Multitasking: Do you use it?

[NWI73]

Every day. Playing music constantly while at work via pandora, slacker radio or the iPod.

 

[fabian9]

I use it all the time, best thing about iOS4 in my opinion.

It's funny to see how a couple of months ago everybody was shouting about not being able to multitask, and now that it's there people don't use it. goes to show that it wasn't really necessary to start with if you have a well-developed app. It still makes things a lot easier and quicker though.

 

[Kfcbill]

Love it once I get used to it.

 

[asr10 user]

I use it all the time. I wouldnt even own an iPhone if it wasnt for iOS 4.

 

[Jaro65]

I use it mostly for Navigon and Skype.

 

[Roofy.]

All the time. The retina display and multi tasking is what makes the iphone 4 the best phone out there IMO. I know you can multi task on other phones but just how fast and easy it does it on the iphone is amazing. I love playing real racing and then getting a text, answering the text, and then go right back to the game. It takes me only a few seconds to switch back and forth.

 

[itsmemuffins]

I use it pretty much every time I use my iP4.

It is really very handy and I wouldn't want to go back .

 

[aluren]

Background GPS navigation is the biggest thing for me. Everything else is just fast app switching, which is also nice. No complaints whatsoever.

 

[mastershakess]

It's great

Game to eMail to Game to Text to Game, never having to reload any apps (this is just an example). I use it all the time.

 

[m3coolpix]

I ended up sticking with Backgrounder (setting up custom exceptions to get rid of the Apple multitasking), but still using the Apple app switcher process along with Activator.

Best of both worlds.

 

[WilliamG]

I love multitasking, but to say there's no reason to clean up the bar is simply false. Safari runs a LOT smoother when you close other apps that are in frozen state taking up RAM. Less chequerboard patterns etc when scrolling when more RAM is available. So anything you're really not going to use again for a while, I'd close.

 

[Benito]

I use the multitasking on a daily basis. It is a quick way of getting back and forth between certain apps that I usually have open.

 

[thunderbunny]

Very occasionally. Wanted to use it the other day for cutting and pasting address details from an email into a contact but every time you switch it saves the contact meaning you have to start the edit process each time.

Only real use has been for my farmville farm which I hardly class as critical....

 

[marksman]

I am just going to bang my head against my keyboard for a few moments.


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geegtetetertett35

I do use the fast-task switching dock all the time. My iPhone 4 does not have a multi-tasking dock.

 

[TallManNY]

I do use the fast-task switching dock all the time. My iPhone 4 does not have a multi-tasking dock.

Hmm, well maybe I will get used to using the dock. I really just never think of doing it. I had a iPod Touch for a few years and then got an iPad relatively soon after it came out. Since I use the iPad daily, I think I developed some habits. I wondered why you would press twice to pull up a four app wide dock as opposed to pressing once to pull up the four by four home square?

I also don't ever really have anything doing anything in the background at least as far as I notice, so the multitasking that is going on is just frozen state as far as I can tell.

 

[lush242000]

I got the iPhone 4 about a month and half ago and I know that it has the multitasking dock, but I never use it. In fact, the only thing it really does is when I look at it and see all the programs "open" in it it makes me nervous that they are using power unnecessarily. I don't notice any difference with how things work over my iPod Touch or iPad, which haven't ever had multitasking. So is multitasking doing anything for me in the background that I'm not realizing? Is there any reason for me to go in and "clean up" my multitask bar (do I really need Doodle Jump sitting in there?)

Do any of you use multitasking in some meaningful way (besides Pandora which is seemingly the main point of multitasking if you listen to Apple haters before multitasking was supported)? Is it helping in some sort of way, maybe to speed up things, that I don't realize? It isn't like I need my iPhone to compile code in the background while I do something else, so what is it doing?

I use it to do some copy and past, but that's about it.

 

[tblrsa]

It´s funny how you try to hate Apples Take on Multitasking so strongly. In my mind, Apple has provided us the best Multitasking Option suitable for a smartphone. And hey, it does work great if the App supports it. For example, I can pause "Undercroft" at any time and bring it back on within seconds to play in the evening. I can do this without losing tons of battery life in the progress.

So to answer the OPs question: Yes, i do use Multitasking to switch between Apps. It gives the iPhone a much smoother overall feel, i don´t want to miss it anymore.

 

[Jordan921]

All the time. I don't see why people hate it so much. Let's you switch to other apps so fast.

 

[Wicked1]

No and I wish I could switch it off

 

[sammich]

People hate the things that they don't understand.

Multitasking is awesome. No buts.

 

[BuiltforSin]

I mostly use it for the most basic stuff I need. Text, phone, Facebook, Pandora, Safari.

 

[kas23]

People hate the things that they don't understand.

Multitasking is awesome. No buts.

This view is narrow-minded and short-sighted. There are "buts". See below.

Background GPS navigation is the biggest thing for me.

This. It's what makes GPS actually usable.

Downside is when some apps hang. For example, my Beejive freezes up all the time. Especially when changing from WiFi to 3G and visa-versa. I end up having to manually close it a lot. I can't just hit the home button. So here, multitasking is more of a pain than a benefit. Yeah, sure, blame it on the developer. But, we should at least have to option to disable multitasking for certain apps.

 

[sammich]

This view is narrow-minded and short-sighted. There are "buts". See below.

I think your understanding of short-sighted is wrong.

Downside is when some apps hang. For example, my Beejive freezes up all the time. Especially when changing from WiFi to 3G and visa-versa. I end up having to manually close it a lot. I can't just hit the home button. So here, multitasking is more of a pain than a benefit. Yeah, sure, blame it on the developer. But, we should at least have to option to disable multitasking for certain apps.

That's nice feature, the home button turns into a force quit button when you don't have multitasking! I'm totally ditching every benefit of MT because that's all I wanted.

You want to lose the benefit of keeping a chat open in the background just so you can save 4 seconds when the app crashes? You don't to keep the seconds saved from every app launch because it has a saved state?

 

[grahamnp]

I like multitasking but I hate having to access it through the double tap and menubar. It is probably the worst way of getting access to background apps I have ever used which is unfortunate because I really like the actualy multasking/frozen state features themselves.

Even with 512mb of RAM I run out of memory fairly often and have to manually shut down apps, anybody else have this problem?

 

[stlredbird]

I didn't think I would give a crap about it but I use it everyday.

I'm a fan.