I know this topic has been discussed many times in the past. I really wanted to give an iPhone a try coming from an Android, but the navigation on the phone seems to be a huge downgrade.
The back button is in most applications out of reach with one hand. And swiping on the right edge is not user friendly for a right hander.
On android you can do that from both sides and it makes the overall experience much smoother!
Will apple ever catch up with android?
Most apps don’t need to be swiped from the very left edge…. You can swipe from halfway across the screen and it still registers.
But not all of them. And the swipe gesture has different length in every app, in some apps you need to barely touch it, in some apps you have to drag through entire screen. Consistency is what matters the most for me, and it’s just not there on iPhones. I left android 2 years ago and I still not completely used to iPhones gesture system.