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Fairphone 5 app switcher fix

tl;dr: Turn of Desktop mode in Settings -> Display -> Desktop mode Putting this here in case the forum gets cleaned or closes or who knows what. Quick one here for you Fairphone 5 users. A while ago I wrote about my experience with the Fairphone 5 and that it was “Meh” at best due to some pretty annoying software issues. Here is a link to that previous post. Updates did not fix the issue since then, but an observant user on the Fairphone forum noticed when his phone started acting up.

6 Months with the Fairphone 5

Somewhere in December of 2023 I got my Fairphone 5 delivered. I was using an iPhone 12 mini at the time that was suffering from a pretty degraded battery and was in need of something else. That iPhone was my first one and also my last, the lack of customization on iOS was also getting a bit of an annoyance so the choice for Android was not a difficult one.