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IT之家, Nov 13: AppleInsider reported that a never-released iPhone multitasking interface, dormant for over 15 years, has been brought back to life using AI and emulator technology; the outlet had reported in early 2010 that Apple was testing an Exposé-like window overview, and in 2011 a special iOS 4 build carrying the interface was found on an iPhone 4 prototype. Developer 史蒂夫 Troughton-Smith shared video on Mastodon of the interface running on a branch of the QEMU emulator, build 8A218 (slightly later than the 8A216 found in 2011), with the rare build believed to have been extracted from a prototype rather than an internal restore image and booted in QEMU with the help of ChatGPT. The video shows the Exposé-style multitasking UI Apple tried during iOS 4 development, with open apps laid out as cards in a 3x3 grid so users could double-click the Home button and pick an app directly without scrolling.
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AI helps revive a 15-year-old scrapped project, Apple’s card-based multitasking interface from the iOS 4 era revealed
IT Home, November 13: According to a report by foreign media AppleInsider this evening (the 13th), with the help of AI and emulator technology, an iPhone multitasking switcher interface that had been shelved for more than 15 years and never officially released is running again.
In early 2010, the outlet reported that Apple was testing an interface similar to Exposé’s window overview feature. In 2011, someone discovered a special version of
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