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Disable iPadOS Safari trackpad two finger gesture left to go "back" a page

I need a way to disable the trackpad two-finger swipe in iPadOS Safari which sends you “back” one page. I constantly lose data entries do to this function I cannot disable.


First example, many text entry boxes have a box which scrolls left/right instead of allowing resizing or automatic returns. If you use two fingers, you can scroll within the box up/down and left/right. If you stray out of the box a tiny bit, you will go “back” in the browser and lose your entries.


Second example: a dynamic webpage you are filling out fields, answering question, or whatever that you must scroll up/down within. If your scroll is interpreted as a bit “left” you will go back and lose your entries.


This is a useless gesture on a trackpad to me personally and far more dangerous than useful. (I have keyboard shortcuts on the Magic Keyboard so why use the trackpad for “back”?). Has someone figured out how to disable the back swipe?

iPad Pro, iPadOS 13

Posted on Jul 10, 2020 9:35 AM

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Posted on Jul 10, 2020 12:48 PM

Hello,


You are welcome to share your feedback with Apple using the following link.


Product Feedback - Apple

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Jul 10, 2020 12:55 PM in response to equals 42

This is a very useful to me gesture, but I can see it may not be for you. That said, if you use gestures, it is not one you can selectively disable. You can certainly provide feedback to Apple via the link QuickPost provided, but I can't see them offering any change to this as it would seem at least to me to unnecessarily complicate setting up and using the track pad on the Magic Keyboard.

Disable iPadOS Safari trackpad two finger gesture left to go "back" a page

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