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Early iOS 11 Videos Appear to Depict Prototype Control Center and App Switcher Gestures
A pair of videos that appear to depict prototype iOS 11 features have been found "deep within the iOS 11 beta image" by developer Guilherme Rambo, who has recently become known for digging deep into iOS code to suss out upcoming features.
According to Rambo, the files were created in May, suggesting they depict iOS 11 iPhone functionality that was scrapped rather than functionality that has not yet been implemented, but there's technically no way to tell.
In the first 13 second video, the Lock screen is demonstrated. The implementation of the Lock screen is similar the current iOS 11 implementation, but there are small changes.
This is interesting pic.twitter.com/X4GLiMy1c5
— Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) August 21, 2017
The second video shows a different implementation of the App Switcher. Instead of double tapping on the Home button, the App Switcher is accessed through a swipe upwards on the Home screen, the gesture used for Control Center. Control Center remains accessible as an app at the right side of the screen, though.
This is also interesting pic.twitter.com/JdYDhZDkev
— Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) August 21, 2017
It's possible Apple originally planned to mimic the iPad App Switcher functionality on the iPhone, but later decided against it for a more familiar set of gestures. It's also possible, though, that the videos offer up a look at how iOS 11 will work once the iPhone 8 is released, since it has no Home button.
If there are any significant changes to the way iOS 11 is used on the upcoming iPhone 8, we'll know soon enough. We're expecting Apple to introduce the new iPhone in September, and if past event dates are any indication, we have just two to three weeks to wait.
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25 months ago
Swiping up on the iPad brings up the app switcher so it would make sense on the iPhone 8 as well, especially without the home button.
25 months ago
Very interesting.
Control center imho should be easy to reach and easy to navigate. It isn't here.
Control center imho should be easy to reach and easy to navigate. It isn't here.
25 months ago
You can use multiple apps by going to home screen and opening them, you don’t have to use the app switcher to use multiple apps. Surely you are being deliberately obtuse
You really have never used the App Switcher? Not even once? I ask this because it’s such a core function in iOS.
25 months ago
Yeah, I literally shudder at the thought of this...
You are easily shaken.
even if you have your iPhone fairly well arranged, let’s say 2 screens total, mixture of some “loose” apps & some in folders.
Switching between say Facebook & a game you’re playing, then back again could be something like this:
Tap “Social” folder on 1st home screen, then tap Facebook... then hit home button, slide over to second home screen, tap “Games”, then tap Candy Crush, then tap the home button again, slide back over to the 1st home screen again, tap on the “Social” folder again, and tap Facebook again, to switch back to it.
Is this guy for real??????????!
I see no reason to doubt GreyOS. I hardly ever use the app switcher. Maybe it depends on how one uses the phone. Generally I do not spend much time on the phone, especially not just to pass time, and usually I do not switch between apps. I take the phone out of my pocket when I need it for some specific task with some app, and afterwards I put it away. All my everyday apps are on screen 1. Rarely do I touch screen 2, and there is no third. In most cases I would not know what bringing up the app switcher will show me, because considerable time may have passed since I last used the phone, and I do not remember for what - my desired app might be right next on the left, or it might be some scrolling away, and not so easily recognizable. It is much easier to press the home button once and then the icon that is exactly where I know it is.
I can see that the app switcher might be practical for other users, but not for me, and maybe not for GreyOS.
25 months ago
Lol, you’ve never switched from one app to another??
Ummmm..... ok, so tell me: what is the one and only app you’ve ever used?
*curious AND confused*
25 months ago
Two swipes for control center is one too many.
Wow. Pretty sure you’ll live.
25 months ago
Would have been interesting to see this, although the double swipe for control centre on iPhone could be annoying.
The swipe up would have worked with 3D Touch, and it looks like it would have been like a replacement for the 3D Touch app switcher gesture, maybe explaining why it was removed.
The swipe up would have worked with 3D Touch, and it looks like it would have been like a replacement for the 3D Touch app switcher gesture, maybe explaining why it was removed.
25 months ago
You can use multiple apps by going to home screen and opening them, you don’t have to use the app switcher to use multiple apps. Surely you are being deliberately obtuse
Nope.
Being deliberately obtuse would be what you describe.
Lol, that’s the equivalent of going to Google and searching for “Google” 1st, every time you make a search query....
Adding extraneous steps to a dead simple process.
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You really have never used the App Switcher? Not even once? I ask this because it’s such a core function in iOS.
Yeah, I literally shudder at the thought of this... even if you have your iPhone fairly well arranged, let’s say 2 screens total, mixture of some “loose” apps & some in folders.
Switching between say Facebook & a game you’re playing, then back again could be something like this:
Tap “Social” folder on 1st home screen, then tap Facebook... then hit home button, slide over to second home screen, tap “Games”, then tap Candy Crush, then tap the home button again, slide back over to the 1st home screen again, tap on the “Social” folder again, and tap Facebook again, to switch back to it.
Is this guy for real??????????!
Instead of “double tap home, select open app”? Like, for what? Why would you POSSIBLY choose the most ridiculous & convoluted way to do something?
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