the Skeletons.
      Hog Riders don't target air so flying Clan Castle troops, especially Dragons, can be a big threat. Most mass Hog Rider strategies in Clan Wars require that the Clan Castle troops be killed first by luring. Bring other troops in addition to Hog Riders, such as Wizards, to deal with enemy Clan Castle troops and clean up the base.
      Poison Spells can be used to kill almost any enemy Clan Castle troop, but beware as the troops will attempt to flee the poison. If the Poison Spells are decently leveled, and you effectively keep the Clan Castle troops from escaping the Poison Spell with distracting troops, they can eliminate almost any troop. They can also be used to dispense of those pesky Skeletons risen from the Skeleton Traps.
      Time is also a factor to consider. With only 3 minutes in an attack, it is essential to make sure that this whole process and the remainder of the attack is done as quickly as possible to avoid running out of time.
      Defensive
      Defending against Hog Riders is tricky, as their ability to bypass Walls renders them irrelevant. However, the fact that they can jump over Walls and attack defenses means that they may leave behind their ground support (such as Barbarians, etc.), as they will not be able to follow. This will allow your interior defenses to concentrate on the Hog Riders.
      Another way to defend against Hog Riders is to exploit the fact that they will attack the closest defensive building. You can arrange your base in such a way so that you have high-powered defenses on the inside and lower-powered defense on the outside, with a layer of resources in between. That way, the Hogs will (in theory) complete a loop around your base before being able to attack your interior defenses (Inferno Towers, X-Bows, etc.), by which time they should have all been killed by the interior defenses.
      You can place Spring Traps and Giant Bombs in between defensive buildings to take out a few Hog Riders at a time; good usage of multiple Spring Traps and Giant Bombs can severely hinder a Hog Rider rush.
      Hog Riders can be easily killed using "forced pathing". Forced pathing is a strategy that manipulates the Hog Rider AI and makes them go to at least 2 defenses that cannot be prevented by surgical dropping or side clearing. Placing a set of Giant Bombs in between the two can most certainly hinder the attacker progress. They would not be able to heal the Hog Riders in time.
      Clan Castle troops, Heroes, and Skeleton Traps set to Ground Mode can be an annoyance to mass Hog Rider raids, as Hog Riders will not attack them unless all defenses have been destroyed. Make sure to centralize them if you want to beat Hog Riders.
      In Clan Wars, Dragons are excellent troops to place in Clan Castles against Hog Riders, especially for Town Halls 8 and 9. They have high HP, meaning they won't die easily and can kill mass quantities of Hog Riders swiftly if not properly lured. Most mass Hog Rider strategies require that the enemy Clan Castle troops be killed first, so if the attacker lures out a Dragon, but fails to kill it, then a 3-star win is next to impossible, much less a 1-star win via destroying 50% of the buildings.
      Multi-target Inferno Towers can be a severe hindrance to Hog Riders, having high HP to take several hits from Hog Riders, while hitting large groups of them.
      Although the Hog Rider is certainly not a liability on defense, the fact that all defensive troops are unimpeded by Walls negates the primary advantage of the Hog Rider. Still, for the space they take they are faster and more damaging compared to Giants.
      Upgrade Differences
      The Hog Rider undergoes significant visual changes at levels 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
      Initially, the Hog Rider is a dark-skinned man with a black mohawk and beard. He also has a gold earring in his right ear and sports two heavy golden wristbands, a red belt, and a brown loincloth. The Hog Rider's hammer has two brass bands.
      At level 3, his hammer increases in size and turns black. The brass bands on the hammer's head disappear, and the hammerhead goes further down onto the stick, creating a button looking object on the top of the hammerhead.
      At level 5, his mohawk turns from black to orange, making it similar to that of a level 5 Goblin.
      At level 6, his hammer gains three large, golden spikes and a bronze plating.
      At level 7, the edges of his hammer start to glow red, and he gains a brown headband but reverts to a black mohawk.
      At level 8, his hammer is now mostly golden. His hog also gains a headband.
      At level 9, the gold on his hammer is much thicker. His headband also lightens in color.
      At level 10, his hammer turns a bright light blue color that resembles the look of ice. This matches the theme of Town Hall 13. It also gains a small same-colored glow.
      At level 11, his hammer turns a light greenish color. This matches the theme of Town Hall 14. His hog gains gold armour on its face and muzzle.

    • @janferenc316
      @janferenc316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@ianm-y5s ok

    • @pdtheowl9292
      @pdtheowl9292 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah I remember that too!! Super cool and clever

    • @notverypog
      @notverypog 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ianm-y5s yes

    • @nadiainthesky
      @nadiainthesky ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're talking about Haloback screen protectors with their invisible back buttons... I've stuck with my iPhone 7 Plus all these years because I just love my invisible back button and dedicated home button. Finally upgrading to a 14 Pro Max this year... gonna miss having that. Sigh.

  • @cgazlan
    @cgazlan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just few days with ios. Damn I already miss the Android short swipe from either side to go back

  • @kim-o-san
    @kim-o-san 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    User: I want a back button
    Android: Here you go
    Apple: Let me tell you why you don't need a back button.

  • @muhammednaijun
    @muhammednaijun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Dedicated Back,Home,Recent buttons are must for faster and smoother navigation. I ve done several tests and Android is clear winner, "Tap is faster than Swipe",

  • @Connections.
    @Connections. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I like when you do vids about iPhones iPad and Macs👍

  • @Coco-Loco
    @Coco-Loco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don't think that the back button is unpredictable at all. It usually takes you to the page before unless you're at your first page of an app, in which case, it closes it. I love the one button to do all system but it just doesn't work now with the massive screens we have. Android's gesture navigation is much better

  • @World_of_OSes
    @World_of_OSes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Remember when Android had that app menu button that would bring up the context options for each app? I miss that!

    • @Grason20
      @Grason20 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It still does for some phones :)

  • @gyanwire
    @gyanwire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Using left swipe is the most convenient way to go back, most people didn’t try swipe gestures iOS has nowadays when you learn that you forget about the android back button. There was a time when I had the same issue, I was a long-term Galaxy S Series user.

    • @TomTomdog
      @TomTomdog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Swiping right on Iphone 13 pro max with one hand is a nightmare for many people. Its wide and very very heavy

  • @mrslcom
    @mrslcom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Having a dedicated Back button at a fixed location provides so much convenience and user friendliness. Android wins on this one.

    • @anianii
      @anianii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is. In the top left corner, and swipe to go back is also available in every app that doesn’t break standards

    • @mrslcom
      @mrslcom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@anianii Yes but sometimes it disappears or when you are in full screen mode. A permanent button would be better, that's all.

    • @anianii
      @anianii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mrslcom I guess that depends on the apps you use though. I’ve never missed a back button since switching to iOS (in 2016), and I had one before

    • @robertfrench80
      @robertfrench80 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mrslcom I think this may be an app-specific thing. I sometimes experience this and just swipe up from the bottom edge to get it back.

  • @j800r_aswell
    @j800r_aswell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The only thing that ever bugs me is when app developers can’t be bothered to support the back gesture. Especially nowadays, on the gesture driven iPhone, it’s far more speedy and convenient to swipe back rather than use a navigation button near the top corner of the screen.

  • @Dec.H
    @Dec.H 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ok i get how the iphone users have gotten used to no back button but it still makes sence to have one if you genuinely think its complicated i think you're over complicating how simple it is. Take the last action youve just done and undo it. If you have a keyboard up taoe it away if u clicked a new tab take you back to the last one and so on. Its that simple

  • @Thesnakerox
    @Thesnakerox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    The thing I hate most about Android from my experiences using it: The home and back buttons can be activated by just a wayward touch, like my finger brushing against them. On iPhones, pressing the home button (or even swiping to the home screen on iPhones without a home button) is a very deliberate action that I know will only be executed when I want it to be.
    EDIT: For anyone who may be wondering, the Android devices I've used are a Samsung Galaxy S10 and a Zebra TC51. I've had this problem on both.

    • @onion2787
      @onion2787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Idk what you are doing honestly but I literally never had any issues with it since Google intrpduced the Swipe Navigation.
      Well, yeah, that was copied from iOS but... they copied it from Blackberry so...
      Also, my finger is accurate enough to not randomly press Buttons.

    • @Valenslays
      @Valenslays 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      you can use swipe gestures on android

    • @14moti
      @14moti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not sure which phone you were using but I've never had this issue as someone who has used many different Android devices since 2011.

    • @JoeWilson175
      @JoeWilson175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah Samsung's of 2016 and prior had this issue. Many android phones now use iPhone style navigation gestures and they work great imo. I'm a OnePlus 7 pro user btw

    • @novaqxx
      @novaqxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      i wouldnt say that about the ones without a home button. sometimes when i’m playing subway surfers i accidentally swipe home

  • @DK-ox7ze
    @DK-ox7ze 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I honestly think that the Android back Button is very useful and convenient to have, though the one button approach of the iPhone is more elegant.

    • @akshaysingh1538
      @akshaysingh1538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree, been an apple user for more than 5 years now coming from Samsung galaxy phones, and totally comfortable with Apple interface. But still feel a back button is useful.
      Also, recently gifted my dad an iPhone recently and he just didn't use it as he couldn't get use to of the lack of a back button.

    • @stephenbenbow5739
      @stephenbenbow5739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. Also having the back button at the top left is much less convenient than having something purpose built at the bottom. Granted in some apps the back button is at the bottom but they're certainly in the minority.

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm right handed, so swiping the left side on specific iphone apps is the worst idea ever for navigating back.

  • @EmazingGuitar
    @EmazingGuitar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow seeing the app switcher again makes me want that style

  • @SyntaxAero
    @SyntaxAero 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    as unreliable as the back button can be sometimes (ie sometimes it switching apps instead of going to the home page of an app) i honestly still use it partially because muscle memory but mostly because it's still most convenient in cases where a back button would be too high, require a gesture, or just not in the most convenient place. usually get used to what apps exhibit what behaviors with the back button anyways

    • @melanie4179
      @melanie4179 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @acivilizedhuman
    @acivilizedhuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    After I open the camera from the notification shade (cover sheet?):
    I keep double-pressing the home button to switch apps but no that doesn’t do anything. I actually need to press once to go back to the notifications and again to hide the notifications.
    The home button seems to be an “it worked at the time” kinda thing, since the original iPhone didn’t have Siri or multitasking. But now the home button which is also used for Siri, multitasking, reachability, accessibility, fingerprint unlock, and closing the notification shade seems to have too many tasks assigned to it.

  • @Player-re9mo
    @Player-re9mo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I didn't even know apple lacked a back button. I thought it was common sense for all phones to have them.

  • @MrTPF1
    @MrTPF1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Agree with Jobs on this one. I've studied Human Factors Engineering, and when I saw the single button (and now no button) with the earlier generation iPhones, I cynically thought, "What genius thought one button was a good idea?!' Still feel that way even after a few generations of iPhone.

    • @DejayClayton
      @DejayClayton ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know what hell kind of school these "HCI experts" attend that give them the credentials to force terrible UX upon literally billions of people on the planet.

  • @CORNERofTECH
    @CORNERofTECH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Back then the App Switcher was more like an App Switcher

  • @thisflowerpotspeaksfreedom
    @thisflowerpotspeaksfreedom 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The iPhone hasn't implemented a back button fingerprint sensor.

    • @devsehgal7432
      @devsehgal7432 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      no need, Apple has its own design language. No need to copy what android Is doing

    • @fireonawire
      @fireonawire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@devsehgal7432 Yet they have been copying Android for years!

    • @onion2787
      @onion2787 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@devsehgal7432 Why are they doing it then?

    • @pythondrink
      @pythondrink 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@devsehgal7432 but when Apple finally does that, you'll find some other excuse

  • @rart1111
    @rart1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I switched from android to iPhone and I absolutely hate that there’s no back button. There’s too much user friction to use the top left button. So annoying.

  • @trantuong789
    @trantuong789 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1. Phones are now much bigger than it used to when Steve Jobs created it
    2. It's annoying to reach for the literally furthest spot on your phone for basic everyday navigation
    3. Back button is different each app, which makes it even more confusing than Android.
    4. Swiping from the edge of the screen was implemented lately but not as reliable as a permanent button, sometimes the app recognised it as an in-app command, not a system command if your finger missed the edge by a tiny bit, sometimes it even registered as a tap.
    5. Assistive doesn't even have a "Back" button either. It's like Apple is deliberately avoiding it. Which is really annoying.
    Having a back button is so convenient in so many ways. Many apps need it, but each has to implement it in their own way. Making the user experience clunky and inconsistent.

  • @floppa9415
    @floppa9415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I still prefer that on Android with gestures enabled you can swipe in from the left to go back. Makes one handed use a lot easier.

    • @Ourii
      @Ourii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you can do that on iphone too

    • @melanie4179
      @melanie4179 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @redunsettle
    @redunsettle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Its funny to see iPhone users reaching for the top left of the current gigantic phones to just go back or searching within 3rd party apps for the back button. The left swipe only works with apple apps. Android is way better at this.

    • @nombretaken9467
      @nombretaken9467 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it works for every app lmao i’ve used it in google apps, dating apps, meta apps…. it’s not just an apple app exclusive feature lmao do you have an iphone?

    • @OpasgegenLinks
      @OpasgegenLinks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Android owners literally almost break their thump by having to move it to the bottom left of their screen just to go back. That bottom bar design is ancient at this point.

    • @tanwenxi4316
      @tanwenxi4316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@OpasgegenLinks are you left handed or you can't bend your thumb? Because if you are right handed and hold it vertically as normal, you just need to easily bend your thumb which is very convenient. People hold their phone with the bottom part resting on their palm, they do not usually hold it from the top so it is a very accessible feature. Granted if you are left handed, it will be troublesome because some people could not stretch their thumb long enough to press the back button.

    • @shreejitghoroi7432
      @shreejitghoroi7432 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OpasgegenLinks lol, android devices have either native or third party app support to interchange the back and recent app button.android is about having options and not handful dudes deciding whats right or wrong for everybody!😁

    • @ifrankenstein7455
      @ifrankenstein7455 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@OpasgegenLinks Wait what. You can swipe from anywhere along the length of the entire edge of the phone to go back. You don't have to reach for anything

  • @BlindMango
    @BlindMango 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Apple made a *great call* not including a back button. My job deals with seeing a lot of people use their phones, and this is going to sound crazy but many people 50 and up don’t even know they have a home button on their Android, they just hit back again and again until they finally get back to their apps screen, it’s extremely hard to watch. The way the back button works on Android is an unmitigated disaster.
    Also how did he not mention the swipe back gesture on iPhone? Lol

    • @wanders278
      @wanders278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You either work at a funeral home or are massively exaggerating. Navigation as a whole is far superior on Android than it is on iOS. I'll take a fraction of a percentage of people not know the most optimal way of getting somewhere on Android over paralyzing every iPhone user by not providing back button functionality.

    • @PinkAgaricus
      @PinkAgaricus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's also the app switcher button on Android completely separate from the home button. (Usually a square or three lines)

    • @ifrankenstein7455
      @ifrankenstein7455 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Samsung has never had these problems since they have used a physical home button since since

  • @unbiasedUBR
    @unbiasedUBR 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gesture based navigation in apple iphone are really good. The only problem in recent iPhone are if you open an app from the search and on a page in a app you want to go back but the location of back button and search on the top left corner is the same. You can't go back and have to reopen the app. Swipe based navigation still needs improvement .

  • @anti-parasocial
    @anti-parasocial 2 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Never had a problem with this. I've been both and android (mainly samsung phones) and iPhone, I've never had a problem navigating either. I haven't owned an Android phone since 2014 and I'm sure I could jump back in with no direction and use it better than most casual android "fans" who can't really tell you why android is better but they don't like iphone. I respect the true android enthusiasts, but most people I know who think android is better go
    no deeper than "i can change my font" and "widgets/move my apps around"
    I respect the Android folk who really know how to get the most out of it and can actually tell me why it's better. I love Android and I miss it in some aspect, but know ios so much these days that I know how to get around Apple's limitations.

    • @junipeayt
      @junipeayt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here!

    • @Metallicazor
      @Metallicazor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Well i use both systems and i can tell you right away androids left swipe back gesture is much more consistent and more intuitive to use than on ios, where you never really know if its a right swipe, up swipe or if there are back buttons at the top or bottom. Atleast in some of the apps i use on ios, and it's frustrating

    • @tealruby1
      @tealruby1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Both systems have copied each other so much over the years they're mostly the same. At this point the switches are pretty easy going either direction. I am sticking with Android for the time being (120hz refresh on the iPhone 13 is so dumb), but I could see myself switching in the future. iMessage integration into my Macbook would be sweet.

    • @henriott8503
      @henriott8503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Metallicazor Hey, I think it is the other way around. Don't get me wrong I respect what you said, but the back button in iOS is always there and the left to right swipe too. I never had a Problem with that, but maybe you can get used to it.

    • @henriott8503
      @henriott8503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tealruby1 Hey, why do you think, the 120hz refresh rate on the iPhone 13 Pro is dumb? Please explain?

  • @Ranger1812
    @Ranger1812 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Man, I miss that style of iOS.

  • @fen0221
    @fen0221 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    There is no lack of it. It IS unnecessary and I totally agree with Chaudhri.

  • @highward5292
    @highward5292 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really like how minimalistic one button thing was, when i had android it just didnt even look that estethically pleasing

  • @zarmask
    @zarmask 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Including a back button or gesture now would be very difficult if not impossible because every app developer should update their app to be compatible with the feature.

    • @Charliezard7
      @Charliezard7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Believe it or not it's so easy to implement this feature

    • @staringcorgi6475
      @staringcorgi6475 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Kinda like getting rid of the lighting port

    • @AyrisX86
      @AyrisX86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@staringcorgi6475 no, why would app developers need to change their app if the lightning port was removed?

    • @staringcorgi6475
      @staringcorgi6475 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AyrisX86 I’m not talking about them I’m talking about the consumer base of apple

    • @zarmask
      @zarmask 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@staringcorgi6475 Getting rid of the lighting port is not impossible

  • @RedWingsninetyone
    @RedWingsninetyone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love my back button. It's annoying to have to learn the functionality of the app to learn how to go back one page/menu/etc and rely solely on the design of the app. First world problems.

    • @tanwenxi4316
      @tanwenxi4316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Especially for pop up app which bring you to play store or other third party app. Back button on Android can bring me back to the previous app I am on without needing to return to the home page and click on the previous app.

  • @hankheel9944
    @hankheel9944 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:26
    Took me for a ride seeing the old multi-task launcher, feel old now

  • @ninjanerdstudent6937
    @ninjanerdstudent6937 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Apple is so unintuitive in the decisions they make for their phones that they had to rely on TH-camrs like this to explain stuff.

  • @MisterTwisterWX
    @MisterTwisterWX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    love ur channel. watching since 2017 and subscribed since 2021

  • @gulagmarauder9306
    @gulagmarauder9306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    imagine if apple would have adopted gestures way back then, phones would be so far ahead today.

    • @lars916
      @lars916 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hardware >> Software

    • @gulagmarauder9306
      @gulagmarauder9306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lars916 true, but there we're some androids experimenting with gestures at that time, it just wasn't popular enough to focus more time and money on

    • @Ranger1812
      @Ranger1812 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No they wouldn't.

    • @gulagmarauder9306
      @gulagmarauder9306 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ranger1812 bruh, if you would've been able to use today's navigation gestures on yester-years phones ( like the iphone 4 or 5 ) , then today's phones would probably be a slab with no ports, buttons, or seams.

    • @lars916
      @lars916 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gulagmarauder9306 Did you ever experienced the smoothness of an old 2.1 Android device?

  • @Deepslate3D
    @Deepslate3D 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact: Android's gesture navigation still has a back gesture when swiping from the side

  • @Thornskade
    @Thornskade 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Instead of the back button always being in the same position and doing basically the same thing in every app, every app needs to make its own buttons for navigation, which are in different places and different designs, causing more confusion. Genius.
    No seriously, I don't get that argument. In almost every Android app the back button brings me back to wherever I was previously. I legitimately can't think of an instance where that wasn't the case.

  • @deleted_215
    @deleted_215 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As much as I love iPhones, I’ll never forget how I could skip ads instantly with the backspace button on Androids

  • @kt1n1
    @kt1n1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I started using Iphone last year. Swiping right to go back became a habit for me and now I find it more comfortable than the actual button on Android

    • @nvssgoat
      @nvssgoat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Android has Navigation gestures since 2019 though, so it's basically the same thing now

    • @zaentyt837
      @zaentyt837 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@nvssgoat 2019 only? Actually android has had that since 2015 through third party apps and late 2017, start of the 2018 year through Xiaomi

    • @omkaaaar
      @omkaaaar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Swiping behaviour is inconsistent in iPhones, not all apps follow it.

    • @dirtydirtsgt4751
      @dirtydirtsgt4751 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Android has that too though

    • @nvssgoat
      @nvssgoat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dirtydirtsgt4751 He has probably used an Android in like, 2014 when they were good but limited. Nowadays, Android smartphones are impressive, innovative and have some of the greatest photo hardware out of any phone.
      Google is also pushing gestures on stock Android (Pixel), which means buttons may disappear (that could create a lot of hate from button users who somehow think buttons are easier).

  • @ghostvision8606
    @ghostvision8606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every android users of my friends when they pick up my iPhone they keep pressing the blank spot and I just laugh at them lol

  • @jadenanjara
    @jadenanjara 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The lack of back button actually was one of the things that decided me to buy a 3GS back in the days

  • @Marngel
    @Marngel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I haven’t used an Android phone for longer than a few minutes so take my thoughts with a grain of salt, but I believe Chaudhri was correct to not add the back button. When I tried to navigate through an older Android with a back button, it was pretty confusing because in some Android apps, it has its own dedicated back button. So when I used the app’s back button, and then the OS back button, I move forward to the page that I went back from. To be fair, that isn’t the wrong approach, and that type of navigation has its benefits, but I just find that really confusing. Thankfully, Android and iOS basically use similar gestures nowadays to get around the operating system so UI navigation isn’t something to consider between the two OS anymore. Although, one thing I wish for iOS is to make its back swipe gesture in apps universal and get rid of the dedicated back button of every app. Right now, there’s still inconsistency in the positioning of those back buttons.

    • @river.
      @river. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Had the exact opposite experience. Switched to iphone for the first time. Couldn't last a month. It back and home has different implications in Android but using iphone felt like it doesn't want us to back our way to home screen. It wants us to press the home button. That doesn't restart the app when you open it.

    • @melanie4179
      @melanie4179 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @mikearisbrocken8507
      @mikearisbrocken8507 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, I took your opinion with a grain of salt and I am an iPhone user. We need to look at things objectively even if it goes against something we like. I was a long time user of android and I can tell you countless things I didn’t like, but one I’m never complaining is that regardless a button or dedicated gesture, it always worked and you didn’t had to read the mind of the developer.

    • @birdiewolf3497
      @birdiewolf3497 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope Chaudhri will pay for his crimes against humanity because he was dead wrong.

  • @MAGIC-rk7pn
    @MAGIC-rk7pn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I’ve just got an iphone and honestly i think it needs a back button. Different apps have different positions for the back button placement on iPhone makes it more complicated imo.

    • @wayluzy
      @wayluzy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      trust me, you'll get used to it

    • @leDespicable
      @leDespicable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@wayluzy The inconsistency is still there, though. You wouldn't expect that from a company like Apple with how stringent they can be regarding apps.

    • @zachariah7114
      @zachariah7114 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@leDespicable Apple likes to be contrarian. Who’d a thunk it?

    • @vinnncennnt8382
      @vinnncennnt8382 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same here
      I hate this thing about iphone
      I honestly thought it would have a back gesture on both sides
      I mean Apple made the first Smartphone
      But there is nothing "Smart" about this

  • @schemesgoboom994
    @schemesgoboom994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sorry mate, u r wrong about one thing, the double home button click app launcher was not there until years after.

  • @superninja2022
    @superninja2022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You can easily go back by swiping from left to right or by clicking the the back button on the top.
    Even if you are an android user, you won't feel any difficulty using it.

  • @TheMilanMovies
    @TheMilanMovies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    To me, the back button on Android is really confusing although I see people using it all the time. Like explained here, the button really reverse every step taken up to that point: opening an app, selecting a menu, pop-up the keyboard etc.
    All that while there is a software solution as well, something that Apple clearly focused on to make navigating less confusing.

    • @m.ahussain4005
      @m.ahussain4005 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I mean android phones having a back button just makes the phone easier to use especially since you have a button that can go back a function in every app rather than relying on the app software to provide one.

    • @-CorruptFireHawk-
      @-CorruptFireHawk- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I find it more confusing using an apple device then and android.

  • @BhagwaGiri
    @BhagwaGiri ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Back button is literally a deal breaker for me!
    I returned my iphone 13 within 3hrs after knowing the fact that it don't have back button.
    I use Back button 1000 times a day on my Oneplus 8.
    SHAME!

    • @eren5411
      @eren5411 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah its really frustating everything time i have to look for back button in app

  • @janoskovacs7784
    @janoskovacs7784 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Because they just keep moving forward until all their enemies are destroyed.

  •  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Nothing is simpler than one giant button, that is why we replaced the keyboard with one big wheel"
    The Onion is so great

  • @anazi
    @anazi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Honestly back button on the bottom right is essential. I use gesture to do that, and that it is the MAIN issue for me with iOS. I really cannot find myself using any phone without this feature. (I agree having three buttons at the bottom looks ugly and complicated. But this issue was solved with hidden buttons and just a gesture functionality replacement.)

  • @alexlikepie
    @alexlikepie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you ever wanna be the ceo of apple, just odo the opposite of the hardware ideas on android, and implement the software ideas of android a decade later.

  • @dodongjill953
    @dodongjill953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Google Pixels back gesture is the best.

  • @uthmanbaksh3530
    @uthmanbaksh3530 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I admit that one of the things I miss from Android is that back button. But I realize that it would be out of place on iOS. then again, iOS kind of has a back button that appears at the top of the screen when you do something like tap a link in an app or something and then that link opens up then the back button appears to take you back to what you were doing originally. That actually makes more sense than an omnipresent back button on the bottom of the display or taking up space on the bottom of the screen. It only shows up when it's most useful. iOS has is it belter than Android in this regard.

  • @woutervn
    @woutervn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The back button ALWAYS does the EXACT same thing... Going back to the previous screen. Was your previous screen the home screen? It will go back to the home screen. Was your previous screen in some menu? It will go back to that menu. The action performed isn't changed at all. It does exactly one thing and that is go to the previous location. This is not difficult and not a reason to not include it. on an iPhone, sometimes it's a swipe to the right, sometimes it's a back button and that back button is often in different places. Take that into account and the back button is EASIER than how iOS does it. Change my mind.

  • @bibleredpill
    @bibleredpill 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Chaudhri was absolutely correct. Whenever I’ve had to use that ridiculous back button on an android phone I never know what’s going to happen. I hate it.

    • @leDespicable
      @leDespicable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That hasn't been the case in years, though. When you press the back button/use the back gesture, you always go back one step, and if there is no more steps to backtrack within the app, it will return you to the home screen. Not that complicated, now is it?

    • @ifrankenstein7455
      @ifrankenstein7455 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It simply just takes you back before the current action was taken that's it

    • @bibleredpill
      @bibleredpill 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ifrankenstein7455 True. But that’s counter intuitive for me when I’m expecting a different result in the actual app that I’m working in. Apple vs Android OS kinda thing.

    • @ifrankenstein7455
      @ifrankenstein7455 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bibleredpill Personally I always say that when you get used to one thing moving onto another would be quite challenging unless you are willing to get used to it whether moving from iphone to Android or vice versa

    • @DejayClayton
      @DejayClayton ปีที่แล้ว

      It must be terrible operating at such an intelligence deficiency every day.

  • @switchunboxing
    @switchunboxing ปีที่แล้ว

    That one took me a couple days to get used to when I switched over to iPhone. But even still, sometimes you get locked up in apps because they refuse to have a back button. Then you just have to close the app and open it back up again. Kind of annoying but it rarely happens

  • @mrcl11w31
    @mrcl11w31 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The main issue with this, is that the back button is not always in the same place, which (In my opinion) leads to more confusion than a general back button for everything

  • @COMEINTOMYWORLD
    @COMEINTOMYWORLD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Android is far superior. Complete nonsense having no back button. And people pay through the nose for an Apple 😄 Your video says it is now normal and understood how to navigate back on an iphone, loads of people I know with iphones have no idea. They just smile through gritted teeth.

    • @anianii
      @anianii 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You sound like you clearly have never used an iPhone (and probably never will). I have not missed this back button since switching to iOS, not a single second.

    • @xman10110
      @xman10110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, why do you need a back button anyway? Clicked on a link, tap the go back in the corner. Tapped on the wrong post, press the arrow in the corner. Opened a menu, swipe right, it's not that hard to learn. When your in fullscreen anyway on android you have to swipe up from the bottom, swipe up again because it didn't register the first time, and then press a button. It's more complicated than a simple one-time press, and a simple one-time swipe gesture.

    • @melanie4179
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  • @Gamingkid5843
    @Gamingkid5843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I liked the video and subscribed

  • @quemmie14
    @quemmie14 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember when I first switched I thought it was impossible to live without the back button

  • @DreamDevourer1
    @DreamDevourer1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hate how companies think their consumers are so stupid that a back button would be confusing

    • @dhruvilgajjar6179
      @dhruvilgajjar6179 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      no no ... its apple ... they dont think you are stupid , they make people stupid by selling their phone

  • @clarysshow
    @clarysshow 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    now apple has become a confusion with it's gestures all over the place. left swipe from the left, I go back, sometimes I don't! I can't left swipe on gallery. Oh it's from the top. I am browsing the web, I want to go back, Oh I what! swipe from the left is something else this time. Oh I see it's the little arrow this time.

  • @firasabueida8424
    @firasabueida8424 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    New video: why iPhones volume buttons is on the left side?

    • @melanie4179
      @melanie4179 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @kenalba5641
      @kenalba5641 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So do most Android devices (until 2019)

  • @neillaw
    @neillaw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a previous android user who has just bought an iPhone 15, the lack of a back button is hampering my quick navigation tremendously...

  • @NotAgnor
    @NotAgnor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They don’t need one, just swipe left or use one in-app

  • @geobyjustin
    @geobyjustin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I didn’t know iOS 1 had an App Store and the iPhone 2G a multitasking function 😂😇

    • @DavidNikkiZane
      @DavidNikkiZane 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Charliezard7 wow, you're a genius

  • @markusTegelane
    @markusTegelane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    And then you have Samsung, who switched the order of the back and app buttons and kept it this way even after switching to software buttons (tough you reverse it back in the settings now, which is one point to Samsung for customizability, I guess). There's probably an explanation for this, but I don't really care what it is.

    • @CybernerdShua
      @CybernerdShua 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Closer to the most common dominant hand.

    • @chl_ca
      @chl_ca 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's always been in this order??

    • @TabbyEgg312
      @TabbyEgg312 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its easier to press the back button since action isnt commonly used, it was switched.

    • @astro6393
      @astro6393 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm glad they did, it's way more comfortable.

    • @TabbyEgg312
      @TabbyEgg312 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@astro6393 ikr

  • @paflyfish
    @paflyfish 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That is perhaps the dumbest reason I’ve ever heard. I’d still prefer a back button.

  • @donovanmahan2901
    @donovanmahan2901 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well how do you quickly close an ad you didn't mean to click on and get back to whatever you were doing?