# History Navigation vs Return to list confusion

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/history-navigation-vs-return-to-list-confusion/18657>\
**Category:** Bear Feedback\
**Created:** [January 6, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/history-navigation-vs-return-to-list-confusion/18657 "2026-01-06T11:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![alinnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@alinnow](https://community.bear.app/u/alinnow)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/history-navigation-vs-return-to-list-confusion/18657/1 "2026-01-06T11:44:16Z")

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On iOS and iPadOS, I often hit the button at the top left expecting to go back to my previous note rather than the list of notes. I think a different symbol, like one depicting a list, would make more sense for this button.

Furthermore, the look of the _real_ back/forward buttons when history navigation is enabled doesn’t really fit the rest of the controls and takes up vertical space unnecessarily.

 ![Open Medium](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/bear/original/2X/0/042a4a70749918cd5a6a870b9c90d90328ff38f1.jpeg)

The ideal for me would be to have back and forward buttons on the same line as the _confusingly-back-to-list-view_ button (with a different icon), perhaps like this _discount mockup_:

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