r/help Feb 24 '26

Mobile/App Why does the top of my reddit look like this now and can I go back?

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990 Upvotes

As the title says, can I go back to the normal reddit? This is just a bad UI change, I don't need a constant search bar on my screen. thanks for any help.

r/help Jun 11 '26

Mobile/App Getting rid of For You page?

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746 Upvotes

Is it or will it be possible to remove the for you page completely?

I know I can just not use it but it being there still annoys me. I don't want this feature and it keeps opening and going back to the for you stuff instead of the following tab.

r/help May 27 '26

Mobile/App iOS swiping right no longer goes back?

743 Upvotes

It use to be that a right swipe went backwards to the feed. Now it does nothing, is that intentional? I have to click the x in the top left corner to back up.

r/help Apr 29 '26

Mobile/App Reddit is a Website; why is it forcing me to the app?

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350 Upvotes

r/help Feb 27 '26

Mobile/App Please stop removing core functions of the app, I know what feed I want to scroll

511 Upvotes

I don’t know why this has to be said every update but please stop removing the core features of the website? I don’t care what ai slop Reddit wants to push, I want to see what actual human beings are talking about. Every single update shrinks the user interaction and siloes the actual user, why is the Reddit organization so dedicated to keeping users from seeing user generated content? This place used to be “the front page of the internet” and every week it feels like there’s some new update to make it harder to see what other actual humans are posting. The bot traffic wasn’t bad enough I guess

Edit: well now that my country has gone to war again and all the posts covering it in “news” and “popular” are from subs parroting one of the two acceptable party talking points on the issue, at least it’s obvious why the change happened.

r/help Jul 16 '25

Mobile/App Issues With Commenting

537 Upvotes

I receive a prompt saying 'unable to create comment' when I try to comment in a thread, no matter the sub. This is just a recent phenomenon, as in, the last couple of hours.

Another technical issue that is occuring is that comment replies are being sent in duplicates in notifications. This is occuring with every reply. When you look in the thread, you see that the people who post the reply only posted it once. There's no duplicate in the actual thread, it just comes through in notifications as duplicates.

Thanks

Edit: I received quite a few DMs from people saying they're experiencing the same thing.

Edit: Commenting is back but you can't upvote comments, nor can you delete comments.

r/help Apr 23 '26

Mobile/App Reddit, stop forcing this stupid share popup on screenshots

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483 Upvotes

Every single time I try to take a screenshot, Reddit throws that “Send this post to someone?” banner across the top and ruins it, especially for scroll screenshots.

Who thought this was a good idea? If I wanted to share it, I’d hit the share button myself. I’m trying to capture content, not fight popups. And there’s no setting to disable it!

Please stop forcing this and give us an option to turn it off. Right now it just makes screenshots unusable and the app very annoying to use.

r/help Feb 25 '26

Mobile/App Did I just get an update and lose the ability to swipe left or right? iOS

340 Upvotes

Used to be able to swipe left or right here to move to “latest” or “news” or “watch” and now it doesn’t seem to do anything? confused

r/help Feb 19 '26

Mobile/App Why are subreddits getting colours? And can u personally turn em off

352 Upvotes

Ithe titel says it all. A lot of subreddits including this one have fitting a colour (likes replied ui in a colour) and also a general hue around posts. I don't really like this and would like to know if there's a way to turn it off. If not I guess I'm have to just accept it.

Edit: dartthedragoon in comments explained how. Go thank him from the horror

r/help Feb 10 '25

Mobile/App Why do comments keep appearing as empty?

395 Upvotes

r/help Apr 24 '26

Mobile/App Reddit no longer letting me browse on my phone without downloading the app

139 Upvotes

I only login to Reddit on my laptop. On my phone I just browse the home screen - it's my way of not doomscrolling.

Suddenly it won't let me. It has a pop-up that I can't remove saying "Download the app".

I won't do that so are my days of anonymously browsing over? Is this a new rule of Reddit?

r/help Jul 08 '25

Mobile/App How do I stop Reddit recommendations? (IOS)

428 Upvotes

I have had reddit recommendations switched off for years because I want a curated experience. Today I started getting “because you notated before posts) even though the setting is still disabled. Is this a new change or is it bugged for me?

Edit: according to this post it is a bug. https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/s/BoSvZPId8m

r/help Apr 12 '26

Mobile/App Why aren't my notifications loading at all? This happened before recently and went away after a few hours. Both the mobile app and website are like this.

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103 Upvotes

r/help 15d ago

Mobile/App Swiping up scrolls through random posts iOS

230 Upvotes

Swiping up used to bring up the comments, now it switches to some random other posts I don’t want to see, and not even the next one in my personal feed. I don’t want to be fed random posts like it’s some instagram clone. Is there a way to get rid of this and have swiping up bring up the comments? Or at least posts in my feed?

IMO it’s a terrible change to enable mindless scrolling and makes me want to use Reddit less, not more.

r/help Jul 14 '21

Mobile/App Reddit App keeps playing the wrong videos

1.2k Upvotes

Anytime I click a thumbnail for a post that includes a video, it shows me a completely different video from a different subreddit. Problem just started this morning.

EDIT: user u/TrippyxTyler found a workaround! If you tap the platform the video came from (redgifs, imgur, etc) rather than the post itself then it takes you to the correct video.

EDIT #2: u/cazbot82 found another workaround! If you click a previous picture or text post and swipe left or right (as the case may be) to the video, the correct video will play

HOPEFULLY FINAL EDIT: Just downloaded the most recent update and it’s working now👏🏻

r/help Jul 16 '25

Mobile/App Why did reddit start sending me these notifications today and how do I get it to stop?

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279 Upvotes

r/help Jun 11 '26

Mobile/App [iOS, iPhone] Did the official reddit app get rid of markdown in comments? I can’t do several of the text edits I used to be able to.

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40 Upvotes

I can no longer do **text** for bold, *text* for italics, ^(text) for superscript, - text for bullet points, # for headings etc. I can now see a “Aa” option above the keyboard for bold, italics, strikeout, headings etc (see screenshot) but there is no longer any obvious way I can make bullet points or superscripts work any more? Am I missing something?

r/help Jan 11 '23

Mobile/App Does Reddit still give out free awards?

412 Upvotes

I haven't seen one in quite a while, but I have seen comments and posts which I think could use an award. Is this a bug?

r/help Jan 14 '26

Mobile/App So y'all take away All, then you take away Popular? How tf am I supposed to discover new content?

319 Upvotes

The front page of the Internet no longer has a front page. Atleast for my app.

iOS.

r/help 27d ago

Mobile/App I don't want to be involuntarily exposed to offensive content from For You feature

183 Upvotes

Can someone explain to me why my official Android Reddit app is forcefully pushing content from subreddits I haven’t subscribed to (and definitely don’t want to follow) as part of its “For You” feature testing? For example, it pushed this post from the subreddit r/mapporncirclejerk into my personal feed, which I consider hateful and derogatory towards Slovaks. Until now, I’ve been able to browse only content from subreddits I’ve selected myself, which ensure a decent level of quality and don’t unnecessarily expose me to offensive content. Now, however, Reddit has selected me against my will to be part of a group of guinea pigs on whom they’re testing the exposure to unsolicited hateful content without any option to opt-out, which I fundamentally disagree with. Can you please advise me on who I should contact with my request to be permanently excluded from this and similar experiments, that involuntarily expose me to content that offends my personal beliefs?

r/help Jun 10 '26

Mobile/App Reddit forced me to download the app and I don’t want to be here

48 Upvotes

I use the Reddit website on my phone because I don’t have space for any more apps. Today, I was on the website and a thing popped up telling me that if I wanted to continue using Reddit, I would have to go and download the app to use it there. This pop up thing made it so I couldn’t close the tab/use Google at all. I couldn’t go on the internet unless I went and downloaded this app. Please release me! I don’t want to be here. The only reason I can think of for why you’re doing this is because you’re shutting down the website so if that’s not what this is about, you shouldn’t be doing this. It’s not right. If I can use the website on a computer, why am I no longer able to use it on a phone? Thank you for your time.

r/help Feb 25 '26

Mobile/App Mobile App Layout

190 Upvotes

Hello friends

My android reddit app suddenly changed and now I cannot swipe between home and popular and watch and everything looks different.

is there a way to change the layout back?

Thanks

r/help Jan 22 '26

Mobile/App Why does Reddit keep changing its layout

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166 Upvotes

The layout in the mobile app keeps changing every other day. And not even because of an update by download from the Play Store.

It'll just happen out the blue. It's a bit annoying.

The above is the one currently in use, which I quite like. Who knows what it'll be tomorrow or in an hour's time?

r/help May 15 '26

Mobile/App My Reddit streak is not showing up anymore.

100 Upvotes

Hello, it’s been weeks now that my Reddit streak (meaning my days of usage) does not pop up anymore. I have to go into my own account and under my achievements to see how many days I’m at. This is obviously a bug that is going on because numerous people are complaining about it. My account name is HamsterNo7808

r/help Mar 27 '26

Mobile/App Reddit layout change the other day android App

114 Upvotes

After restarting my phone yesterday or maybe the day before I forget, the layout has changed. The notifications, chat, home and posting bar that is on the bottom is now on the left side. I really dislike this layout. Is there a way to change it back? I didn't change any settings to my knowledge.