Back button on iPhone?

[mrochester]

If you have opened that screen in the current flow you will eventually be back there. Task switcher doesn't do backtracking.

You'd use a combination of the two. You'd use the back button to go back in the app you're currently in (it would stop going back once you'd reached the highest level of the app) and you'd use the task switcher to switch to another app.

 

[mib1800]

You'd use a combination of the two. You'd use the back button to go back in the app you're currently in (it would stop going back once you'd reached the highest level of the app) and you'd use the task switcher to switch to another app.

That's the apple mentality. The app is the focal point. Everything starts and ends with the app.

IPhone apps do not cooperate with each other to achieve the workflow user required. Instead it requires the users to remember and navigate the sequence of events themselves.

Tell me how you navigate the following on iphone.

Email -> Web page 1 -> FB post 1 -> YouTube 1 -> FB post 20 -> Web page 5 -> instagram page 10 ->send new email

All I need to do on android is press back and it will take me back to the exact page or window of the apps that I have opened during the workflow.

Android provides a bread crumb navigation for each page/window of any app.

 

[mrochester]

That's the apple mentality. The app is the focal point. Everything starts and ends with the app.

IPhone apps do not cooperate with each other to achieve the workflow user required. Instead it requires the users to remember and navigate the sequence of events themselves.

Tell me how you navigate the following on iphone.

Email -> Web page 1 -> FB post 1 -> YouTube 1 -> FB post 20 -> Web page 5 -> instagram page 10 ->send new email

All I need to do on android is press back and it will take me back to the exact page or window of the apps that I have opened during the workflow.

Android provides a bread crumb navigation for each page/window of any app.

That's the wrong way of doing it though as it's mixing task switching and the back action together instead of keeping them separate.

 

[mib1800]

That's the wrong way of doing it though as it's mixing task switching and the back action together instead of keeping them separate.

That's the idea of true multi tasking isn't it? Multiple apps can participate in your workflow in a stack manner. Apps work together instead of separately in silo like ios.

 

[mrochester]

That's the idea of true multi tasking isn't it? Multiple apps can participate in your workflow in a stack manner. Apps work together instead of separately in silo like ios.

Nope? It doesn't make any difference, it just makes the functionality confusing. Make the back button go back in the active app and the task switcher switch tasks. Really simple and easy .

 

[geoff5093]

Yeah that's the problem, I'd expect the back button to go back a step in the app im in, not back to another app. That's what the task switcher is for.

You seem to be confused. If you pull down on a facebook notification, that is the only "step" you made in that app, what would you go back to? There was nothing before you clicked on that notification, so it takes you back to your previous app.

 

[mrochester]

You seem to be confused. If you pull down on a facebook notification, that is the only "step" you made in that app, what would you go back to? There was nothing before you clicked on that notification, so it takes you back to your previous app.

The app will have more steps than just the one you've taken.