On Desktop, there is a dedicated Breadcrumbs component that can be added or removed. However, on mobile there is no way to remove the default back arrow navigation (pointed at with a red arrow). Please give us an option to do so. [Screenshot 2025-06-07 at 4.43.30 PM]

I guess you can hide the button through CSS, but I wouldn’t want it to be removed. How would users go back then?

I agree with a native way of doing it.

I have a very specific use case in which I need to remove the said button: unregistered users who are supposed to land on a particular screen (that is technically implemented as part of a collection, because of Glide limitations), and whom I do not want to be able to navigate to the collection view of the said screen - their only two avaialble options should be to sign up/log in, or close the page altogether. I was able to remove the breadcrumbs component in the desktop version, but on mobile there is literally no way that back arrow can be removed natively. I am not that proficient of a user to be editing CSS (hence why I am building with Glide, I know what I want to be happening in the end but I am not a developer)

[image] Deep link visible to users without an account - does not work Ask for Help Rather than removing the back button (which personally I think is a bad idea), I think a better approach would be to set it up in such a way that there is nothing to go back to. You could do this as follows: Create a Single Row table, and make this the source of a tab that is the only tab visible to non-registered users. Add a “Get Part of URL” column. Configure it to take the id parameter from the Link to the Current screen. Publish your App, open it as a non-registered user, and capture the…

Even if you remove the button from the screen, the user can still hit the physical back button on their device and do it anyway. @Darren_Murphy has the solution.

Even if this is the first screen they land on in a browser mode (because what they get is a deep link sent to them in a messenger app), hitting the back button of their phone UI will still bring them back to the home page screen? Is it really how it works? I thought it will simply open the previous web page that they had opened in this specific tab…

That is a very multi-step way to eliminate a single possibility that I am not willing to invest my time into building right now to be honest :slight_smile: It is not the greatest value-add to the users either. The other issue is that I am limited to 3 tables in the free version I am currently at, and in a true lean fashion I do not want to pay for a paid plan unless I absolutely have to, due to the increase in the amount of users

[image] Ruslan_Raspopov: The other issue is that I am limited to 3 tables in the free version Where did you get that idea from? As far as I am aware, there are no limits on the number of tables you can have, on any plan. Yes, I admit that it’s not a straight forward solution (although, it took me less than 5 minutes to build it out and test it), but what you are trying to do is a little unconventional (in Glide terms), and unconventional needs sometimes require unconventional/novel approaches. Anyway, totally your choice. I have offered an approach that should meet your needs. You are free to use it or not.

Removing default 'back' navigation on mobile

Feature Requests

Darren_Murphy June 8, 2025, 1:11pm 5

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Removing default 'back' navigation on mobile

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