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no gestures on iPad 1 with iOS 5?
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Yup... it truly sucks. I spent the last couple of days contemplating whether to treat myself to an MBA or ip4S. Now it'll be neither, for the time being... damn you 
The thing is, it didn't work that great in iOS 4.
I had it enabled, and yeah you can switch back and forth between a couple apps ok, but most of the time, every app needed to be reloaded, and quite often the animation would lag.
Apple could have enabled it... but they would have "looked bad" and they'd rather reduce features for the sake of "smoothness" from what I've seen.
I had it enabled, and yeah you can switch back and forth between a couple apps ok, but most of the time, every app needed to be reloaded, and quite often the animation would lag.
Apple could have enabled it... but they would have "looked bad" and they'd rather reduce features for the sake of "smoothness" from what I've seen.
Understood...however it should be our choice. My iPad was purchased the same day the iPad 2 came out, so its still under warranty. An option to turn gestures off and on, or even to just have the gestures that do work well would have been nice. Making your own hardware obsolete a few months after its purchased doesn't sound like a good business decision.
What will all the iPad 2 users say when iPad 3 comes out and Apple does the same thing to them? I could understand if iPad 1 was 3 or 4 generations old, but this product really isn't that old. Anyway whats done is done and I'll have to accept it and move on I suppose.
Is it possible to downgrade to iOS 4.3.3? I really regret this upgrade to 5.0: no multi gesture and hopeless music app.
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Apple is notorious for choosing smooth operation over user choice... I don't disagree with you, just explaining why it's done.
My experience with the multitouch gestures was exactly the same. The original iPad just can't run that many apps in the background - it has limited physical memory. The use of the gestures just exemplified that: lots of waiting, reloading, and blank screens.
Remember the lack of backgrounds on the iPhone 3G? In an email to a customer, Steve said it was cut for performance reasons..l I sense the same thing here.
I'm now glad that I went with the iPad 2 over the first model. I love the multi-finger gestures. I was getting so tired of double clicking the home button to switch apps. In fact the home button should be dropped from the iPad 3. I find that I accidentally hit the home button while using the device in landscape. Instead Apple should just make the on/off button multi-purpose.
If you can deal with having a tethered jailbreak, a redsn0w beta that's out now will re-enable them. I did it earlier on, but everytime I installed an update from cydia and rebooted, I had to put it in dfu mode to get it working again. Bit of a nightmare.
That's really a shame! I used the gestures (via Xcode) since they came out on both iPad Orig. and iPad 2—and most of the time they worked pretty well and smooth. I got used to them very fast and I am enjoying them on iPad 2 now with iOS 5.
But I am reluctant on updrading my iPad Orig. to iOS 5 because of the missing gestures.
But I am reluctant on updrading my iPad Orig. to iOS 5 because of the missing gestures.
They changed it to say "for iPad 2". Quite a dick thing to announce at Day 1 given that there was a hope for the feature to make it to those of us iPad 1 owners who were genuinely stoked for the feature given that there was no reason to assume it would be taken out. Even still, does anyone have any insight as to why this was done at the last minute? I can't fathom the 1GHz A4 being insufficient for this feature.
I for one would be happy if Apple would just give me the reveal/hide for the multitask bar. If the gestures are lagging on the application switching (understandable) then at least if we could have the reveal it would cause much less wear and tear on the poor iPad1 home button.
This is the most ideal solution. I found myself using this option more so than the actual swipe left and right to multitask simply because it worked better on my iPad 1. I don't see how the code couldn't be added for that feature. I suppose we all need to send Apple feedback on this to get it to happen.
So, for the first time ever I felt it necessary to jailbreak to get these back. Worked fine, and now I'm happy again 
fully recommended...
fully recommended...
So, for the first time ever I felt it necessary to jailbreak to get these back. Worked fine, and now I'm happy again
What jail brake path did you choose to take?
Redsn0w - it's tethered, but works a treat. I mean, how often do you reboot your iPad? Haven't installed anything from Cydia... don't see the need now that I have my gestures back
Redsn0w - it's tethered, but works a treat. I mean, how often do you reboot your iPad? Haven't installed anything from Cydia... don't see the need now that I have my gestures back
Oh thanks. Unfortunately I do not want to get bothered by tethered jailbreaks as of yet. I was secretly hoping you got an insider tip about an untethered jailbreakage!
Cheers to the gestures, tho! I am still on 4.3.5 just for them.
Thanks for fixing this, Apple.
The gestures seem to work quite well on the 1st gen iPad with the new update.
The gestures seem to work quite well on the 1st gen iPad with the new update.
