FP4 - Swap the back button side

[FatShetlandPony]

The 3 buttons at the bottom, how do you swap it so that the back button is on the right of the screen.

[hirnsushi]

That’s not possible on stock Fairphone OS, sorry.

If your phone is rooted you can follow this guide (just don’t edit files in /system directly, use Magisk), but there’s no easy way as far as I know

Oh and welcome to the community

[urs_lesse]

Actually surprising it’s not possible out of the box – basically it’s a left-hander mode. I just checked the Accessibility Settings, but it doesn’t seem to be in those either.

Have you ever tried Gesture navigation? I think that is independent of handedness.
Settings > System > Gestures < System navigation

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UPDATE: There actually is a way to get the buttons reversed – RTL (Right-to-Left) layout (only available in developer options). However, that will make everything on your screen right-aligned, not sure if you would want this? Example:

[anon9989719]

Looks nice ‘I’ may try that. Thanks

[hirnsushi]

Woah, that screenshot makes my head hurt

I was really surprised as well that there isn’t a hidden option somewhere.
I’ve looked at the overlays for an easy fix, but sadly no luck there either:

foo@bar:~$ adb shell cmd overlay list | grep navbar
[ ] com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural_wide_back
[ ] com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.threebutton
[ ] com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural_extra_wide_back
[x] com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural
[ ] com.android.internal.systemui.navbar.gestural_narrow_back