Enabling "Secret" Multitasking Gestures on the iPad 1

[Poser]

xcode 4 is free in the Mac App Store now.

 

[richsadams]

xcode 4 is free in the Mac App Store now.

Interesting...thanks for the tip! Wonder if this is temporary to coincide with the Lion rollout or permanent?

 

[Poser]

If all these gestures are currently beta, why not wait for them?

who sent you?????

are you a PC guy??? <-----serious question <-------

 

[graywolf]

Poser, every time I look at your posts, R. Lee Ermey whispers "Drop and give me 20!".

 

[jerseymaggie]

Would you have to make this change each time you upgrade to a new iOS?

Thanks,
Maggie

Sent from my iPad using iPF

 

[graywolf]

I think millions of hackers disagree. You get the features now so you can enjoy them longer. Hacking isn't all just pushing the boundaries, it is also the joy you get when you can slap apple in the face and say "haha! I bypassed your patch!". We all love the product. We just wish it could do more.

 

[Poser]

I just think you people are acting like apple isn't giving you enough. So you hack and jailbreak, sounds like you guys hate apple, not me. I'm just saying if you have to have it all RIGHT NOW, you're just setting yourselves up for boredom.

OORAH?

YOU PEOPLE!!!!!

no hate here, and i am not one of the dudes that say apple is restricting MY device, i never once complained, but at the same time, i get to do so much on my device, so i like it. I am not an app person, i just like options.

besides multitasking gestures, an example would be, iconoclasm allows more icons on springboard(homescreen), you can choose how much you want, i have 7x6 = 42, apple i think is 5x5 = 25, the example photo is 7x7=49(apps on 1 page), more organized and less use for folders in my books.

now in this photo, pretty sure gridlock was used to space out apps, to have a little fun with your screen.

your dock can have as many apps you want, scrolling left to right, with scrollingboard.

 

[BiBiNhA]

Quick Question

Ok, I installed the recently free xcode 4.1 (since I'm using Lion)... and I put the multi-gestures features into my ipad.

But I don't want it to be a developer Ipad and want the developer tab to be removed. How do I do that and still maintain the features??


obs.: I had to restore my ipad, that's why I had to reinstall the features. I had installed it before using Snow Leopard and I could remove the developer tab just by removing it from xcode.

But now if I chose to remove the Ipad, it just removes it temporarily and the tab still remains on the ipad. And if I put to ignore the ipad, the gestures are removed from the ipad and worse, the developer tab still remains there.

Help!

 

[richsadams]

Ok, I installed the recently free xcode 4.1 (since I'm using Lion)... and I put the multi-gestures features into my ipad.

But I don't want it to be a developer Ipad and want the developer tab to be removed. How do I do that and still maintain the features??


obs.: I had to restore my ipad, that's why I had to reinstall the features. I had installed it before using Snow Leopard and I could remove the developer tab just by removing it from xcode.

But now if I chose to remove the Ipad, it just removes it temporarily and the tab still remains on the ipad. And if I put to ignore the ipad, the gestures are removed from the ipad and worse, the developer tab still remains there.

Help!

Can you please post details as to where you're seeing a "developer tab"? I took at look at my iPad, iTunes, etc. and I'm not sure what it is you're referring to. (I'm also on OS X 10.7). TIA!

 

[BiBiNhA]

Ok, I installed the recently free xcode 4.1 (since I'm using Lion)... and I put the multi-gestures features into my ipad.

But I don't want it to be a developer Ipad and want the developer tab to be removed. How do I do that and still maintain the features??


obs.: I had to restore my ipad, that's why I had to reinstall the features. I had installed it before using Snow Leopard and I could remove the developer tab just by removing it from xcode.

But now if I chose to remove the Ipad, it just removes it temporarily and the tab still remains on the ipad. And if I put to ignore the ipad, the gestures are removed from the ipad and worse, the developer tab still remains there.

Help!

Can you please post details as to where you're seeing a "developer tab"? I took at look at my iPad, iTunes, etc. and I'm not sure what it is you're referring to. (I'm also on OS X 10.7). TIA!

When you go into settings, on the left where all the setting's tabs are, it's the last option for settings (before you go into the aps idividual settings), underneath the Store tab.

I'll take a picture to show it better.

 

[richsadams]

Ah...got it. That's interesting. As you can see from the image below, that doesn't appear on my iPad, however per my original post I uninstalled Xcode and I can't recall if it ever showed up that way on my iPad.

Three questions then:

First, does Xcode show up in your Apps folder in iTunes? Open iTunes and click on "Apps" in the left-hand column. If so, try deleting it and then re-sync your iPad.

If that doesn't do it, did you completely uninstall Xcode from your Mac? If not you could give that a try, then re-sync your iPad. You can uninstall Xcode by typing this command in terminal:

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all (type "exit" and hit Return after the process is done)

I should have asked this question initially...other than seeing the Developer's App listed are you running into any issues? Is it causing your iPad to not function correctly somehow?

I have an Apple developer's license so if deleting it from your Mac doesn't work I can try posting the question on the Developers Forum to see if anyone there can answer it. However if everything is normal otherwise I'd probably just forget about it. I suspect it will be taken care of when iOS 5 is released.

BTW you can perform a screen capture on your iPad by holding down both the home and power buttons and then releasing them. The screenshot will be saved in your iPad's Photos app.

Curious if anyone else is seeing this and if so, are there any negative effects that you know of? TIA.

 

[BiBiNhA]

Ah...got it. That's interesting. As you can see from the image below, that doesn't appear on my iPad, however per my original post I uninstalled Xcode and I can't recall if it ever showed up that way on my iPad.

Three questions then:

First, does Xcode show up in your Apps folder in iTunes? Open iTunes and click on "Apps" in the left-hand column. If so, try deleting it and then re-sync your iPad.

If that doesn't do it, did you completely uninstall Xcode from your Mac? If not you could give that a try, then re-sync your iPad. You can uninstall Xcode by typing this command in terminal:

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all (type "exit" and hit Return after the process is done)

I should have asked this question initially...other than seeing the Developer's App listed are you running into any issues? Is it causing your iPad to not function correctly somehow?

I have an Apple developer's license so if deleting it from your Mac doesn't work I can try posting the question on the Developers Forum to see if anyone there can answer it. However if everything is normal otherwise I'd probably just forget about it. I suspect it will be taken care of when iOS 5 is released.

BTW you can perform a screen capture on your iPad by holding down both the home and power buttons and then releasing them. The screenshot will be saved in your iPad's Photos app.

Curious if anyone else is seeing this and if so, are there any negative effects that you know of? TIA.

Hi, thanks for the quick reply!

Before upgrading to Mac OS 10.7, I put the multi-gestures feature into my ipad 2 with Xcode Version 4.0 and it also put this developer tab into my ipad's settings. However when deleting the ipad from the xcode's menu it also deleted it from the ipad (keeping the features intact).

But the same thing did not happen with xcode 4.1 for Lion.

So answering your questions... I have removed xcode... it did not remove the developer tab. And it doesn't show on my apps list in my itunes.

And apart for the tab being listed it doesn't do anything. And I also believe that these features will be included in iOS 5 and should resolve this problem... but it's just something that bothers me a little bit just by being there

But I rather have the features and keep this tab there than restoring the ipad and losing both the tab and the features.

I just posted to see if anybody new how to resolve this issue because I noticed it was something that occured with the new xcode and mac OS.

Thanks for your help! And thanks for the tip on the screen capture!!

 

[richsadams]

Good info then, and good to know that it's not causing any problems. The only thing I can think that it might be doing is logging some of your activity. Not sure if you can turn logging off or not, although I doubt it takes up much space. Fingers crossed it will be enabled in iOS 5 and we can forget about the fuss.

In the meantime it's kind of fun to be able to amaze other iPad owners with our "magical" skills though.

 

[pEAcEmAKeR]

OMG thank you!

 

[ashley69]

I did it with a PC from instructions: Enable Multi-touch Gestures on iPad without jailbreaking
A little different then your link, don't need jailbreak or Cydia.

Wow. Just enabled multi gesture in 6minutes 30seconds. No paying for apps. Easy peesey.