So yesterday there was a discussion at my company about what would be more user friendly for deleting an item or items from a list. Long Press or swipe. We came to an agreement that depends on the UX and choice. What do you think?

Long press should open up context menu.

Swipe can mean delete depending on context.

My mailbox is pretty shitty. In thr collective mail app swiping an email left is deleting for Gmail messages. But its flagging for Outlook messages. For outlook I woulf have to swipe them right to delete it which is archiving on the Gmail messages.

I prefer long press to get the checkboxes and I can check one item to do whatever. Or multiple ofcourse.

I would also say swipe for delete. But you should at some point tell the user that.

Swipe in correct context and with confirm dialog of sorts, to prevent accidental delete

@byte As a user I would be annoyed of there was a "did you really mean to delete" question every time.

Rather, swipe to delete and then for a few seconds, an undo button appears.

Or you are only allowed to use swipe to delete once you are in a delete context that you have to activate before.

Or make the items in the list selectable, then tapping toggles item's selection, and on long press an action wheel appears with the delete option.

This by the way is a perfect question to ask on https://ux.stackexchange.com if it doesn't already exist there ;)