How to Do Multitasking on the iPhone 4 with iOS4

July 26, 2010 By Greg Mombert

We show you how to use multitasking with iOS4 on the iPhone 4 and 3GS.

Multitasking has been available on the iPhone for years via jailbreaking, but with the new iOS4 operating system, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS can now multitask natively. The iPhone 4 comes with iOS4 installed and can multitask out of the box, but 3GS users must install iOS4 to enable multitasking. Apps may also need to be updated to take advantage of multitasking.

How to multitask:

In iOS4, when you you exit an app by pressing the home button, it stays running in the background.

Double tap the home button to see all the running apps will appear at the bottom in the multitasking dock.

Scroll right and left to check out which apps are running and select the app you want to open.

When selected, the app will open and seamlessly switch with the previous app you were running.

To close an app and make it unavailable in the multitasking dock, simply press and hold the icon and click the (-) minus symbol that appears in the upper left corner of the icon.

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Mekaila Hill at 5:24pm 20th March 2011 i think this was kinda helpful and the video was too. I didnt really understand when it said how you delete the thing from multitasking because i dont have an iphone 4 but i am getting one and i couldnt picture how it was saying move left or right but now i do sooo... the aricle and video was real helpful and im so excited to be able to get an iphone 4 as an 11 year old.. OMG the other kids are going to be jealous... so xcited!!!!!! :)
1. Mekaila Hill at 5:24pm 20th March 2011 Enter text right here!
Francesca at 3:52am 1st December 2010 hi :)
Marc at 8:34am 5th September 2010 This isnt an article. Its a video that shows the guy doing what he says he is doing dont crap om this video just to get traffic to yours
1. ioman at 9:09am 5th September 2010 Yeah, nevermind all the text above the video. How much of an explanation do you need to figure out how to multi-task on the iPhone 4?