Touch Sensitive UI Pinch and Flick Techniques for Managing Active Applications

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for managing active applications on a touch sensitive computing device using a pinch and flick gesture input, referred to collectively herein as a manage active apps mode. The manage active apps mode allows a user to perform a pinch gesture on a display of active applications to form a stack of those active applications. The user can then perform a flick gesture on the stack to perform a function on all of the active applications in the stack. The function may include closing, stopping, force stopping, quitting, or deleting the active applications in the stack, for example. In some cases, the manage active apps mode may be configured to provide feedback (e.g., an animation or sound) after a stack has been flicked to indicate that the function was performed (e.g., that the apps were closed, stopped, etc.).