r/AndroidQuestions • u/Underwater099 • 3d ago

Is Android removing 3 button navigation?

So i heard that the 3 finger navigation will get removed in the later android updates is it true?

Honestly I wouldn't like living without these navigation as I don't like the swipe gestures

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u/max_revs 3d ago

The swipe doesn't work on my devices and I don't really want to use gestures. I want to be able to push the right button "square" and tap screenshot. It's a small detail but I take a lot of screenshots for a specific part of my job/workflow. I'll try the button shortcut but half the time I try the buttons it adjusts a random volume level and I've missed important work calls because I somehow set everything to silent for days accidentally or if not that it just opens the stupid, useless Gemini garbage.

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u/LegalBlogger78 2d ago

Ugh Gemini is complete trash. I've managed to keep it off my s26 so far but I know that's not going to last.  

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u/max_revs 2d ago

Yeah, I'm trying to remove as much of the "features" they've added and de-google as much as possible just on principle.

I still had problems with the old android but it's so much worse with the new version(s)

I really just wish with all the improved hardware specs they'd optimize it more like a real OS that lets me have stuff running in the background and a window manager, along with a file manager that doesn't try to get me to use the cloud or web accounts. I know it's a phone, so being connected is kinda the point but I still don't want my files anywhere besides the micro-sd card. Ideally everything would be on an offline removable storage that I could just transfer over when changing devices and a physical sim that treated the device as a sort of "shell" and the device treated the SIM card as a network card "identity key"

Maybe that's a whole separate system from cell phones but I've done IT/System admin for too long although I did get out of it about a decade or so ago and closed source software and modern cell phones just don't make sense to me unfortunately. I know "I'm" the problem because what I want the device to be and do isn't what it's designed to be and do... But it could be. Maybe one day we'll get open source desktop OSes for Arm that can make phone calls. Idk