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Iuliohtoday at 6:09 AM4 repliesview on HN

The evergreen question of "how do you go back and/or close an app on IOS?"


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cloud-oaktoday at 8:13 AM

This one caught me completely off guard when opening YouTube the first time on an iPad: Accidentally clicked on a wrong button and got stuck in a "please subscribe to premium" modal. No amount of swiping or tapping outside the popup would help, only thing left was killing the entire app.

This experience put a major dent in my perception of the "Apple has the most intuitive UI" narrative.

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mckn1ghttoday at 7:05 AM

Maybe just the circles I run in but these are not evergreen questions in my experience. I don't even know what "go back" is supposed to mean here, or for that matter what it would mean in a Windows application. Is there a system level "go back" in WinAmp/Excel/SimCity/Photoshop I've never seen before?

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teekerttoday at 7:59 AM

I feel that some people are just too old to get used to the swipe based ui. I mean friends of mine who just keep buying the only phones with (screen based) back and home buttons.

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bayindirhtoday at 7:03 AM

It's still easier than Windows CE though.