Enable iOS 5 Beta 1 Multitasking Gestures On iPad 1

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on June 11, 2024

The iPad 2 is going to get Multitasking Gestures in iOS 5. However, if you have the original iPad, iOS 5 won't be bringing Multitasking Gestures for you. No need to worry, as this article will show you exactly how to enable iOS 5 beta multitasking gestures on your iPad 1.

Back in the day when Apple seeded iOS 4.3 to developers, there was a new option found in the Settings.app of Multitasking Gestures. Multitasking Gestures lets you use four or five fingers to swipe between apps, reveal the multitasking tray and pinch to close apps. When iOS 4.3 came out for public, this option was missing. The only way to activate them was via a jailbreak. Now iPad 2 owners will get Multitasking Gestures when iOS 5 releases later this year, but iPad 1 owners will be left behind. So taking the obviously way of the jailbreak, you can indeed enable iOS 5 Multitasking Gestures on your iPad 1.

The very first thing that you need to do, is to download iOS 5 beta 1, then activate iOS 5 beta 1 and then restore it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Here's how you can set it up PC free after it has been restored to iOS 5 beta 1. After than, proceed to jailbreak iOS 5 beta 1 with redsn0w 0.9.8b1 for Mac, Windows users have to wait until a tool is out for them. Now after you have done all of this, there're basically two ways of enabling iOS 5 beta Multitasking Gestures on iPad 1. You have to edit the K848AP.plist file to add code that will make Multitasking Gestures work on your iPad 1.

How to get to the K848AP.plist file? You either SSH in to your device, or purchase iFile from Cydia. If you're a Mac user, TextWrangler is your friend. Chose any of these methods and navigate to this directory in the filesystem: /System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app and from there, select the K848AP.plist file. Once the file has opened, you have to make this addition: multitasking-gestures.

That's all you need to enable multitasking gestures on iOS 5 beta running iPad 1. Please do not hesitate to ask us for help if you face any problems during this procedure.

  • d’Apple

    Hey, I’m having a really hard time doing this:

    could you please tell me once I’m in iFile and in the correct filesystem, how do i add multi-tasking gestures and WHERE!

    information on where to add it in iFile, would be great, because like i said, i have tried everything, and its just not working.

  • http://iphoneism.com/author/lota Lota Man

    This is where you have to go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/Springboard.app

    then from there, select the K848AP.plist file and add multitasking-gestures in there.

    Let us know if you require more help

  • M Nesary

    could you please put some photos of steps, there is not any file with name K848AP.plist in the mentioned path, but K48AP.plist exists and where should the multitasking-gestures. should be added? in which line? jow? could you please make a video guide or put some photos? thanks

  • Trebuchet343

    I didn’t have K848AP.plist either, but I just opened K48AP.plist, added

    multitasking-gestures

    rebooted my device, and then the option to turn it on/off should be in options. I did this on an iPad 1

    • Trebuchet343

      that first should be

      • http://twitter.com/tschoffelen Tom Schoffelen

        Just <true /> (it’s XML) works fine.

  • http://www.iphoneism.com Lota Man

    Remove

  • Laura

    I was able to install ios 5 beta on my ipad 2 and worked fine for a week. For some reason, I can’t get my iPad 2 to turn on. I tried downgrading iTunes to 10.3.1 and synced but nothing. Can anyone help???

    • http://www.iphoneism.com Lota Man

      Use iTunes 10.5 beta.

      • Laurahlee

        I had 10.5 beta but downgraded thinking it will help my ipad turn on.
        Do i have to upgrade back to 10.5 beta to get my ipad turned on?
        I tried the hold sleep and home button many times but its still not working…

        • http://www.iphoneism.com Lota Man

          Yes.

  • Thaonc

    I used Ifile to add multitasking-gestures on my iPad 1 with iOS 5.0 beta6 but nothing happen
    (There is no K848AP.plist file in ifile but only K48AP.plist file) so I opened K48AP.plist and add multitasking-gestures, but nothing happen
    Please help

  • Asdlhjkahsd

    this is such stupid fucking instructions. clearly no one understands what to do. just “add” it to the plist file, because that makes so much sense

  • Marco

    i tried this method on ios 5 gm, i was looking for K848AP.plist file but was able to find only K48AP.plist… tried to add multitasking-gestures line on it but nothing happened even rebooting ipad.
    can you please help?

  • http://www.facebook.com/tim.cheng.5667 Tim Cheng

    I didn’t need to enter a whole new line, there were two “multitasking-gestures” and “multitasking-gestures-default-off” lines in my K48AP.plist file. I changed the “multitasking-gestures” to “true” and Multitasking-gestures-default-off” to “false”

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