# Mobile Apps - swipe
**URL:** https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820
**Category:** Feature Requests (historic archive)
**Created:** [May 27, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820 "2018-05-27T00:02:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@rstockm](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/rstockm)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820/1 "2018-05-27T00:02:45Z")
Hi, thank you all for your awesome work!
I just recently switched over from Slack, and there is just one usability-issue I’m experiencing: The area for left- and right-swiping from the postings view is oh so tiny small.
Actually, I didn’t noticed that you _can_ swipe in the first place and just went to the burger menu to access the channels.
In the Slack mobile Apps, the hole screen is the target for a swipe gesture - not just the outermost 10 pixel on the left and the right, and that’s the way it’s handled in several apps (best practice).
So: unless you are planning to implement some “per posting swipe” features, please use the hole screen - or at least 1/3 if it - for the really important swipe gestures?
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### Author:  [@sing.li](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/sing.li)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820/2 "2018-05-28T00:44:05Z")
Let’s tag mobile team @rafael.kellermann for some input.
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### Author:  [@aaron.ogle](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/aaron.ogle)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820/3 "2018-05-30T06:41:31Z")
Is this iOS or Android?
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### Author:  [@rstockm](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/rstockm)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820/4 "2018-05-30T08:57:25Z")
IOS - but maybe this applies for Android, too?
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### Author:  [@rafael.kellermann](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/rafael.kellermann)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820/5 "2018-05-30T10:45:31Z")
@rstockm I’m sorry for the delay on the response, thanks for pointing me @sing.li.
We’re rewriting this interface in our iOS application, to completely remove the left sidebar menu. Stay tuned for the next updates! 👍
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### Author:  [@rstockm](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/rstockm)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820/6 "2018-05-30T18:30:55Z")
> [@rafael.kellermann](#):
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> We’re rewriting this interface in our iOS application, to completely remove the left sidebar menu. Stay tuned for the next updates!
OK - now I’m scared.
Smooth access to the channel list is key IMHO - and the left sidebar a perfectly fine way to achieve this, even more so with a well established swipe gesture. May I ask - what exactly are your plans?
We have a nice idiom in German: “Verschlimmbessern” - which means “He fixed it til it was broken”.
You get the idea 😶
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### Author:  [@rafael.kellermann](https://forums.rocket.chat/u/rafael.kellermann)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://forums.rocket.chat/t/mobile-apps-swipe/820/7 "2018-05-30T22:59:46Z")
We are changing for the better, not for the worst. You’ll have easy access to the chats list (just like you do on Android today) and the UI will be much more reliable and have a much more native feeling for iOS users. 👍