back button

[bak buh-tuhn]

noun

plural

back buttons 

1. an icon on an electronic device or screen, usually depicting a leftward-facing arrow, which, when pressed, returns the user to the previous webpage, screen, or selection.

Example Sentences

Earlier this month, my sister and brother-in-law spent a good few minutes trying to figure out how to return to the Apple TV landing page, given that the remote didn’t feature a clearly marked “back” button.

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The back button will bring you back to a previous screen with a short press and launch Samsung Pay with a long press.

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Samsung Pay is also hardcoded as a shortcut when you long-press the back button — and there doesn’t seem to be a way to reprogram it to launch Google Wallet instead.

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Press the back button to return to the App info screen, then scroll up to Permissions to turn on microphone access if it isn’t selected already.

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And I made the L4 back button into an instant screenshot button so I could snap pics of Delicious Last Course’s devious boss designs.

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