Tap to top: Ivory

Safari broke tap to top for tabs (say it three times fast), and Bear added two-fingers gestures. Ivory – a Mastodon client for iOS – tries a different approach in a slightly different setting. The normal tap to top gesture works as expected, but tapping the top again returns you back where you were before: I believe this is meant to be a small gesture of help if you tap to top accidentally, yet I am not entirely sure it’s effective. Would you, in a moment of panic, decide to do the same thing again, after years where every other gesture like this in the entire system taught you those taps are idempotent? It gets a little bit worse, too. There is another established standard of going to the top – tap the selected tab again. This works across the entire operating system, too. But Ivory changes it, requiring you to tap twice, not once: I don’t have access to the combined feedback of Ivory’s users, but I am much less of a fan of this than of Bear’s approach, as it doesn’t feel like it…