What happened to the 3 button navigation options?

[LittleCasper]

So I've had my S24U for some time now and it's great, but the stupid swipe right or left to go back universal gesture is getting real old. Now all we have is either big buttons or this silly swiping thing, it works well 50% of the time but it's not intelligent enough to decide if I'm trying to go back or just select something. 

Please Samsung bring back the 3 tab navigation bar (from the S22U) at the bottom of the screen again, it was so easy having 3 slim bars for home, back and open apps.

[Catnip-America]

They decided without hesitation to remove it. That feature was the only way I used my phone. 

Now I hate using it as my only option has been removed.

New gestures are really bad: it gets confused at keyboard, does not go back in a agile manner, it feels as bad as Apple gestures. 

It does not let me hide the keyboard properly. 

Please add it back as a third option, but do not remove it.

[MavArik]

Just arrived- another upset user. They just removed my 3 navigation bars from my Zfold4 on last night's update without prompting. Super mad 😡

Lasted hours trying to get them back without success, thinking they had moved the setting (like they always do)  somewhere else-- but no, all removed, leaving only those 3 annoying huge buttons or ONE stupid bar that never gets right what you wanted.  😠

Did Samsung ever think of the consequences of ONE single useless bar in a Fold???  You can't even reach it with the thumb!!! Your UI/UX 'geniuses' deserve a resignation letter due to one universal principle in mobiles: if it ain't broken and millions use it, then you don't remove it!

Please get those 3 nav bars as they were! Too many annoyed users here 

[Nomist]

Dumbest idea possible. I cant even use some apps now because when you swipe left or right it thinks youre trying to back out. There was nothing wrong with the three button swipe gestures being at the bottom. Its so tacky and glitchy. It causes nothing but problems being this way. I dont understand why someone would have thought this was a good idea to begin with. This also happened after another FORCED update. Starting to get sick of these phones.

[Members_mFmLv74]

Samsung what the hell are you doing? Why would they delete this option without warning.

I hate the way it looks now and I'm forced to use the navigation bar. Good lock is not available in my country.

You lost me as a customer for the next phone update if they don't bring the 3 gesture bar back.

[Someone]

My S21 plus just got an update and i was so stressed when i couldn't use my phone properly i almost start crying and getting mad. This should have been included as standard option again.                                                I don't understand what was the reason to remove this...

[Spacetart]

Mate, u lost me at goodluck app, Cant seem to find NavStar. It's so stupid that we have to do this manual fix because someone from  Samsung stupidly decided to remove this feature. It has been few months now that I gave up on this and ended up with the old ugly navigation because the single gesture bar is just pure retarded. I cant use my keyboard without accidentally going somewhere else! and now I'm back here just for the sake of trying to go back to the 3 bar minimalist and saving few pixels of screen real estate.

[Spacetart]

Update to this, finally back to my old 3 bar gesture! So apparently i have installed a different "GoodLock" app from way back. If you struggled like me, go and check galaxy app store which is called "Store" and installe the GoodLuck app from there, the rest is as @x_ASHURA_x mentioned.

[Marie T]

My 3 little lines stopped working too...drove me nuts. I shut off my phone and when I restarted it the 3 little lines work again! Easy fix! Yay

[Anonymous User]

 need your assistance with android 14 A15 Samsung the navigation button, act weird 

[AndrewL]

@Anonymous User: Please can you provide some more details about the issue you're experiencing with the Navigation bar buttons? Are all buttons affected, or just certain ones? In what way are they not reacting as expected?

In the meantime, please press and hold the Side button, and select 'Restart' from the Power off menu that appears on screen. Does the issue persist following the restart?