Annoyances/Poor UE #2: Android app doesn't take you back when you tap back button

General Discussions
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Let’s say I’m currently on the Home screen and I have some TV Show episode in the On Deck. I tap on it, watch it for a while and then exit the playback.

On the resulting screen there’s a “Go Back” button in the upper left corner, however tapping it doesn’t take you back (where you came from – Home Screen), it takes you to the season of that episode, then it takes you to the show, then it takes you to the section.

This is either a broken feature or horrible UE. The back button should bring you back where you came from, not one level up in the hierarchy. A cop-out solution would be to replace the back icon with the up icon and that way force the user to use Android’s back button instead.

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Great level of attention to the paying customers, way to go Plex team!

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Well if you spam the forum with a minor UI problem that isn’t even a bug with the attitude of a little prince, than you shouldn’t be surprised to be ignored.

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This is actually intentional. The <- at the top of the page is to go up in the hierarchy. Use the device’s actual back button to go back a screen.

The reasoning being, like you have, where you’ve selected an episode from OnDeck. You can’t remember if you watched the previous episode. You can hit the <- and it takes you to the season so you can check the other episodes. If you’ve selected a Movie from say continue watching or recently added, the <- will take you to the library.

It’s actually been this way for a long time.

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The icon should be ^ and not <- then.

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@stangri said:
The icon should be ^ and not ← then.

And a merry christmas to you too. There are bigger things to be annoyed about on christmas.

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@Heciruam said:
Well if you spam the forum with a minor UI problem that isn’t even a bug with the attitude of a little prince, than you shouldn’t be surprised to be ignored.

You seem to be unfamiliar with the term/process. One report per incident/bug is a standard practice in the industry. Everything I reported is a bug. The prefix is to help Plex team sort them.

And if anyone has a little prince attitude it’s a Plex Dev team. It is evident by their refusal to let customers submit bugs directly, by letting the bug reports in forum compete for attention with the feature requests and go unanswered forever and by seemingly having no QA process whatsoever. Oh, and by not bothering with the Linux repos.

@danjames92 said:

@stangri said:
The icon should be ^ and not ← then.

And a merry christmas to you too. There are bigger things to be annoyed about on christmas.

Thank you for your invaluable contribution to the subject.