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You picked C, the bottom accessory, in round 1 (below). Round 2 is three ways to replace the tour with something that works on iOS and can't break when a layout moves. Every phone is live: tap the cards, the bars and the buttons.
Today's tour lights up controls one by one across Swipe, Filters, Explore and Library. It measures where each button is on screen, so it breaks whenever a layout moves, and it doesn't work on iOS. Each of these teaches Swipe with something people already know from other apps, and none of them needs to find a button on screen. All three sit on C, the layout you picked.
| T1 · Welcome sheet | T2 · Tips | T3 · The first card teaches | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feels like | Apple's "Welcome to…" and What's New sheets | iOS TipKit: small tips that show once | Tinder and Hinge: an instruction card in the deck |
| When | Once, before the first card | Each tip the first time it matters | The first card of your first deck |
| Blocks the screen | Yes, until Continue | Never | No: it's a card you swipe |
| Can break when layouts change | No | No: tips sit in the layout, not over a measured button | No |
| Teaches the gestures by doing | No | Partly | Yes |
| See it again | Swipe settings → How Swipe works | Swipe settings → Show tips again | Swipe settings → How Swipe works |
| Build cost | Small: one Sheet | Small–medium: a Tip component and a seen-list | Small–medium: a special card in the deck |
Swipe is a gesture, and the best place to learn a gesture is the card itself: the first card says what right, left and up mean, leans each way the way today's coach does, and you swipe it to start. Nothing floats over the screen, nothing measures a button, and it's identical on iOS, Android and the web.
Filters and Tonight don't need a walkthrough. One quiet tip in the bar the first time you open Tonight ("Narrow it down with Filters") covers what the tour's later stops did. The Welcome sheet is the most familiar, but it's a wall of text before the thing you came to do.
| Today | A · Glass toolbar | B · One menu | C · Bottom accessory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On the poster | 3 buttons | 1 capsule (3 actions) | 3 buttons | Nothing |
| Above the tab bar | 3 icons, fold away | 3 icons, fold away | Nothing | One bar: Undo, mode, Filters, Sort |
| Filters while swiping | ⋯ brings the row back | ⋯ brings the row back | ⋯ menu, one tap | Tap the small bar |
| Details | (i) or tap the poster | (i) in the capsule or tap | (i) or tap | Tap the poster |
| Build cost | — | Small: restyle, same logic | Medium: a native menu (iOS), a sheet on web | Medium: new bar, the fold becomes the bar's shrink |
It's the most iOS 26 of the three: Music and Podcasts put their controls in a bar above the tab bar that shrinks while you scroll, and Swipe's fold maps onto that one to one. It also gives the poster back. Your rule from Oct 2 is that the card is the poster alone, and a tap on it already turns it over, so the (i) and ⋯ on the art are doing work the card does by itself.
If you'd rather keep today's behavior and only polish it, A is the safe pick: same logic, one glass capsule instead of three loose circles. B is the fewest things on screen, but Filters and Sort move a tap deeper, and Swipe's filters get used a lot in Tonight.