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Multitasking on/off?
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That's probably true, and the 512 megs of RAM are part of the reason. My recommendation would be to not worry too much about it unless you encounter a problem.
Hell, that's not a compromise. That's the way it SHOULD work. What the heck is it doing back there if you're not actually navigating?
It does show you an icon when location services is running in the background. So what's the goof? That they don't show the other services?
Yeah, it's only showing when location services is running, not the other APIs. But LS is exactly what you're talking about here. So this example should never happen.
TomTom does this, but it requires that you clear the route before it recognizes you aren't navigating anymore.
Yes: Pandora being a reasonable example -- you could start it, and listen to it forever...! (If you press pause, however, Pandora no longer consumes background resources.)
I think over the coming weeks and months we will see "the state of the art" improve in terms of how the user interfaces of Apps deal with the concepts of 'backgrounded' and 'suspended'.
This thread is a great example of some of the confusion that people face, kudos to all those who are sharing their experiences
Actually, it shows all 3, just with different indicators. Background audio is the play icon, voip is a red call status bar, and location services is the icon in the status bar you mention.
Fast switching should be invisible, so why indicate it? Push and local notifications go through a daemon, not the app.
i know this already, just using the TomTom app as an example maybe it's a dev thing and not Apple
If this app list means absolutely nothing, why have it? And why even have the ability to remove the apps too? Didn't Steve say "if you need a task manager, you've failed?" If what you say is true, then the only thing I see that this list does is to only provide a way to reopen an app without going back to the home screen.
It is a recent app list, not a task manager. Ideally, when all apps have been updated, iOS 4 will handle the memory management, task management, and multitasking behind the scenes. That is the design goal.
Since there are memory limits, if an app is no longer in the list, it is no longer in a suspended state or running in the background. Obviously, the Apple apps and tasks still can do their normal background stuff.
Why does Windows have Alt-tab? (And the Mac Command-tab?)
Same thing. Do you find those features puzzling as well?
"Need" being the operative word. You don't really "need" this switcher. It's just a convinient feature. Feel free to ignore it.
You've got it.
I mean, it CAN kill an app, but if you're doing that it means the developer wrote a bad program. There should be an easier way to make it stop doing what its doing instead of having to force-kill it. That's a developer issue, not an Apple issue.
You should be able to turn off multitasking in iOS 6 or iOS 7. But that might not be supported on the iPhone 4
Man, how did people ever manage with a Blackberry or a WinMo phone?
Way to over-think everything. Yikes.
Way to over-think everything. Yikes.
You should be able to turn off multitasking in iOS 6 or iOS 7. But that might not be supported on the iPhone 4
I realise you're joking, but we can safely say that there will never be a way to turn off multitasking in iOS. Why? Because Apple does not fill its products with needless* configurable options.
(*) Some people might feel that they need this option, but Apple's goal is to make multi-tasking "just work" without causing hassle for the user.
One of my friends just told me that there is a boolean flag in the plist file on the device that allows you to toggle multitasking. You can only do that if you have SSH access though. So, if you need that switch, you'll have to jailbreak.