So i just bought Asus rog phone 6d and im extremely bothered by the lack of the back ,home and whatewer is the 3 one called buttons on the news androids. Is this something you all got used to with time or does this still bother you( IT really fells much less intuitive compared to the old 3 buttons ,alghtough preferably i would love to have both since the back gesture seems kinda usefull )?
I think there’s a setting to bring back the buttons, if you want that.
Settings -> System -> Gestures -> System navigation
Yeah this is what I do. I tried gestures but I really prefer the buttons.
There’s two of us! Really the minority in this thread. For me there was no guide so i was extremely confused at first. Then I found it interfered with one of my most used apps that featured similar gestures so I turned it off and never went back.
I’m still using buttons too. I never understood why people would want universal gestures for back and home while using apps that are also controlled by gestures. Just give me the dedicated buttons.
My phone offers gestures but not by default and I’ve got zero interest. I’m really glad it’s an option and I hate all the companies that think they know better than all their users and force their visions on them.
Yeah, totally this! Also, I’m just super uncoordinated and I was constantly swiping in slightly the wrong direction so it never did what I wanted it to do. You know where you stand with a button 😆
Just stick with the gestures for a week or so. You’ll get used to it. Wouldn’t want to go back to the button row anymore.
I’ve tried, it’s not for me, I’m always accidentally swiping.
Same for me, I think there are a lot of us 😀
I just haven’t been able to get use to gestures instead of the buttons.
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Just upgraded my phone and found this setting myself. Thank god you can change it back to the 3 buttons.
Definitely try gestures.
Being able to “go back” from a gentle swipe at any height is a blessing for the small hand. The rest of options are really, really intuitive.
Unless you have some mobility issues, you’ll never come back after a week.
i’ve no mobility issues, but i can’t stand that back gesture. it interferes with the ability to open drawers; and i can’t spam it quickly to get out of a “deep” page in an app
gestures do have pros (for instance, the ability to hold and scroll through recents) but the back gesture just seems straight up worse to me
You just made me try it out, it’s… Interesting. Hard to get used to, but I like the extra screen space.
Give it a week. You shortly will not go back.
Pretty sure you can still enable 3 button navigation in settings. I still use it
It’s possible to adjust it so you have three little buttons but you can also use gestures from those buttons. Not the sides. I used to use that setup for a long time but know I’m just using the regular gestures for now. By the way I’m on a Samsung Galaxy S20.
These settings are samsung specific. Samsung had optional gesture navigation before it was in android. Different gestures though (the 3 button swipe from the bottom option). So nowadays you can choose between the old style samsung gestures, the android gestures and toggle the button row on or off on samsung phones.
Interesting. I assumed it was an Android feature rather than Samsung.
Took me awhile to get used to gesture, but can’t go back now. The only thing that still bothers me is the old UX of the slide out side menus was clearly overlooked with gesture navigation and is really awkward.
I’ll never forget the day I realized my reddit app (Relay for Reddit) had a drawer that pulled out by just sliding your finger to the right from anywhere on the screen. As long as you didn’t slide from the left edge, it pulled the drawer out. Why we don’t make that the default is beyond me.
I had that for about half an hour, but I wouldn’t want to switch back. Gestures all the time
I’m so used to gestures I can barely use a phone with button navigation. When I have to help my parents/grandparents with their smartphones I take longer just because they use buttons lol.
Also the 3 button navigation is not gone afaik. All OEMs I’ve used have it buried in the settings somewhere.
initially I didn’t like the gesture controls but they really are better than having buttons wasting space and burning in the screen
Can’t agree. I thought they sucked. I gave it two weeks but it just felt worse to me.
I used a phone without gestures the other day and had such a hard time with it, it was crazy how unintuitive the buttons felt in comparison to the gestures!
The simple fact is, neither is actually all that intuitive, they’re learned, but gestures definitely get to be very convenient and a much quicker form of navigation.
I would definitely not want to go back.
It’s funny, if you swap gestures with buttons in your post, I’d agree 100% lol
@Vlhacs Yeah, like I said, we call things intuitive without realizing that nothing in this is intuitive at all, it’s all learned behavior.
For me now, swiping at the edges of the screen makes complete sense and needing to go to a certain place at the bottom of the phone to go back was weird because “why would I go to the bottom of the screen to go backwards, that doesn’t make sense”, but it was definitely a learning curve to get to this point!
With all that said, hell, there are still times I really miss the old trackball and full keyboard from the OG G1 (the dedicated hardware button for the camera was nice too, but double tap power isn’t terrible). I wouldn’t want to give up screen space for the trackball, but damn if it didn’t really help with fine navigation and using the phone in the cold!
Different strokes for different folks, I’m just glad we’ve got options so we can all be (mostly) happy with how things work!
I remember it is especially intuitive when it goes full screen in landscape mode, like I think it needs one swipe and then choosing the needed button (it is better to swipe twice) or deal with the space occupied by the Android buttons on the right edge of your screen… iugh.
I jumped to the Android bandwagon later (2020) and as I came from iOS I never used them, but I tried them anyway… And they are not for me…
I loved Android’s 3 button nav for years but after like a week of using gestures I couldn’t go back. Once I got the hang of it, it was way more fluid feeling to use.
Haven’t used the 3 buttons navigation since 2016 or 2017
I like both but use gestures because I don’t want to lose screen space on the bottom. I like full screen apps
Nah, I love gestures. It’s so quick to go back just by swiping left or right.
I prefer gestures. But if you like buttons just go to settings and turn them on.
gesture navigation is fine for me. but i more want stacking recent tasks back
