[jaystraw]

i'm a musician and audio engineer who encounters iPads for work regularly. my fine motor control is good enough to get paid to mix or play -- not good enough to reliably bring all open apps up (used to be a long press on the one button) so i can swipe one off screen to "close" it. feel for ya.

[Tijdreiziger]

Swipe home bar up: go home

Swipe home bar up and hold for a second: open app switcher

[vundercind]

I’m with Jaystraw: this takes multiple tries for me, more often than not. My elderly dad has no chance.

The home button was one of the best widely-deployed pieces of UI in computing history, and they got rid of it.

[Tijdreiziger]

Try paying attention to the UI hints. When part of the previous app shows up on the left of the screen, that’s when you’ll get the app switcher.

Here’s a decent video showing the principle: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ewhAR7BmoMM Note that he lets go when the UI hint shows up on the left, but no earlier.