# X Customers Can Now Activate Aspect-Swiping Likes and Replies In-Stream

It looks as if X has determined to take a extra cautious method with its plan to section out the entire publish perform buttons in-stream. And its compromised method might truly be among the best updates that it’s rolled out in a while.

In the present day, X engineer Could Ly introduced that customers on iOS can now select to allow side-swiping like and reply choices, by activating such of their app settings.

As you’ll be able to see on this video, customers can now change on side-swiping capabilities, which can be found inside your “Timeline” choices.

It’s also possible to conceal the engagement buttons and numbers beneath every publish, if you’d like.

So X isn’t imposing this as a brand new perform and UI, as many had anticipated, and as X proprietor Elon Musk had mentioned can be the case. However as an alternative, X is giving customers the chance to do that out as an possibility, which might result in it will definitely changing into a extra ordinary habits.

Much more attention-grabbing is that as you’ll be able to see within the final body above, customers can truly select what perform their side-swipes carry out. So if you wish to set your right-swipe as a straightforward bookmark possibility as an alternative, you’ll be able to, or you’ll be able to even set a aspect swipe as no motion if you’d like.

Which is a way more measured method, which could be very not like how Musk has applied most of his different most well-liked adjustments within the app.

Again in March, Musk reiterated his plan to take away the entire perform buttons and engagement counts in-stream, as a way to clear up the timeline.

Which would depart posts wanting one thing like this:

Many customers raised issues with this method, noting that it’s going to probably scale back interplay in-stream, and depart new customers, particularly, confused as to how they interact.

But Musk appeared decided to push forward with the plan, as a way to enhance the “esthetics” of the feed.

However now, it appears that evidently X has revised this method, in favor of a extra measured, intuitive answer.

Will that finally see the entire engagement buttons and counts eliminated in-stream? Nicely, possibly, and this might nonetheless be a step in direction of that eventual subsequent stage. However it’s a way more collaborative one, which might additionally result in new person behaviors that assist to information X’s pondering on this feature.

I’m unsure that many individuals will select to activate these side-swiping choices, however it’s an attention-grabbing method both means, which may very well be useful for customers.

And if X does determine to take away the buttons completely, as per its authentic plan, it will possibly nonetheless achieve this at a later stage.