Good news first, because it is easy to miss: you can already reach all your apps from the left side
today. Scrolling the left screen edge works exactly like the alphabet on the right, it is just
invisible there, so the app list is fully usable with your left thumb. There is a GIF of it at the
top of Left Hand Mode.
If you mean mirroring the whole layout, so that icons and names sit on the right, there is a
stated position on that in the same article: a right-aligned app list looks clumsy to us, and
mirroring only the alphabet would make it overlap the icons and names while scrolling. That is the
current stance rather than a verdict on your post; the team decides here.
The request for the full mirrored layout is collected here:
Left Handed mode. Upvoting it is
the best way to push it, since we go through requests roughly by upvotes.
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Sep 14
Good news first, because it is easy to miss: you can already reach all your apps from the left side today. Scrolling the left screen edge works exactly like the alphabet on the right, it is just invisible there, so the app list is fully usable with your left thumb. There is a GIF of it at the top of Left Hand Mode.
If you mean mirroring the whole layout, so that icons and names sit on the right, there is a stated position on that in the same article: a right-aligned app list looks clumsy to us, and mirroring only the alphabet would make it overlap the icons and names while scrolling. That is the current stance rather than a verdict on your post; the team decides here.
The request for the full mirrored layout is collected here: Left Handed mode. Upvoting it is the best way to push it, since we go through requests roughly by upvotes.