Close running Apps screen more of a pain under IOS 11 than previous versions

I'd guess this will never happen. Apple said that iOS manages which apps need to be killed all by itself. So they'll not implement stuff that interferes with their philosophy of self-managing operation of apps

Please make it clear on your question that this is about the iPad.

On the iPhone it still shows a deck of apps, and we still swipe up to "kill" the app. The only significant difference is that there's no more the "home" card, so clicking outside the cards will go back to the home screen (or previous app). There's still plenty of bugs there (like an app is shown and before we swipe up, the animation was still ongoing and a different app is killed, but hey it's the first beta).

Now on the iPad, the first time I saw the apps side by side, with no swipes anywhere, I got confused. Then I was able to touch "the right way" to make the apps show the tiny tiny "(X)". I'm sure I only found that out because I have a 6S and am already trained on the difference between a "light and long press - to manage the apps" vs. "a slightly more presure and whatever press. - that will enable the force press on the app", making it next to impossible to delete and rearrange apps on the 6S.

BUT. Even if I press the ✖ on the apps, they are still visible on the dock, on the right side of the divider.

So officially Apple broke everything, as a person without "reading the manual", can no longer kill apps. I do mind seeing the apps on the spread out card deck (I do need to kill apps, but that's me). What I do really really mind is seeing the app icon on the new dock, and not know how to take it away from there.

Moving it away from the dock into the middle of the screen will keep it on the dock, and rearrange the app to move to whatever it is dropped (so, in practice, it will screw up the arrangement of the apps).

Well, again, beta1, I'm sure they're just toying around and they'll fix it.

I agree and filed a suggestion on the bugreporter to revert the process for closing apps - no need to make the ipad artificially different and difficult.

There is nothing broke about the apps staying on the right side of the dock, they are there because they were the most recent app you used or will be the most likely one you’ll use next according to your usual behaviour, I personally really like that feature.

As for the way apps are closed it’s a much more tedious way of doing things now compared to just flicking up. I like how they are presented to you in a way that lets you see your app pairings, but I’d prefer to be able to just flick them up off the screen to close them.

I don‘t see many people having a problem figuring it out, it‘s the same way that’s been used to delete an app so I think it’s actually more intuitive if I’m honest, even though I prefer flicking the app away.

SO far I’m very impressed with IOS 11, I’m fortunate that it’s running lightning fast on my iPad Pro, I barely get my finger off the app and it’s open, I’ve had a couple of issues but that’s to be expected and I’m looking forward to more features becoming available soon.

There are clearly bugs related to the switcher and closing apps. Give it time.

I was swiping like an idiot, trying to shut down apps. I accidentally long press and found the super small X. Its small on my 9.7 peo, I can imagine the frustration if they did that on the phone. On another note, you can move folders to the dock 🙂. Moving an app from the doc, into a folder is a learned skill.