What's New With Multitasking in iPadOS 26.2

[MacRumors]

With the third beta of iPadOS 26.2 that came out yesterday, Apple made some useful updates to the way that multitasking works on the iPad.

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iPadOS 26.1 brought back Slide Over, one of the main multitasking views from iPadOS 18 that was removed in iPadOS 26. In iPadOS 26.2, Slide Over works more like it did before, and there are also useful new options for replacing apps in a tiled view.

When in Windowed or Stage Manager mode in iPadOS 26.2, you can drag and drop apps into various multitasking views, including Slide Over. Apps can be dragged over from the Dock, Spotlight search, or App Library.

Drag an app to the left or right side of the display to enter a tiled view that's similar to Split View. Drag an app further left or right to establish it as a Slide Over app. There are visual indications that let you know when an app is in a left, right, or Slide Over position.

If you have a Slide Over window open or apps in a tiled view, you can drag another app over the top of the existing one to put the new app in its position. You still can't stack multiple apps up in Slide Over, but at least you can now drag apps into place like you could in iPadOS 18.

Article Link: What's New With Multitasking in iPadOS 26.2

 

[Astuces iOS]

YES LET'S GO AND I PARTICIPATED TO MAKE IPADOS GREAT AGAIN !!

 

[capamac]

 

[pdaholic]

I’m actually using my iPad again after installing this beta. If we can get multiple apps in slide over again, I’ll be content.

 

[DoogH]

Multitasking on ipad is such a mess. It's so insanely complicated with a million ways to do very similar things for no reason.

 

[beautyहमempty]

final drag and drop again. I can’t even believe they got rid of that. Despite the more macOS like features, they could have simply kept slide over, drag and drop apps and Split View

 

[CharlesShaw]

Thanks for the preview!

I'm eager for all these iPadOS 26 improvements to get finalized so we can move onto learning about the trickle of iPadOS 27 features.

 

[The Game 161]

They listened again

 

[escargot3]

Amazing update! So many people are gonna be really happy with this revision

 

[DocMultimedia]

I'd still like it if the title of the article used beta in the title. 26.2 has not been released yet, but it's mentioned that way multiple times. But no one really cares anymore amongst this geeky crowd. 🤣

 

[oneMadRssn]

Multitasking on ipad is such a mess. It's so insanely complicated with a million ways to do very similar things for no reason.

Agreed. They somehow managed to make it more complicated but less useful than window multitasking on any other desktop/laptop OS.

 

[MikeSmoke]

This really is a great bring-back. The best of the old and the best of the new. The new broom may sweep cleaner, but the old broom knows the dirt.

 

[Phineasgage1848]

This is a huge win for iPad Mini users! It was too many extra steps to use split view from windowing mode so having this plus slide over back is very satisfying. Thank you iPadOS team!