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I know I'm speaking for an older and non-Apple hill here, but why the fuck is undo mapped to a gesture?
Speaking anecdotally now, I can't remember the last time I used the undo feature on a mobile device that wasn't in an image manipulation app, and there's usually an onscreen button for that.
For me personally, I use it when I'm using speech-to-text and unable to type/use the keyboard because of whatever else is in my hands, and I'm walking somewhere.
It's a very niche feature tbh, but convenient to have when I'm in the niche.
Nah that's cool, I'm not wholly against the feature - in fact it's great to hear real life use cases. I hadn't even considered the accessibility element of things either, so that's cool too.
It just seems from the outset to be an over engineered answer to a question nobody asked.
Cheers for your insight though!
The reason they made it a wanking gesture is in case you’re texting your ex while wanking with your phone in your hand.
The original idea was to undo all the texts you’d already sent. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen constraints on the nature of spacetime, Apple was unable to deliver on their text-message-undo promises, and went for typing-undo instead.
Then they never changed the gesture, and it’s still wankery to this day! Just a little bit of tech history for you there.
Shake your phone and undo everything you just typed? Faster than selecting and deleting or backspacing.
By default, it's just undo text input when you either do a special swipe or tap the back, useful in e.g. the web browser. However applications can hook into this functionality to do their own stuff when the gesture is called.