So this is my first Samsung in a long time and in the past (up to my Pixel 5a) the picture in picture always has a square like icon so you could tap right at the screen to go back to the app. This is extremely important for me when driving and using the nav. However I've noticed that this phone (as well as my friend's S20+5g) have a "enlarge" arrow icon in the corner. Maybe I'm just not used to it but it requires a much more precise touch and it is absolutely infuriating. Is this a Samsung thing and is there anything I can do to change it back?
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I've googled it and got nothing.
Search this forum and not found it either
On Windows 8, if I scroll my mouse to the left/ left corner of the screen, I can see my current apps.
I can then close them.
With my keyboard connected I can do this on my surface using trackpad.
How do I do it without my keyboard connected?
I don't want to swipe them in, I want to see the icons of the apps I have running so I can close them.
Kenif1983 said:
I've googled it and got nothing.
Search this forum and not found it either
On Windows 8, if I scroll my mouse to the left/ left corner of the screen, I can see my current apps.
I can then close them.
With my keyboard connected I can do this on my surface using trackpad.
How do I do it without my keyboard connected?
I don't want to swipe them in, I want to see the icons of the apps I have running so I can close them.
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you have to swipe in from the left a short distance. I don't own a windows touch device but did get a go on a display model, was kinda fiddly to get the distance just right, was probably about half the distance you need to swipe to switch apps. With some practise you should be able to nail it.
Kenif1983 said:
I don't want to swipe them in, I want to see the icons of the apps I have running so I can close them.
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There's two behaviours for a short swipe in from the left. I believe the default one is to "swipe in" the last used app. Whereas what you want is to see a list of currently running apps (me too).
Go Settings>Change PC Settings and you're looking for a setting something like "App Switching">"When I swipe in from the left edge, switch between my recent apps instead of showing a list of them". In 8.1 that setting is under PC & devices, I can't recall if it's the same in 8.
The default way to do what you're asking is to swipe in from the left edge, then swipe back to the edge without releasing the swipe. It's a very quick and easy gesture easily made with the thumb; you don't have to swipe in more than maybe 1/4 of an inch (6mm) before swiping off the screen again to get he app switcher sidebar to appear.
To close the apps using touch only, you can do the following:
Drag the app from the sidebar off the bottom of the screen.
thanks, that's great.
If I'm watching a YouTube video, I have to click the small X on the bottom right for the on screen controls to go away, but they won't disappear automatically. I installed IYTPB so maybe that's why? I attached a photo. This is whether I'm in portrait or landscape view. Thanks.
I just updated from Android 7.1 to Android 8.1.1 on my Nexus 6P, and noticed this same behavior almost immediately after the upgrade. On Android 7, I don't think that little "X" button even exists in the controls.. Instead, you just tapped anywhere on the video, and the controls would instantly disappear (or simply wait a few seconds and they would disappear automatically)... Or you could do the same to bring the controls back up once they were gone. This new behavior is madness if it's intentional! Every single time I touch anything on my phone (YouTube controls or otherwise), the controls pop back up and you have to click the tiny little X button to make them go away again. It's so backwards and retarded that I simply cannot imagine that this was an intentional decision on the developer's behalf.
I checked on my bone stock Pixel2 with the June update and I'm experiencing that behavior. The on-screen controls disappear a couple of seconds after touching the screen.
So I've gotten used to the swipe up gestures for the navigation bar over my past few phones but going to the fold 2, on the big screen, the swipe gestures are too far apart for convenience. I see that there is an option for the traditional nav buttons to be offset to the right or left but i don't see an option for swipe gestures to be offset to the right or left. Is this even possible? Either within the Samsung settings or even a third party app?
The swipe gestures are new to me... never used them on my last phone (Note 8). I'm getting used to it on the small and large screens. I thought about switching back to include the buttons, but then it takes some of the video away which I think defeats the purpose of spending all this money on a phone with a large screen.
It's quite a bit easier if you go into the navigation options and switch to the gestures where you swipe from the side for back and bottom for home. When you do that anywhere up on the bottom will take you home so you can make both gestures in the lower right or left corner of the screen.
krabman said:
It's quite a bit easier if you go into the navigation options and switch to the gestures where you swipe from the side for back and bottom for home. When you do that anywhere up on the bottom will take you home so you can make both gestures in the lower right or left corner of the screen.
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Thanks. I've been using this method. Although not my preference is the best option so far. I appreciate the recommendation.
It would be nice if they'd let us fiddle with the placement and type of nav gestures, it's true about any phone but I think more so with this one due to the form factor.
This popped up on my phone today. Its a dark tab kind of thing that sits on the side of my screen. Got an option to activate it (which i did) and now its sitting on the edge of my screen. Basically a quick way of searching google. It sits in front of everything and goes transparent after a while. I can slide it up a down and between sides of the screen to reposition it. A long press pops up options at the bottom to hide it or turn it off.
I cant find anything about it online yet. Does anyone else have it?
V4lve said:
This popped up on my phone today. Its a dark tab kind of thing that sits on the side of my screen. Got an option to activate it (which i did) and now its sitting on the edge of my screen. Basically a quick way of searching google. It sits in front of everything and goes transparent after a while. I can slide it up a down and between sides of the screen to reposition it. A long press pops up options at the bottom to hide it or turn it off.
I cant find anything about it online yet. Does anyone else have it?
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Got the same today, Huawei P30 Pro using Nova Launcher. Great little feature, seems nicely integrated.
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Guys I'm new and hope this question has an answer. Apologies in advance if it's incorrectly placed or repeated.
So i have a poco x3 pro and I want to make the navigation buttons stay there forever.
Generally they are good but some apps and games take precedence and I have to constantly slide up from the bottom to make them appear.
I I've been into settings but the main issue is I play last shelter, the game is locked to full screen.
I don't use gestures or full screen mode and the buttons are great normally but I want to basically recreate a similar feature to hide notch but at the bottom, so only the nav buttons are there, maybe with the exception of using camera or films etc.
Therefore I suspect that the screen may need to be set to smaller so that there's nothing hiding under the navigation space. I don't care for the one handed screen resize feature either.
The game being full screen has tabs at the bottom so the navigation buttons do need to disappear in order to use the game.
So in a nutshell I want to permanently have the navigation buttons at the bottom and above them is the bottom of the screen even though the actual screen is the full size of the phone.
I actually can't believe this isn't something we can choose.
I came from the s5 and the op5 and I'm old fashioned and like the home, menu and back keys. I can live with the finger reader on the power button but my one handed use of the phone has be taken away from me.
Sorry for the long post but I'm coming up short so don't know where else to go.
Also the nav buttons go light or dim at random times.
Regards, Paul
Ps. I've done plenty of rooting over the years but always find that the time used and problems afterwards aren't worth it.
I will consider going this way with my poco if it will remove bloatware and clean it up. I only want battery life and relative performance, its a 249gbp phone I understand that and its fine as it is but I want the nav keys to act like they are hardware that's it.
Ideally no root and an app would be cool.
I did install a nav key app but it just masks what's there.
Mi forum said poco x3 pro isn't their product and couldn't help. Poco global seems like a link to Facebook.
Thanks all.