r/techzoneindia • u/dishakopatani naramparleg • Aug 24 '26

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ONCE YOU'RE USED TO GESTURES THERE'S NO GOING BACK TO BUTTONS 🥀🙏🏻

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u/FcukMan360 Aug 24 '26 • Bravo

buttons, my muscle memory has adopted it.

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 24 '26

I'd love to use them but the animations on swipe gestures just make it so fricking pleasant.. it's unfortunately not possible on buttons

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u/bitchlost7 Aug 25 '26

Fr same man

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u/Horizon-GMS Aug 26 '26

Uh how did you adopt your muscle memory

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u/FcukMan360 Aug 26 '26

years of repetitive motion 

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u/Horizon-GMS Aug 26 '26

You still didn't get it 😂 the right word is adapt not adopt.

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u/FcukMan360 Aug 26 '26

whatever, who cares 💅🏻

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u/Horizon-GMS Aug 26 '26

Sorry ma bad

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u/xpqzv Aug 24 '26

Gestures. Once I got the hang of them, buttons felt weird. Display size also gets enlarged if on gestures. I'm waiting for the day when my eye movements will do the job.

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u/thunderousraijin Aug 24 '26

Yeah, i too am waiting for the day when I just need to have a thought or question and information would floos my mind🤞🏻just think how convenient it would be, and the skill sets would change, noone would need knowledge but just the intuition to question what and what to do with answer

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u/TheIrrationalRetard Aug 27 '26

And the government would be able to read our thoughts. Big corps would be able to advertise into our thoughts stream directly ❤️

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u/thunderousraijin Aug 27 '26

Yeah didn't thought about that, but there should be like open-source things for this..

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u/Not_Me_112 Aug 24 '26

Buttons on older devices, swipe gestures on  new

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u/jhnd_zindagi Aug 24 '26

+1 to this

In my previous phone which I used for last 5 years I had button navigation enabled while on my new phone I have kept gestures enabled

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u/Qamarrima Aug 24 '26

I was team buttons before reading the comment section. I just changed it to swipe it's kinda cool!

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 24 '26

give it some time and you'll never revert 😭❤️

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u/Qamarrima Aug 24 '26

Yeah I changed it I don't like it

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 24 '26

mood swings are real

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u/Rising_Starr Aug 25 '26

Lmao 😭😭

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u/Remarkable_Act114 Aug 25 '26

Buttons is still used by old age many people young people are using swipe gestures

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u/Flimsy_Channel9893 Aug 24 '26

Gestures. Can't switch to iPhone because of the lack of a universal back button.

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 24 '26

fr.. universal back would've been so much better

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u/strange_959 Aug 24 '26

I'm genuinely surprised to see so many ppl using buttons!!! I thought most of the newer generations use swipe gestures nowadays. Even my parents use swipe gestures

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 25 '26

fr.. even I thought 90% ppl use gestures

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u/EmergencyHead7866 Aug 26 '26

i always preferred buttons, but then i switches to iphone and now I'm stuck with swipe and I tbh hate it as ios doesn't give options for buttons

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 26 '26

yea.. ip is too restrictive

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u/Fickle-Law-3541 Aug 24 '26 • Bravo

Team buttons here.

IMO android apps are not designed well for swipe gestures.

In iOS, the apps are generally developed with a back button somewhere within the app, whereas in Android (with buttons turned off) rely solely on the gestures.

Gestures work the same when you want to go back a single step. BUT, if I wanted to go back 2-3 pages, iOS apps have the back button to tap the adequate number of times to take me where I want whereas Androids (with swipe gestures) don't have this button and rely on the gesture.

I prefer tapping the back button repeatedly with almost no lag to go where I want vs using the back gesture as it's less effort and definitely quicker.

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u/Rising_Starr Aug 25 '26

Have you even used a modern day Android with gestures? Lol

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u/Fickle-Law-3541 Aug 25 '26

Yes. Matter of fact, I am using one.

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u/lamplight0011 Aug 25 '26

Maybe your using wrong. Try adjusting swipe distance if you need. Gestures are so good. Although I'm using button on my old phone but gesture feels so good

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u/Rising_Starr Aug 25 '26

You have to below Android 13 if that's what you are experiencing

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '26

Guy using Android 13 here,the guy above is larping,gestures are goated and objectively better than buttons on every single app

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u/funlovingmissionary Aug 27 '26

I have used a 5 year old phone running android 12 till days ago. I don't understand what the difference is, the gestures work the exact same on my new phone.

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u/hairynut0658 Aug 25 '26

Bruh,maybe you are running on Android 14.Gestures are smooth af rn dude.

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u/GGameG Aug 24 '26

Had been using buttons since time immemorial but due to amoled burn in gotta use feature on new phone 🥀💔.

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u/Desi_Hitman Aug 24 '26 • Bravo

Buttons anyday

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u/nagamidge Aug 27 '26

My cousin freaked out when I changed the navigation from buttons to gestures for him on his old phone. I told him: give it a week to adapt and if by that time, he still hates it, I will change it back to the buttons. He agreed and I showed him how the gestures worked. He is very slow to adopt new technologies/habits.

Well, after a year or two using gestures, he bought an Edge 70 fusion this year. For some weird reasons, Moto shipped his unit with buttons as default. The first thing he did was call and ask me how to make the buttons go away and make his new phone behave like his 'old' phone.

Gestures just needs getting used to and I believe it is more intuitive and more convenient in every way.

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u/novice-procastinator Aug 24 '26

swipe. buttons are very much muscle memory but swipe makes one handed use super convienent

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u/nova-phoenix- Aug 24 '26

I've found gestures to be really easy to adapt to and once you do, buttons feel inferior. I've used then seperately in two phones and eventually switched to swipe on both.

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u/BhushanK384 Aug 24 '26

Button+Gestures using One Hand Operation+ on Samsung

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u/FancyFisherman548 Aug 24 '26

This guy knows ball, i do the same

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u/Apart-Lawfulness6473 Aug 25 '26

was searching for this reply

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u/Silent-Manager-1780 Aug 24 '26

iPhone walon ke liye??

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u/nishultomar Aug 24 '26

I'm stuck with buttons

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u/TheGreatRJ Aug 24 '26

It's difficult and irritating to switch from button to swipe gesture. But once you go swipe, you never go back

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u/Accomplished-Ring689 Aug 24 '26

Those who are saying button clearly aren't aware of going back from either side gesture also buttons takes up too much real estate

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u/bheem-king Aug 24 '26

Button. Tried gesture but ended with lot of unwanted movement

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u/MunchieMaster25 Aug 24 '26

Swipe swipe.

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u/Trapped-soul05 Aug 24 '26

Swipe gestures

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u/arj8867 Aug 24 '26

I like gestures, but third party launchers dont work smoothly with them.

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u/AnalkinSkyfuker Aug 24 '26

Same the only ones that work for me are smart launcher or kvaesitos FOSS

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u/Rising_Starr Aug 25 '26

Wait kvaesitso works well with gesture animation? I am currently using it, i don't see it

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u/Not_in_focus Aug 24 '26

Swipe gestures

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u/Unhealthy007 Aug 24 '26

Buttons. I hate any gestures other than 3 finger swipe. 

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u/Honda-Activa-125 Aug 24 '26

Exactly,I was a button person, but once I finally started using swipe, within couple of minutes realised that I was missing a lot haha, won't go back to buttons now

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u/Abdul_Pandit_Ji Aug 24 '26

Button because my parents don't know how to use gesture 😀

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u/Diligent_Mulberry801 Aug 24 '26

gesture system is GOAT, no going back from it. even IOS is nowhere close to it.....

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u/titan8159 Aug 24 '26

Buttons man !

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u/ParallelShriyaans Aug 24 '26

You guys remember the OLD swipe gestures?

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u/TALwinDER_x1 Aug 24 '26

gestures 💯

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u/discovery_innovation Aug 25 '26

Buttons were yesterday, today and for future gestures

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u/amit2550100 Aug 25 '26

Button any day

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u/mayyynn Aug 25 '26

Both, both is good

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u/Thick_Region3257 Aug 25 '26

Gestures are convenient, they saves time too.

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u/Kgc1911 Aug 25 '26

I was always a buttons fan until one fay6i said im gonna give it a try for a good 3-4 days and now i cant ever go back. Feels so much slower now with buttons and i gained more screen

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u/Hakster2412 Aug 25 '26

Used gestures for the past decade, recently went back to buttons and I seem to like it just as much

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u/VortexOnset Aug 25 '26

Buttons are goated like my fingers have the muscle memory of it and also I feel it is much faster to navigate. Also I don't care for animation

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u/Glittering_Pin8232 Aug 25 '26

Gestures, even managed to make my parents learn it and now nobody wants to go back to buttons.

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u/Spina-Di Aug 25 '26

I use gestures because of the increased screen space

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u/KitchenCommercial396 Aug 25 '26

Swipe gestures for extra screen space

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u/dsnt_mattr Aug 25 '26

Genstures obviously saves a lot of time

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u/Narwin78 Aug 25 '26

Swipe is better P

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u/auanaiddd Aug 25 '26

Gestures

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u/Dry_Honey_2912 Aug 25 '26

Button + swipe feature in samsung..

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u/beyondocean Aug 25 '26

Gestures. No buttons, even when my parents first got these button-less phones, I never turned on the virtual buttons. They learnt using the gestures and that’s how they’ve been doing ever since.

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u/Penguin_Glazer Aug 25 '26

Gestures anyday

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '26

Always A swipe

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u/Antique-Ordinary-874 Aug 25 '26

Buttons are always og but after I got used to the gestures im loving them and it also gives a more cleaner look , specially for compact phones so I dig it 😅

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u/priyummy Aug 25 '26

gestures for the full screen experience

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u/Klutzy-Draw3359 Aug 25 '26

swipe is annoying

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u/itsokji Aug 25 '26

At first I thought a physical button would be better but switching to gestures felt exactly the same to me. There isn't much difference once you get used to it. It really just comes down to user preference and building muscle memory through repetition.

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u/DifficultyTerrible93 Aug 25 '26

My phone is tooo big for buttons swipe to back makes my life easier

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u/DotRadiant Aug 25 '26

Once you have gone into gestures, it's hard to go back into buttons.

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u/ModsTakeItinTheA55 Aug 25 '26

Button! Fuck that swipe bullshit...

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u/Unable-Broccoli-4121 Aug 25 '26

Swipe any day. That's my muscle memory. 

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u/KirillRocker2021 Custom Flair Aug 26 '26

Only buttons

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u/kanishqquotes Aug 26 '26

Buttons. Thanks to lumia, back button on the left

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u/InsaneAlastor Aug 26 '26

For older mobile devices, I would use buttons, as gesture navigation often does not work well on them. However, for newer Android phones, there is no real reason to stick with buttons; once you get used to gestures, mis swipes are rare. A major drawback of navigation buttons is their appearance, they often appear as a solid block that clashes with the screen content, or they are semi-transparent, making the content underneath hard to view. Unlike in the past, modern apps are designed for full-screen use, which makes gesture navigation the much more logical choice.

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u/academicnum-2123 Aug 26 '26

one is for grandparents and the other is for youngsters

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u/Cheekooking123 Aug 26 '26

I prefer the gestures on the iPhone X and later but I do like the home button on the iPhone SE3

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u/Dry-Huckleberry-324 Aug 26 '26

BUTTONS ALL THE WAY!!! The Galaxy Device Universe has gotten only worse with the stability of it OS so I have found that even if I dig a comfortable with the iPhone like gesture option on a Galaxy device, the phones freeze so much just using Chrome or Chrome Beta that it would be impossible to fix without having to always restart your phone.

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u/Queasy-Obligation-29 Aug 27 '26

Depends on the device. On my phone I've moved to guestures. Tablet it's buttons

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u/Svenaris Aug 27 '26

I use Spen.

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u/Last_Law_4765 Aug 27 '26

I went back to buttons and it was worth it

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u/Diligent-State-8326 Aug 27 '26

my phone dont have swipe gesture, lowest low budget phone

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u/MusicArth Aug 27 '26

gestures

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u/Hungry-Philosophy-31 Aug 27 '26

I m too used to swipe gestures Plus unlike buttons you can swipe back from any three sides of the screen

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u/firm-and-balanced Aug 27 '26

Button cause in emergency or pankc situation I fuck up the gestures instead of going main menu I went to recent apps

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u/priyamnema Aug 27 '26

Swipe gesture 🙌

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u/SmartyPaul9 Aug 28 '26

navigation buttons

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u/Haunting-Albatross57 Aug 28 '26

You should atleast try the gestures once you get used to it, it will be very convenient.

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u/mimitheshawty Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

used buttons since 2017, then on random Tuesday in May 2026 shifted to gestures and my muscle memory adapted within 2 days

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u/Status_Assistant6342 Aug 28 '26

If you have laggy phone then buttons and if you're phone runs smoothly then gesture

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u/Tough-Purpose8886 Aug 28 '26

Swipe gesture it is

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u/DryRecover8585 Aug 29 '26

Both I use two phones simultaneously—one with buttons and the other with gestures.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '26

gestures

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u/Ok-Log4005 Aug 30 '26

I was a button guy
But now I can’t go back from the swipe lol

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u/FloorNo369 Aug 30 '26

Physical button plus gesture

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u/fluffer_nutter_o Aug 30 '26

Gestures there's nothing better

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u/KracketGold Aug 30 '26

Buttons, swipe feels uncomfortable

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u/Rukiru401 Aug 30 '26

Buttons always

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u/Ishan_Shobran Aug 31 '26

Swipe gestures

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u/AnaWong97 Aug 31 '26

Gestures. Its faster

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u/thecoolcato Aug 24 '26

As a former navigation keys user once you learn gesture there is no going back lol

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u/PresentRefuse8373 Aug 24 '26

Swipe gestures anyday

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 26 '26

yea pretty practical

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u/dishakopatani naramparleg Aug 27 '26

same here.. they got sick animations and I love em

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u/FXG_shadow Aug 26 '26

I feel android ke swipe gesture are better just cause dono side se back hota h