When using the Sony Xperia PRO-I, you may not enjoy swiping the screen when trying to navigate the menus on your smartphone.
You can check out this guide at Seeking Tech to see how you can add the home, back and app overview buttons to the bottom of the screen.
What is 3-button navigation for Xperia PRO-I?
The 3-button navigation system adds three icons on the bottom of the screen for your Xperia PRO-I.
The Back button lets you go back to a previous page or screen.
The Home button will suspended the current app and go back to the home screen menu.
The App Overview button will open a menu showing you all the apps you have currently suspended. In the App Overview menu, you can resume your session from a previously opened app or close it.
These actions are also available by swiping your fingers across the screen. If you don’t like dirtying your Xperia PRO-I screen and/or find that doing these gestures to be inaccurate, then we recommend using the 3-button navigation.
How to add home, back and app overview buttons to Sony Xperia PRO-I
In order to add the home, back and app overview buttons to the Sony Xperia PRO-I, you can take the following steps:
1. First off, you need to open the Settings app of the Xperia PRO-I.
If you can’t find this application, then you can swipe upwards from an empty space at the bottom of the screen. This should bring up a menu showing all the installed apps, including Settings, of your smartphone.
2. After opening the Settings menu, you then need to head over to System.
3. Once you get to the System menu, go to Gestures.
4. Inside of the Gestures menu, you should then head to “System navigation.”
5. In the “System navigation” menu, make sure that the “3-button navigation” is selected.
Once you enabled the “3-button navigation” setting, you should see three icons appear on the bottom of the screen.
The triangle icon is the Back button, circle icon is the Home button and square icon is the App Overview button.