How to remove the three dots on iPad screen?

The 3 dots thing at the center top is just plain bad design! Far too easy to hit by accident when I go to tap on the URL in Safari. I never want that multitasking pop-up or whatever it is. Please give the option to disable or relocate it.

The three dots so close to the URL bar is a major BUG! Why does Apple have to jam this down everyone’s throat? Just find a way to disable it and make folks happy. I have no interest, whatsoever, in this functionality that you view as important. It’s a major PITA and if you overshoot the URL bar, you waste keystrokes and time getting rid of it.

There’s no point in complaining at me, or other contributors. We are all end-users, just like you.

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We should have an option to toggle this.

It’s extremely invasive.

I understand the decision was made to help but it’s actually hurting us and getting in the way. The center top of our device screens has always been the spot where apps put things.

Now we have toil when dealing with a 3 dot menu which we didn’t even need. The old behavior of hover and drag worked fine. This isn’t a positive experience and is wasting a lot of my time.

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We'd be happy to provide some information about the 3 dots you're seeing. It is not possible to remove them. If you tap them they provide your options for multitasking. Check out this article for more information: Use multitasking on your iPad.

Hope that helps!

The three dots “button” is a core element of the iPadOS15 User Interface - intended to simplify use of full/split/slide-over multitasking. This control cannot be hidden or suppressed.

Some Apps will require update by their respective developers to accommodate changes made within iPadOS. Until affected Apps are updated, there is little that you can do other than to seek assistance from the respective App Developer:

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Apple do invite constructive feedback, comments and feature requests via their product feedback pages. For iPad and iPadOS:

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You are encouraged to make use of this facility in expressing any views concerning issues, bugs, or functionality changes of which you are unhappy.

This is a user-to-user technical support community. Contributors here are all end-users, just like you. Other than the site Moderators who ensure that we all observe the Terms of Use that govern participation, Apple do not monitor these forums.

Apple invite constructive feedback, comments and feature requests via their product feedback pages. For iPad and iPadOS:

Feedback - iPad - Apple

If you have any comments to make to Apple, the feedback pages are the appropriate channel though which to make comment.

As mentioned above, this is a user-to-user forum, please make your complaint directly to Apple in the link below.

Apple invite constructive feedback, comments and feature requests via their product feedback pages. For iPad and iPadOS:

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I similarly reiterate earlier comment…

Apple invite constructive feedback, comments and feature requests via their product feedback pages. For iPad and iPadOS:

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storm293 wrote:

Remove them!!! This i-device is mine and I prefer to have it designed for the end user, me, not what you like.

Listen to your users.

Those are annoying and we keep tapping them instead of what we intended.

If you force us to accept annoyances like that, we _will consider alternative choices where you do not profit off us.

This is a user-to-user forum. You're addressing no one but your fellow users. We don't design anything for Apple and we certainly don't profit from you.

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

I'm not sure who the "we" is you're speaking of but each of you should submit feedback individually.

SpongyPete wrote:

why are apple putting icons on the screen that obscure app elements? why do it at all. this is a terrible idea and means i cant actually access some functions in multiple apps.

bring back the option to disable multitasking at least.

the most baffling thing is that this completely ridiculous idea actually made it past the initial suggestion!

i suppose apple will now expect devs to work around this by redesigning their ui. rather than admit it was a terrible idea in the 1st place.

meanwhile, we will not be able to use these apps properly until devs rework their ui’s on a case by case basis.

Apple doesn't read here for suggestions or feedback. However, you can let them know what you'd like to see here:

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You are not addressing apple on this user to user only forum. So asking users who don't work for Apple, who cannot make any changes to iPadOS to make a change, gets you nothing.

It's most unlikely Apple will delete the Multitasking dots, but feel free to use the feedback link to express your thoughts to Apple --> Feedback - iPad - Apple

Khutchi wrote:

So many of us HATE this feature, why isn’t there an option to disable it?

No one here in this user-to-user forum could answer that with certainty. Though, of course, we can look back at history and see that Apple has a long one of giving people what Apple thinks they should have.

You can let Apple know your thoughts here:

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if they don’t start making this stuff optional then I will OPT OUT of future Apple Products

You should always buy the tool that best meets your needs.

EXACTLY!!! Did none of the beta testers surf the web in horizontal mode? I suspect this is cause they wanted to move the URL window to the bottom like on iphone but that had its own host of annoyances.