Why iPhones Don't Have A Back Button

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.

[@janek485]

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]

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

[@HisQ]

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

[@CybernerdShua]

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

[@bliblablubdiedadup742]

@@HisQ He mentioned swipe navigation?

[@RBUKFAN]

I use it all the time on KZbin

[@lafayette1302]

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]

lack of knowledge on ios

[@venator7889]

@@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]

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

[@SoftwarePrince]

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

[@SoftwarePrince]

In most apps

[@mikewheeler9011]

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]

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

[@planefan082]

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]

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

[@GoogleUser-nx3wp]

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

[@venator7889]

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

[@SelfMadeHundredaire]

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.

[@Atomic-Purple-Guy]

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]

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

[@jayzn1931]

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]

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

[@jayzn1931]

​@@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

[@chancecaeden550]

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

[@kabirsingh7630]

yes bro

[@rachitp4929]

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

[@jirirbr]

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

[@FreedomOfTħought]

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]

@@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.

[@14moti]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

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.

[@powerLuser]

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 KZbin)

[@dimitriz5578]

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]

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]

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

[@river.]

Yeah KZbin is horrible in iPhone.

[@WSsaintpeter]

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

[@goudendynamiethd2117]

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]

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

[@goudendynamiethd2117]

@@lefuedebout Nah man

[@Junispro31]

@@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]

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]

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]

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.

[@supashep1]

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]

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]

@@darkwoodmovies bluff

[@darkwoodmovies]

@@zryledv potato

[@Eli-mx8lz]

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

[@darkwoodmovies]

@@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.

[@WDCallahan]

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

[@noice8819]

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]

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

[@kuutoa]

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

[@venator7889]

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

[@zachariah7114]

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

[@friddevonfrankenstein]

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]

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

[@sohanbhute7424]

Aha.. this comment is powerful af.

[@venator7889]

@@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]

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

[@SamuelLing]

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

[@dimitriz5578]

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]

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

[@haggyadaszt]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@tpolarbeart]

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

[@TiagoNuremberg]

Same with me

[@The_SUN1234]

Courage!

[@AkerfeldtTveitan-yi4xm]

So much for user-friendly

[@laurencenoble3629]

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

[@jyeehaw]

@@melanie4179 shut up

[@michelbruns]

Well said, it's not intuitive

[@lewiswhitfield4362]

That gesture works on iPhone too I’m pretty sure

[@michelbruns]

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

[@joshuacanteveros526]

I’m currently facing the same issue as well. But only because I just switched from android to iOS a few days ago

[@user-me1mv4vy9q]

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]

Apple developers underestimated the user's intelligence.

[@KurtisB]

@@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]

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

[@morinoratcha7330]

@@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]

@@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.

[@JustinLewisWeb]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

​@@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]

@@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

[@whatsindansgarage2542]

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.

[@chrisjfox8715]

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]

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]

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

[@janabosi2883]

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

[@lolerie]

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

[@Raphael_Campos]

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.

[@ItsFreakinJesus]

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.

[@prashantchauhan1440]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@CyberJamSam]

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]

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]

@@ianm-y5s ok

[@pdtheowl9292]

Yeah I remember that too!! Super cool and clever

[@notverypog]

@@ianm-y5s yes

[@nadiainthesky]

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.

[@StanKween]

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]

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]

​@@Junispro31 not any option in ios like this

[@Junispro31]

@@ankesh1183 I meant on Android

[@rdwok14]

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]

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]

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

[@muhammednaijun]

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",

[@Thesnakerox]

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]

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]

you can use swipe gestures on android

[@14moti]

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]

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]

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

[@SuperKrepy]

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

[@nmpoy]

@@SpencerKraisler facts lol

[@trantuong789]

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.

[@keithmooore]

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]

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

[@gyanwire]

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]

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

[@SyntaxAero]

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]

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[@mrslcom]

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

[@anianii]

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

[@mrslcom]

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

[@anianii]

@@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]

@@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.

[@Coco-Loco]

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

[@j800r_aswell]

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.

[@kt1n1]

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]

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

[@zaentyt837]

@@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]

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

[@dirtydirtsgt4751]

Android has that too though

[@nvssgoat]

@@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).

[@Connections.]

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[@Krillinish2]

I prefer his vids about apples.

[@yahiamohamedrhayour8466]

@@Krillinish2 same

[@World_of_OSes]

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

[@Grason20]

It still does for some phones :)

[@kim-o-san]

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

[@unbiasedUBR]

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 .

[@floppa9415]

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]

you can do that on iphone too

[@melanie4179]

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[@gulagmarauder9306]

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

[@lars916]

Hardware >> Software

[@gulagmarauder9306]

@@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]

No they wouldn't.

[@gulagmarauder9306]

@@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]

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

[@dj.22zar]

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]

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

[@staringcorgi6475]

Kinda like getting rid of the lighting port

[@AyrisX86]

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

[@staringcorgi6475]

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

[@dj.22zar]

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

[@rart1111]

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.

[@superninja2022]

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.

[@cutesmolandadorableflowerpot]

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

[@devsehgal7432]

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

[@fireonawire]

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

[@onion2787]

@@devsehgal7432 Why are they doing it then?

[@pythondrink]

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

[@MAGIC-rk7pn]

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]

trust me, you'll get used to it

[@leDespicable]

@@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]

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

[@vinnncennnt8382]

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

[@redunsettle]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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

[@DataAnalyticsAutomation]

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.

[@MrTPF1]

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]

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.

[@RedWingsninetyone]

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]

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.

[@Htimez2]

Just one more reason to never buy an Apple product.

[@acivilizedhuman]

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.

[@schemesgoboom994]

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

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

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

[@Ranger1812]

Man, I miss that style of iOS.

[@BlindMango]

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]

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]

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

[@ifrankenstein7455]

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

[@DreamDevourer1]

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

[@dhruvilgajjar6179]

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

[@aidan8583]

swiping from the left has actually been a very easy transition as an android user who used to just swipe from the right. it makes much more sense with how the animations flow as well, so at least current ios is quite intuitive and an easy switch.

[@deleted_215]

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

[@woutervn]

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.

[@alexlikepie]

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.

[@Pindamann]

Swiping from left to right isnt the same as a back button. For example opening a KZbin video, then comments, then a comment thread, its possible to return in the same order with the back button. On iOS swiping doesnt work here for example and you have to do a combination of vertical swipes and taps to do that. As mentioned by others its just not consistent among apps. The back button is very consistent and predictable

[@cgazlan]

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

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

Thankfully, Android devices have both a Back button and a Task View button. They may just be soft buttons on the screen, but I do use Navigation panel. Don't like the Swipe gestures feature.

[@vex5u]

🤮🤮 android

[@paristath6773]

🤮🤮 android

[@TabbyEgg312]

I dont like the swipe to side either

[@-CorruptFireHawk-]

Exactly, I've borrowed my brother's old ipad and I find it awkward to navigate and use compared to android. I also find it entertaining that other replies to this comment are just the puke emoji

[@clarysshow]

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.

[@Gamingkid5843]

I liked the video and subscribed

[@Player-re9mo]

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

[@konradw360]

A forward button loads the next page you need. A back button leads you to a page you've previously used

[@BhagwaGiri]

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]

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

[@markusTegelane]

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]

Closer to the most common dominant hand.

[@chl_ca]

it's always been in this order??

[@TabbyEgg312]

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

[@astro6393]

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

[@TabbyEgg312]

@@astro6393 ikr

[@COMEINTOMYWORLD]

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]

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]

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.

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[@swtvic]

when i first switched to an iphone for the first time, i did actually have a hard time adjusting to the lack of the back button but i eventually got used to it. it's not a trivial feature really

[@Thornskade]

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.

[@dragres1813]

This video in a nutshell: Apple thought you were too stupid to know how to use a back button.

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[@johnedward4171]

Nokia N9’s solution was much more well thought out. It’s probably the first all screen phone with no physical back button. But the software back button was placed on the bottom, which you could reach easily.

[@mrcl11w31]

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

[@janoskovacs7784]

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

[@ankurg_]

I’m an Android user for phone but have iPad for tablet. All things good but worst thing is it’s editor and keyboard. I can never discover how to dismiss or hide this keyboard. Editing is just worse i don’t know how to explain it. Moving pointer to desired location, selection, etc is just horrible.

[@kcoovi]

But when it comes to back navigation it’s now better on android because there is a universal back gesture that allows you to swipe from any side of the screen (left or right) and from any point on the screen, literally anywhere and it works in every single app and across the UI but on iPhone you can only swipe from left to right, which sometimes doesn’t work in some apps and you have to reach all the way to the “Back” button which is really inconsistent and annoying. I have both an iPhone X and a Galaxy S20 Fe so I can relate

[@NotAgnor]

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

[@Astrawboy_NameAlreadyInUse]

The functionality of the volume buttons should be a scrollbar, just like you are hitting the arrow keys in PC. Instead, the current volume bars should be swapped with a single mute toggle. So that it's safer.

[@paflyfish]

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

[@izaixspace]

You know what, Imran was correct there, on android, the back button does many things at different levels of reliability on many applications, you get used to it, sure, but it kind of is a failure of UX in a way. Sometimes the application asks for confirmation when explicitly using the back button Sometimes it wants you to double tap it as confirmation Sometimes it does absolutely nothing and you're forced to tap a "Cancel" button or outside a dialog box And even sometimes you're discouraged from using it _at all._ *Why* can't I use it like a "back to previous screen" button as intended? Android app devs, you had one job, and it was to copy what Google/Android does with the default apps.

[@fen0221]

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

[@Deepslate3D]

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

[@ZiggyMercury]

I've used only Android phones, and didn't have any problem "trusting my device" despite it including a back button. In fact, one of the reasons I always got pissed when using someone's iPhone is that there is no back button. So, the "luckily, Jobs changed his mind" thingy is idiotic. It was a mistake.

[@SimonDoesmath]

I really hope this iphone gets easier to use. They finally convinced me to switch and I've been regretting the decision mainly because of the terrible navigation. I can't believe it isn't even an option. All the apps take longer to load too

[@pranjalkandhari]

Shifted from iPhone to Pixel after 3 years and absolutely love the back gesture. One of the few things I was missing on iOS.

[@mr.techie8565]

Your videos are top notch and the music is really nice!

[@sorosoro2690]

Some people are complaining not having a dedicated back button. Meanwhile I never use the physical home button and just always use my customized AssistiveTouch with one press to go in the home screen and hold to open the assistive menu.

[@altruisticlemur]

I don't buy the idea of a back button being confusing. I feel like the location of the back button changing in every app is more confusing.

[@legitimo1788]

They are so "uncomplicated" that no one understands. I can imagine how difficult it would be to have to explain to my mother how to go back in every different app she uses, instead of explaining just one button. She wouldn't even understand.

[@Grivian]

You go A -> B -> C -> D and then you press the back button. Why would you expect it to go anywhere else than C?

[@switchunboxing]

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

[@highward5292]

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

[@neillaw]

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

[@ghostvision8606]

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]

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