How to use the new iPad gestures in iOS 12 2018
What gestures have changed on iPad under iOS 12?
In iOS 11, when you slide your finger from the bottom of the screen, you first reveal the Dock (unless it's already visible), then continue to drag up to access the Control Center. If you hope that this dual-use gesture has been simplified in iOS 12, you're out of luck.
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Same gestures iOS, different result
In iOS 12, the short slip always goes back Dock. However, when you continue to slide, you return to the home screen. This seems to be Apple's plan for all future Face ID iPads that might lack a Home button.
Control Center is now accessed the same way as on the iPhone X: You must swipe down from the top right corner of the screen. Do that, and the Control Center fades in, appearing in that same corner. To me, this is a much better gesture. It’s shorter, for one, but it also leaves your finger over the Control Center’s controls, which is where you want them to be.
Also, the Control Center is now active during a swipe. That is, you can swipe it into view, keeping that finger “active,” and use another finger to quickly change the screen brightness (or tweak other things). Then you can swipe the Control Center back out of view. This is a very fast way to access controls. This also worked in some of the early betas of iOS 11, so it may disappear before final release.
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The app switcher gesture in iOS 12
Where does this leave the iOS 12 app switcher? In iOS 11, Control Center and the app switcher shared the same screen. Swiping up from the bottom of the screen would bring up a sheet shared by both the Control Center, and thumbnails of recently used apps.
Now, the app switcher is accessed by stopping short of the new Home screen swipe. You go past the Dock-drag, but you don’t go as far as revealing the Home screen. You can see it in the GIF above. What the GIF doesn’t tell you is that it takes a bit of practice to get the gesture just right. I still find myself at the Home screen when I meant to invoke the app switcher.
The iPad inherits another of those much-copied
new iPhone X gestures as well. You can swipe up as if you’re going to enter the full app switcher, but as soon as the current app starts to shrink onscreen, you can quickly swipe left or right to switch to the previous or next app. This is actually a fantastic gesture on the iPad.
If you are used to the
four-or-five-finger swipe to move between apps, you’ll love this one. It’s exactly the same, only easier. It also works from the Home screen.
The old five-finger shuffle gets new tricks
Speaking of the five-finger gestures, these still work in iOS 12. You can use a four-or-five-finger swipe to switch apps, as mentioned above. This gesture also now works from the Home screen in iOS, letting you access your last-used app with a swipe. In iOS 11, using this gesture on the Home screen would just switch Home screen pages, or take you to the Today view — the same as using one finger. In iOS 12, it becomes a lot more useful.
The old four-or-five-fingered pinch also works to return you to the Home screen from an app, but you can now also use the same gesture to get to the app switcher. You do it like this:
First, pinch in on an app screen, but instead of pinching all the way to the Home screen, move your fingers left or right a little, and you’ll see the app switcher come into view.
That’s it — so far — for iOS 12’s new iPad gestures. I’ll update this post with anything new, and after the official iOS 12 launch.
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