The gestures in modern iOS really are a bizarre hodgepodge, a "mystery meat menu" if you will, and this is from someone who usually loves and defends Apple's UX decisions.
on the iPad:
- Notification Center: Swipe down from the center of the top edge.
- Search: Swipe down anywhere on the Home Screen, away from the top edge.
- Control Center: Swipe down from the top-right edge, but in that region a difference of a few pixels will either get you the Notification Center, Search, or pull out a secondary app from the side in Slide-Over Multitasking!
- Multitasking: Slide-Over apps can be moved to the left side, but they cannot be swiped off the screen when they're on the left side; you have to throw them to the right side then swipe them off the right edge to dismiss them.
This kind of shit is what people made (make) fun of Microsoft for. There's no way to look up the information for those controls except searching on the internet or when it [randomly] pops up in the Tips app.
However, that the "file system is all sorts of weird" couldn't be further from the truth, and is only based on comparisons with document-centric systems.
Everything is generally organized by apps, which can actually be more intuitive in many ways, especially to people who have no prior experience with computers, while iCloud Drive and the Files app still let you use document-centric workflows if you want to.
on the iPad:
- Notification Center: Swipe down from the center of the top edge.
- Search: Swipe down anywhere on the Home Screen, away from the top edge.
- Control Center: Swipe down from the top-right edge, but in that region a difference of a few pixels will either get you the Notification Center, Search, or pull out a secondary app from the side in Slide-Over Multitasking!
- Multitasking: Slide-Over apps can be moved to the left side, but they cannot be swiped off the screen when they're on the left side; you have to throw them to the right side then swipe them off the right edge to dismiss them.
This kind of shit is what people made (make) fun of Microsoft for. There's no way to look up the information for those controls except searching on the internet or when it [randomly] pops up in the Tips app.
However, that the "file system is all sorts of weird" couldn't be further from the truth, and is only based on comparisons with document-centric systems.
Everything is generally organized by apps, which can actually be more intuitive in many ways, especially to people who have no prior experience with computers, while iCloud Drive and the Files app still let you use document-centric workflows if you want to.