The bottom app dock also shows up in the multitasking menu, which is now laid out in a grid.
Not exact matches
From there, you can open Finder and drag them to a new home — or the trash bin (located in the
bottom right corner of most Macs, or the end of the
Dock, a.k.a. row of
app symbols).
Syncing music, movies,
apps, and other content to the iPad can be as simple as plugging a cable into the
dock connector at the
bottom of the iPad and the other end into a USB port on your computer and letting the data download.
A nifty
dock runs along the
bottom, with five basic Google
app icons?for Play Books, Play Magazines, Play Movies & TV, Play Music, and the Play Store?and a folder packed with 11 other native Google
apps, including the Chrome Web browser which now replaces the previous «Browser»
app.
The
dock at the
bottom has five icons: Just For You (recommended titles), Shop Kobo, All
Apps, Library and Reading Life, which gives you stats on how long you've been reading.
It's basically an iPod touch the size of a paperback book, featuring a «
dock» of
apps at the
bottom of the screen.
Aside from a custom
dock along the
bottom, the home screen is about the same as on other Android devices, though there's no tab to show all of your installed
apps.
The
dock on the
bottom links to the Digital Frame, E-mail, eBook, Market, and Music
apps, along with the settings menu.
Samsung also introduces so - called Small
apps to the system tray at the
bottom that can be called by pushing on the little arrow on the
dock.
If you're running an
app, swiping up from the
bottom bezel minimises the
app into a smaller window, where you can swipe to switch between open
apps, and shows you the
dock of
app icons (more on that later).
Gone are the preset All, Favorites, Media and Games tabs, in favour of letting you create your own folders to organise
apps into categories plus a
dock at the
bottom of the home screen where you can pin up to six
apps or folders for quick access.
Swipe up from the
bottom bezel to reveal the multitasking Fast
App Switcher
Dock (identical to double - clicking the Home Button).
A quick swipe up from the
bottom iPad's display will bring up the
Dock regardless of what you're doing on the iPad, which makes accessing your favorite
apps and switching between them much faster.
The phone will still have six vertical rows of
apps, showing 24 icons on each page, excluding the
dock, a grey bar at the
bottom that houses commonly used
apps.
When you're within an
app, you can swipe up from the
bottom to reveal the
dock, then drag an
app onto the screen, to run two of them at once.
There's an
app dock at the
bottom that you can pull up when you're using any other
app, which makes using the iPad feel closer to a MacBook — in a good way.
And multitasking in iOS 11 is a little more feasible than in iOS 10, thanks to a grid of open
app windows accessible with a double tap of the home button, a Mac - style
Dock of favorite and open
apps you invoke with a swipe up from the
bottom of the screen, and the capability to drag content between
apps.
There's also a new
dock for adding lots of more
apps to the
bottom of your screen, similar to macOS, and a new
app switcher for looking at all of your open
apps, similar to Mission Control.
In exchange for giving up a dedicated button to open the
app drawer, you gain an extra
app in the
bottom dock.
The new
app dock lets you reserve a handy row of your favorite
apps along the
bottom of the home screen as normal — up to 15
apps on the iPad Pro 12.9.
You still swipe up from the
bottom (dragging your finger up the screen further than when you trigger the
app dock with the same gesture), but the quick settings are now all right - aligned, while a multitasking grid appears on the left side.
Mouse users simply point to the
bottom of an
app and use the scroll bar and keyboard users can
dock an active window to the left or right half of the screen using keyboard shortcuts and navigate using the Windows logo + left / right arrow.
If you continue swiping up on your iPad's screen after the
dock is visible — in other words, swipe up from the
bottom of the screen but keep going, even after you see the
dock — you'll see the multitasking view, which shows you thumbnails of recently used
apps.
Perhaps the main difference here is that there's now a Google search bar at the
bottom of the display, below the
app dock.
Finally, there are a number of iPad improvements, including a macOS - like
dock that allows users to store their favourite
apps along the
bottom of the iPad's display and enhanced drag and drop support.
And the new
app dock at the
bottom of the screen brings some macOS - style usability features that will make you miss your Mac less.
The
dock at the
bottom of the screen can contain many more
apps, and you can now swipe up from the
bottom of the screen in any
app to more easily switch between
apps.
Starting with the new operating system, the iPad will feature a macOS - like
dock that allows users to store their favourite
apps along the
bottom of the iPad's display.
Use the
app dock at the
bottom of the screen for the streaming
apps you use the most.
The biggest difference you'd notice is that you can now open the
app drawer by swiping up from anywhere, as opposed to having to start your swipe from the
dock at the
bottom of the screen.
A customizable selection of favorites can be arranged at the top of the screen while an ever - present
dock of core
apps (Browser, Market, Email, Gallery, Music) runs across the
bottom of the screen.
For example, it has a new customizable
dock that can be pulled up at the
bottom of the screen with a finger flick to give you quick access to your favorite
apps.
Speaking of the Pixel Launcher, in the Pixel 2, the search bar has moved from the top of the home screen to the
bottom, providing a buffer between the
dock apps and the nav buttons and putting the search bar in a much more easily tapped location.
The new
dock is similar to that on your Mac or iPhone: you can pick some favorite
apps that you can access just by pressing the
bottom button underneath the digital crown.
Software: Lenovo has customised the Android interface to make it more friendly for laptops, including a
dock at the
bottom which houses all your open
apps, looking much like the Windows Taskbar.
It replaces the old
app picker from iOS 10, and instead of swiping from the right to access
apps, you swipe up from the
bottom of the display (even if you're in an
app) to access the
dock instead.
The new
dock extends the amount of
apps you can pin to the
bottom of the iOS home screen, but it also acts as the main way to control what
apps can float or be used side - by - side.
New features include better multitasking, system - wide drag and drop, a new Files
app (also available on iPhone), an
app dock at the
bottom of the screen, revamped
app switching and improved split view.
iOS 11 includes a
dock just like a Mac computer, and it follows you from
app - to -
app along the
bottom.
Craig Federighi, vice-president of software engineering announced today that Apple's latest Mac update, macOS Sierra, will see Siri arrive within the Finder
app, located in the operating system's
dock at the
bottom of the screen.
Tap the
app drawer icon in the
dock at the
bottom of the display and you'll find a vertically scrolling list of all your installed applications — of which very few come preinstalled.
The settings and notification shade are the same as stock, the only major interface tweak in this version is the fact that you swipe up from the
bottom dock to open your
app drawer.
Using Sony's launcher will be a familiar experience to most people: a four - icon
dock remains, customizable, on the
bottom, while the horizontal - oriented
app drawer can be reordered in any number of ways.
The visual cues are all there, from the fonts to the
app icon itself, but It takes the
app drawer and moves it from the
dock at the
bottom to the upper left corner.
On Tizen, the home screen comprises of a
dock with eight
app shortcuts, and accessing the
app drawer is done by swiping up from the
bottom of the screen.
Down near the
bottom is an upward - facing carrot, showing the user that they're able to pull upward with their finger to reveal the
app dock.
The new
app is almost identical to the Nexus Launcher, with the same Google search button at the top left corner, the vertical scrolling
app drawer and the icon
dock at the
bottom.
The most notable change is that there's now a search box at the very
bottom of the screen, beneath even the
app dock.