Google starts rolling out the Predictive Back Gesture support on Chrome for Android with Android 15
Android app developers were challenged to figure out how to prevent users from accidentally exiting apps while swiping to return. Meanwhile, Google has addressed this challenge and introduced a new Predictive Back Gesture feature that has just left its developer preview channel and is now available to turn on by default in Android 15 on Chrome for Android.
Meanwhile, the Android’s Predictive Back Gesture feature will allow users to preview the location of the back gesture before completing it fully while also letting them decide whether they want to exit from the current page or stay
there.
In contrast, the main challenge was with the apps, as the apps that leave the back gesture to the system support the predictive back feature, but the apps that have the custom back behaviour are significantly required to add support for the Predictive Back gesture.
However, Google brought up the Predictive Back gesture with the Android 15 Beta 2 build, but it could no longer be turned on by default under the Developers Option. Meanwhile, the Google Chrome developers team could now enable the Predictive back support in Chrome on Android with Android 15.
Google Chrome now supports the Predictive Back gesture. Unfortunately, for now, Chrome is only showing a preview of its settings, bookmarks, downloads, and history; it has yet to add a preview of the last web page visited.
As of now, Google Chrome gets the Predictive Back gesture support, which can be enabled by default on Android 15 in the Chrome Canary for Android. It will soon start rolling out to the other Chrome channels.
