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I don’t think that most of the people who complain about multitasking on the iPad actually use it regularly. It works very well in my experience and the stuff

I don’t think that most of the people who complain about multitasking on the iPad actually use it regularly. It works very well in my experience and the stuff they’ve added in iPadOS 15 are great quality of life improvements. Very happy with the developer beta so far, although it has only been a few hours.

jordache 5y ago
As the most valuable company in the world, the bar is very high for apple. When they replaced the home screen with swipe up, they succeeded that change tremendously. The multi-task gestures - Not much success at all. It shouldn't require a manual and practice to use this.
jclardy 5y ago
After playing around with it for a bit I agree. The main improvement is actually using the homescreen as the app selector. Using spotlight was fine when you have a keyboard, but multitasking without a keyboard was pretty terrible on iOS 14. The only thing I am still trying to grasp is the “shelf” - I see it keeps things like mail compose windows open…but I have been unable to figure out how you are supposed to get back to them later, other than leaving the app and coming back…
- htp 5y ago
  In general: try tapping the dots at the top of the app, or tapping the app's icon in the dock. For Mail specifically: there's an icon in the lower-right of the sidebar that looks like two squares, one on top of the other- try giving tapping that.
mikestew 5y ago
I don’t think that most of the people who complain about multitasking on the iPad actually use it regularly. Of course not, why would I when the UI sucks so much? "Use it regularly" can also be translated to mean "use it until you memorize the UI gestures that Apple half-assed". I had an easier time memorizing block syntax in Objective-C. It's like vim, only for multitasking on tablets.
- wilsonnb3 5y ago
  I really don’t understand what parts of it people think is so bad. Drag an app from your dock to one side of the screen when you have another app open. Swipe the middle bar to resize the two windows. I don’t think that should take more than a few minutes for most people to grasp. Honestly it is even simpler than desktop window management.
  - thirdsun 5y ago
    > I really don’t understand what parts of it people think is so bad. Drag an app from your dock to one side of the screen when you have another app open. Most of my apps are not in the dock. There should be an obvious way to initiate multi tasking that includes selecting any app on your iPad - maybe splitting/resizing your single full screen app by dragging from either side of the screen to reveal the app drawer, where one could select an app to fill the space. Of course there would be conflicts with existing gestures. Just thinking out loud here. edit: Apparently that's how it works in iPadOS 15 [1]: > Access to all apps > > When you enter Split View, the app moves aside to reveal the Home Screen, giving you access to all Home Screen pages and the App Library. [1] https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/features/ https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/features/

jordache 5y ago

As the most valuable company in the world, the bar is very high for apple. When they replaced the home screen with swipe up, they succeeded that change tremendously. The multi-task gestures - Not much success at all. It shouldn't require a manual and practice to use this.

jclardy 5y ago

After playing around with it for a bit I agree. The main improvement is actually using the homescreen as the app selector. Using spotlight was fine when you have a keyboard, but multitasking without a keyboard was pretty terrible on iOS 14. The only thing I am still trying to grasp is the “shelf” - I see it keeps things like mail compose windows open…but I have been unable to figure out how you are supposed to get back to them later, other than leaving the app and coming back…

htp 5y ago
In general: try tapping the dots at the top of the app, or tapping the app's icon in the dock. For Mail specifically: there's an icon in the lower-right of the sidebar that looks like two squares, one on top of the other- try giving tapping that.

mikestew 5y ago

I don’t think that most of the people who complain about multitasking on the iPad actually use it regularly. Of course not, why would I when the UI sucks so much? "Use it regularly" can also be translated to mean "use it until you memorize the UI gestures that Apple half-assed". I had an easier time memorizing block syntax in Objective-C. It's like vim, only for multitasking on tablets.

wilsonnb3 5y ago
I really don’t understand what parts of it people think is so bad. Drag an app from your dock to one side of the screen when you have another app open. Swipe the middle bar to resize the two windows. I don’t think that should take more than a few minutes for most people to grasp. Honestly it is even simpler than desktop window management.
- thirdsun 5y ago
  > I really don’t understand what parts of it people think is so bad. Drag an app from your dock to one side of the screen when you have another app open. Most of my apps are not in the dock. There should be an obvious way to initiate multi tasking that includes selecting any app on your iPad - maybe splitting/resizing your single full screen app by dragging from either side of the screen to reveal the app drawer, where one could select an app to fill the space. Of course there would be conflicts with existing gestures. Just thinking out loud here. edit: Apparently that's how it works in iPadOS 15 [1]: > Access to all apps > > When you enter Split View, the app moves aside to reveal the Home Screen, giving you access to all Home Screen pages and the App Library. [1] https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/features/ https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/features/