Is there any way to prevent triggering Slide Over when trying to swipe to turn pages in Books? It’s incredibly annoying. I like multitasking and don’t want to disable it entirely.
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Slide Over is useful but annoying
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To avoid this I have found two work-arounds:
Option A:
1) Open iBooks
2) Slide out the current slide-over app
3) Switch the slide-over app into side-by-side mode
4) Move iBooks over to full screen, shutting the other app from that screen (including via slide-over)
Option B:
1) Open any other app
2) Open iBooks in slide-over
3) Close the other app
4) Open iBooks by itself (an app cannot slide-over itself)
Is this a faff? Yes. But it gets the job done and you don’t need to turn any settings off.
Option A:
1) Open iBooks
2) Slide out the current slide-over app
3) Switch the slide-over app into side-by-side mode
4) Move iBooks over to full screen, shutting the other app from that screen (including via slide-over)
Option B:
1) Open any other app
2) Open iBooks in slide-over
3) Close the other app
4) Open iBooks by itself (an app cannot slide-over itself)
Is this a faff? Yes. But it gets the job done and you don’t need to turn any settings off.
To turn pages in Books, you donˋt need to swipe from the very edge of the screen.
True, but it’s a habit. If you tap further from the edge of the screen the page will turn, but if you don’t tap near enough the edge it will not. Meanwhile if you get too close to the edge it often triggers Slide Over in my experience.
Yep, it does. That’s what surprised me. There should be some way to get rid of it other than restarting the device.
I don't have my iPad with me to test, but one solution might be Guided Access. I was playing a game last night (The Witness) and kept triggering slide over when I was moving around. I don't know why I didn't think to try it!
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612
If you want to add a slide over app to two existing side-by-side apps (for threee in total) then you drag the app icon onto the join between the two apps that are already open. If you have done this correctly there will be a ghost window in the slide-over shape, like this:
If you drag to the left or right the ghost window will be square in shape, indicating that it would replace that half of the screen instead.
Guided Access does indeed disable slide over. It was nice playing my game last night without triggering it accidentally.