I use 3 button navigation. In the last few days I’ve had a problem where the recents button stops responding until I reboot the device. Changing to gesture navigation makes the recents gesture work, but changing back to 3 button navigation does not fix the issue. No idea what causes this.
update on this: I don’t think I’ve had this happen again in the last week until today. I was however out and about and couldn’t be bothered to reboot. I switched to gesture navigation and used the phone fairly normally for a few hours. When I got back home and was about to finally reboot I tested switching back to 3-button navigation and the recents button had started working again.
Therefore this is technically not a “reboot necessary” problem if that helps in possibly finding the cause. Still really bothersome.
I have same problem and the only thing that worked was reset app preferences but after some hours again got broken, Fairphone, fix your useless potato phone or I’m returning it. Guess what this issue is more than a year old and they don’t give a damn we all need to start returning this useless phone that can’t even do a basic thing like using recent apps.