# Change back button action? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask for Help\ **Created:** [January 18, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-back-button-action/37373 "2022-01-18T21:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Tamara\_Didenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/tamara_didenko/32/42215_2.png) [@Tamara\_Didenko](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tamara_Didenko)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-back-button-action/37373/8 "2022-01-19T01:19:14Z")
> [@Eric\_Penn](#): > > Whoops I didn’t mean custom form I meant show new screen… What if back to pattern home was a show new screen This. is how my workaround works 😁 This custom form stuff is interesting. I think there might be an application here… > [@ThinhDinh](#): > > I think, and have always wanted this to be a thing: the go to tab action can act dynamically, either: > > - Go to wherever you left at, saying you’re 100 levels deep then when you go to that tab you’re 100 levels deep. > - **Go to the parent screen.** Yeah, the Human Interface Guidelines say: > A navigation bar appears at the top of an app screen, below the status bar, and enables navigation through a series of **hierarchical** screens. Granted, it doesn’t say explicitly that it should go to the parent screen, but I swear to all that’s holy that’s what it should do 🤣 Sort of curious, is the current behavior (going to the previous screen) a limitation of technology somehow or an intentional decision? It also seems that this wasn’t always the case? > [@Custom back button...?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/custom-back-button/15433/1): > > Can a button link back to a previous page? As if the user is pressing/tapping the back button? Or to the next list item from a previous page? --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/change-back-button-action/37373)._