Increase distance of pull to trigger Quick Action

Use case or problem

It is easy and annoying to accidentally trigger the Quick Action when scrolling to the top on mobile.

Proposed solution

Increase the distance of the pull required to trigger the Quick Action.

I don’t know iOS’s or Android’s standards for this, but in Safari on iOS the pull distance is about 1/4 of the screen on an iPhone 13. I don’t often trigger it by accident.

In contrast, Obsidian’s Quick Action requires a pull distance of about 1/8 of the screen. It often trigger it accidentally. (I had to taken2 screenshots to show the distance clearly. The first is not pulled at all and the second is pulled to the trigger point. It’s easier to see when they’re side by side but I can’t position them that way here.)


On Android I remember pull-down being too easy to trigger but that was at least 4 years ago. A current Android user says “the pull distance to refresh a page on the Firefox Android or X Android apps is much further” than in Obsidian. (Android Pull-Down Menu Sensitivity)

Current workaround (optional)

  • Scrolling timidly. (It seems that scrolling slowly doesn’t trigger the action at all, in another contrast to Safari.)
  • On iOS, tapping the top of the screen to quick-scroll to the top (this sometimes requires multiple taps because of a known bug in Obsidian).

Related feature requests (optional)

Not a feature request but a bug report (now moved to Help) that led to this request: Android Pull-Down Menu Sensitivity. I’ll paste its main post in a comment below.

The post that led to this request (Android Pull-Down Menu Sensitivity):

Quick summary

On Android, when trying to scroll to the top of a document, I’ll often hit the top and accidentally trigger the pull-down menu because the pull “distance” to trigger it is relatively small. I wish you had to pull further/longer, e.g. the pull distance to refresh a page on the Firefox Android or X Android apps is much further.

Steps to reproduce

  • Make a new vault & new note on Android
  • Paste in a long enough block of text that you have to scroll
  • Try to scroll to the top of the page without triggering the pull-down menu

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yep! Appears in all vaults - maybe less “bug” and more “UI adjustmment”.

Expected result

Reach top of page without triggering opening of pull-down menu.

Actual result

Pull-down menu is often accidentally opened, especially if scrolling quickly.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Operating system: android 14 (OnePlus CPH2451)
Obsidian version: 1.6.7 (149)
API version: v1.6.7
Login status: not logged in
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none


Additional information

Screen recording of Obsidian vs Firefox:
https://imgur.com/a/ZqX5EyL