Is it possible to customize multi-touch gestures on an iPad?
The iPad has multi-touch gestures:
Is it possible to customize these gestures? If so, how?
Not out of the box - the closest you could get some gestures is to jailbreak and install Activator which allows you to e.g. customize pinch and spread actions, slide from left/right/bottom/top of screen and then assign and action e.g. launch an app, lock the screen etc.
If you're talking about customizing the way you invoke these gestures, I think your only option (without jail-breaking) is to make it so that instead of having to perform these gestures, you tap a few buttons. Apple calls this feature AssistiveTouch.
For example, if you want to exit an app by using AssistiveTouch rather than performing the normal gesture, do both of the following:
To create a new gesture (do this one time for each gesture):
- Launch Settings
- Go to General
- Temporarily disable the multi-tasking gestures (this will make it easier to record the gesture)
- Navigate to Accessibility > Assistive Touch
- Enable it on the top
- Create a new gesture
- Perform the close app gesture (start with four fingers spread out, and then slide all four fingers towards the center).
- Press Save on the top right, and name it something like Close App.
- Re-enable multi-tasking gestures (Settings > General)
To use the gesture:
- Make sure you are in an app and not looking at the home screen.
- Tap the new transparent button which appears on the bottom right.
- Tap Favorites > Close App.
- Tap in the center of the screen
- You should now see your home screen instead of the original app you were in.
It's not that practical, since you end up having to tap 4 buttons instead of performing a single four-finger gesture, but it's an option in case anyone needs it.
Tip: if you don't want the AssistiveTouch button always visible, in the Accessibility page, you can set it to appear and disappear by triple-tapping the home button.