Getting back gesture to work on iOS

mobile
1

Hi,

The back gesture works as expected (i.e. navigates to the previous page) when I run my Meteor Cordova app on Android, but it does nothing on iOS.

Can anyone advise on how to get it working on iOS?

Thanks!

2

Can you show how you’re enabling currently?

In the past, I used this:

if (Meteor.isCordova) {
  window.WkWebView.allowsBackForwardNavigationGestures(true);
}
3

Holy crap, that works! Thanks very much!

Man, I’ve known that back doesn’t work in my app on iOS for months and I never suspected the fix was this easy.

And I can’t believe I wasn’t able to find it by Google search either :see_no_evil:

Somehow it’s enabled for Android by default, I’m not doing anything to enable it.

Geez, surely this should be the default behaviour for Cordova?

I’m going to do a pull request for the Meteor Cordova page to include this, it would help so many people. I think these days people really expect back gestures to work in apps.

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5

Yes, as per :point_down:

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