I must have short thumbs or something because on my new Android phone, I’m constantly having to swipe multiple times for a gesture to “take.” For example, swiping up to unlock or get to home, swiping left/right to browse through screenshots in the app store—in all cases, the screen starts sliding over, but when I lift my thumb off the screen, the screen slides back instead of going to the next screen.
I understand the need for some threshold to prevent accidental swipes; however, the native threshold is just a wee bit too long for me, and the constant need to swipe multiple times to do what I want is significantly affecting my overall experience. By searching the internet I found this Google forums thread from 2018, to which the only reply was essentially tough rocks.
Has anyone else had this problem, and how did you solve it? Is there like a “Gesture Length” slider in settings that I’m just not seeing? Thank you!
fwiw, you don’t need long gestures if you make them faster. Which phone are you using?
Thanks for the tip—I did not know that. I’ll give it some more time and practice w/ quicker swipes. I’m on the Pixel 7a.
I don’t use gesture navigation but in my experience, reducing the “Window Animation” or the “Transition Animation” speed (in developer settings) can greatly improve this. YMMV.
