Android 16 brings predictive back navigation support to three-button navigation and new APIs to help developers enable predictive back system animations.

Three-button navigation has long ceased to be Android’s default mode, but you can easily bring it back if you miss it. From Settings, go to System , Gestures , and then tap System Navigation .

According to Google, including the back button in its latest builds of Android, including Android 11 and Android 12 – messed with how the app drawer worked. People were accidentally opening the app ...

The Go Back button is used to downgrade the version of the Windows operating system. It means that you can uninstall the Windows Update by using the Go Back button. For example, if you have ...

It’s been a few months since I started using Android’s take on gesture navigation, having enabled it on my Pixel 2 XL smartphone as a beta feature back in May. Now that the feature is out of ...

Currently, predictive back doesn’t work if you use three-button navigation, but that’s set to change in this year’s Android 16 update. You’re reading an Authority Insights story.

As part of its most recent mobile operating system update, Apple recently added a new customizable Back Tap button to your iPhone. On Sept. 16, Apple released iOS 14. As part of that release ...

Today at its Google I/O developer conference, however, the company showed a feature that's going away: the back button. Android Q, the 10th version of the operating system, ...

In the meantime, if you have one of the devices already capable of running Android Q, going back to the classic 3-button system – or the 2 button system of Android Pie – is easy enough.