Multifl0w Brings Great Multitasking To iOS 4

The multitasking feature found in iOS 4 is great to quickly switch between apps without having to actually close the app. However, Apple’s multitasking always seemed to lack that Apple finesse.

After recently jailbreaking my iPhone 4, I came across Multifl0w, an app that adds a great multitasking interface to iOS 4 (or iOS 3.2 and later on iPad).

Multifl0w works with the free ‘backgrounder’ app in Cydia and displays up to nine open apps at a time. When used, the interface is a lot like Exposè on a Mac, where all of the open windows/apps are displayed in a grid for easy viewing.

In the case of Multifl0w, the app displays up to nine open app windows at a time in a 3×3 grid. The app display is also large enough that users can easily see what’s going on with an open app.

Compared with the current iOS 4 multitasking, all you see is app icons. Although, users can have Multifl0w replace Apple’s multitasking feature or run alongside it.

Overall, the app runs very quickly and smoothly with no visual lags. If you’re looking for a multitasking app with that extra finesse, check this out.

Multifl0w is available on the Cydia store for $4.99.

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Chrome262
Chrome262
15 years ago

if you use it with the existing multitasking can you set which one comes up when you hit the home button?

Ex
Ex
15 years ago

Yep

Junior
Junior
15 years ago

Thats dirty(good thing) Apple should do that on their next firmware update.

Nick
Nick
15 years ago

I bet using this is a real battery drain. Apple’s version of multitasking involves ‘pausing’ applications in the background except certain functions, but with backgrounder each app is running in full in the background all the time

John Piercy
15 years ago

Just installed on IOS 4.01 , works really well .. my new Fav J/B app ..

Guest
Guest
15 years ago

$5 for a fancy multitask? I’ll stick with the free one. I remember when most, if not all the cydia apps were free.

Shadow
Shadow
15 years ago

Looks pretty slick… Might consider getting it through Cydia…

Although while looking into this I found Circuitous which seems just as awesome AND its FREEEEEE! =)
Fantastic for my iPad which sadly has no built in multi tasking until 4.0 is released for iPad this fall….

Hyperextension
Hyperextension
15 years ago

Multifl0w is DAMN sweet!! Love it on my i4. Apple should really take note and implement apps like the jailbreak community does. Is it just me, or does Apple seem to have inferior apps compared to similar jailbroken ones?

iPhoneTweeter
15 years ago

You a very real point. It may be pleasing to the eye but your battery life will be halved or worse depending on what you have running in the background,

Steve Lam
Steve Lam
15 years ago

um most ARE still free.

Felipe Ramirez
15 years ago

Do I really need backgrounder? I dont really want to download it cause its a battery killer. Can I just download multiflow to work with Apple’s “multitasking” ? Thanks.

Noahattic
Noahattic
15 years ago

that’s exactly what i want . i dont want the backgrounder draining the battery. if multifl0w turns out to be an apple version of multi-tasking add-on, that will be very awesome. i’ll buy it.

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