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iPadOS 26.1 Beta 2 Reintroduces Slide Over Multitasking
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I haven’t tried it yet BUT this is exactly WHAT I wanted. My Only complaint of the new feature was this
I been down this road… going back and forth. Critics want it the way it was before, they don’t care for the new multitasking system.
I think Apple was always going to incorporate some of the pre-existing multitasking features into the new system. But the feedback probably moved the progress faster than expected.
Now it is turn to get rid of dynamic volume control in iPads. It’s ridiculous
This is the single reason why i installed the beta but uninstalled 3 days later. I use split screen of iPadOS18 daily. It’s super quick, handy but still allows me to four finger swipe to another app.
When Apple brings this to ipados26, I will update.
Parent or grandparent? Slide Over is the ultimate power-user feature for people using iPads correctly – IYKYK.
I almost completely agree. Except for my use case, I need the rear camera on my iPad and unlimited data. My MacBook does offering either of those. Could I just use my phone? Sure but the screen is too small to livestream updates from the field to the boardroom and conveniently type on. The iPad solves my needs while keeping me from having to have multiple devices in the field. Thankfully Apple gives us options, we don’t have to turn on all the multitasking windowing to use the iPad unless we want to.
What exactly are you saying here? That because Apple doesn’t address literally every complaint of every user, no matter how unreasonable, that means they don’t listen to feedback? 🤨
Now bring back Split View when in single app mode or at least make it an option.
It’s still not like it was in iOS 18 and takes 57 extra taps to enable.
that's not the point. we've added complexity for third party developers and users. not to mention apple wasted over a decade of engineering hours on trying to get multitasking right when those engineering hours could be better spent on useful features for the user.
nope. MacBook Air 13" just as or is literally more portable compared to a Magic Keyboard + iPad Pro 13". Throw in mobile hotspot, you got cellular connectivity with zero extra $/mo. Makes zero sense for iPad to exist for that workflow.
Objectively makes zero sense. People who think they're doing real work better than a Mac on an iPad are kidding themselves.
How much more unrelated functionality is the green button supposed to take on?
This feels so over-engineered for a feature that was already implemented before ...
false analogy
pointing and clicking an app to launch objectively easier and faster than manually typing out commands to launch an app.
tapping to reveal the tiny traffic lights and attempting to click on the one you want on an iPad touchscreen is objectively worse than using a fine pointed cursor to tap on an always on traffic light.
Except us users who don't use the feature that Apple has spent over a decade of engineering hours on to attempt to get it right miss out on value that would have been generated had they not attempt to implement this useless feature.
