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I am very new to power apps and was hoping to get some help. I have an app which has a few screens. I want to be able to navigate back to the previous screen. I added an icon and on the OnSelect property I used the back() function. I have successfully used this function previously. However, when I try to do this now, it doesn't respond

I know another option, which works, would be to use the Navigate function on the OnSelect property of a button or icon. Any reason why the Back() function is not working for me ?

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WarrenBelz 153,127 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @Anonymous ,

How did you test Back() - it will take you back to the screen you navigated to the current one from, but if you are in design mode, it may forget this - have you tried testing in Play mode and navigate to the screen first?

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I tried every possible way - tried pressing the alt key, tried it in preview mode. Also tried creating a new App entirely with two screens, with buttons in them and a back icon on Screen2 with the OnSelect set to Back(). Nothing worked. It just doesn't seem to do anything

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@Anonymous ,

All I can say is that in the last example, it should work - it is a very simply command (there are no options to change). I did a simple test below - only one command on each button - the first navigates to the next screen and the second one simply has Back() on it

Can you please try this example.

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It didn't work. It is weird that Navigate(screen1) works but Back() doesn't. Is there a global app setting that I am missing ?

The confounding thing is that I have used this function previously to go back and it has not caused issues

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@Anonymous Where is the code Back() placed in the control? Could you share u'r screen please.

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Hi @Anonymous

I'll would try rolling back your authoring version as suggested in this post here to see if that makes a difference.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Navigation-and-Back-not-working-as-before/m-p/925166

I think the cause of this issue could be a platform bug. Microsoft have recently added the ability for the back button on Android devices to navigate to the previous screen, rather than to return the user to the app list. I think what you see here could be a bug that is related to this feature, so if rolling back your authoring version doesn't work, I would suggest raising a support ticket via the following link.
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/support/

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I tried following what was recommended in the link you have shared. The only options I get when I click on Change Authoring Version is 3.21053.18 (recommended)

I also tried opening it in a private browser. Any other suggestions ? How do I raise an MS support ticket ?

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@Anonymous This is absolutely weird. Please follow the instructions below to raise a ticket with MS,

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Hi all,

I think I have figured it out. I didn't realise that, for the Back() to work, you should have transitioned from a previous screen. I was attempting to transition from Screen2 to Screen1 without previously being on Screen1

I was under the impression that the Back() works as per the screen sequence order of the app

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@Anonymous ,

That is why I gave you the working example - it was doing exactly that - navigating to a second screen and then back again.

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