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

you dont...plain and simple

Not happy at all with IOS5 because of this.

What an anticlimax. not one feature I actually enjoy

Pain and simple...just showing long finger to customers

lol well said!

Don't forget the report form here http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Apple, what was the rationale behind exempting this feature from the iPad1? Obviously many tech aware users that had unlocked this feature in the dev version of 4.3 are missing it. Obviously we didnt' notice performance issues...I'm assuming that there was some logic behind the decision, but from a user standpoint it seems to be the wrong decision.

What the ...? Multitouch gestures doesn't work on my iPad 1! That is incomprehensible! That was the only reason why I've updated to ios5. Why should that only work on the iPad 2? There is NO reason. I'm feeling tricked and I'm really angry with Apple. Constantly unnecessary restrictions! I'm seriously consider to change to Android!

As a developer on iOS, Windows Mobile and Android, I make sure I spread my use across a range of devices so I'm proficient in a range of platforms.

I can say Android is very nice right now, personally iPads have been my primary choice of tablet for personal and project management use -- but now, naturally, I feel screwed by Apple right now having disabled a gesture I used at lease once an hour!

Not in a position to purchase an iPad 2 as we're purchasing a collection of Android tablets, so need to get more use out of the 1s -- it does feel like Apple is trying to make the iPad 1 seem older and slower than it actually is to encourage upgrades.

Apple employees ignore us here because it's just a place for us to vent and have other users serve the community at minimal cost to the American giant, so log a report here to cast a vote with some constructive feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

+1 to all this!

Just posted this on the feedback page:

Let iPad 1 users use the multi touch gestures!

Can't believe that Apple dicided to remove the Multi touch Gestures from iOS5 for iPad 1st gen.

The supposed reason that iPad can't handle them is ridiculous. I and several thousand users online tell you we've been happily using it for several months now, and although an occasional app will freeze, all works fine.

I'm really sick of apple deciding on my behalf what I should and shuld not have. It's up to me if the responsiveness if good enogh. It's up to me if I want to wear down my home button to malfunction (as my iPhone 3GS is at the moment) or use a 4 fingers swipe that is more natural and causes no wear down on the home button.

This is really ridiculous Apple, and you should have learned by now to stop imposing our personal decisions on the customization and use of your products.

If you feel it is not the best solution, disabled it by default. BUT PLEASE, let we, the buying customers have the possibility to activate it, without jail braking the device, something I only consider doing to get this!

Hope you can have the humility to correct this bad decision ASAP.

Thanks!

I have been using gestures for almost a year now on my iPad 1 and it is a huge benenfit. Now that I went to ios 5 I feel like my ipad is crippled. It never hurt my performance in any way. This makes me hesitant to buy apple as I know that in one year I will be treated like an afterthought. That is one of the things that has been great about apple - longevity of support in devices. This just feels like a ploy to get more people moved to the iPad 2. I've already downloaded ios 4.3.5 to downgrade to just because the functionality loss isn't worth the "200 new features". LISTEN TO US APPLE and let iPad 1 users have gestures.

Well, I just got off the phone with a lawyer that deals in issues like this, and he says that we have enough here to bring a class action lawsuit against Apple since quite a few of us would not have upgraded to iOS 5 had we have known, and that Apple specifically did not state that it was a feature only available for certain devices. If anyone is interested in joining a class action lawsuit against Apple, please email me at "geek at alaska dot com", with at least your name and an email address that you check regularly. We've made captures of all of Apple's videos, and website so that we do have proof should they decide to change it after the fact, and we'll be making screen captures of this post right after posting since Apple likes to delete anything dealing with lawsuits. Should Apple want to contact me, you already have my contact information associated with my Apple account and this login.

Eric

I simple cant get the sense of this, it was my hope to get my ipad with its defect home button back to service ....

Thank you very much apple, a dissapointed customer ....

If you want to get really made, it's just a simple switch in the config.xml file to change:

"multi-touch = false" to "multi-touch = true", reload the file, reboot the pad and voila multi-touch on an iOS 5 iPad 1! Just furter proof that's there's really no reason not to have this an Apple have decided to directly turn it off, not remove it, just turn it off!

I think it is only temporar error. I think soon will be fixed.

jbritton1875 wrote:

If you want to get really made, it's just a simple switch in the config.xml file to change:

"multi-touch = false" to "multi-touch = true", reload the file, reboot the pad and voila multi-touch on an iOS 5 iPad 1! Just furter proof that's there's really no reason not to have this an Apple have decided to directly turn it off, not remove it, just turn it off!

how/where do you get to this config.xml file. I don't know how to make this change. Sounds like a good work around though. Bad Apple!

+ 1

I also want to know how do yo acess this config.xlm