@twcau I had no idea that gesture existed 😕
this is one of my annoyances / #PetPeeves with #Apple as well – failure to provide any in-app or on-device help / documentation for this stuff & rely on “serendipitous discovery” 🙄 which of course just means you often never “discover” how to do basic things on your phone unless you just stumble on them 😤 and for those of us who normally #RTFM for fun (& profit? 🤔) or general interest or professional competence, there’s just no FM to R… 😜
they do have the “Tips” app but I’ve found it so patchy that I deleted it from my phone. I just downloaded it now to see if it had any info about this pinch & swipe gesture in Safari but nope ¯_(ツ)_/¯
what I did discover though (in the Tips app) is that there are now three tab bar layouts in Safari – “top”, “bottom”, & “compact” – & the layout I had was the compact one, which I don’t recall ever selecting as I didn’t realise there were any options to set (there in the Settings app rather than in the app itself of course, because Apple 🤪)
if you switch it to “bottom”, the tabs button / icon is restored, but it takes up about twice the space at the bottom of the screen (until you scroll the page). I’ll be switching to this layout since it’s the closest to what I previously had
also, FWIW, I did already know that you can slide across the tab bar left or right to swipe to the next tab open tab in either direction, but as you say there doesn’t seem to be a single-hand gesture
now, I don’t use Safari as my primary browser (tbh it’s about fourth), but I do use it occasionally if I need to temporarily reduce the strictness of my browser settings to access some janky website. so I use it often enough for this change to screw up my muscle memory 🫠
I’m sure some folks either don’t notice such things or just blithely accept that crap changes in unexpected ways in this “smart” device world we now live in, but for “power users” 🤔 and #neurodiverse folks who either care significantly about the tools we use and / or are significantly bothered by regressive changes (or just by change for the sake of change), this stuff matters 😤
#UI #shitUI
#UX #shitUX
#neurodiversity
#accessibility
