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Why did Facebook remove their hamburger navigation and go back to docked tabs in their mobile app?

24th October 2013

My answer to Why did Facebook remove their hamburger navigation and go back to docked tabs in their mobile app? on Quora

Probably because the swipe-to-see-menu gesture conflicts with the iOS 7 standard swipe-to-go-back gesture.

Posted 24th October 2013 at 2:32 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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