Hi, sorry for getting back late. Let me describe about the app switcher in detail. When the app switcher opens, the current home screen is reduced by half both in the width and in the height, and is put in the first place. All the apps in the app switcher are shown likewise; that is, each of them shows its snapshot of its last screen image in half the original size. App switcher, then, shows three small screenshots at a time. First one is placed on the left but is shown only the right half, second one is placed in the middle and is fully shown, and the third one is shown on the right but is shown only the left half. If you drag a little bit, the screenshots scroll smoothly and stops to show three screenshots just as described above. Also shown together with these half-size screenshots are their icons just below them. You can just think of one icon below one screenshot, and thus there are three icons shown below the current three screenshots. In fact, there are up to five icons shown. One icon right below the middle screenshot in the middle, but the icons for the left and the right screenshots are more closer to the middle icon. This placement gives a little extra space to show two more icons to be seen in each side. Just one fourth of the icon images are shown on the left and on the right. Sighted persons would not touch these icons, but anyway if you ever touch any of these icons or snapshots, the corresponding app opens. However, to close the app from the app switcher, you need to pull upward the snapshots instead of icons. One, two, or three snapshots can be pulled up at a time. However, most people just seem to touch or drag one at a time not to make it look complicated. If VoiceOver is turned on, only snapshots can be focused one at a time, and could become active again, or be closed. Hope this can clarify about your understanding about the app switcher. Sorry and please understand my poor description. :)
Ein On Saturday, April 26, 2014 11:15:13 AM UTC+9, Pranav Lal wrote: > > Hi all, > > To add to this thread, > What is the visual indication that the app switcher has been opened? To > clarify, sighted people need to open the app switcher and then drag the > app > upwards? > > Pranav > > -----Original Message----- > From: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] On Behalf > Of Chris Apple boy > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:43 AM > To: vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > Subject: Re: App switcher question > > I should imagine it's a one finger swipe up to close the app. I believe > with VoiceOver off one can close all apps at once with a three finger > swipe up. > > Regards Chris > Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth! > > On 25/04/2014 03:07, Donald L. Roberts wrote: > > Recently I was speaking with a sighted iPhone user and mentioned closing > > apps using the app switcher. This discussion prompted a question. When > > one is not using Voice Over, what is the appropriate gesture to close an > > app in the app switcher? I am assuming that a single tap would launch > > an app from the app switcher. > > > > Thanks for feedback. > > > > Don Roberts > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone > list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that > a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this > list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to vip...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
