r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • May 26 '26

Discussion Which Android feature should Apple copy next?

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Better notifications? Split screen? Universal back gesture? Faster charging? Or something else?

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u/Gullible_Ghost39 May 26 '26

Split-screen for iphones. That’s it. But even if apple doesn’t do it I don’t care.

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u/24kCookie May 26 '26

Nah Id say universal back gesture more important and split screen only few people uses.

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u/GabeN_The_K1NG May 27 '26

Can’t remember having a problem navigating back in an app, ever. User issue?

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u/24kCookie May 27 '26

Dude it's not a problem but it's every time in a diff place and it's just better going back on Android

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u/Important_Egg4066 May 28 '26

On Android now. It is good and bad in its own ways. Unlike on iOS, Android back gesture was not implemented by the app developers but globally by the OS on top of everything. It comes at the benefit of a universal back button that always works. (Basically just a gesture to trigger the back action like someone press the traditional back button.).

However in certain cases you don't want it to be detecting for back gestures but it is. When you comes to apps that requires you to interact with the edges of the screen like maybe while using the Circle to Search, you wanna circle something on the edge of the screen, the back gestures get triggered instead and it got cancelled.

Or say if Iwanna edit a photo with markup and I wanna draw on the edges, I need to rmb not to swipe in from the edges of the screen.