In iPadOS, hide swipe up bar at the bottom of the MDP screen

Question

I have at least one iPad app that hides the swipe up bar after opening. To activate it takes 2 swipes. I would like to see this implemented in MDP.

Background: I am currently developing a layout for an organist to use with the Hauptwerk VPO while playing with a live orchestra. Some buttons are near the swipe up bar. The iPad will not be hand held, but mounted on his console or keyboard. It would be too easy as he quickly moves from playing a keyboard to the iPad to accidentally graze the swipe up bar and be unable to make the required change! This would create a very bad situation.

By the way, this same app, Scrabble GO, does not display the 3 split screen dots at the top. I haven't used MDP in a split screen mode and I spend a significant amount of time in Design Mode. The work around, while it works, often requires extra steps. Particularly with my 11" iPad.

Don

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What's the app that hides the bottom menu? Thx.

The 3 dots are there because we allow split-screen and slideover. We can't shut those off programatically. So unless we want to release another SKU, we're stuck.

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interesting that Apple removed the ability to shut off multitasking recently

https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/17/how-to-turn-off-ipad-multitasking/

AFAIK

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TL;DR but possibly interesting?



Unlikely but worth mentioning perhaps

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same thing, again



maybe there's something to it.

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Thanks for the video on the Apple-way to disable the swipe-up bar. The second one works! It also turns off the 3 dots for split screen. That won't work for me when I use Design Mode.

The app that disables both the swipe up and 3 dots is Scrabble GO. I described how it works in my original question. I prefer that over activating Guided Access. But Guided Access definitely will work for users in an orchestra or band.

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I found 2 other apps that disable the swipe up initially, MIDISpy and MIDI Wrench. When the app is activated, the Swipe Up bar is active, but after a second or 2 it is greyed out. Then one swipe activates it so a second swipe will close the app. This is far superior to the Apple approach that adds several steps to deactivate/reactivate it. Please look into implementing this app based approach. Thanks, Don

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As we mentioned here (https://mididesigner.com/qa/9185) a fix to be like MIDISpy is now in Beta. Thanks!