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June 30th Edit: Hello, I listen to user feedback and personally respond to all reviews and emails I receive. My app has received 156 updates over 8 years and that's been possible because of user feedback to constantly improve it and fix bugs. I also personally use the app daily, often for many hours. And my friends use it too. So it's important for me to maintain it, fix bugs, add new features etc. So, there's no reason for me to say I didn't receive your email. I have genuinely not received it. I have checked my spam folder and nothing there either. Sometimes emails from unfamiliar domains or iCloud emails have trouble delivering, so maybe you sent it and it didn't get to me? Spam folder also has auto-delete after few days, so maybe that happened? This isn't your fault and I am sorry for both, the bug you faced as well as this frustrating troubleshooting process. Ultimately, we both want the same thing - your issue be fixed. One important thing I'd add that a bit over a week ago, another user reported a bug where when having the "full screen swipe to go back" setting was on, the app would intermittently stop responding to touches. I hadn't encountered that bug because I used to use the app with that setting off. That setting also used to be off by default, so most users probably had it off. So, I turned on that setting and tested it for a few days until I faced that issue too where the app randomly stopped responding to touches. Basically, when swiping back and then cancelling the swipe, an invisible zombie view would be left around on top of the app which would steal touch events from underlying content. So, I rewrote the entire code for the "full screen swipe to go back" feature and released update version 156 which I believe resolved it. Because that bug was so intermittent and hard to reproduce, me and my other user are still verifying it's resolved but we haven't faced it in the last week of use. So, I think it's gone now. I am not sure if your issue was the same as this and if you had that setting on or not. The App Store review doesn't give me much details about your device and environment and I don't use third part crashlytics for privacy reasons. Only thing the review shows is that your app version was 155. So, hope you try version 156 and let me know. So, if the bug persists after upgrading to version 156, I would really appreciate if you reach out to me via email again so I can fix the issue. Please send me: 1. Video recording 2. What device you are using 3. What iOS or macOS version. 4. Screenshot of the settings page in my app. 5. Any more details of the issue. You can reach me at: pran@pranapps.com If your issue is resolved, hope you update your review :)