iPad 1 & iOS 52: multitouch gestures still missing

[innominato5090]

I've just installed beta 2 on my iPad 1 (registered developer, developing purpose, aware of bugs, blah blah) and multitouch gestures are missing. I've registered my iPad in Xcode's organizer, rebooted, still nothing.

could be multitouch gestures an iPad 2 only feature?
the apple website doesn't state it on its website.
http://sldn.info/DQQY

 

[fruchtsaft]

this would be interesting for me as well.

 

[Maziar]

I posted about this(w/beta 1) some weeks ago and no one seemed to care.
Anyway,there are rumors that gestures will be missing for iPad 1 which is not a good sign.I don't see any reason why the iPad 1 can't have the gestures

 

[innominato5090]

I posted about this(w/beta 1) some weeks ago and no one seemed to care.
Anyway,there are rumors that gestures will be missing for iPad 1 which is not a good sign.I don't see any reason why the iPad 1 can't have the gestures

exactly. I used them since their introduction ( iOS 4.2 maybe?) and they always worked flawlessly.
I've read somewhere that it could be restored via jailbreak.
I think I'll jailbreak, enable it, backup and than restore the original iOS. it ~should~ works.

 

[innominato5090]

nope. it doesn't work 🙁

 

[mkaake]

I was hoping it was just a glitch / bug / oversight with beta 1... I use the gestures almost exclusively on my iPad, and if I had to go back to using the home button all the time, it would drive me nuts...

Here's to hoping it comes back in beta 3?

 

[shandyman]

I've just installed beta 2 on my iPad 1 (registered developer, developing purpose, aware of bugs, blah blah) and multitouch gestures are missing. I've registered my iPad in Xcode's organizer, rebooted, still nothing.

could be multitouch gestures an iPad 2 only feature?
the apple website doesn't state it on its website.
http://sldn.info/DQQY

judging by the fact it's not in beta 1 or 2 for the iPad 1, it's most certainly going to be an iPad 2 only feature. Apple have a track record of leaving some features out on an older generation device even tho it's been proven to run fine with it, this is nothing new.

 

[Kebabselector]

I do find when you switch between apps on the iPad 1 some apps take a few seconds to respond. Maybe this a limitation of the iPad memory and the 512mb of the ipad2 makes it better. Maybe someone with both 1&2 can confirm.

That said it could be just my iPad as mine does tend to crash apps a fair bit.

 

[Chocolatemilty]

I do find when you switch between apps on the iPad 1 some apps take a few seconds to respond. Maybe this a limitation of the iPad memory and the 512mb of the ipad2 makes it better. Maybe someone with both 1&2 can confirm.

Although I'm not on any of the beta software (running 4.3.3), I can say that apps do take a few seconds (1-3 seconds) to "resume" when using multitasking gestures. I'm sure this is because of the limitations of the A4 processor & 256mb of memory vs. the upgraded internals of the iPad2. However, it's not a big deal to me (heck, I still have iPhone 3G on ios4 mentality, so this speed is great to me, hahaha!).

If they don't have the gestures in the final release of iOS 5 for iPad 1, it'll just be released via jailbreak anyways, which I still will do for tethering purposes and other tweaks.