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yOyOYoo

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Feb 13, 2005
703
106
CA
When you press the home button twice quickly on the iphone, a row of icons pop up on the bottom to allow fast switching between recently opened applications.

Can I turn this feature off?

My current iphone has a glitch where when I press the home key one time, sometimes, the quick app switching bar comes up, instead of exiting a particular program.

I'm sure I can get apple to switch me out a new one. But I've customized it and jailbroken this phone that I really just want to turn off the feature for the "fast app switching"

Is this possible? or do I need to get my phone switched out at the apple store?
 
Feb 15, 2009
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Boston, MA
To turn off multitasking:

1. Use OpenSSH and SSH into your device
2. Navigate to: /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app and look for a .plist file starting with 'N'
3. Open it in a text editor and change the value of multitasking from true to false.
4. Restart the device.
 

yOyOYoo

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Feb 13, 2005
703
106
CA
Thanks Baggy! MyOS worked perfectly.

Only I now lost portrait orientation lock. :confused:
 
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