We're usually followers of the brand new windowed multitasking options in iPadOS 26—for individuals who wish to use their iPads extra like conventional laptops, the brand new system is extra highly effective, versatile, and predictable than the outdated Stage Supervisor, and it really works on a wider vary of iPads.
However some customers on Reddit and elsewhere objected to Apple's wholesale removing of the outdated multitasking mode, Break up View (which allowed two apps onscreen at a time with a deal with for adjusting the quantity of display they took up) and Slide Over (which allowed a small window to be swiped over prime of your display after which rapidly dismissed whenever you have been executed with it).
Break up View was moderately simple to recreate with the brand new system, however customers who had relied on Slide Over bemoaned the dearth of an equal function in iPadOS 26. Apple apparently agrees as a result of the second developer beta of the upcoming iPadOS 26.1 provides Slide Over help again into the working system (as reported by MacRumors). Just like the outdated Slide Over window, the brand new one sits on prime of all of your different apps and may be invoked and dismissed everytime you need.
The brand new model of Slide Over is not fairly the identical because the outdated one; just one app may be in Slide Over mode at a time, whereas the outdated model would allow you to change between apps within the Slide Over interface. However the brand new Slide Over window can be repositioned and resized, similar to different home windows in iPadOS 26.
Apple hasn't mentioned when it is going to launch the ultimate model of iPadOS 26.1, iOS 26.1, macOS 26.1, or the equal updates for its different platforms. However primarily based on its previous observe, we will most likely count on to see it launched to most of the people in some unspecified time in the future in October or November, after one other beta construct or two.
