Prevent swiping between web pages in iPad Safari

Question

Swiping from the left and right edges of my iPad\'s Safari browser, moves between the currently open web pages. Is there any way to prevent it?

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Answer 1

Navigation on swipe gestures are possible if there is a navigation history. Swipe left is the "go back to the previous page in my navigation history".

So, if your app does not need a navigation history, which may be totally valid for a single screen game for example, then you can prevent the swipe issue by removing the navigation history.

For example, I have a single page application that uses only in-memory history, I don't synchronize with the browser (history / URL). So, the "swipes" have nowhere to go to and "fix" this problem.

That said, this is a work-around with its limitations that may not be good enough for your situation. (URL sharing is a basic thing in Internet)

It seems browsers vendors mission is to make web developers's life miserable with silly things like that.