A Simple Gesture Concept for Multitasking on the iPhone [Video]

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Posted December 5, 2011 at 4:49pm by Shalom Levytam

UI designer Max Rudberg has come up with a new gesture concept for the iPhone that would replace the double tap of the home button for multitasking.

A simple gesture would decrease the wear and tear of the hardware button, and also speed up the usage of the multitasking drawer. You simply start dragging from outside the bottom of the screen and move your finger onto the screen. This edge swipe would activate the multitasking drawer.

This could be an optional setting, in the same way that Apple has made the iPad gestures optional. Certain apps might have a conflicting gesture, or a novice user might activate it accidentally. So the default behavior should probably be to have this turned off.

Personally, I would rather use a gesture like this to bring up Siri. Holding the Home button down seems to take too long.

[via TNW]

A Simple Gesture Concept for Multitasking on the iPhone [Video]

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Duceme - December 7, 2011 at 6:03am

How can I get activated?

Zoddex - December 5, 2011 at 11:15pm

Oh yeah i heard about this... i have it on mine.... its called hmm, huh.... oh yeah ACTIVATOR!!!!

Real talk - December 5, 2011 at 9:21pm

Off top tho activator is the best! where is my jailbreak?

Topher - December 5, 2011 at 8:42pm

Make it a 2 finger gesture and novice user would never do it accidentally.....Eliminates that problem Kthanxbye

te72s - December 5, 2011 at 7:36pm

this is exactly how android does it :P

Jonhy - December 5, 2011 at 6:09pm

Activator already does this!!!

Ab08 - December 5, 2011 at 5:31pm

You can use Activator on a JB iPhone to do this. I have had it like this for a while. Granted it isn't as fine grain as the video or say notification centre. Using Activator a swipe from the bottom of the screen up reproduces the double tap and Application Switcher appears. I do prefer the videos way of doing it though, a lot slicker

tbaybu - December 5, 2011 at 6:31pm

I have this set in Activator as well.