No back button on iPad Air :)

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Hi all you clever Apple people.

When my android device stopped working with BBC iPlayer I was forced to move over to the dark side and bought an iPad Air yesterday.

Android devices have a return button bottom right of the screen to go back to the previous page, i.e. pressing the button would take me from page 10 of a particular thread back to page 9 and so on. On the Air I have to go ALL THE WAY top LEFT to press the back arrow on Chrome. I'm holding the Air in my right hand, now I have to use my left arm which is was relaxing :mad: It doesn't sound like much but OMW, it's irritating and could become a deal breaker if there is no way to change it.

I see there's a customisable AssistiveTouch section. Is there a way to setup a tap to take me backwards or possibly an app I can download? I really, really, really need a back button on the bottom right.

Ain't nobody got time to mobilise a second arm to reach top left :(
 
maumau said:
Hi all you clever Apple people.

When my android device stopped working with BBC iPlayer I was forced to move over to the dark side and bought an iPad Air yesterday.

Android devices have a return button bottom right of the screen to go back to the previous page, i.e. pressing the button would take me from page 10 of a particular thread back to page 9 and so on. On the Air I have to go ALL THE WAY top LEFT to press the back arrow on Chrome. I'm holding the Air in my right hand, now I have to use my left arm which is was relaxing :mad: It doesn't sound like much but OMW, it's irritating and could become a deal breaker if there is no way to change it.

I see there's a customisable AssistiveTouch section. Is there a way to setup a tap to take me backwards or possibly an app I can download? I really, really, really need a back button on the bottom right.

Ain't nobody got time to mobilise a second arm to reach top left :(
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Is this for reading the forums? I use Tapatalk which works well, but I think it does go one level back and not one page back, unless you click the page back button.
 
I recall being annoyed by similar things when I switched to Apple years ago. You eventually get used to it but its annoying.
Apple want you to use things their way, not a whole lot you can to do customize a device.
 
Swipe Left
...wait, that makes you like me, hell i dunno
 
If the ipad has a physical home button then double tapping it used to shrink the screen down so that you could reach the top parts.
At least it was like that with iphones with a physical button, Im not sure if its like that on an ipad.
 
UrBaN963 said:
Is this for reading the forums? I use Tapatalk which works well, but I think it does go one level back and not one page back, unless you click the page back button.
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Will try Tapatalk, but it think I need it for other applications apart from Chrome. Tks.
Rocket-Boy said:
I recall being annoyed by similar things when I switched to Apple years ago. You eventually get used to it but its annoying.
Apple want you to use things their way, not a whole lot you can to do customize a device.
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If I can't customise gonna have to get rid of this and go back to android - I agree that eventually one adapts but nah! I don't like it, it's not relaxing. Happy to wait a month or two to try it out and then make a decision. Plenty of Apple fans around me who would be happy to take it off my hands for a decent price.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
If the ipad has a physical home button then double tapping it used to shrink the screen down so that you could reach the top parts.
At least it was like that with iphones with a physical button, Im not sure if its like that on an ipad.
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No physical home button but a very convenient AssistTouch thingy.
 
maumau said:
On the Air I have to go ALL THE WAY top LEFT to press the back arrow on Chrome.
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In Chrome on iPadOS, you can use the swipe gesture to navigate, i.e. swipe to the right from the left edge of the screen to go "back", swipe to the left from the right edge of your screen to go "forward".

Now, isn't that easier than tapping on the back button ;) Easy peasy...
 
KevOfGoodHope said:
In Chrome on iPadOS, you can use the swipe gesture to navigate, i.e. swipe to the right from the left edge of the screen to go "back", swipe to the left from the right edge of your screen to go "forward".

Now, isn't that easier than tapping on the back button ;) Easy peasy...
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Oh Yeah!!!!!!!

THANK YOU @KevOfGoodHope - my hero :)
 
backstreetboy said:
Should've grabbed an proper Android tablet. Iplayer works fine on my el cheapo Dixon tablet and it has a proper back button.
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Have you tried it this week?

iPlayer updated something. I spent the entire Saturday morning with UK "online chat" agents, both Samsung and Apple. I swear that lot are worse than SOME of our call centre agents, difficult as that is to believe. Samsung online chat took 35 minutes to reply, I know this because they emailed a transcript of the non-existent chat. Their side of the chat says "you have taken too long to reply so I am ending this chat". Yes! I took too long because I had closed the chat after waiting 20 minutes without a response.

Tried Samsung again that afternoon and after jumping through hoops eventually got transferred to what was supposed to be a human being. Whatever he/she/it was there was a big percentage of bot or AI involved. Asked me the same question 3 times in different words, used the same phrases as the transcript from that morning, kept asking me to bear with him/her/it while it did some checking. In the long run it couldn't help and suggested I contact the BBC iPlayer app developers. WTF? All I wanted to know was which Samsung tablets are still supported by iPlayer.

Does Samsung think BBC care?
 
maumau said:
Have you tried it this week?

iPlayer updated something. I spent the entire Saturday morning with UK "online chat" agents, both Samsung and Apple. I swear that lot are worse than SOME of our call centre agents, difficult as that is to believe. Samsung online chat took 35 minutes to reply, I know this because they emailed a transcript of the non-existent chat. Their side of the chat says "you have taken too long to reply so I am ending this chat". Yes! I took too long because I had closed the chat after waiting 20 minutes without a response.

Tried Samsung again that afternoon and after jumping through hoops eventually got transferred to what was supposed to be a human being. Whatever he/she/it was there was a big percentage of bot or AI involved. Asked me the same question 3 times in different words, used the same phrases as the transcript from that morning, kept asking me to bear with him/her/it while it did some checking. In the long run it couldn't help and suggested I contact the BBC iPlayer app developers. WTF? All I wanted to know was which Samsung tablets are still supported by iPlayer.

Does Samsung think BBC care?
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Yeah just now. Grabbed the apk from apkmirror and watched something connected via Windscribe UK. Saw a newer apk from https://apkpure.com/bbc-iplayer/bbc.iplayer.android/download/500022750-APK that came out today, upgraded to that and it still works.
 
Use Safari.

Better yet use Tapatalk.

This is a software failure, not the iPad’s fault.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Use Safari.

Better yet use Tapatalk.

This is a software failure, not the iPad’s fault.
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Nope, just need to learn the swipe gestures to do stuff on the ipad.

Learn basic gestures to interact with iPad

On your iPad, learn the gestures you need to scroll lists, magnify text and images, move and open items, turn pages, and more.
support.apple.com support.apple.com

Learn advanced gestures to interact with iPad

On iPad, learn the gestures you need to go to the Home Screen, switch between recent apps, access controls, and more.
support.apple.com support.apple.com
 
maumau said:
Does Samsung think BBC care?
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Do you think Samsung would know what a 3rd party does?

But yeah, even with big hands on the iPhone, the fact that going back in stuff in setting requires you to click on the top left is annoying, and thus requires 2 handed operation.

#notsosmartphone
 
lsheed_cn said:
Nope, just need to learn the swipe gestures to do stuff on the ipad.

Learn basic gestures to interact with iPad

On your iPad, learn the gestures you need to scroll lists, magnify text and images, move and open items, turn pages, and more.
support.apple.com support.apple.com

Learn advanced gestures to interact with iPad

On iPad, learn the gestures you need to go to the Home Screen, switch between recent apps, access controls, and more.
support.apple.com support.apple.com
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Yeah swipe gestures are cool too.

But Safari is even better.
 
maumau said:
If I can't customise gonna have to get rid of this and go back to android - I agree that eventually one adapts but nah! I don't like it, it's not relaxing. Happy to wait a month or two to try it out and then make a decision. Plenty of Apple fans around me who would be happy to take it off my hands for a decent price.
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Eventually you'll stop expecting it to be an Android device and realise it basically does the same things, just differently.

And by differently I mean better. :p
 
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