How To Bring Back The Android Back Button (Still works 2024) 

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I have had my phone for a few months now. It is an eMoto 2020. I have been so stressed with not having a back button on my phone....till I found you! Alleluiah!!!! I didn't know about gestures And I definitely do not appreciate them. I came close to buying another phone so I could have my back button back. THANK YOU for this video! I'm a subscriber now.

OMG thank you! It was so anoying not having a back button.

My android phone had an update last week and I totally lost the bottom navigation bar! Was going crazy trying to figure out how to bring it back until I found your post, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

Thank you! Who decided to get rid of buttons?! I cant believe I had to google "Where is the back button?"!

Lifesaver. Bought a phone for my elderly father and he couldn't figure out the gesture system.

Thank you so much for this. The swipe to go back gesture was so annoying. I kept accidentally deleting emails, texts, and other things.

You are my go to tech from now on I turned 54 today and you are my Personal birthday gift I have early Alzheimer's disease bipolar to..I live in a group elderly assisted home and I'm forced to teach myself stuff until my disease take fully over my mind, until then I can do things on my phone and tablet like pay bills &play games write family and friends all on the internet until the end ...I bought a new phone at Walmart 3 days ago and hated gestures and another tenant allowed me to use her old phone to Google how to find 3 buttons on my new moto play I bought at Walmart and your video popped up and taught me...hurray I said and happy birthday to me! I subscribed to u and I will tell other seniors ab ur helpful channel thank u again...Ms. Noel

Wow! I hated this new phone because of no back button. Thank you very much! It didn't bring back the little guy, but I have my back button. Liked and subscribed 😊

Thank you so much. I bought a new phone yesterday and had been going nuts with the buttons missing until I found your video.

Thank you, my phone updated last night and it did that setting to default and I can't deal with it. This was great help truly thank you.

Thank you so much. Just upgraded to a new phone w/ Android 12 installed and the gesture controls were driving me up the wall.

Thank you so much for this, got super glue on my phone and it started doing all sorts of weird stuff and all the settings were changed, would never in a million years have worked out how to get the back button back. Thank you again.

Thank you so much This video was a lifesaver I was so frustrated trying to navigate my phone after it took away my buttons I used to navigate. At least now I know what to do if it does this from another update again. 🙂

THANK YOU. My phone just updated out of nowhere and it was so frustrating. You saved me from throwing my phone out the window.

Thank you so much ! I hated my new phone because there was no back button ... now I almost love it !

Thanks a lot, I thought of killing my self for buying new stock android phone. Thank God you saved me.

You're a star. The relief of not using gestures to multitask...FREEDOM!

Thank you. Woke up this morning and it was all change and driving me mad. All back to how I like it now 😊👍

You're a real one for this. I wish there was a way to switch places of the back and switch-between-apps buttons. I'm so grateful to have them back but on my other phone the back button was on the right

You saved my life. Counter-intuitive- they just enjoy driving us crazy.

Thanks so much for making this video! Not having the back button was driving me crazy!

Thank you SO much. It was really irritating not having those buttons.

You a life saver for making this video cause the updates they're making 70% of time are a complete fail and a horrible downgrade since it takes away the convenience and makes the navigation piss poor swiping the screen as a back button and the app thinks you're only trying to scroll up or down and don't recognize the screen swipe back button at all

Dude, You are a God! I now have my buttons back and I THANK YOU!.

Thanks a lot, I almost had a nervous breakdown when I installed an update !

Life saver, I hated the gesture setup.

Omgosh it worked. Thank you so much. I was going crazy trying to use my new phone without the return button!

A dozen Thank Yous!!! You have no idea how much this means to me that you showed us how to do this. I missed my old LG phone because it had back buttons and wanted it back badly on my new LG velvet phone. You made it so easy to see and do!! Thank you so much!! A new subscriber here!😊👍

Thank you SO MUCH! I was not liking the swipe, and then I kept exiting my map app when trying to move the map! This is much better!

Thank You SOOOO MUCH simple and to the point!!

Thank you so much! The gestures made me want to change my phone I hate then so much but did not know what they were to remove them. Wow!

Thank bloody god for that The no button shit was driving me friggin crazy Cheers mate🇦🇺

Extremely helpful. Thanks. It's annoying that these companies keep "fixing" things that aren't broken. Why would I want to go swiping at my screen when the interface required simply presses before?

Thank you for this. I was getting so frustrated.

Thank you so much a dozen videos later and you helped me out in less than a minute

Thank you soooo much! My husband's tablet didn't have the navigation bar which was so annoying. ☺

I have went from hating a phone to loving it thank you 💗

Thanks! I had searched for "back button" and everything else I could think of

I really appreciate this video. Got a new phone recently and just couldn't do the whole gestures thing everywhere

Just upgraded to Pixel 5 and was not liking the gesture control. Glad a quick Google search brought me here. One of the big reasons why I've never gotten an iPhone is because it's lack of a dedicated, easy to use back button lol.

I was struggling before but thanks to you, not anymore. Kudos!

Omg I love you thank you! I've hated the new screen style so this has helped a million

Thank you so much! I got the update this morning and it was so annoying! I couldn't figure out what "gestures" was called to disable it

Hallelujah. Gesture navigation is one of those things that's flashy for the sake of being flashy but just inferior for most people, functionally. And when you've got a phone with some crazy 19.5:9 aspect ratio or similar, giving up a small strip of phone real estate to some buttons just makes a ton of sense.

THANK YOU!!! Just got the Pixle 6 yesterday and this was bugging me so much!

I've been complaining about the disappearance of the back button ever since it vanished. Thank you so much. (Subscribed and posted a link to this video: it literally turned my phone from a constant source of irritation to something I actually like using.)

Thank you thank you thank you mom's phone is equipped for gestures and it's a nightmare she can't use it and I'm having a heck of a time helping her.

THANK YOU!!! Just got a new phone and immediately panicked upon seeing this fresh hell.

Holy moly, I thought I was going to go nuts if I upgrade from Moto Z3 to Edge+ and deal with holding apps and not actually X them out, couldn't find any videos for that.

Great, but how do you get a back button on the keyboard (not the delete button)? An answer to this question would make correcting text soo much easier!

I didn't even know this was an option. I have been about to lose my mind! lol THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Thank God for this video. I was so frustrated after the recent update

Oh wow! So glad I found you. Thank you so much! Can't function without the back button!

Thank you sooooo much!! Gestures pisses me off, I almost broke my £400 Huawei phone for the stress it put me through 😓

Thank you, sir. I would have never figured it out myself.

Thank u so much, you just helped me now, not having the back butten was pissing me off.

Wowwww!!!!!! Thank You so much...I never thought to search for a fix...it worked!!!! Much gratitude 🙏🌄

Hopefully the new gesture controls will go the same way as a lot of Windows8's features, where they realized that everyone hated them and got rid of them. Until that happens this is a good workaround.

Thank you, I hate the gestures. I would routinely close apps on error!!

Saved my sanity by getting that 'back' button

I really thank you, it was easy but hard to find when you don't know where to search

Thank you for your video! In my phone, Android 11 REALME, had to choose VIrtual buttons instead of add 3 buttons. Damn gestures make me crazy

thanks! my husbands phone was somehow stuck on gestures and now we fixed it!

Thank you so much. This video was very helpful for me. Today I had this problem in my fon and I could solve it by watching this video. Thank you 😊

I'm very happy now to have my back batton, thanks so much!

Thank you so much! It is so great to have these back. Sending you a big hug 🤗.

Today's android 10 upgrade has no way of getting back the back button. Pressing on to "gestures" leads to blank page. They are forcing gestures on us. Ok I found it. Go to "settings" then chose "screen" and then chose "system navigation" and finally chose two or three buttons mode, done. It is not under "gestures" any more.

Thanks for this video. Without this video it woulde be impossible to activate 3 puttons function.

Thx a lot , to teaching me new things

my man, thank you so much, u saved my sanity. no joke, i literally dont like gestures system. thanks so much for this tutorial, huge love and respect ^^

Thank You very .I managed to follow your advice ! Now, my Motorola One Hyper has the 3 buttons at the bottom of the screen.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you sir ,my phone reset and I was miserable with it the original way ...

Thank you!! Almost went crazy looking for the back button. Couldn't get the hang of the Gesture thingy. Nope.

You are a godsend thank you sooooooooooooo much. You have no idea how much I was struggling with this new phone I got!!! Or you do, and that is why you made this video. In other words - Thank you thank you thank you. - from: 1 more minute of this gesture shit and I was low key about to throw my phone against the damn wall.

YAY!!! YOU'RE THE GREATEST 😂 My back button is back!!

Thank you... It was great having the backbutton back !!!

Thank you i got my back button again now, my phone literally removed it while i was asleep

Thanks a lot 🥳 I accidentally removed back button navigation and I have been searching in setting for 30 mins. Finally my problem solved with your video. Thanks a lot 💙

Oh thank GOD!!!

Thank you! This video helped me instantly!

Thank you for this. My phone bricked itself overnight and I was going to smash this goddamn thing...

just got a new pixel with android 11, i dont like this gesture bar. thank you thank you thank you, for posting this, so much better! haven't we had the old style back button and home button on every android since early? though i must say this 5a5g pixel is damn fast, and 5g here really works.

Thank you, I have an LG K92 it worked !

Omg, this helped so much thanks dude!

Thanks man very helpful its working

Thank you for the info. I really like the back button.

thanks...clear to the point 👍

Thank you so much!!!! That was driving me crazy!

thanks dude, useful guide, but I need this button while playing game, but when game starts this buttons hide again, and to realse this buttons I have to once again pull that side and then use them, and this buttons disappear after few seconds, hope you can help me, thanks in advance bro!

Thank u Happy Easter

Thank you so much saved my life .

I had to actually search for system navigation before it went in. But it's back to normal. Thank God. Now if only someone could tell me just why my battery charging is down to a trickle. I've used multiple cords, multiple chargers & multiple wall sockets. It's only 6-8 months old! I tried dropping everything new on it & resetting it. At least it's charging now instead of sitting still at 70%. I've had other tablets do this before & then mysteriously start charging again with no clue what I did.

Thank you so much. Just got a new android 11 phone and really missed the back button.

Thank you so #$&@ing much. I just got a forced update with the gesture feature.... And was losing my mind. I'm sure it's something I could have learned.... But it gave no intro or instructions on the update. Thank you thank you.... THANK YOU!

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH THIS HAD BEEN A PROBLEM FOR ME BECAUSE I JUST SWITCHED FROM MY OLD PHONE AND IT HAD THE THINGS AT THE BOTTOM AND THIS HELPED ME SO MUCH

Thank you so much, this video has been so helpful to me👍

thx no back button was driving me nuts

Thanks I couldn't go back in the browser lol

Thank you,! I am so frustrated . Still have no clue what the hell is gestures