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0 pointsbayindirh1mo ago0 comments

In iOS, task manager and closure can't be overridden. You swipe right to return to previous application. You can swipe left for a couple of seconds if you didn't intend to do that.

You swipe up and remove the application from the stack, all processes of the application is killed.

Background processing has strict limits, and you need permissions to run longer than that, and for some use cases, there are no recourse. OS swaps you out or freezes the app.

If you want an app to work in the background, don't kill it, period. Push notifications are handled by the OS and is not hindered by this.

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Iulioh1mo ago

What about going "back" INSIDE an application?

Think for example reddit, you open a thread, how do you go back?

You open the "reply window, now ho you ho back? Maybe close it directly?

I Android this is all handled by the same function and is often ranked as the most frustrating design choice in IOS

bayindirhOP1mo ago

I'm not using Reddit in any capacity since they have started giving their content for LLM training, so I can't help you with that, but looking at 4-5 third party applications right now, they all have a left arrow at top left to go back.

They all are very different applications and have very different designs, yet the arrow is there.

To be honest, I baffled at your question for a second or so, because I never thought about that, yet the method is so universal that I was not thinking about it at all.

t-sauer1mo ago

There is a common way to go back (swipe from the left edge of the screen). Some apps just don't integrate well and ignore the platform patterns.

bayindirhOP1mo ago

I believe swiping from left to right is common for both Android and iOS.

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Iulioh1mo ago

What about going "back" INSIDE an application?

Think for example reddit, you open a thread, how do you go back?

You open the "reply window, now ho you ho back? Maybe close it directly?

I Android this is all handled by the same function and is often ranked as the most frustrating design choice in IOS

bayindirhOP1mo ago

They all are very different applications and have very different designs, yet the arrow is there.

To be honest, I baffled at your question for a second or so, because I never thought about that, yet the method is so universal that I was not thinking about it at all.

t-sauer1mo ago

There is a common way to go back (swipe from the left edge of the screen). Some apps just don't integrate well and ignore the platform patterns.

bayindirhOP1mo ago

I believe swiping from left to right is common for both Android and iOS.

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