Now that iOS 26 by default allows doing the “swipe back” gesture anywhere on the screen instead of only from the leading edge, I would love if that could (optionally?) work in NNW in the article view. That is, when an article is open, instead of having left/right swipes open the previous/next article, have it work as the standard navigation pop gesture.
In apps that have been updated to support swiping back from anywhere on iOS 26 (e.g. Overcast, Music, Settings) I find that really nice and comfortable because I’m too lazy to stretch my thumb all the way to the left edge of the screen, and find myself wishing every app supported it.
I know this is probably a personal taste thing, but I never really found NNW’s “swipe to prev/next article” all that useful because I’d rather see all the articles in the list and go to the one I want to read, rather than opening whichever one happens to be adjacent to the one I’m currently reading.
I like that idea. I myself don’t use swipe to go to next/previous. It would have to be a setting, though, which is not my favorite thing (but sometimes we do them anyway).
I use swipe to next item all the time but swipe to prev item rarely. I wonder if this is a common use case. It may be that just changing the behaviour of the swipe to right from anywhere to go to previous screen hence losing the swipe to prev item may not be an issue for most users. If Testflight users are representative could you do a build that measures the use of this feature to then decide if you need to cover both use cases with a setting or can get away with a change in behaviour?