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iOS 11.1 Beta 2 Brings Back 3D Touch App Switcher

Could anyone screen record it? I want to see the animation .. does fly in like when we double tap? Or is is it similar to iOS 10?
 
Cool. Can we get an iPad task switcher for the iPhone? I'm sure I am wrong here, because Andoid copied this as well, but I don't see how stacking is faster than laying them all out. Just make each card smaller so the nine or sixteen most recently used apps can be seen with one action.
 
Steve Jobs would have fired Craig for doing this so confusing act.
 
Finally! Now I can stop with #ios11sucks once this is out. Haha

On the other note, why is it even removed during the iOS beta phase? It's not a new iOS 11 feature
 
Apple blogger said:
Could anyone screen record it? I want to see the animation .. does fly in like when we double tap? Or is is it similar to iOS 10?
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The effect is different now and even smoother! The animation behaves and looks like the iPhone X’s.
 
BWhaler said:
What Apple needs to bring back is decent battery life and quality.

I can’t believe how buggy ios 11 is. It’s robbed a lot of the joy for buying a new iPad Pro. Someone needs to tell Tim that this is what happened at Sony. More and more fetish designs which didn’t map to the real world, content considerations took over
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I just got my iPad Pro 10.5 last August. Under iOS 10.3.3, the device was really responsive and battery life super solid. When I updated to iOS 11, both responsiveness and battery life took a noticeable hit. After a few days of 11.0.1 installed, battery seems to have stabilised to ~10% per 1 hour of usage.

Have you updated to 11.0.2? How’s your experience with iOS 11 on your iPad Pro so far? :)
 
Azuros said:
I just got my iPad Pro 10.5 last August. Under iOS 10.3.3, the device was really responsive and battery life super solid. When I updated to iOS 11, both responsiveness and battery life took a noticeable hit. After a few days of 11.0.1 installed, battery seems to have stabilised to ~10% per 1 hour of usage.

Have you updated to 11.0.2? How’s your experience with iOS 11 on your iPad Pro so far? :)
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Better, but still unacceptably buggy. (My ipad hard rebooted about an hour ago after freezing for about a minute)

Battery life still sucks.

Worth upgrading though. It does get better. Just still not a quality release, but a step in right direction.
 
MistrSynistr said:
Schweeet! Now all 22 of you on this forum can use it again!
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I find it very hard to perform, almost like a Nintendo code. In addition, in order to “quickly” switch from one app to the last previously used app, the slide needs to happen at a snails pace.

You know what else I don’t use? Double tap for reach ability.

You know what I use ALL THE TIME? Double click to switch apps.

Would it be asking to much to allow the use the option to change what those “gestures” do?

Being able to double tap to switch apps would be soooo much nicer.
 
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gixxerfool said:
This is exciting. For all the naysayers claiming 3D Touch is a gimmick, when they pull something like this, you notice how much you actually use it.
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Not naysayer but i never used that function, easier to double tap home button imo. Only thing i use 3d touch for is moving the cursor when typing, tjat function is not possible to be without after getting used to
 
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I am not normally one to install beta software on my iPhone, however I missed this feature enough that I changed my mind :)
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applemumba said:
Have they fixed the randomly turning on live photo feature of the camera that I always have turned off but for some reason seems to just turn itself on from time to time when opening the camera. Very frustrating.
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I was wondering why I had some Live Photo’s being captured. I figured I accidentally turned it on a couple times recently. Good to know it wasn’t me.
 
Wait a minute... So Apple releases its new operating system for devices it charges $600-1000 for, half-baked, unfinished, with features missing... and now they're heroes for bringing back one of them? Maybe they are so out of new feature ideas that removing an old one then bringing it back is exciting. By the time they finish iOS 11, iOS 12 will be out (with the same problems)
 
applemumba said:
Have they fixed the randomly turning on live photo feature of the camera that I always have turned off but for some reason seems to just turn itself on from time to time when opening the camera. Very frustrating.
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That's a feature that can be toggled in Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings
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DNichter said:
It actually works a bit differently (for me). When I use it, it just goes to the most recent app opened. Similar to the X feature where you slide from left to right on the bottom bar.

Edit: You sorta slide up while in the process to get to the app switcher. Takes a little getting used to.
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You just need to keep pressing.
 
Coming from a 6 Plus to an 8 I completely missed this feature. People seem to praise this like the second coming of Jesus so I'm really curious what the fuss is all about.
 
Good news!
I missed the gesture a lot, especially when I still had the 6s. With the 8+ I find myself using the phone two handed more often so the double click on the home button is not so inconvenient.
 
skillwill said:
Wait a minute... So Apple releases its new operating system for devices it charges $600-1000 for, half-baked, unfinished, with features missing... and now they're heroes for bringing back one of them? Maybe they are so out of new feature ideas that removing an old one then bringing it back is exciting. By the time they finish iOS 11, iOS 12 will be out (with the same problems)
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Ah !
Better stay on iOS9 because, iOS 13 may resemble that after peeling off all the juicy stuff (while adding a zillion unnecessary libraries/kits)
 
mnni said:
While iOS 11 is very smooth on my 7plus—this is the first release where I could say the same about my iPad Air 2. Subjective and all… but pretty good so far.
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That is good to hear. I’ve been waiting for 11.1 or even 11.2 before I try my Air 2 on iOS 11. I have some weird glitches on 10.3.3 already so I don’t want to make it worse.
 
DNichter said:
It actually works a bit differently (for me). When I use it, it just goes to the most recent app opened. Similar to the X feature where you slide from left to right on the bottom bar.

Edit: You sorta slide up while in the process to get to the app switcher. Takes a little getting used to.
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Rather than slide, push harder. Seems to work like peeking on a table row.
 
thejadedmonkey said:
I wonder what sort of technical constraint would have caused the need to remove it.?
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I think it might have been iPhone X. There are several more or altered gestures and there could have been a conflict between the old and the new (and they chose to prioritize the new).
 
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