The reason is actually very simple, Apple will not make a nondescript semi-finished product!
As you may have realized what I mean, it's possible that Apple will one day suddenly provide a swipe left back gesture on the right border, and this mode of operation does have its own rationality. But Apple's implementation is definitely not what you see now. Just like Apple's always-on display and Android's always-on display are not the same number at all, Apple's adaptive refresh rate will not be as rough as Android's high brush.
Therefore, Apple will not directly add a logic that the left swipe of the right border is simply mapped to the right swipe of the left border on the basis of the existing one, which is equivalent to no design in itself, and even anti-human.
Apple's own gesture design logic is actually extremely simple, that is, it conforms to nature and common sense, or conforms to the laws of physics. Anyone who has ever used an Apple trackpad should know that the default mode of the trackpad is called natural scrolling.
When you place your finger on the trackpad and slide it up, the entire page you're browsing will be dragged upwards, just like you would push a piece of paper up with your finger. Vice versa.
The same logic is the sliding return on the iPhone, which pays attention to the fact that the page comes from **, and it should go back from**.
It's similar to when you're walking forward and something falls behind you, you don't hesitate to look back and pick it up, rather than taking a few steps forward to pick it up. In fact, the logic of Android left and right borders sliding back is often this kind of design that is contrary to common sense.
And the logic of going back and forth dictates that when you open a page, it fades in from the right to the window, and when it closes, it should go back to the right from the left.
Then here comes the problem, if you support swiping from the right side to the left to close the window, then you have to face two problems.
For one, if you still keep the logic of going back and forth, then when you slide your hand from the right border to the left, the resulting page runs to the right instead, which is obviously counterintuitive. If you can't feel this strange property all at once, imagine that you throw a stone in front of you with all your might, and the stone flies straight behind you, isn't it a bit of a delirium?
Second, to maintain the consistency of gesture action, when you slide from the right border to the left, the window disappears from the left side with the direction of hand sliding, in this way, it does maintain the consistency of gestures, but it violates the initial logic, that is, the window should go back from the beginning!
If it's the kind of swiping from the right border to the left, and then the window disappears down or up, it's even more killing Matt!
If you were to do a function that swipes back from the right bezel to the left, what exactly would Apple do?
Obviously, Apple's approach is not a simple gesture mapping, but a global feature of left-handed operation logic. To put it simply, you can close the page by swiping from the right border to the left, which determines that the page will enter the window from the left side when needed, and return to the left side when it is closed. The close button placed in the upper left corner will also appear in the upper right corner.
To put it bluntly, it is necessary for all UI designs to do the opposite design according to today's logic, which is not a simple system upgrade, but also needs to be modified at the application level. In fact, many applications, after nesting many layers of windows, can't even slide to close the page. The complexity and workload of changing all window switching logic in a unified manner should be conceivable!
Speaking of which, do you understand, Apple obviously has a first-class UI design, has excellent system animations, and the application can also have a fairly consistent operating logic, but it just refuses to support such a seemingly simple right border to swipe left to close the window!In fact, in the final analysis, there is still a difference between design and no design at all. In other words, there is a difference between logical and non-logical.
In the face of real design, in fact, what users need is a logical way of interaction, rather than an interactive advantage in some scenarios. Besides, even if it is such an application with such a poor adaptability, you don't need to swipe from the left border to the right to close the window at all!You only need to swipe right from the middle position to close the window!