Multitasking Gestures: Is it active now?

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When I upgraded my iPad 1 a while ago (to 4.3? ... Anyway, the one that brought gestures) for some reason it had the option to switch on gestures under General Settings. A coleague loaded the same software and he did not get the option. My iPad was Jailbroken for a while on 3.2, but when I upgraded to 4.2 I never bothered with JB again. I did not have to do anything special to get the option, no xcode, no nothing.

I bought an iPad 2 recently and ofcourse saw that it had no option for gestures, ah well, no biggie. Upgraded to 4.3.3 yesterday and still no option, but then when my little 2 year old was playing with it tonight, she switched between apps with a hand swipe! So yeah, my multitasking gestures are working flawlessly on my non-JB iPad 2 ... I just don't have the option to switch it off.

Maybe something weird on my iTunes library?
 
Basically as far as I know the gestures are enabled if you run XCode onnyour Mac, select your iPad and tell it to UAE it for developement. A new option then appears for it in settings. No jailbreak is needed, or even a dev account. Just an iPad running 4.3 and a Mac.
 
Mmm... Yeah, you know what, a guy at work did load a dev version of an iPhone app on my iPad once, long ago, guess that actually made it a dev device. Weird thing is I have now setup my iPad 2 from my first one's backup, and I guess since I had the option switched on, it is now also switched on for my iPad 2, but I have no option to switch it off ... But that's cool.
 
you can enable Gestures if your iPad is jailbroken, cant remember the link off hand, but Google should point u in the right direction
 
One app, "activator" in Cydia lets you perform all kinds of gestures. And it's free.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Basically as far as I know the gestures are enabled if you run XCode onnyour Mac, select your iPad and tell it to UAE it for developement. A new option then appears for it in settings. No jailbreak is needed, or even a dev account. Just an iPad running 4.3 and a Mac.
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That's how I did it and it works flawlessly. I cant fathom why Apple hasn't enabled it yet by default.
 
bwana said:
That's how I did it and it works flawlessly. I cant fathom why Apple hasn't enabled it yet by default.
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Must say it feels a bit unresponsive and buggy on iPad 1 ... much smoother and more "production quality" feel on the iPad 2. This is so far for me the only thing that actually feels better on the 2nd version.
 
TYR said:
Must say it feels a bit unresponsive and buggy on iPad 1 ... much smoother and more "production quality" feel on the iPad 2. This is so far for me the only thing that actually feels better on the 2nd version.
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Strange - it's very responsive on my gen 1.
 
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