Adding navigation symbols to the Metropolis beamer theme

Question

Is it possible to add the beamer "navigation symbols" to the Metropolis theme? By which I mean these:

I know how to remove the symbols from a presentation, but not how to add them to a theme which lacks them.

Answer 1

You can use \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}[horizontal] to add the navigation symbols:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}[horizontal]

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{frame title}
frame contents
\end{frame}

\end{document}