Which is crazy!! They touted it for years as a solid multitasking option. Now they basically removed that altogether, but let you manage custom window sizes. I don't want to manage custom window sizes...I just want to snap two apps together side by side! Either 50/50 or 75/25 like before!!
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iPadOS 26 Multitasking Tips and Tricks
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Does iPadOS 26 finally provide a desktop-class web rendering engine? I tried using an iPad Pro for work and found out that I couldn't due to the fact some websites simply won't render correctly as they do in desktop-class web browsers.
I've been waiting for a proper web browser since about iOS12 or so.
I've been waiting for a proper web browser since about iOS12 or so.
I was again very hopeful to use my iPad more like a secondary computer and downloaded the update the other night. Once the update was complete I jumped into Outlook to run through some emails. As I tried to drag and drop an email attachment into a OneDrive folder I was yet again disappointed when it would not allow me to do what I needed to do. I then tried to print an emailed receipt to PDF like iPad OS had allowed me to do in the past and it too didn't work (albeit I'm guessing that was just a bug).
Until I can truly work with files in a more MacOS streamlined feel, I suspect I'll never be satisfied with iPad OS. I get it, that's why I have a computer, but I'd sure like to just take my iPad out at home or open it on an airplane and be able to drag and drop files or have two or more file folders open at a time so that I can drag and drop files between them.
Until that day, my iPad Pro will continue to be a very expensive Goodnotes desk calendar and yellow pad for me.
Until I can truly work with files in a more MacOS streamlined feel, I suspect I'll never be satisfied with iPad OS. I get it, that's why I have a computer, but I'd sure like to just take my iPad out at home or open it on an airplane and be able to drag and drop files or have two or more file folders open at a time so that I can drag and drop files between them.
Until that day, my iPad Pro will continue to be a very expensive Goodnotes desk calendar and yellow pad for me.
That’s one of my favorite little features of my mini 6: connecting it to an external. Also using it as a second (or third) display for palettes or other things.
As far as multitasking, I agree. There def scenarios where it works well. Glad it’s an option.
That was supposed to have been added in either iOS 17 or 18, I can’t remember which. Regardless if you don’t have that on 18 I guess you’re not getting it any time soon, it does claim to be a Mac in the user agent in both 18 and 26.
prior to ipad 26, I really liked how i could just drag an app from the dock to put it on top of my current app, in a smaller window on the side.
Now, there seems to be no way to do that. I need to resize my current window down, and sometimes the app i drag from the dock will go into full screen, and then I need to resize THAT window… used to be so simple.
I wish in the “multitasking” options in settings, there was a third option that behaves how iPadOS 18 did. So there’d be three options: resizable floating windows (iPadOS 26), full screen apps (classic), and a third option that lets you do split screen and slide over (iPadOS 18).
Now, there seems to be no way to do that. I need to resize my current window down, and sometimes the app i drag from the dock will go into full screen, and then I need to resize THAT window… used to be so simple.
I wish in the “multitasking” options in settings, there was a third option that behaves how iPadOS 18 did. So there’d be three options: resizable floating windows (iPadOS 26), full screen apps (classic), and a third option that lets you do split screen and slide over (iPadOS 18).
Using just three windows on screen simultaneously in iPadOS 26 is GLACIAL on a current model iPad. Totally unusable garbage. Another great job from Timmy! Anyone remember the butterfly keyboard? Or the Vision Pro? Timmy’s a GENIUS!
Bring back Slide over! Additionally, multitasking on the iPad is inadequate, as we still cannot have one tab in Safari that can continuously stream data. Upon switching apps and returning to the same tab, the stream must be reloaded. and don't start me on this liquid ass design and all the bugs...
I let it sit untouched overnight. I did a fresh install of the os and restored my data from a Mac backup. I played around with it for a few hours the next fay.
Dislike Stage Manager.
HATE Windowed App.
Loved Slide-over and Split screen.
It’s a tiny iPad…who wants to resize multiple apps into small tiny windows? Get a dang laptop and connect it to a large monitor if you need that crap.
Bring back Slide-over and Split screen.
HATE Windowed App.
Loved Slide-over and Split screen.
It’s a tiny iPad…who wants to resize multiple apps into small tiny windows? Get a dang laptop and connect it to a large monitor if you need that crap.
Bring back Slide-over and Split screen.