WTH is there no back gesture in the iOS app?

Use Apple Home for example, or any made for iOS app and you will see that there is a gesture to go back, sometimes multiple ones (tapping white space or outside of a menu, pulling down, swiping back from the left side of the screen). All three of these gestures work in the Apple Home “more info” modal for a device. Why the heck do I have to reach to the top left corner of a giant device to go back in HA?

@awilson13 don’t forget to vote for your WTH

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Because it’s not a native iOS app, at least not the frontend, it’s a webview displaying the home assistant web frontend, so it doesn’t inherit all navigation behavior from iOS unfortunately.

You can compare to iOS companion app settings, which is a native UI, in there you have all the gestures.

What could be done is to go back to the previous webview page with the swipe, but it wont animate as a native app and currently this gesture is reserved to the sidebar display

Having the option would be huge. I open the sidebar once every month and the back gesture I would use 10x a day. I know I’m not alone!

Voilá

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This is UNBELIEVABLE you made my year!! Thank you Bruno!!!

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It’s in testflight already btw, I removed a few gestures that weren’t working well, but you still have what you need :slight_smile:

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