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

"iOS 5 includes a few new moves and shortcuts to help you get around even quicker on your iPad: Using four or five fingers, swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar, pinch to return to the Home screen, and swipe left or right to switch between apps."


How do I enable these gestures? I have upgraded to iOS 5 on my iPad 1 and do not see this setting in the general tab of settings.

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Posted on Oct 12, 2011 9:47 AM

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Oct 12, 2011 8:12 PM in response to asifm42

Colour me furious. There is no valid reason to cripple 1st generation iPads like this. It's worked fine for so many of us on older iOS versions that we all know it can work and is not a hardware limitation.


This is like being stabbed in the back at the end of a day in which many of us spent considerable time and frustration trying to get the update to work in the first place. Now I've lost one of the best features of recent times for what? To encourage me to spend a few hundred bucks on a newer version of the product? Brilliant logic Holmes!!! Angry customers will always spend more with you to alleviate their fury!!!


There is no way I am buying any more Apple products until this stupidity is reversed. How can I be sure I won't be dumped on again?

Oct 12, 2011 8:44 PM in response to asifm42

This is the singlemost stupid thing I've ever encountered regarding my iPad. You have a perfectly working feature, you update your device, the feature is gone.


Don't know yet if I'll jailbreak or just sell it, this feature was pretty much the only thing keeping me from switching to an Android tablet.


I'd appreciate it very much if you just brought this feature back.

Oct 12, 2011 9:37 PM in response to Lars_S

I am very disappointed with the decision to leave these gestures out for iPad 1 users especially since there was NO mention of it being an iPad 2 specific feature as usually happens when a feature is limited by hardware.


I truly hope Apple fixes this in an update to iOS 5 soon! We purchased a 1st generation product and should recieve at least one major OS update with all of the features!

Oct 12, 2011 10:27 PM in response to asifm42

id just go here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

and submit a bug report saying it doesnt work on your ipad 1(thats what i did), if it says it "makes navigating on your ipad easier" and says nothing about it being an ipad 2 specific feature right on their website it SHOULD work, its either a bug or if not then this is stuping really low and could face legal issues, i too admit it was one of the key features i was most looking forward to and ill be darned if im going to get an ipad 2 just for that.

Oct 12, 2011 11:13 PM in response to asifm42

NO WHERE did I read multigestures would NOT be available for iPad 1 users and I am regrettably sorry I went thru the trouble of updating. I am NOT about to spend ANOTHER $500 to get a feature which should have been included in this "major" update.


This truly makes me reconsider buying iPhone 4S. Apple doesn't deserve any more of my money for such a "genuis" decision.

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

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