iOS 26 Tweaks Back Gesture to Make Navigation Easier on Bigger iPhones

In iOS 26 beta 1, Apple has seemingly tweaked the swipe-to-go-back motion to marque it easier to navigate screens connected bigger iPhones.


In iOS 18, galore apps let you to navigate backmost to the erstwhile surface by swiping with your thumb from the near borderline of the display. This is mostly easier than tapping a backmost fastener successful the top-left corner, particularly if you're navigating with 1 hand.

However, to trigger the gesture, you request to commencement swiping from the precise borderline of the screen, which is harder if you person tiny hands oregon you're utilizing a larger instrumentality similar an iPhone 16 Pro Max.

To marque things easier successful iOS 26, you nary longer person to commencement the rightward swipe astatine the precise borderline of the screen. Now you tin commencement the motion from anywhere, similar the mediate of the display. Providing you're not thumbing an interactive UI element, the swipe-to-go-back motion volition inactive beryllium triggered.


Currently the motion works successful galore strategy apps including Settings, Contacts, Music, and the App Store. It besides seems to enactment successful immoderate third-party apps, though enactment is apt to grow erstwhile developers update their apps successful clip for the merchandise of iOS 26 successful the fall.

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