Can sideswipe be turned off in iOS8?
September 25, 2014 7:48 AM Subscribe
Updated my iPhone software the other day (iPhone 5) and now the sideswipe gesture seems to be on a hair trigger. There's a couple frequently-used apps I have where swiping in from the right with one finger allows you to delete a line; now instead it swipes the whole screen forward (into the next day on the calender, for example). Ditto in zoom --- if I'm zoomed in on a page with small print in Safari, I can't seem to move the page over to see the right hand side without Safari taking this as a "next" gesture and loading up a whole new page. Is there anyway I can disable a particular gesture in iOS8? Or has Apple changed something so that I'm supposed to be using two fingers or double tapping or some such in order to get back my "delete a single line" functionality?
(It also seems much more difficult to navigate within text boxes now, but tha may be due to my screen being wonky.) I can't even get the cursor to go back to fix the missing t in that, above.
(It also seems much more difficult to navigate within text boxes now, but tha may be due to my screen being wonky.) I can't even get the cursor to go back to fix the missing t in that, above.
You don't need to come in from the very edge of the screen unless you're deliberately trying to invoke that "next" gesture. Trying starting a little further in when you're deleting and scrolling around.
posted by Zozo at 7:44 PM on September 26, 2014
posted by Zozo at 7:44 PM on September 26, 2014
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posted by kimota at 7:24 PM on September 25, 2014