Living without SCRUB?

By tripolice, 11 October, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello there,

I have frequently noticed two finger swipe gesture often get misinterpeted as scrub gesture on my iphone 12. This problem impacts most seriously the BSI, as swipe right with two finger to insert a new line, or swipe left to delete a word, often results in ending the BSI session. One solution could have been to assign a diffent gesture to these commands, but I have been so heavily dependent on these commands that I cannot take any change there. So, I have now deleted the Go Back command itself from the scrub gesture. Now BSI is no longer crashing, but then I realise that I am equally heavily invested on the scrub gesture. On Safari, for instance, I am always doing the scrub thinking that I'm landing on the previous page, and then remember and reach for the back button.

So, would like to hear from people if they have managed to live without the scrub gesture.

Thanks.

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Comments

By Andy Lane on Sunday, November 5, 2023 - 16:21

I don’t use braille though so my 2 finger swipe left and right are escape and activate. Freeing up the escape command from scrub meant I could try it as my home gesture. I don’t use it much though so might try something else.

By Brian on Sunday, November 5, 2023 - 16:21

I use Scrub often. However, I also have custom 2 finger swipe gestures across he board, so you can imagine how often I accidentally go back when I do not mean to. 😳

By Dave Nason on Sunday, November 5, 2023 - 16:21

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

I have assigned the one finger triple tap to the Escape / Back action. I still have the scrub gesture too, as I don’t have the problem you have, but I usually use the triple tap.
Dave

By hittsjunk on Sunday, November 5, 2023 - 16:21

Hi. Because I’m an android user who only recently switched to the iPhone, I’ve never got the knack of making the scrub gesture work. As a result, I just had to live without the possibility of a back gesture. What of the cool things I discovered with the back button on iPhone is if you press and hold it, you get a list of all the possibilities so I can jump back multi levels easily. Maybe someday I’ll learn the scrub gesture, but for now, I’m able to live without it.