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Getting back to where I was

Blackheathen
Blackheathen Posts: 6,668
in Troubleshooting
I used to have a curled arrow top left hand corner of the screen which took me back to where I was in my forum search.  Now all I have is a X which takes me back to the beginning of page 1.

I’ve got an ancient apple iPad by the way.

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  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,706


    Tempus fugit, amor manet.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,889
    You’re getting older @Blackheathen

    you’ve just got to accept your curled arrow can’t do what it used to do 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,738
    The curled arrow is surely a refresh button. Will update the page you are on & then you'll see all the new posts on that page & more.

    I'd imagine an X means to cancel that page & go back to the start. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,092
    Time flies like an arrow.
    Fruit flies like a banana.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,764
    edited August 21
    Do a screenshot, upload it to Chat GPT, and give it the exact model number, and search engine. 

    It’ll probably give you a page to download a new pilot, or tell you how to change your settings.


  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,300
    Blackheathen said:
    I used to have a curled arrow top left hand corner of the screen which took me back to where I was in my forum search.  Now all I have is a X which takes me back to the beginning of page 1.

    I’ve got an ancient apple iPad by the way.
    I think you might have a setting on which opens new pages in new windows. Find that and change it to 'no' or 'off' and maybe that will fix it.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,668
    Thanks everybody (I think)
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,668
    LennyLowrent said:


    Tempus fugit, amor manet.
    Anyone, apart from Lenny, know what this means.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,063
    "Amor manet" is Latin for "love remains" or "love endures". It is part of the longer Latin phrase "Tempus fugit, amor manet," meaning "time flies, but love remains". The phrase suggests that while time passes quickly and is fleeting, love has the power to endure and last through time.
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,706
    Covered End said:
    "Amor manet" is Latin for "love remains" or "love endures". It is part of the longer Latin phrase "Tempus fugit, amor manet," meaning "time flies, but love remains". The phrase suggests that while time passes quickly and is fleeting, love has the power to endure and last through time.
    Yep...

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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,390
    Blackheathen said:
    LennyLowrent said:


    Tempus fugit, amor manet.
    Anyone, apart from Lenny, know what this means.
    It loosely translates as ‘those who seeketh hardest to find the holy curly arrow shall succeed in thy life in getting backeth whence they came’.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,352
    Blackheathen said:
    I used to have a curled arrow top left hand corner of the screen which took me back to where I was in my forum search.  Now all I have is a X which takes me back to the beginning of page 1.

    I’ve got an ancient apple iPad by the way.

    You’re right - earlier versions of Safari on older iPads did show a “return arrow” that preserved your search position, but Apple replaced it with the universal dismiss “X” when they shifted from UIWebView to WKWebView. On paper it’s a UI simplification; in practice it’s the annihilation of scroll-anchor persistence.

    The arrow didn’t just go missing — it was reclassified. What you’re seeing is the flattening of hierarchical navigation into a one-dimensional page-index vector, essentially dissolving the idea of "where you were" into the idea of "where the system thinks you could start again."

    This isn’t a bug but a feature of what Apple calls the Grand Unified Gesture Layer: navigation state is no longer deterministic but entropic, existing only as probability fields until collapsed by user input. In other words, you’re not navigating pages anymore, but stochastic experiential fragments whose trajectories resolve only when observed.

    So yes — you’ve lost an arrow, but gained an epistemological experiment in interface metaphysics.

  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,668
    edited August 22
    Covered End said:
    "Amor manet" is Latin for "love remains" or "love endures". It is part of the longer Latin phrase "Tempus fugit, amor manet," meaning "time flies, but love remains". The phrase suggests that while time passes quickly and is fleeting, love has the power to endure and last through time.
    Thanks.  Perfectly charming (seriously).  Cann’t quite relate it to this thread but I like it anyway.

    As for Chizz.  Who needs google, AI etc 😄

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