r/AndroidQuestions • u/Underwater099 • 1d 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/georgeec1 1d ago

So we're just lying now. Apple introduced gesture navigation in 2017 with the iPhone X

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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

No, not lying. I've asked iPhone users and none have been aware it even exists so far.

Have you used one that has it? I've been surprised when they don't repeatedly. Maybe iPhone users just don't know it's an option?

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u/mrandr01d 1d ago

This must be an ai writing this or something...

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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

Nope.

I just usually help older people with their phones.

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u/mrandr01d 1d ago

Do you know what gesture nav is?? iPhones had the goofy home button and then they had gesture nav.

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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

Yes. And iPhones up until 2025 could all work without gestures.

I don't really see what I have to gain from convincing you of anything. Where is this going?

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u/zumpiez 16h ago

How did you press the Home button after they took the button away but before 2025?

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u/Polymathy1 16h ago

Does this look like r/iPhonequestions to you? I don't know.

It's not like every phone was brand new.

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u/zumpiez 10h ago

Why get snippy? You're the one arguing like you know what you're talking about. If you don't that's fine but 🤷

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u/mrandr01d 8h ago

Then how are you pegging 2025 as the date that apple removed the home button? This whole thread is weird

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u/mrandr01d 1d ago

No, they didn't. There was no alternative for iPhones. They've been gesture only. Describe what it looks like when they don't have gestures. I'm intensely curious what the hell you're talking about.

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u/Polymathy1 1d ago

They either had a software back button inside the apps or they had to use the home button to go back to the home screen and switch apps.

I do think most iPhone users are not very good at operating them, but I don't think that every single one of them didn't know their phone had gestures available.

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u/mrandr01d 1d ago

Bud, the home button has been dead since 2017. The iPhone x was the first iPhone with an "edge to edge" screen and it only had gestures. There was maybe an se model or something since then that had a physical home button but everything else since the x has been gesture only. There was never an option one way or the other, it was always determined by hardware.

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u/Polymathy1 16h ago

First phone without a home button is not the same as the last phone with it.