[Suggestion] Swipe to delete folder

jhogervorst

If you swipe from left to right over an item (like a login) in a table view, a few buttons are shown which enable you to delete the item, make it a favorite, open it in the in-app browser or copy it to your pasteboard.

Standard iOS behavior is that you can swipe over a cell to reveal a delete button. Wouldn't it be good to enable this for folders? Currently nothing happens when swiping over a folder cell.

This applies to both iPhone and iPad.

thightower

Totally agree this really caused me some confusion yesterday trying to delete a folder.

At the time I leaned more to making sure you don't accidentally delete a folder.

Personally I would prefer the standard swipe to delete.

Fooligan

Yes, +1 for me too. It would add some consistency within the app and across most of the OS.

jhollington

I think it also needs to be more clear to the end user what actually happens when deleting a folder. Due to the use of the "Folder" nomenclature, I think many users would assume that this would delete everything in the folder, which of course isn't the case.

Fooligan

jhollington wrote:

I think it also needs to be more clear to the end user what actually happens when deleting a folder. Due to the use of the "Folder" nomenclature, I think many users would assume that this would delete everything in the folder, which of course isn't the case.

Good point and I agree. Either way, you can still currently delete a folder through the edit button. So it seems like a swipe is not that much different for the end result.

MikeT

Hi, guys!

We do plan to improve Folders, there are some inconsistencies that we're working on.

Right now, you do have to press the Edit button to delete a folder and jhollington is correct, items are not deleted in the folders. They're merely disassociated from the folder, subfolders are also gone.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.

jhollington

I'm wondering if maybe some term other than "Folder" should be used for this feature? "Group" perhaps? I think that the average user expects a "Folder" to be something that items are "moved" into, and would therefore expect that deleting such a Folder would also delete all of their items at the same time, since this is how folders work in just about every other app.

I definitely prefer the current behaviour, but I don't think the terminology is in line with how the average user would expect it to work.

MikeT

I agree, one of the ideas I had in mind when I saw folders was that it'd be nice to create an archive folder to move items into and delete it if I find myself not using anything from there.

I'll be sure to bring this up with the devs.

Thanks!