Samsung Removing Gesture Options

[Stanley Kubrick]

Remove features - less coding - fewer coding experts - less payroll - more revenue
easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy

 

[mustang7757]

Remove features - less coding - fewer coding experts - less payroll - more revenue
easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy

= unhappy customers

 

[spARTacus]

For me, I'd be pretty annoyed if they screwed around too much with the standard three gestures.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Remove features - less coding - fewer coding experts - less payroll - more revenue
easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy

Don't think it's quite that simple... they've removed some stuff and added other stuff... although some of the choices of what they've removed are a little odd, I don't think these gestures being removed are amongst them. They were always a weird stopgap solution.

 

[spARTacus]

...They were always a weird stopgap solution.

Coming from BlackBerry10 to Android, the three swipe up gestures at bottom left, centre, right (for recent apps, home screen, back) while also being able to minimize the three virtual buttons to basically just three small horizontal lines at bottom, for me that is almost priceless on my phone. For me, it works extremely well and is deep baked in muscle/mind memory. If they do away with that, for me I think it would be a significant impact to adapt to something else, almost as comparably bad as if they decided to install a physical home button.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Coming from BlackBerry10 to Android, the three swipe up gestures at bottom left, centre, right (for recent apps, home screen, back) while also being able to minimize the three virtual buttons to basically just three small horizontal lines at bottom, for me that is almost priceless on my phone. For me, it works extremely well and is deep baked in muscle/mind memory. If they do away with that, for me I think it would be a significant impact to adapt to something else, almost as comparably bad as if they decided to install a physical home button.

Obviously you won't agree, but the fact it was copied from BB10 kinda proves my point.

There's no "if" though, it is done.

 

[fresca2u]

I found this - it works for me.
https://www.androidpolice.com/hide-gesture-bar-samsung-one-ui-61-circle-to-search/

DISABLING THE GESTURE BAR WITH A COMPUTER
Download NavStar from the Galaxy Store and enable the Transparent hint option.
Install ADB on your computer.
Enable USB debugging on your phone and connect to your computer with a USB data cable.
Open a command window on your computer, change directories to the ADB folder, then enter adb devices in the prompt to check the connection.
Type adb shell settings put global navigation_bar_gesture_hint 0 into the prompt and press enter.
Lock and unlock your phone to see the changes.
Keep NavStar installed.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

I found this - it works for me.
https://www.androidpolice.com/hide-gesture-bar-samsung-one-ui-61-circle-to-search/

DISABLING THE GESTURE BAR WITH A COMPUTER
Download NavStar from the Galaxy Store and enable the Transparent hint option.
Install ADB on your computer.
Enable USB debugging on your phone and connect to your computer with a USB data cable.
Open a command window on your computer, change directories to the ADB folder, then enter adb devices in the prompt to check the connection.
Type adb shell settings put global navigation_bar_gesture_hint 0 into the prompt and press enter.
Lock and unlock your phone to see the changes.
Keep NavStar installed.

You should be able to accomplish the same thing without a PC by using Shizuku.

 

[fresca2u]

You should be able to accomplish the same thing without a PC by using Shizuku.

Yes, the linked article has instructions for that method also.

 

[spARTacus]

...There's no "if" though, it is done.

 

[spARTacus]

Obviously you won't agree, but the fact it was copied from BB10 kinda proves my point....

Agree that I don't agree. As the Keiths () saying goes: "Those who like it, like it a lot!"

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Looks like good lock was the answer