Kartoon is seeking help to restore a back button on their site for iOS users. They mention a user’s request to add a back button, which Kartoon has not seen before. Kartoon uses the Discourse Tab Bar plugin for mobile and suspects the issue might be specific to iOS, as they do not own any iOS devices. NateDhaliwal asks if the user is accessing the forum as a PWA or via a web browser. Kartoon clarifies that the user is using the forum as a PWA and describes the back button as a purple button above the Discourse Tab Bar on the left side of the screen. Kartoon shares a link to a forum post discussing a similar iOS back button issue.
This might sound odd but someone on my site asked if I could add the back button back onto my site on IOS, but I have no IOS devices so I have no idea what he’s referring to. I did a search here and see reference to there being one added (or always was?) on it back in 2019/2020….was this removed? Or changed?
I’ve never seen it nor knew about it, I just use gestures on Android….but if this is a thing can I get it back somehow?
Hmm… is the user using the forum as a PWA or via Safari/a web browser?
PWA. I have the “Discourse Tab Bar” plugin installed for mobile and he says there was a back arrow right above that, on the left side of the screen.
He said it was on all of the themes, it was a “purple back button” (color might be related to the theme, if it would be affected by that because I have one with a purple theming) and you could press it to go back pages. I have nothing IOS and I’ve never seen anything related, and he’s on IOS, so I would guess it has to be an IOS thing?
I found this https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/466628-add-back-button-for-pwa-on-ios/ referencing an IOS back button on the PWA and shows something with a back and forward set up from this site
I have no idea if this is what he’s talking about, he talks…in a special way which makes it difficult to get any amount of detailed information without 15 back and forths