Recent Apps overview - current app not in focus

[Pjuskepels]

Hi,

I am facing a big annoyance with "Recent Apps".
I close an app every time I'm done with it. For some reason when pressing the Recent Apps button (III) the current app I'm using isn't the one that is in focus. Can this be changed somehow - I can't seem to find any settings regarding this or any articles on the internet. The reason I am asking is that I constantly close the wrong app because I don't keep a hundred apps open at the same time, I usually have a maximum of three apps open at the same time.

In short:
Open Chrome, go to home screen open Messenger.
Press (III)
Recent apps shows Chrome and not Messenger in focus
Muscle memory makes me swipe before I even see which app is in focus so I close Chrome by accident
Then i press the tab I think is Chrome, again I've not looked at the app since it happens in under a second.
and realise that I am in Messenger, the app that I wanted to close.

I think I understand why it works like it does, but it's unintuitive that it changes focus to another app instead of the one you just had open.

I haven't had samsung for some years, but used android for over ten years and Samsung is the most unintuitive software I've had on a phone. 

I've found an article for Pixel, but it's kinda the same issue they are facing:
Recent apps/overview button switches back to the previous app - Android Community (google.com)


Is there a fix for this. If not i think I'm going to buy another phone.

[chaozinga]

You can change this in Good Lock's "Home up" module. Download Good lock first if you don't have the app, and in the app you will see different modules that you can download. Download Home up, inside it there is something called "task changer" where you can change exactly what you are talking about plus some other cool stuff 😊

[Pjuskepels]

Thank you for the fast reply and good suggestion - I'll probably get the app

[chaozinga]

You're welcome! 😊

[Kakashi007]

This solution is so cool. I didn't know something like Good Lock existed. It openend a whole new world of customizations. Thank you so much!!

[chaozinga]

Neither did I until a few years ago, but back then Good Lock was not available here in Sweden or even in Europe. It only became available here last year, or maybe it was a year and a half ago (my memory sucks 🙈 😅). So I eagerly waited for it to be available here, I know that a lot of people were frustrated that it was in the US and a few other countries, everything is always available here last for some reason.
But once it got here, ***** how much stuff you could do and change thanks to Good Lock! The only thing I'm disappointed about is that not all modules are available here.
There are a lot of cool newer modules that are not available here (like usual, everything comes here last 😒)