Mastodawn

@ivory This is a very nice update!

Though I want to mention a new issue I encountered: I can no longer perform a swipe from the leftmost edge of my screen to exit the post I’m currently viewing _IF_ I’m looking at its replies.

With this update, this now triggers a right swipe all the time (first the short type and then the long type).

@AltCode are you running 26.4?

@ivory nope, I’m on iOS 18.7

@AltCode Can you try restarting your device and then trying the same thing again? Any special system accessibility options turned on?

@ivory No luck after a restart 😔

@AltCode okay. Do you have a thick case on your phone? Does it work better if you intentionally start the side from the very edge? Still hard to determine why this is happening. A temporary solution is to disable those gestures in the settings. We will continue to collect more data on this from more users.

Alex Ball 1d ago

@ivory thick case here, observing the same behaviour. If I’m careful, I can get the swipe-to-go-back to work from anywhere on the left edge of a post; otherwise, right at the boundary between two posts works with less care. It feels like the target area is a tad too small to start a go-back gesture.

@ivory I have a slim case.

> Does it work better if you intentionally start the slide from the very edge?

That’s actually how I normally I do it, and where I’m struggling most to get it to work.

After a few hours of trying though, I did eventually manage to do it again. I’ve attached a screenshot of where I feel like it works.

I will also add that I’m somehow having more luck getting it to work if I perform the swipe with my left thumb (I normally use my right thumb).

@AltCode Seems like a bit of an edge case (no pun intended), as we've only received a couple reports of this so far, but definitely see this as a potential issue and will be looking into what we can do to improve this (as well as collect a bit more user data). Appreciate the details! 🙂

Misty 1d ago

@ivory @AltCode I was about to report the same issue (also on iOS 18.7); glad to see it’s on your radar! Let me know if I can provide any other info.

Garrett 20h ago

@ivory @AltCode I came here to see if anyone already reported this. I'm experiencing the same issue, 26.4 and no case on my iPhone Air.