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Google might let you swipe left on your notifications again

After removing the option to swipe left to dismiss notifications, Google may add a choice in a future Android release

The first Android Q beta brought lots of small, significant changes to Google’s popular operating system. While most bring some quality-of-life improvement, others seem like changes for the sake of changes.

One of those was forcing users to swipe right to dismiss a notification. Swiping left reveals buttons to snooze or block a notification.

It may seem like a small change, but Android allowed users to swipe right or left to dismiss a notification from the notification shade for some time. A slow swipe in either direction would reveal the snooze and block buttons.

It’s not entirely clear why Google made the change — I guess that it wanted to make the buttons more accessible — but it may give users a choice in a future release.

According to a Google Issue Tracker comment uncovered by XDA Developers, Google will add a setting to change the notification swipe direction in a future Android release.

It’s not clear if that will be a future Android Q beta or a different version of Android altogether. Further, it seems like a compromise measure that likely won’t please users as much as just letting them swipe whichever direction they want.

Source: Google Issue Tracker: Via XDA Developers

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