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Rethinking the iPhone’s App Switcher

Some interesting ideas from Verge Forums user brentcas.

I’m a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be taller.

And why not? When you double click the home button and the screen rises, the status bar also vanishes, and you only have visible access to four apps. If you want to change the volume, you have to swipe over twice. Meanwhile, the raised app is taking up a lot of real estate.

Posted: Mon May 14th, 2012 at 11:26pm
Originally posted by: thisistheverge.
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   it’s sure feeling overflow on current UI, it might be the time to clean up and simply again.

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   This is a great idea for improving the app switcher, which while useful does seem like an afterthought. I hope Apple...

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    I like pretty much all of this and would not be upset to see any of it in iOS 6. It’s coming so soon!

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    next IOS update would save everyone...lot of headaches.

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