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

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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 or on Twitter

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