How do I enable multitasking gestures in iOS 5.0 on iPad 1?

The answer im afraid will be jail-break when it arrives

My iPad one is over a year old so no warranty, I refuse to be pushed into upgrading like this!

I would never normally jailbreak, the reason I like apple stuff is you can't mess about with all the settings, it just works, but I also refuse to be made to spend more money.

Funny how posts keep being removed too!

Crap. Seems like i need to jailbreak :(

Any news from Apple?

Nothing from apple! A wall of silence, and it stinks of arrogance! It becoming pretty clear why this has been done, so as I said, jailbreak is the only option now!

There are three main threads about this

Between all of then in three days there have been 12,538 views, that's alot of iPad one users who are wondering where this feature is

How many people need to have viewed a thread before they take action? How many did it take with the volume mute/screen orientation switch?

It's bug, Pls Fix it.

Hmm, as a registered developer I am very reluctant to jailbreak -- the Apple developer agreement holds us to some very strict conduct and confidentiality requirements, which it's fairly important to respect when it's your livelihood! I can't afford to have my Apps or client's apps pulled from the store...

It's probably more wise to continue to pitch a case for optimising or supporting gestures that do work well on the 1st gen devices. Such as leaving out the left/right gestures, but leaving in swipe up to reveal multitasking bar and pinch to home, which I assume are less processor intensive: "assume" being a key word here. Surely allowing the user to choose is a good compromise?

AssistiveTouch is at least helping me avoid a flurry of double-clicks of the home button, which in a quiet environment gets on the nerves of the people around me. Pre-multitasking gestures I found that especially in bed I was making a flurry of home button "CLICK-CLICKS" repeatedly copying segments of text between and referring to 2 apps like a mind mapping app and project management/flow charting app.

Now being forced back into the "CLICK-CLICK" workflow -- ergh!

From user "thisgroup.com"

...Such as leaving out the left/right gestures, but leaving in swipe up to reveal multitasking bar and pinch to home, which I assume are less processor intensive: "assume" being a key word here....

Good point!!! I would be grateful with that! iPad2 users had a advantage with all guestures.

But Apple,

We love your products because of it's consitent behaviour.

To cripple that feature because of just marketing-aspects is just not a good move!

Never have jailbroken an Apple device. I'm going to wait two weeks, then jailbreak it is. That's how much I miss having Mulit Gestures on my iPad1.

@thisgroup Are you using AssistiveTouch on IPAD 1 to show the multitasking bar and to return home ? Can you confirm you can do that on IPAD 1 ? You are helping many users if you please take a few minutes to explain in detail what is wokinkg from AssistiveTouch on IPAD1 and what does not work !!! Thanks!

I´m also disappointed. The "Click, Click" from the Home-Button ***** really!!

I want my gestures back.

I want my gestures back!!!²

It´s friggin´ unbelievable!

I´m about one and a half year quite focused on Apple products and got used to some things I had to change, that... let´s say "Apple does different", quite OK so far... but this is not working!

I used and got used to the gestures without any problem ⚠ and now without a comment they´re away.

Great Job... making me feel back in MS times 😟

Alvaro.oliva wrote:

I want my gestures back!!!²

Repeating that post will not get you anything. Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback