How to Disable the Back Navigation Gesture on Android 11 | Left or Right Side
How annoying is it to try and swipe in from the left side of the screen to expand the hidden menu, only to have it activate the new back navigation gesture? I know it's happened to me.
Thankfully we can disable this gesture with a simple ADB command.
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More people have been switching to the new navigation gesture option within Android ever since OEMs began using the stock implementation. The thing is, many apps use a swipe-in gesture from the left side of the screen to expand a hidden menu.
There's usually a hamburger menu icon in the top left corner that will also expand this menu. But for some of us, it's become second nature to use the swipe in gesture.
If you're like me and have exited out of apps by accident for this reason alone, then you'll be happy to know a simple ADB command will let us disable this gesture navigation from either the left or right side.
h/t to Reddit user daltonator_360 for the command
This does not require root access but does use an ADB command. So unless you're using the LADB app (which I do hope to make a video on soon), then you'll need a PC to execute this ADB Shell command.
Check the links section below if you need help installing ADB or anything else mentioned in this Android 11 tutorial.
So go ahead and enable Developer Mode if you haven't already. This is needed so we can enable USB Debugging Mode (which allows us to enter the adb shell mentioned above). And then connect your phone to the PC with a USB cable.
You may want to follow the video and use the adb devices command to confirm the connection is set up properly.
When ready, go ahead and execute the following command. . .
adb shell
. . .so that you can drop down into the new shell prompt discussed in the video.
From here, the next command is. . .
settings put secure back_gesture_inset_scale_left 0
. . .to disable the back navigation gesture on the left side. Change the word "left" to "right" if you want to disable it from the right side instead. You can see the number zero is what disables this from within the Android OS.
If you ever wanted to enable this in the future, you would just go back into the adb shell mentioned here, and then execute the same command you did before. Except this time change the 0 to a 1.
Mentioned Links
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ADB & Fastboot Tutorial - • Installing Minimal ADB and Fastboot Tools
Developer Mode Tutorial - • How to Turn On Galaxy S20 Developer Mode t...
Full Tutorial
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1. Intro [00:00]
2.Enable Developer Mode [02:18]
3. Then enable USB debugging
4. Connect the phone to the PC with a USB cable
5. Verify the ADB connection [03:05]
6. And execute the ADB shell commands as shown [04:25]
7. Demonstration of the back navigation gesture disabled [07:00]
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