Android 11 makes numerous changes throughout the OS, including some tweaks to system navigation. Starting in Android 11, almost all devices will default to Google's new gesture navigation, which might take a little adjustment on your part. There are a few ways you can make navigation on Android 11 more to your liking in just a few taps. Android 11's quick-switch gesture lets you swipe quickly between apps without going to the overview screen. Several phones have tutorials that teach you how to use the new gesture nav system, but none of them get around to explaining the quick-switch gesture.

The next version of Google's Chrome OS will support a limited number of touchscreen gestures to control laptops or tablets that use the operating system, something that should be familiar to most smartphone and tablet users. The new gesture system will be included as a standard part of Chrome OS 80, which is currently in beta testing in advance of a public release on February 11, 2020. Chrome OS 80 will support four new gestures, including swiping from left to right to take users back to a previous screen, and a short upward swipe will bring up the app shelf menu at the bottom of the screen. A long swipe upward from the bottom of the screen will clear all currently open apps and take users back to the home screen. Finally, swiping upward from the bottom of the screen and leaving your finger pressed on the screen will bring up an overview screen showing all currently open app windows.

For the first time since we met the navigation bar, Android has a whole new way to get around. Android 9 Pie introduces a new series of gestures designed specifically for navigation, and they bring some wholesale changes to the way we launch, switch, and quit apps. Here's how to get started and master the new system: When you install Android Pie on your phone, your navigation bar will look the same as it always has, with a back, home, and overview button at the bottom go the screen. That's because the new system is optional, at least for now. To try Gestures out, you need to turn it on.

As expected, Google today introduced a new way to navigate Android with gestures instead of virtual buttons, and it's sure to spur opinions among both Android and iOS users. But while it might seem like a blatant rip-off of Apple's iPhone X navigation, Google's method--which is says it's been working on since before the iPhone X landed--differs from Apple's in meaningful ways. The early beta suggests that the experience will actually improve on Android's speed and intuition. Here are four reasons why we're looking forward to it on the Pixel and other Android P phones, and four reasons why we're not: The biggest difference between the gesture navigation in iOS 11 and Android P is that Google is letting you switch it on and off. Head over to the new Gestures menu in Settings and you'll find a Swipe up on Home Button toggle that will enable the new system, elongating the home button and removing the square tasks button.