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Can you disable the swipe-up floating dock?
I guess in apple's point of view the floating dock is such a wonderful and essential feature. But I have an ipad mini 5, meaning screen real estate is rare and I constantly open the dock on accident when trying to resize AU windows in AUM that reach down to the bottom of the screen... If I really want to switch apps I'll double tap the home button. I guess you can't disable the dock in the iOS settings, but can an app itself disable access to the dock while it's on screen? Maybe that would be a nice addition to AUM...
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Yes, as far as I remember it's up to the app developer to reserve that delicate space for its own purposes.
What I mean is the gesture, when you swipe up from the bottom of the screen you bring up the floating dock. But my AU windows are often as big as possible, so the resize button on the bottom right of the au window is pretty close to the lower edge of the screen. So I try to resize a window and instead I slide up the floating dock.... You can disable multitasking gestures but apparently that doesn't include the floating dock...
@dobbs I don't think that an app developer can completely 'disable' that gesture.
They can. There are one of two lines of code to make that area safe. Game developers all use it, but many music app developers aren’t aware of it.
Exactly. They can only convert it to a 2-step process. The first swipe brings up a little arrow, which has no effect unless you swipe again while the arrow is visible. This is better, but certainly not ideal. Long ago, when Control Center swiped up from the bottom, the user could disable Control Center inside apps, solving the swipe problem. You can still disable Control Center in apps, but the swipe to reach it now is so arcane, that's hardly useful.
So are you saying you could even disable the little notch that @uncledave mentioned?
Like a lot of these things, this has changed over the years, but it's much simpler from iOS 11 onwards. It's basically a property on the top-most view controller that you override to say which edge swipes you want to handle yourself.
If you disable system gestures in your app, I totally guarantee that someone will say you shouldn't have. And someone else will say it need to be an optional setting...
It would be absolutely lovely should this become an optional thing in AUM
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiviewcontroller/2887512-preferredscreenedgesdeferringsys?language=objc
By the way @moodscaper, we've had a few wonderful nights now just hanging out and playing with the old moodscaper and pianoscaper apps. It's so nice, you can just put into people's hands, they dont have to have any musical backgrounds and can make music
Thank you! That's useful information.
Thanks @dobbs - glad to hear you're enjoying those old apps, and loved your comment:
I always wanted to do much more in this kinda field, and leave all this AUv3 nonsense to the experts
Actually touchscaper started out as a sort of next-gen 'scaper app, but then it got way too complicated way too quickly...
Hopefully I'll get round to doing something with those apps again, or something new, but more along those lines.
You can use Guided Access to disable OS edge gestures completely. This locks you into a single app, so not great for all use cases, but perfect for many 👌.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612
Oh I should really take another look at touchscaper and think about the fun that could be had with the midi-out option...
At the time I expected something as simple as TC-Performer so I kind of skipped it because it turned out more complex...
@Alexandernaut that looks interesting, now if just there was multi-app guided session
I just read the title as “Can you disable the floating duck?”! 😂😊
Ever since I smoked that PCP this floating duck follows me everywhere. Please halp!