Since upgrading my iPad Air to iOS 8 the multitasking gestures intermittently do not work. Need to use the home button instead of finger swipe. Workaround I got from other forums seems to be to pull down notification panel then swipe it back up to restore gestures. Annoying - I have come to rely on those gestures.
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iPad Air gestures intermittent since iOS 8
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Same here. One day I can close an app with4/5 finger gesture and the next good luck trying. This especially annoying in safari where I go to tab overview when really wanted to close an app.
For the record, this bug appears to be impacting all iPad models.
The multitasking gestures randomly stop working. It can be fixed by swiping up the Control Center and swiping it back down - the gestures will then start working again (until the next time they randomly stop...)
It'd be interesting to hear from someone running iOS 8.1 beta 1 to see if the bug still exists there.
The multitasking gestures randomly stop working. It can be fixed by swiping up the Control Center and swiping it back down - the gestures will then start working again (until the next time they randomly stop...)
It'd be interesting to hear from someone running iOS 8.1 beta 1 to see if the bug still exists there.
Likewise. Gestures have intermittently failed for me on my iPad Air on every version of iOS 8 (I'm currently running 8.1 Beta 2).
As for the workaround, the quickest way I've found to restore gestures is to use my thumb to swipe up control center just a tiny bit and then down again in a single motion. You don't need to "fully" bring up control center.
Hopefully Thursday's event will bring the GM of 8.1 and finally a fix for this.
gestures still not working properly in ios 8.1 Five finger close often ceases to work regardless of the gestures being set to on in settings.