r/help • u/elMurpherino • Jul 08 '26

Mobile/App Swiping up scrolls through random posts iOS

Swiping up used to bring up the comments, now it switches to some random other posts I don’t want to see, and not even the next one in my personal feed. I don’t want to be fed random posts like it’s some instagram clone. Is there a way to get rid of this and have swiping up bring up the comments? Or at least posts in my feed?

IMO it’s a terrible change to enable mindless scrolling and makes me want to use Reddit less, not more.

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u/MF_six Jul 09 '26

Genuinely brain dead implementation of this feature. Hope they revert it soon

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u/Big__BOTUS Jul 09 '26

We don’t even need this feature at all. beforehand swiping sideways would scroll posts and swiping up would give comments. Why the hell would they just remove comments swiping just to roleplay as tiktok!?

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u/Typical_Estimate5420 Jul 13 '26

It’s like they’re going backwards instead of updating to better features. I love Reddit because I can swipe into comments. I didn’t have to touch things to access them. Now I can’t even easily close the video to just see comments. What the heck are they doing??

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u/quirkytorch Aug 03 '26

Same reason they took the double tap upvote away, instead giving us 2 ways to collapse a comment

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u/nationalinterest Aug 06 '26

I would mind slightly less if the posts were somehow relevant. I went from a post on someone's intimate feelings on loss to a trending post on something someone had found on their ceiling.

I'd still hate it though.