Zephyr Adds webOS-Style Multitasking Gestures To iPhone

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Filed in: iPad , iPhone

By , January 02, 2012 @ 5:39pm

Are you frustrated by the multitasking on your Apple iPhone and wish there was a better way to quickly switch between apps? Chpwn has come up with a nice little tweak for all the jailbroken iOS owners out there and it’s called Zephyr.

Available through the Cydia Store for $2.99, Zephyr comes with two multitasking gestures. The first lets you swipe from the bottom of the screen to reveal an app switcher. The second lets you swipe from the left or right of the screen to quickly switch between recently used applications. Do these sound familiar? They should.

If you remember webOS, it had effectively the same gestures. Long swipes across the gesture area would switch apps and a big swipe from the gesture area to the touchscreen would show your app dock. The horizontal app-switching swipes also work on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. I’m not taking anything away from Chpwn (Grant Paul), per se. He had to get his inspiration from somewhere.  You’ll need to be jailbroken first.


2 commentsback to post

  • Skapskibk

    IMHO it is more to the blackberry playbook QNX style than WebOS……

    • http://michaelkwan.com Michael Kwan

      Yup, I do mention the PlayBook in the article too (I have one). 

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