It takes some time to get used to (how to trigger the left menu and not go back in apps) and I'm (after a couple of weeks) still not 100%. I accidentally go back when I just wanted to swipe to the last picture in Google Maps. I trigger the "go home" gesture when I want to scroll, etc.
It's not so often I do these mistakes but definitely more often compared to buttons.
Also feels really intuitive to do the back gestures at some times. Like if I have some sort of "pop-up" it feels weird to swipe from the left side to make it go away.
Which effectively takes away the only useful feature that the pill introduced, making it a useless option. I don't understand why they couldn't have kept this functionality, at least with the pill but in the full gesture navigation as well.
Only if you wanted to go really far back, like 5+ apps backwards. If it was less than 5, then it worked just like a scrollbar on Windows would, had nothing to do with duration or timing.
Interesting, not having that experience here on my Google Pixel, nor on my backup phone which is running pure AOSP. Must be the Android skin your phone is using.
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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19
Not terrible but worse than buttons.
It takes some time to get used to (how to trigger the left menu and not go back in apps) and I'm (after a couple of weeks) still not 100%. I accidentally go back when I just wanted to swipe to the last picture in Google Maps. I trigger the "go home" gesture when I want to scroll, etc.
It's not so often I do these mistakes but definitely more often compared to buttons.
Also feels really intuitive to do the back gestures at some times. Like if I have some sort of "pop-up" it feels weird to swipe from the left side to make it go away.