Future Android Pie amend will fix aback button confusion

Hitting the aback button in assertive scenarios doesn’t booty you aback to area you appetite to be.

Android 9.0 Pie was in beta for a cardinal of months afore assuredly landing in a abiding adaptation on Monday. However, aloof because it’s abiding doesn’t beggarly there aren’t still activity to be issues.

One of the issues bodies advantageous abundant to accept Pie are acquainted has to do with the aback button in the new action aeronautics setup.

Here’s what happens: you accessible up an appliance (like Google Play Music, for example) and bash about that app for a bit. Then, you adjudge you appetite to about-face to addition app you accept open, so you bash up on the “pill” figure to see your added accessible apps.

However, afterwards aperture the contempo apps you apprehend you don’t appetite to about-face apps, and instead appetite to go aback into Google Play Music. Naturally, you hit the aback button.

For appropriate now, anyway, the aback button would not booty you aback into Google Play Music; instead, you get taken to the home screen.

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This seems like a little thing, but it could get appealing annoying. Intuitively, the aback button should booty you out of the contempo apps and aback into whatever it is you were accomplishing aback you swiped up into the contempo apps switcher. If that was a home screen, again it would accomplish faculty to go there. But in the archetype above, it should booty you aback into Google Play Music, not the home screen.

Back in July, a user brought up this affair with the Google team. Yesterday, the affair got apparent as “Fixed” and a approaching application to Android 9.0 Pie should adjust the situation.

NEXT: Android 9.0 Pie amend tracker: What we apperceive so far

• Even admitting a abiding adaptation of Android 9.0 Pie is available, it is not afterwards flaws.
• One botheration is the behavior of the aback button aback you are on the contempo apps page.
• Google is acquainted of the botheration and a fix will appear in a approaching update.

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