iPhone multitasking gestures demoed on video

By on Jan 20, 2011 at 1:09 PM
mobile January 20, 2011

BGR exclusively reported on Wednesday that Apple is currently testing a variety of gestures on its iPhone. While the more interesting gestures are still locked away safely on the Apple campus, the task-switching gesture managed to come out to play in Apple’s recent iOS 4.3 beta software. Antoni Nygaard decided to laugh in the face of Apple’s developer agreement on Wednesday and show off these new gestures on camera. As we’ve pointed out in the past, these gestures are currently in place for testing purposes only. Trust us — if and when gesture support is officially added to the iPhone, it won’t involve uncomfortable four-finger swipes. So while we all wait impatiently to see what official gesture support might look like, hit the break for the video demo of Apple’s test gestures in action on an iPhone 3GS.

[Via Engadget]

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  • http://twitter.com/D4mi4n1988 Damian Wozniak

    Your fingers will magically get smaller ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Matt-Del-Mastro/775290605 Matt Del Mastro

    This looks idiotic… excuse me… iDiotic.

    • Anonymous

      agreed….

  • Jesus H Christ

    Another day another BGR Apple article. Lets see what other Apple rumors and stats can we talk about today. Welcome to the BGR were its always Apple, Apple,Apple,Apple,Apple, Apple and if you get tired of that we have some Apple rumors for you. Yea Apple!!!! All their followers rejoice!!!!!

    • Norm 4G LTE

      I KNOW RIGHT????? More DROID articles please. So sick of crApple news. Yeah I get it, they bring hits to the site unlike DROID, which in reality no one cares about, but come on. Quit talking about the most popular piece of tech out right now.

  • Captain Smokey

    hOW DO U ENABLE IT!!!!!!!!!!?

    • Gilby

      read the article, fool…”if and when gesture support is officially added”…dummy

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BHMB52ZFMATI5KS7D4JT6UU7NA Eric W

      Open up the phone app, dial 911 then press the green button. This will enable it on all phones including android devices.

  • Guest.

    Not gonna lie, that looks horrible. I am a fan of apple, not a fan boy, but that looks tragic. People are going to look so stupid when they are clawing their iPhones at bus stops. “Oh what’s that your doing?” “What?” “It looks like your clawing your phone” “oh yea i’m ‘multitasking’ “.

    Why don’t they just copy Palm’s deck of cards? Sure it won’t be original, but this idea looks terrible. I would never, ever use that. I have to admit that it does look cool on an iPad, but the iPad also has a much bigger screen and you’d look like less of an idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Responsive an snappy.

  • Spurleezy1

    Stupid

    • Tyler Durden

      +1

  • serpentor

    So, I guess Antoni Nygaard doesn’t intend to develop for Apple any more.

  • http://twitter.com/vdefender Taylor Abrahamson

    Wow.. you’re going to need a pocket manual to remember how to do these things. Not to mention the completely awkward way you have to hold your arm to get 4 fingers on the screen in that way.. HAHAHA iPhone sucks.

    • Norm 4G LTE

      I know right!!! Task managers and running background processes eating battery are so much easier to understand. DROID FTW!!!

  • KCRic

    This is as close as you’ll ever get to ‘multitasking’ on an iProduct

  • Ginzo_312

    HP iPalm?

    • Sim

      WebOS had the task switching nailed down compared to this.

  • Sammy

    herp derp must hold phone with two handz

  • Anonymous

    Gawd. Looks like my cat when she goes to take a shit.

    • Anonymous

      Do you typically watch your cat shit? Seems odd….

  • eb

    Gonna be a great feature…..NOT :(

  • Gyubok Baik

    it seems stupid.

  • http://twitter.com/wrg25 W!LL

    another day… another iPhone story……. ;-/

  • http://twitter.com/tonyr4music Tony Rivera

    This “DUDE” needs to cut his nails.

  • Ron

    The hp/palm webos has that app switcher since day one. It can do that with just one finger. That’s better than using multiple fingers.

  • DMN

    The gestures might work OK on the iPad, but it’s retarded to do that on the iPhone with such a small screen. If Apple really is adding the gestures and getting rid of the home button then they damn well better make the iPhone 5 with a 4.5 inch screen.

  • Darkcloud25

    OMG its freaking Awasome NOT this is the BS you fan boys drop your jaws for lol. apple gives me PTSD man lol

  • http://twitter.com/CarpeDiemCMA Carlos M. Alvarez

    Not liking that swiping motion. Seems like a chore. Is he using 3 or four fingers? Either way too much for me.

  • HOLA

    this goes with the whole “not having a home button for iPhones and iPads”

    interesting, but it seems like a hassle

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