Multitasking bar

I hate to sound like a ditz, but where's the multitasking bar? and how does it work? No matter what I've looked at or tried, I cannot find it (my shame!!)
Ellen

Where is the home button? Jeez...I activated Pandora. Double pressed the button on the bottom center (home button?) went to crasigslist and Pandora is gone. Craiglist is updated, it's actually the only appl I have that has updated since my 4.0 upgrade.

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What is the point of the multitasking bar?

So, I get that for Pandora, Skype, etc. that multitasking is great. I just opened up my multitasking bar though, and found the following "open" items: Messages, Mail, Calendar, Camera, Settings, Map, Weather, Calculator, YouTube, Compass, IMDb, Facebook, Twitter, Shazam, and four games.
Why in the world would I care about saving my session for any of these? Especially when they all go back to the same screen as I was at last time anyway. Now I have to go through and "close" all of them?
I feel like I'm missing something. Can anyone shed some light for me?

The purpose of the multitasking bar is to keep your apps running in the background with seven key features. Amongst those features are:
* Fast App Switching - Pauses games and apps until you swap back or press the icon in your home screen to resume it.
* Background Running and Location Services - GPS, music and social apps still run and announce directions for you while you are navigating other screens. But utilize FAS to lower power costs.
* File Transfers and Task Completions - You're uploading a 50KB photo to your Facebook page and want to go elsewhere while it's going on. It'll freeze the app in the meantime but continue the file transfer until it's done then lock it down.
You don't have to re-open multitasker to reactivate the app. You can open the file from the home screen and it pops back up.
The ideal for the multitasker also if you wish to increase battery life and performance is you can close them at will including reactivate the apps there. However if you close them, you have to start from the beginning of the application. Making it take longer to resume your sessions.

Use multi-touch to close more than one app at a time in the multitask bar!!

Is this a new feature? I was always annoyed that I had to tap each red x one at a time to close an app on the multitasking bar, so I decided to try and tap several at a time and voilà! It works! I've been able to tap two at a time. Let me know if anyone can do more! I wish they would add a "close all" button, but in the meantime this helps a lot!!!

You only have two fingers? Yes, you can close 4 at a time.

Multitasking bar? Does this constantly use data?

Hi,
Unfortunetly AT&T did away with their unlimated data feature so I'm stuck with the 2gb per month plan. My question is when I leave an app in the multitask bar does this constantly use my data? I have notifications turned off and I have my mail set up for me to manually load it. It's becoming a pain to have to keep an eye on which apps are running and to not be able to shut the app completely down when I close it, instead I'm going to my MTB every 10 min. to kill apps.
Thank you!

I popped into the AT&T store this afternoon and confirmed that I could keep my unlimited plan and still have a family plan. Which is nice, not sure I need it but it does offer another choice.
I've been relatively uninspired by AT&T's service in my area and researching changing to the Droid X as well. It does have a few features that are attractive like a replaceable battery, storage on a replaceable card and so on. The display on the iPhone 4 is simply amazing though and I already prefer the interface of the iPhone to the Droids, so it's probably going to be an upgrade instead of a switch of providers.
The video conferencing on the iPhone is a nice feature but since it's required to be over wifi on each connection, the chances of both my wife and myself being on wifi at the same time unless we're in the house together are slim to none and slim left town. So, great feature, not very practical.
I did find one thing unique today, the sales guy at AT&T had his own iPhone 4 and we did a couple of speed tests while I was there vs my 3GS. Now we were both on 3G at the time and really the speeds should have been almost identical as the processor should have nothing to do with the transmission speed over 3G but his phone blew mine away. A bit on the download but a huge amount on the upload. Kind of makes me wonder if there's been something wrong with my 3Gs that I wasn't really aware of?

Is there another way to close apps other than deleting them from the multitask bar.....I have a small crack in the bottom of my screen and that part of the screen does not recognize the touch. :(

Is there another way to close apps other than deleting them from the multitask bar.....I have a small crack in the bottom of my screen and that part of the screen does not recognize the touch.

There's generally no reason to be closing them that way at all. The apps you see in the recents bar are just that, apps that you used recently. Most of them are doing absolutely nothing. The only apps that are really doing anything in the background are ones that play music and ones that are using location services. Just leave them be.
Best of luck.

Since I have installed iOS 6.1.3 on my iPhone 5 I have sometimes problems to start a phone call. Everything looks fine, but no ring tone... A workaround is to stop phone app in the multitasking bar. But this is more than inconvenient ;-) Any solution?

In this cases everything looks fine, but no ring tone is there and after sometimes the phone informs me that no connection can be estabilished (its a German phone, therefore I am not sure about the message in English systems). A workaround is to stop the telephone app in the multitasking bar (double click on home button, hold the app symbol pressed for some seconds, close app). Next several call work after this.
I am not sure if an incomming call would work in this mode...
Faces anybody the same problems or has solution for it?

Basic troubleshooting
Restart
Reset
Restore with backup
restore as new if required

Shutting down my iPhone 4S no longer removes all the apps that have accumulated on the multitasking bar. What happened?

Maybe I imagined it, but I could have sworn that holding down the home button and sleep button at the same time until the slider icon appears at the top of the screen, and then engaging the slider icon, completely shuts down your iPhone and also removes all the apps that have accumulated in the multitasking bar. But, that does not work anymore on my iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1 (9A405). The iPhone shuts down, but the apps in the multitasking bar remain after you turn the phone back on. Did I imagine this feature in the past, or has something happened that no longer enables this functionality? Closing all those open apps in the multitasking bar one at a time is a PIA.

imanfromsweden wrote:
Please apple support do you people have a convincing answer for us? Is there a solution? My phone is only 2 years old and was (2 hours ago), in top condition!!
Please help....
On belhalf of my fellow volunteers, the answer is, "We'll try our best."
My advice is to try not to treat this like it is a paid service provided by compensated professionals. Ask nicely and one of the nice folks here might take some time out of their weekend to offer advice.

Why apple is not adding tweaks like activator,volume slider in multitasking bar and a blacklist app

Why apple is not adding tweaks like activator,volume slider in multitasking bar and a blacklist app?

But quantity is not everything.
Funny, because Windows proponents and users touted the quantity of apps available with that swiss cheese for security OS being "everything" or a big plus, but now say it isn't everything with iOS. Can't have it both ways.
At present there are about SIX blacklist apps in the OFFICIAL Apple Store which I can buy for MONEY but have NO USE AT ALL because of the APIs restrictions.
3rd party apps don't have access to private iPhone APIs for security reasons. Andrioid is following the same path as Windows. Their so called "open" OS is a swiss cheese for security mobile OS.
If this isn't acceptable to you or having an option to block unwanted calls provided by the iPhone's OS is a very important want or need, stick with an Android or Symbian device that includes the option.

HT4211 I want to stop my screen on my Ipad mini from rotating. I THINK I have found the multitasking bar but if I swipe it up nothing happens. I tried pressing the side switch but that didnt work either. Help?

I want to stop my mini ipad screen from rotating. I followed instructions for accessing the multitasking bar but when I swiped that nothing happend. I also tried the side button but that didnt work either Help?

So multi tasking..phone and messages showing up in multitask bar

So this sounds silly.. i m kinda confused on how the multi tasking works..right now i am have only 2 apps running in the background phone and messages..does that drain my battery by running or r those frozen..and i feel like the multitask bar is in some cases a shortcut..so what happens if i donr close the phone and messages in the bar when i go to sleep any battery drain?

So this sounds silly.. i m kinda confused on how the multi tasking works..right now i am have only 2 apps running in the background phone and messages.
Think of it as a "Recently Used Apps" bar, instead of a "Multi-task" bar.
Does that drain my battery by running or r those frozen..and i feel like the multitask bar is in some cases a shortcut..so what happens if i donr close the phone and messages in the bar when i go to sleep any battery drain?
If you aren't on a phone call, those apps aren't using any power, so shouldn't affect battery time. There is no need to shut them down.

Removing apps from multitask bar improves battery life!

I was loosing more than 5% per hor with the phone unused. I upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 and the battery life improved a bit, but no by much. Then I killed all the processes running in the background in the multitask bar and oila, my iPhone 4S has a much better battery life. It seems to drain ay 1-2% per hour now. Actually I just left my phone on all night, without charging, and in 10 hours it has only lost 3%. There can be a LOT of these backgrounded procs since they restart after a reboot of the phone and thus build up over time. I had about 30-40 when I 1rst checked. It doesn't seem stop the functioning if apps like the timer. I tested the timer, i.e., I set it, killed the background proc on the multitask bar, and it still was counting down the original time set, thus I really don't know what deleteing the apps from the muultitask bar does, it doesn't seem to really kill the process, but deleting them really changes my battery ussage drasitaclly, for the better. If this is the problem it could account for the differences in users for each user will have a different set of background processes running. Anyway try it and see if it works. Mileage varies with ... blah blah.

Songs and apps stored in the iPhone have zero to insignificant effect on battery life. The User Guide is here.

Single click Home for Multitask bar...

Is there a way I could set the Home button to just click one time to go to the Multitask bar instead of the Search?
I havent gone through the setting list since OS 3.x

The iOS feature is called "multitasking".
The user-interface element being talked about here is called *Recently Used Apps* or *Recents List*, as shown in all Apple's documentation:
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It is never called the multitasking bar.

Busy Multitask bar... I want to quit not to freeze!

On iOS4 when quitting an app by pressing home button, this app is _automatically added_ to the multitask bar.
If you use numerous apps, like I do, your multitask bar becomes quickly very busy.
But *I want my iPhone clean and sharp*. With only the real needed "multitaskable apps" in this bar.
There, I need to "long press" each app and "delete" it from the task bar...
Wow multitasking is becoming very painful and not user friendly!
How can I quit, but really quit, an app without being obliged to manually kill it in the multitask bar?
Thanks,

You don't have to tell the app anything. If the app has multitasking capabilities, they will automatically come into play once you switch out of the app or into another one using the fast-switch bar.
Speaking of which, here's what I think of it:
The bar puts the app most recently used in the first position (left side). After several apps, the apps closest to the front will be those most recently used. In theory, this means that the apps you use most often will be more easily accessible. For example, if you use the notes app once a month, then it doesn't matter if it's at the end of a list of 20 apps, because you can just go to the home screen to open it. On the other hand, if you use Mail 5 times a day, it will be more readily available.
I think some people are trying to view almost as a home screen replacement, but it's not. It's just there to make getting to recently used apps more easily.
Also, you don't have to use the bar when using multitasking. If an app has fast-app switching enabled (which means that it will return to the exact place where it was when you left it) then it doesn't matter how you open it (spotlight, fast-switch bar, homescreen) it will still be where you left it.

I can't access the multitask bar on my iPad 2

Every time I try to access the multitask bar, weather by gestures or double pressing the home button my iPad reboot itself, my iPad is on 5.1 the last update it use to work fine but all of the sudden it star with this problem! Some body please help

Have you tried a reset to see if that fixes it ? Press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

I cannot access the multitask bar on the iphone3. Double clicking the home button does not work.

Need help locating the multitask bar. Is there another way besides double clicking the home button?

The iPhone 3G does not support multitasking. Sorry.

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