With the new approach, Apple has been able to combine a shortcut to cycle between two apps and the old way of opening the app switcher without clicking the Home button.
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At this point, you can either keep pressing to reveal the full app switcher (you’ll feel a second tap) or swipe quickly to the right to switch to the last used app. Upon pressing firmly on the left edge of the display, the foreground app will slightly recede into the background and to the right, while a portion of the last used app will appear on the left side.
Using 3D Touch to invoke the app switcher in iOS 11.1 is now a two-step gesture. IOS 11.1 brings back one of the most glaring omissions of iOS 11: the ability to open the iPhone app switcher via 3D Touch has been restored, and it’s been evidently inspired by Apple’s work on multitasking gestures on the iPhone X.
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Emoji have become a reason to update iOS devices (or even buy new ones) for millions of users releasing the new characters after a new version of iOS has already been available for a month gives Apple a chance to fix more issues, improve system performance, and restore missing functionality (more on this below) before another wave of customers upgrade for the ability to see and use the new emoji. It’s not surprising to see Apple continuing to push annual emoji releases as part of major updates to a new version of iOS. In addition to new emoji, Apple took the opportunity to redesign and refine some of the existing characters – either by tweaking the shading or depth of colors, or outright changing the image of a few emoji (see the squid, bee, and whale emoji). It’s also worth pointing out that, for the first time, iOS features a variety of inclusive gender-neutral emoji characters. A selection of the new emoji in iOS 11.1.Īmong the highlights of this emoji release, you’ll find highly anticipated images such as the T-Rex, sandwich, hedgehog, orange heart, mages and fairies, as well as new smiley faces like Exploding Head, Face With Raised Eyebrow, Crazy Face, and Shushing Face.