In the initial version of iOS 26, Apple removed Slide Over and Split View multitasking in favor of a new window-based multitasking system. A replacement for Split View was available in an added tiled ...

Apple surprised iPad users earlier this year when it removed Slide Over, the floating mini-window mode that had been part of iPadOS since iOS 9, and replaced it with a more desktop-like windowed ...

The second developer beta of iPadOS 26.1 is here, and brings back the well-known Slide Over multitasking feature. Here's what's new. On Monday, two weeks after the release of the first developer beta, ...

With the second beta of iPadOS 26.1, Apple tweaked multitasking on the iPad to reintroduce the Slide Over feature. Slide Over was removed in iPadOS 26 because Apple replaced it with a new windowed ...

iPadOS 26 introduces major new windowing features designed to upgrade the iPad’s multitasking experience. But with those new features, two longstanding multitasking features have been removed: Split ...

For iPad power users, the relationship with multitasking has been... complicated. The ambitious window-based system in iPadOS 26 was a major leap, but it came at the cost of a beloved, simple feature: ...

Slide Over, one of the best iPad multitasking features, got rescued from the rubbish heap with the new iPadOS 26.1. It’s an ideal way to keep an application that you check frequently but not ...

Apple’s iPadOS 26.1 beta 2 introduces a range of updates aimed at refining multitasking capabilities and enhancing usability for touch-based workflows. Among the most significant changes is the return ...