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

The weirdest thing is this precise lines i've seen when i installed os5 on my ipad 1 using itunes.

it MUST be a bug : check the image :

http://www.casimages.com/img.php?i=111013090337371489.png

WHAT A SHAME!

Bring back gestures! Or you'll loose one faithful customer... 🙂

it is the announciation of gestures for any ipads in french.

I wonder, do they get enabled if you set the iPad up to be a development machine? (as per previous iOS version?)

I wonder, do they get enabled if you set the iPad up to be a development machine? (as per previous iOS version?)

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Tell them you want it. I want it!

This is unbelievable! I installed the xcode update on my ipad one months ago! I have been using it flawlessly since then and have become completely accustomed to it. It worked better than gestures on lion! I see no reason why Apple would have decided to remove it other than to make people buy new upgrades. This is unacceptable and doesnt seem like apple behaviour. I can't use my ipad now without the gestures it just seems clunky and horrible so I really hope this will be resolved in an update. Furthermore, I paid for the gestures update, if I remember correctly it was €4.99. To have my purchase wiped away with no warning is also unacceptable. I am a loyal apple. I don't want this to change.

Zace66 wrote:

I wonder, do they get enabled if you set the iPad up to be a development machine? (as per previous iOS version?)

Sadly, no. 😟

I've chimed in w/Apple developer support. They were very understanding and took my feedback. Hopefully enough squeaky wheels get the grease and it will be added back. Weigh in, folks, politely please. 😉

I filed a bug report and it was closed as a Duplicate. File a bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com if you want. They are looking at it.

Very disappointing !

This feature worked very well in ios 4. No reason to leave ipad 1 users behind.

I got on the phone this morning to tell my cousins wife (iPad 1 owner) about iOS 5 and its cool features. She did the backup and upgrades and called me several hours later....The feature I (iPad 2 owner) enjoyed especially and wanted to share with her was the new multitasking swiping gestures. I told her to pinch the app to nothing and it will disappear. She says to me "nothing is happing". ok... "open up a couple of apps" I instructed. Nothing. Then I told her to "swipe everything to the left and see how it reveals the next open app" Nada.... Then I went to the Apple site and it clearly states that it is compatible with iPad 1. So this could have been easy told to the potential upgraders in a chart form from iPhone 3gs all the way to iPad 2, checking each app or new feature available or unchecked for not available as per device name. So I am imagining that they are working on it.... lets hope. I wouldn't call it a brick just yet. Some post that there is no reason to leave gestures out, but perhaps there is some sort of bug there without the DC A5, just a thought. But please be TRANSPARENT.

It doesn't look like a bug or oversight to me. If you go to http://www.apple.com/ios/features.html it says:

"iOS 5 includes a few new moves and shortcuts to help you get around even quicker on your iPad 2: 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."

I think it's just a sad attempt to give the iPad 2 more features so you have more reasons to get one. This is pathetic mistreatment of customers that just bought a "cutting edge" device less than a year ago and now are made to feel like toss aways because we didn't drop another $500+ on the latest apple device. Apple is losing a fan in me and their credibility will be really lost if they don't listen to their customer base on this.

Jug, you may be right which is why EVERYONE who wants this should file a bug report to let Apple know we want it.

This is a big cover-up.... I can not believe Apple does this in such a awful way... I have print-screens and saves with the ios 5 features page from today, which said clearely that gestures are for iPAD (not iPAD 2 - as it is now).

I hope you guys sue them and do something about the way Apple is lying to it's customers.

I have screen captures of the same from last night and they do not say iPad 2, it just states iPad. I've already recieved 22 people's contact info to give to a lawyer that handles issues like this. I had posted on 2 different topics on the same issue, and like I said in my posts, I knew that Apple would delete them as they want to control all bad press about this issue. Now it's just cover it up, and cover thier butts.