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What's the point of the new app switcher?
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I don't like it either. The current switcher is a more natural model. This new one looks too trying, looks like an android mod. It looks like the only reason for the change was to have larger previews. But do we really need that?
Also, is there a way to scroll quickly like the current one?
I think you're confused. Double click while in the lock screen should bring up the wallet.
The new task switcher now has that idiotic blur. This has been specifically done to tax older iDevices giving an illusion of them appearing slow.
Planned obsolescence at it's finest.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Planned obsolescence at it's finest.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Still no "close all apps" button.
I wish there was a switch for this..
I would be totally happy with 90% of my apps closing for real when I leave them.
The new switcher makes more sense spatially - in western societies, we usually imagine and/or depict progress from left to right (so, older things go left). Everything works that way, even in browsers, to go back you click a thing pointing left.
It was the other (wrong) way round in 7 and 8.
It was the other (wrong) way round in 7 and 8.
Sounds like trackpad natural scrolling on the Mac. I turned that off straight away.
I don't particularly like it either, but I suppose with time we'll get used to it...
Usability does seem reduced:
- iOS 8 will show 3 apps (no visible home screen, unless you swipe left. If you want the home screen just single click), whereas
- iOS 9 shows the home screen, and only 2 apps, making you scroll to reach others. It feels like there is less apps accessible without scrolling, if that makes sense...
Also, I really like the contacts at the top. I understand that now you get mostly the same thing with the whole proactive search, but that means going to the home screen and then left swipe, whereas with iOS 8, from any app double-tap and they're there!!
Just my 0.02...
Usability does seem reduced:
- iOS 8 will show 3 apps (no visible home screen, unless you swipe left. If you want the home screen just single click), whereas
- iOS 9 shows the home screen, and only 2 apps, making you scroll to reach others. It feels like there is less apps accessible without scrolling, if that makes sense...
Also, I really like the contacts at the top. I understand that now you get mostly the same thing with the whole proactive search, but that means going to the home screen and then left swipe, whereas with iOS 8, from any app double-tap and they're there!!
Just my 0.02...
um i was responding to the question "Also, is there a way to scroll quickly like the current one?"
Okay, gladly:
When's the last time you thought to yourself, "man, this product I bought from $COMPANY_X is so bad, I definitely want to buy a new one right now"?
I can't even begin to understand this thought process of "planned obsolescence" in basically anything computer-related. It doesn't even stand up to the simplest surface scrutiny of asking "but what if the consumer has even a base minimum understanding of causal relationships?"
Because you don't need it.Still no "close all apps" button.
The oddest thing I've noticed about it is that if you double click to go into the app switcher, the app you were currently in isn't the one with the main focus in the app switcher.
With regards a close all option - it might not be useful to do it regularly, but over time a whole load of apps can get opened. So every once it a while I will clear them out, just so I can more easily use it to switch to an app I tend to use a lot, without the regular ones having loads of irregular ones interspersed.
The other thing I think would be useful is to have an option on the screen (in the space at the bottom?) to return to the home screen without swiping all the way back to the right.
With regards a close all option - it might not be useful to do it regularly, but over time a whole load of apps can get opened. So every once it a while I will clear them out, just so I can more easily use it to switch to an app I tend to use a lot, without the regular ones having loads of irregular ones interspersed.
The other thing I think would be useful is to have an option on the screen (in the space at the bottom?) to return to the home screen without swiping all the way back to the right.
same with the iOS 7-8 one. the idea is it makes it quicker to switch back to your last app, which is what you often want to do. (the app switcher in iOS 4-6 didn't even list the current app btw.)
i wouldn't mind a close all option, but if it's any consolation to you and anyone else reading, it just took me around 6 seconds to close 30 apps, so around 5 per second.
there's always the hardware home button...
It's not favourites or recent anymore, it's "suggested. Remember them talking about it in the keynote? It's ones Siri thinks you're likely to use in the current time and place.
Pressing the home button takes you to the home screen (although it shows you your previous app for a split second first - the animation is "Go back to the app you were in before you went into app switcher, then immediatly go to home screen".