just noticed with iOS 26 that the swipe up does not close some apps, you have to use the three buttons, should be a way to reset and go back to the swipe up to close app if you do not do multi tasking, or is there another work around now.
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Original Title: swiping up on apps
iPad Pro, iPadOS 26
In iOS 26, some apps may remain active when swipe‑up gestures are disabled for multitasking. Currently, the only workaround is to re‑enable full gesture controls in Settings > Home Screen & Multitasking > Multitasking Gestures and restart the device. This restores swipe‑up to close apps without needing the three‑button method.
It is in this string above.
"If you go to Settings > Multitasking & Gestures and select Full
Screen Apps, all apps will open full screen and can be closed by swiping
up."
Rarely works on my new iPad Air 2025.
The upswipe still works but it’s delayed or not as sensitive or something
Plantfan wrote:
Help. I can’t close all the open windows on my new iPad 26.2. I used to tap and close them but now I can’t. Please help, I don’t understand why all of the sudden this started.
There is generally no reason to force close an App that is operating normally. Due to the design of iOS/iPadOS, Apps consume virtually no system resources when they are dormant. Force closing and relaunching an App is also not power efficient; relaunching an App requires the App to be fully re-initialised, whereas resuming from a saved state requires significantly less power.
If you need to force-close an App, check that you are using the correct method...
Swipe upwards from the bottom edge to the centre of the screen - and pause briefly before lifting your finger from the screen. This will open the App switcher page - that will show a thumbnail image of each of your open (but not necessarily running) Apps. To force-close an App, swipe the corresponding thumbnail off the top of the screen.
With iPadOS 26x that has Multitasking configured for Windowed Apps or Stage Manager, you can simply close an App [Window] using the traffic-light button that you will see at top-left of the corresponding App window; simply tap the traffic-light button to expand the control, then tap the red "X" button.
Help. I can’t close all the open windows on my new iPad 26.2. I used to tap and close them but now I can’t. Please help, I don’t understand why all of the sudden this started.
Swipe up to close apps not working in iPadOS 26
