confirm Android thirteen predictive again gesture on Pixel with these apps

With Android thirteen, Google started work on a predictive again gesture to “let prospects preview the vacation spot or fully different outcomes of a again gesture earlier than absolutely ending it,” and now you presumably can preview it with the telephone app on Pixel.

replace 12/29: As of 12 months’s finish, the following Google apps assist the predictive again gesture:

Google Calculator
Google Calendar
Google information
Google telephone
Google tv
Settings

unique 9/28: You first should allow Developer selections (Settings > About telephone > faucet “construct quantity” — positioned on the underside — seven instances). as quickly as accomplished, use Settings search to get your hands on “Predictive again animations” and allow that toggle.

After that, make sure that the Google telephone app is up-to-date and/or an ingredient of the beta channel. We’re seeing predictive again gesture assist dwell on mannequin ninety.zero.x.

each time you use the again gesture (to exit) whereas on one in every of many principal views/tabs (Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Voicemail), the app window will shrink down and also you’ll see your homescreen collectively with the regular again arrow. The windowing animation used right here is candy, and this works on each the left and proper edges of the display.

that is the extent of this attribute, and it’s meant to let people “decide whether or not to proceed or maintain inside the current view.” for event, it prevents unintended app closures whereas you’re inside the course of a job and will presumably be useful in stopping unintended app closures.

Google calls the predictive again gesture a “multi-12 months launch” as a outcome of it acquired’t be enabled by default till Android 14 (API diploma 34), with solely the Pixel’s telephone dialer supporting it as we communicate amongst first-get together apps. The preview is imagined to spur developer assist, and hopefully, there’ll seemingly be large adoption in roughly a 12 months.

replace 9/30: Google tv is one other app that helps the predictive again gesture.