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

With a lot of agony and suffering for 2 days finally I am able to use multitouch gestures on my ipad 1 with ios5. Its very very easy but you have to jailbreak your ipad. Love them and glad to have them back 😀

Please tell up how you jail broke and turned them on.... I an done waiting for apple to get their heads out of their *****.

It is against the terms of this forum to discuss jailbreaking. It vilates your liencing agreement

johncharlesd wrote:

Please tell up how you jail broke and turned them on.... I an done waiting for apple to get their heads out of their *****.

Dah•veed wrote:

That may also be why the photo editing is not available in the Photos app on iPad 1 with iOS 5, not enough memory to hold the original in memory and also a copy with the edits at the same moment.

Why do other photo edting apps work just fine - like PhotoPad? Would they not need the same resources to keep the current photo open while you are editing?

Dah•veed wrote:

I am starting to see posts around the Internet that the iPad 1 with iOS 5 is having memory issues.There is a thread here about an Electronic Arts game that worked fine on the iPad 1 with iOS 4.3.5, but not that they guys have upgraded to iOS 5 the game drags.

MT gestures may be in the same boat, not enough memory on the iPad 1 to run iOS 5 with MTG. MTG would always have to be in memory to offer the swiping gestures instantly...

Dah•veed, you may well be correct. But if that's the case, Apple should have warned users about that fact so that people that were using multi gestures could make an intelligent decision about upgrading. The Apple iOS 5 feature page initially made no exclusion for the iPad 1 in reference to multi gestures. It was only later, after no doubt many complaints, that the page was revised to mention Multi gestures only in reference to iPad 2.

Apple should have been able to infer by the number of Xcode applications that were sold that there were many more people than just developers that had installed multi gestures. I would not have upgraded to iOS 5 had I known I would lose the multi gestures. Now I'm faced with the ordeal of downgrading back to iOS 4.3.5 through non-Apple-sanctioned methods. I don't want to jailbreak my iPad.

But speaking of that, if there's a memory or other technical reason for not implementing multi gestures on the iPad 1, why is it possible, as many have stated, that if you jailbreak you can get the gestures back?

Could it be that the evidence at hand demonstrates that Apple engineers (as competent as they may be) are mandated to factor-in configuration options that help devices become readily obsolete -- reminds me of Microsoft in the old days of resource constrained desktops -- and on the other hand hackers, who are engineers of freedom, work for the people who wish to unlock those constraints.

Just a question?

(Everyone should stop complaining and calling Apple bad names by the way -- just upgrade to iPad 2 -- I know I will as soon as humanly possible! Just reverse all of that before you do it...)

"(Everyone should stop complaining and calling Apple bad names by the way -- just upgrade to iPad 2 -- I know I will as soon as humanly possible! Just reverse all of that before you do it...)"

really? really? wow.

that is a really fine solution: "just upgrade to ipad2."

i'm actually seeing this. wow.

Multi-tasking gestures work fine on iPad 1 with iOS 5. There are no obvious memory problems and the gestures appear to work just as smoothly as they did under the XCode work-around.

Obviously there was an "unapproved technique" involved so I'm not going to link to it here. Apparently the technique is only used to enable editing the necessary plist file and otherwise leaves the device untouched. The iPad rebooted fine untethered and had no problems with iBooks so I'm inclined to believe the advertising.

I strongly recommend waiting to see if Apple will fix this themselves but there appears to be no valid technical reason not to enable gestures on iPad 1.

Why is Apple taking the silence???

Still silence from apple, keep sending feedback, I went and used and iPad 2 yesterday in my local apple shop, gestures are awesome, however I really didn't realise how much iOS 5 slows the iPad one down! It seems a very unpolished job by apple!

I just checked the official manual from Apple. Even in this document on page 15 they decribe the multitasking gestures and how to enable or disable it. BUT it is not there ... Looks like this was a very late decission to have this - i would see great and essential feature - not available on Ipad 1.

Apple has fixed the issue. The page now says it's iPad 2 only. 😝

I can understand why the four finger swipe to the side was removed as iPad 1 didn't really cope well with it, but why the heck did they have to remove the swipe up and pinch gestures as well? Those we incredibly useful.

I'm thinking about jailbreaking also to get what I want out of my device. After all, I'm sure that is where most of these new features originated from.

What a bummer! 😠

I've searched the web for a fix without jailbraking my iPad 1, but no luck so far!

On the Dutch version of Apple's website there's still no mention that this feature is only for iPad 2. So I will not upgrade to iOS 5.0, also because there are far too many posts that the performance of the iPad 1 will degrade when you do the upgrade.

Perhaps my next device will be a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. It's still for sale in the Netherlands and it is a very nice device (which in no regard looks like an iPad).

I'm using the fix Hunter of Sock Monsters posted and I can say it works like a charm. 5 days using it and no problem till now.