Exit-intent popup that doesn't fire on mobile back-swipe

By Anonymous · 2026-08-25 · 357 views · 4 votes

Our exit popup converts fine on desktop but on mobile it fires when people swipe back or scroll fast and it's clearly annoying them (bounce rate went up after we added it).

Is there a popup app with a sane mobile trigger? Something like "scrolled 60% then idle 5 seconds" rather than the fake exit-intent stuff.

Accepted solution

storefront_sam

Most of the decent ones let you set separate rules per device. What we do on mobile: no exit trigger at all, instead a slide-up bar (not a full popup) after 50% scroll + 8 seconds on page, only on product and collection pages, once per 7 days. Conversion on the bar is lower than a popup but bounce didn't move and the list still grows.

Turn the mobile exit-intent off entirely, it's guessing based on scroll velocity and it guesses wrong.

2 replies

storefront_sam · 2026-08-26 · 5 votes

Most of the decent ones let you set separate rules per device. What we do on mobile: no exit trigger at all, instead a slide-up bar (not a full popup) after 50% scroll + 8 seconds on page, only on product and collection pages, once per 7 days. Conversion on the bar is lower than a popup but bounce didn't move and the list still grows.

Turn the mobile exit-intent off entirely, it's guessing based on scroll velocity and it guesses wrong.

Anonymous · 2026-08-27 · 0 votes

Did exactly this. Bounce rate back to where it was in 3 days. Should have just asked here first.