Q: Multitasking Gestures occasionally fails (ios 8)

"There are instances in Safari where I click on something and it won't go to the link. I have to pull down the notification screen about a third of the way down the page before clicking the link for it to work"

same here

Just a thought here. If links aren't coded a certain way and there is a hover effect (something happens when you mouse over it on a desktop computer), then the iPad will treat the first tap as a hover and the second will register as the actual click. It's actually extremely easy to override this in code and make the first tap register properly on the iPad but it alarms me how few sites - even large, reputable sites - don't implement it.

Could this be what you're experiencing?

Dont  think so as I've had and been using iPads since the first one and have never had this problem. Also same sites don't have this issue on iPhone 6 plus

I too have noticed clicking links and buttons is not as good as it it used to be.

I am on 8.1 now and it seems like none of the bugs I've noticed since upgrading to 8.0 have been fixed, including the annoying deactivations of multitasking gestures, which happens accross the board, proprietary and third party apps alike.

Sometims the keyboard's 'smart autocorrect' is terrible too, like right now for me. There is keyboard lag, and often they keyboard fails to automatically turn on Caps Lock after I start a new line. iOS 8.1 is still bug city!

it is an iOS 8 bug. Everyone has it.

Enable Reduce Motion. I think it is an issue with all the unnecessary effects they brought to iOS that they should just get rid of.

enable "reduce motion" . It will cure all your problems.

So if I buy a car and when I turn the radio on sometimes the car doesn't start the solution is to not use the radio?  Unsatisfactory answer But I will take it for now.

Everything works after you enable Reduce Motion. All you are missing is some animations.

""Reduce Motion" fixes this too.

Same here... I have an iPad Air 2 64GB silver and facing the same problem...

Many have stated that enabling Reduce Motion fixes this problem, I just thought I should add that I have had Reduce Motion enabled the whole time, since before I updated to iOS 8. And I have this problem of multitouch gestures being disabled all the time.

I have deactivated the RM setting and noticed I still get the problem, I will now re-enable it and see how it goes.

I Have the same problem. Noticed it almost immediately after setting up my new iPad Air 2. Unresolved as of iOS 8.1.  I don't have any custom keyboards installed nor any notification widgets apart from the default apple ones.

Toggling the "enable multitask gestures" switch off and back on fixes the issue. At least for a little while... As soon as I'm used to the five finger pinch to home screen working again, it seems to glitch out shortly thereafter.

I'll try the Notification Center swipe you guys have suggested. Very frustrating to have a gesture I've used since the beginning (iOS 6 I think?) stop working. Apple's quality and UI consistency has really started to erode the last couple of years. If I wanted to deal with issues like this I'd buy an Android device.

I have just updated ios 8.1.1 that was released today and it wasn't fixed!!!

Here is a tip do not update and it won't happen. the more you update the worse it gets it doesn't happen to my iPad 2 anymore.iPad 2 running iOS 8.0.2

I Updated my iPad Air to 8.1.1 and the multitasKing gesture bug IS NOT FIXED. I had to turn MtG off an on in settings again this morning to get around the bug.