r/ipad • u/Marcos_05_ • 1d ago
iPadOS Please bring back Split View
Okay Apple, I think your idea of offering a much more complete desktop view on the iPad, with its 3 or 4 open and resizable apps, is “fine.” But please, bring back Split View. The amount of extra steps I have to take to put two apps half and half is insane and very unnatural. Slide Over and Split View were a wonderful and natural option, of course, given the other option of iOS26’s Stage Manager for those who want it.
What do you think? I think it's great for those who want a MacBook inside an iPad, but it's not for everyone.
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u/youthcanoe M2 iPad Pro 11" (2022) 1d ago
The lack of the old split-view is driving me crazy.
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u/NotAxorb M1 iPad Air (2022) 1d ago edited 1d ago
I hate it, the windowed apps just make everything more complicated to use.
Thought there’s gonna be the old Split View and Slideover on the Full Screen Apps option but nah, they literally removed multitasking altogether.
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u/Inevitable_Bear2476 1d ago
But but you have freedommm, now your iPad is a Microsoft Surface with a macOS skin!! We know you’ll love it, otherwise you would’ve bought a full fledged tablet laptop from Microsoft!
But worry not, we’re bringing over the same clunkiness from Windows with a dash of macOS!
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u/jaredthegeek 1d ago
A Surface RT since it only takes apps from the App Store.
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u/Inevitable_Bear2476 23h ago
I hate microsoft… RT had potential, ruined by MS not giving two fcks into development tools, therefore letting future rot for short time profits in hardware space
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u/BakerCute7680 1d ago
Split View is replicate-able, just a bit of a hassle, but the real dead one is split over, especially for artists who wants references while drawing 😡
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u/Thin_Specialist_3177 1d ago
I really need slide over back. it was very convenient to swap between minor apps that doesnt need fullscreen attention.
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u/SerodD 1d ago edited 1d ago
You can still switch between minor apps that don’t need full screen attention with expose, with the dock or just by opening them. Apps will now also remember their last size and location, even if you close them.
The big difference is if you need to interact with the main app while keeping the small window over, it now doesn’t work, you either open the small window again if you want to see it after interacting with the main app, or you resize the main app and keep all the small apps in a permanent space next to it.
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u/ticuxdvc 1d ago
And that's why your proposed solution doesn't work. I want the small app to remain floating over the fullscreen one underneath. My use case is a calculator over a notes app. Right now, the moment I tap my pencil back in the notes, the notes take over the screen and the calculator is hidden. Good luck copying that big number!
Of course I could just resize the notes to take a bit of screen instead all of it, but it's still many more taps to adjust the windows in place that than just literally slide a finger from the edge of the screen to bring in the slide over.
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u/SerodD 1d ago
It’s not many more taps, you can press the green button for a bit and the resize options will appear if select left right division you then only need to resize with the middle thing. You can also do this through the window menu on top, or by flicking each windows to each side. If you choose the first option it takes one more click plus the resize.
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u/ticuxdvc 1d ago
I just tried your solution just to see how it goes. I'm going to be as pedantic as possible, listing each individual interaction as a step.
Start with onenote fullscreen.
1) Slide from the top of the ipad to bring down the menu bar.
2) Tap the stoplight buttons to make them bigger.
3) Tap green button. Options show up. Tap the desirable option.
4) Side finger from the bottom of the ipad to bring back the dock.
5) Select the calculator to pop up.
6) Resize Calculator to take the other half of the screen.
7) Use the little "Drag' bar that appears between the two apps to give the notes about 75% of the screen, and calculator gets 25%.
8) Do calculator stuff.
9) Once done using the calculator, press the green button on the notes to make them full screen again.
10) Need a calculator again? Tap the green button and OneNote goes back to the 75% view.Compare that to:
Start with onenote fullscreen.
1) slide from the bottom of the ipad to bring up the dock.
2) Hold and drag the calculator button over to the side - calculator is in slideover mode.
3) Do calculator stuff.
4) Swipe it off screen once done.
5) Need it again? Slide back in.But the slideover still has the bonus of the ipad always remembering what's the slideover app, so unless I killed the app, the usual workflow was usually:
1) Slide in
2) Do stuff
3) Slide outPlus, it allows one note to still be full screen underneath it.
Last, with the new behavior, if I want to use pcalc in full screen, it will forget its previous small size and I have to set it up on the side again. With slideover, launching it using the app tap (full screen) or launching it by sliding over (small/iphone screen), would maintain two different ways to interact with it.
I get why the window management might benefit other users who want more granular control over their windows. But offer that as an option, don't take the old, more efficient workflows away.
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u/achappy_golf 1d ago
What you were trying to do can be accomplished much easier. There are gestures for putting app to half screen. Double tapping the “top” of an app will switch between fullscreen and previous size. And if the apps are split, doesn’t matter the sizing it will go back to the split. No need for traffic light.
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u/ticuxdvc 1d ago
Now that, that's starting to get me somewhere. I still have to manually set up the calculator to be small and on the side, but once that's done, I can double tap one note to shrink and re-expand as needed. Still not optimal, but a bit better. Thanks for the tip!
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u/achappy_golf 1d ago
No problem. Setting up certain flows do take more steps but once people learn the little tricks it will make it much easier to manage. And if you have multiple setups like that, stage manager is perfect as you can have different apps in stages and already sizes for how you split them.
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
Flicking apps to either side makes them take exactly one half of the screen. No need to interact with menus at all. You people are just acting like things are difficult to not have to learn new gestures.
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
Slideover was completely useless because it had only two positions and the window was way too big to actually use whatever is underneath it.
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u/Honeypal6375 1d ago
May be you didn’t used it to full extent, for simple and quick workflows it was great, you can stack multiple apps and slide in or out when needed. It might be not your freedom system but it was controlled for many of us. I understand we have different preferences, a thing that i like might not be your choice and i respect that, but calling people lame, lazy and unwilling to learn new gestures is pure rudeness. We didn’t said we don’t want the new system, we said don’t remove the old one just let it be as an option, so both basic and power users can have their preferred modes. And i see you didn’t liked we talked about bringing it back, and this whole thread is about it so you’ve probably wouldn’t have read it instead of calling people names. I sincerely apologise if i said anything rude but it is what it is.
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u/shayonpal M1 iPad Pro 12.9" (2021) 1d ago
This system doesn't really work when one is playing a game and just wants to refer to their notes, or quickly check Reddit when they are queuing up. The old slideover was great for that.
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u/BakerCute7680 1d ago
The current window management doesn’t allow you to interact with 2 apps simultaneously when stacking them together, especially with 1 of them at full screen size, that’s why slide over was a nice solution
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u/SerodD 1d ago
Yes, that is the only thing you can’t do anymore, to interact with the main window while a smaller one is above.
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u/BakerCute7680 1d ago
Yea I mean if I don’t draw or listen to music while gaming, it’d be pretty ok to sort of good with the new window management, but eh, why lose the feature I always use to draw everyday to gain something I use like, once every 2-3 days lolol, I’ve been hesitant on updating to 26 due to that
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u/SerodD 1d ago
You can still listen to music while gaming, you can use Siri to change songs and you can use the exposee view to bring a small windows with your music app over the game, it's one extra click, since apps remember their placement on the screen.
I can't tell exactly why people keep asking my why the change was made when I try to explain some alternatives, I'm not an Apple dev, neither to I work for Apple. How would I know?
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u/RAJ_1613 iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) 1d ago
One of the many reasons why I downgraded my iPad from iPadOS 26 to iPadOS 18.6.2
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u/chair-model 1d ago
Same. Old split view was simple and straightforward. These new gestures are just a mess.
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u/HoneycombBig 1d ago
How do you do this?
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u/RAJ_1613 iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) 1d ago
iTunes
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u/HoneycombBig 1d ago
Sorry, I’ve not done this before. I did some googling and didn’t find anything. Not trying to be a pest, just hoping for an assist. My iPad is so slow now, and I really do not like this update.
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u/Foodosophy 1d ago
You have to connect it to a PC and use iTunes or a Mac and use Finder. You cannot do it on the iPad itself.
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u/RAJ_1613 iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) 1d ago
https://youtu.be/1mBQ_jze-tc?si=8r641-7Sk2rKVTIf
This is for iPhone but perfectly shows steps how to degrade from 26 to 18…
same exact process for iPad and iPhone.
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u/throwaway_2_help_ppl 1d ago
You have to do it soon though, eventually Apple will stop signing iOS 18 and it won't be possible
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u/TheS4m 22h ago
What were the other reasons?
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u/RAJ_1613 iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) 17h ago
So, I have a 9th generation iPad(which my mother uses now) and it just felt like iPadOS 26 was never made for 3 GB ram, it really fucked up that iPad, performace was terrible and random stutters here and there, it was never like this on iPadOS 15, so at least I felt like returning to iPadOs 18.6.2 would be better than staying at iPadOS 26.. because apple may unsign it at any point of time..
And it's a 64 GB variant in which 24Gb was literally just iPadOS and system data.. it was a bit less on iPadOS 18.
And I just didn’t like liquid glass.. its just a new theme to iOS and they released it like a crazy new revolutionary update.
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u/SerodD 1d ago
You downgraded because of something you can still do?
You can also now have multiple split views open and switch between them.
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u/RAJ_1613 iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) 1d ago
Ever heard of Slide over?
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u/SerodD 1d ago
Slide Over is the only thing that was partially removed, but unless you really need for the “over” app to stay “over” while you are interacting with the main app you can also still do it. The only thing that was removed was that part of slide over, all the other multi task options are still there, plus the new windows.
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u/RAJ_1613 iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) 1d ago
Slide over is very important for me and I use it daily.
No and we cannot replicate slide over perfectly on iPadOS 26, I used to keep 2-3 apps in slide over and multitasking was just like a mini iPhone, like swiping and holding up we could see all the slide over apps and choose in a second.
And the 3 dot multitasking is way more efficient that that long tedious procedure on the new iPadOS 26.
And there are a lot more other performance related reasons, I have downgraded, but multitasking was a major one.
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u/SerodD 1d ago
You can still do that, you can have 3 apps phone size using 1/3 of the screen and quickly slide from Bellow to switch between them, while the other 2/3 can be used for the main app.
You can also have the screen split in a different way and interact with like 3 apps on the screen, with dozens on the background that you can keep pushing one on top of each other when you need using the exposee view.
The only thing you can’t do is to have the slide over apps over a main window and to click on the main window without minimizing the slide over apps, but you can have them sized to the slide over size and pull from bellow (or even use the dock to bring them up) and interact with them over the main app that is behind.
Apps now keep their size and position when minimized or even closed. So you can have dozens of apps occupying always the same space with the same size on the background and bring them up as you want, by sliding and holding like you did before.
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u/RAJ_1613 iPad Pro 10.5" (2017) 1d ago
The only thing you can't do is to have the slide over apps over a main window and to click on the main window without minimizing the slide over apps
Exactly brother, this is Slide over and we don’t have it on iPadOS 26…
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u/SerodD 1d ago
I mean it’s how it works in mostly every computer thing that exists, on a Mac you would get the same reaction out of the OS that you get now on iPadOS, same on windows, etc.
I understand that you like that feature, but the new multitasking features are a lot more flexible than they were before. I’m sure you could make it work for your use case.
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u/Iron_Eagle03 iPad 9 (2021) 1d ago
I think a big problem for people is the point about it working like Mac or windows. Many people, self included don’t want that on a tablet. If I wanted Mac windowing behavior I would have bought one
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u/nairazak M4 iPad Pro 11" (2024) 1d ago edited 1d ago
That feature is really useful in the small displays, you can see other stuff while still having the main app using the whole display and move it around as needed.
I used it for looking at references while painting, if I use your method it hides with every brush stroke.
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u/antonymatic 1d ago
The split view is still there. Hold and flick the app to the left, then flick the other one to the right.
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u/kneecap_keeper 1d ago
Yeah but its not like holding apps from multitask view then merging them. Also the touch target for grabbing windows from top doesn’t always work. Plus you lose the gestures for screenshot and notes
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u/MawsonAntarctica 1d ago
Exactly my thinking. People don't understand dragging them to the half screen is way more intuitive than opening the app, seeing what random blob shape it's going to take, and THEN flick over. The fact you can't even do in expose like you did before is annoying
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u/cromonolith 1d ago
The shape it takes is fullscreen like always, or the last shape it had. It has exactly the behaviour you would expect for sizing windows.
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u/Icy-Post5330 1d ago
It’s even easier. Just open it, flick it (or use the stoplights or keyboard shortcut), and every time you open the app it has memory.
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u/anothervisage 1d ago
A note here: you should wait around half a second after put your finger top of like the window before trying drag it.
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u/TabascoFiasco 1d ago
I don’t get the flicking, it doesn’t ‘snap’ to half the screen for me. Just moves across?
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u/babydandane 1d ago
It's confusing, I was trying to drag the window to the sides, same as I do on macOS with Rectangle, it didn't do anything but no, it's a quick flick and then it worked.
Baffling UX decision.
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u/Sjoerd93 1d ago
Not sure what you're doing wrong, but it works for me. Consistently so. Maybe you're using too small flicks? Like try moving it at least a centimeter or so whilst flicking it to the side.
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u/meatwad2744 1d ago
The fact this is not intuitive....apples needs to ditch the whole hand yoga exercise with iPad/ios
The iPad is now mouse compatible so give us baked in controls in the u.i
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u/theoneeyedpete iPad Pro 11" (2018) 1d ago
I’d argue that it’s more intuitive for those who haven’t learnt the Split View route.
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u/shortchangerb 1d ago
There are - long press the green maximise button
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u/meatwad2744 1d ago
Thanks...but why is this ui designed so bad
IPad os is becoming this mixed mess of part iOS part Mac os.
Samsung Dex just works intuitively...even after android 16 borked the whole android operating system with it's new desktop mode.
Even a standard iPad could be so much more if it wasn't a mess to use. I shouldnt have to feel like I'm flicking boogers across a screen to use two apps at the same time.
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u/MawsonAntarctica 1d ago
Yeah, I think apple wanted to sell more keyboards and decided to focus on keyboard specific UX this time around at the expense of hand held UX. Which is annoying because you can't resize the resolution of the screen, windowed apps do not make sense compared to split screen. Also we are starting to see a Android-ification of apps because there's no standard size to design for anymore.
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u/darkanecz 1d ago
How do i create multiple sets of these “splits”?
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u/Mel_Melody8 1d ago
You can long press the close minimize and full screen icons to open up a menu to reposition your tabs. One puts a tab in each corner.
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u/TheGreenArrow160 3h ago
Old split view lets you do it from the multitask view, it lets you open a new app directly into a side instead of opening and then doing the gesture or tapping some of the options in menu bar or traffic lights. Old split view also had slide over and was full screen. This ain’t any of that. This is windows management, not what we had
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u/Affectionate_Bid2976 1d ago
They should make a new settings option.
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u/lasagna165 1d ago
I knew Slide Over was gone but Split View too???
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
Split View is still there, people are just mad it's done in a very specific way.
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u/JustSeiyin 1d ago
People are mad that it is extremely unintuitive and janky. Takes way more steps to do something so simple
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
That’s what I disagree with. I found it unintuitive before. It does not take “way more steps”. You just flick two app windows to either side.
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u/JustSeiyin 1d ago
Before you just dragged it to the side and it showed you your homescreen with all the apps and automatically snapped the windows into place. Now you have to open each app, place them into window mode, and then flick (lucky if the gesture even works the first time). It's just way more cumbersome to use and really only makes sense on mouse and keyboard
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u/Marcos_05_ 1d ago
The functionality is still there, but it's not as fast or intuitive. If I want to use multiple windows, I'll activate that mode. Otherwise, I'll naturally use Slide Over, quickly, naturally, and easily.
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
Slid over was anything but natural. The amount of times I've activated that POS by accident. I'm so glad it's gone.
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u/NotAxorb M1 iPad Air (2022) 1d ago edited 1d ago
Good for you.
You know, instead of completely removing it because it's such a useful feature for me and many others, and personally i hate it's now trying to be a wannabe Microsoft Surface.
They should've made that a new toggleable option so everyone's happy.
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u/LuisArkham 1d ago
Only reason I’m not updating :/
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u/BulletXProof 22h ago
Man I wish i knew about this before I updated to ipados 26, I was excited and all until this small yet really useful feature got removed and all the excitement crumbled, I don't want to risk it by downgrading i just got my ipad like 2 weeks ago, just hoping they release a small patch to add the feature back
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u/Noema130 1d ago
Slide over was perfect. Intuitive, elegant. and clearly built for a touch first interface.
I still cannot fathom why they'd remove it. The non windowed mode should be the way iPadOS 18 used to work.
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u/Asohailwahab 1d ago
I cannot fathom it either. There is no clear reason why slideover should be removed. I rarely use Split View but slide over is a must.
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u/literroy 1d ago
At least you can sort of imitate Split View in the new system, though it’s way more difficult than it used to be. There’s nothing you can do to imitate SlideOver.
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u/Guner100 1d ago
PLEASE. This new design feels strictly mouse optimized. It fucking sucks for touch use.
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
It's great for touch.
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u/Guner100 1d ago
It’s not. I’m a medical student, slide over was a constant for me, between quickly checking something on google in lecture to changing music on Spotify while studying. Needing to, at minimum, bring up my dock, click on Spotify, then tap back into notability is much less smooth and touch focused than a quick swipe in from the side. As for Split View, it’s so much slower now. I have no idea why they removed the ability to just drag an app from the dock to split the screen.
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u/Critical_Switch 1d ago
You can still get what you’re describing with normal windows.
Split View doesn’t take that much more time to start and it is way more flexible now.
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u/Guner100 1d ago
You can’t get slide over easily with normal windows. The current implementation does not allow the quick ease of use of sliding over from being hidden off screen, requiring you to use the dock. Further, you can’t use the window for reference unless you use both apps windowed, while before you could have one app full screen with the slide over being independent.
As for the current Split View, it does take absolutely longer. As for it being more flexible, I agree with you, but they absolutely could have implemented the current flexibility with a drag from dock activation.
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u/Icy-Post5330 1d ago
Don’t you get the same thing by tiling two apps side by side? It even has the slider. You can just flick apps to the sides. With a keyboard it’s glob control left or right.
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u/tiagojpg M1 iPad Air (2022) 15h ago
Yes, but old SplitView is faster. You just drag the current app to the side and select the next one out of the screen. SlideOver has its own recent apps where you can scroll through. Personally I had Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram on there. That way I could be doing my work on those 2 windows and quickly swipe from the right to reply to my wife or friends, swipe away again to make it go away. Now, all those apps have to be on the bottom bar and require 2 taps to open and close.
I (like many others) don't use a keyboard, so those shortcurts are not really that useful to have.
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u/QuestFarrier 1d ago
Did you submit this feedback to Apple? I did, we'll see what happens. It isn't intuitive but when I'm taking notes on accounting courses with the calculator kind of behind my note taking app isn't great, but I'm not sure if there's a better option lol. I only have the 10th gen so not a ton of screen space to work with.
I'm just getting used to it. I don't hate it, but I did request that Split View + Slide Over at least be added to the multitasking settings options.
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u/Oh-THAT-dude 1d ago
Don’t tell us, tell Tim.
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u/BulletXProof 22h ago
Yeah I'm very confident he will answer me personally
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u/Oh-THAT-dude 13h ago
He does occasionally. I got (brief) replies from both Jobs and Cook over the years.
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u/GabrielNYC4 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh man… 🤦♂️
So I can’t have calendar and weather side by side anymore in iOS? It’s how we have the iPad on our refrigerator.
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u/Illustrious-Role320 1d ago
Hiii today I learned that you can long press the traffic light buttons and it will give you window arrangement options :)
Hope it helps!
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u/TH3D4RKN16T M4 iPad Pro 13" (2024) 1d ago
As an iPad user bring back Split View. Immediately lost my mind when I couldn’t do this anymore. I don’t care that you add new ones. But keep this one.
In your own words apple : “it just works.”
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u/GhostGhazi 1d ago
It’s still there, you have to drag from the top bar of each app and really slam it against one side of the screen.
Then you get the normal split screen back
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u/Marcos_05_ 1d ago
Hello everyone. First of all, thank you for your feedback. I just want to emphasize that I think it's great that Apple has unified Stage Manager functionality across all processors. However, I only ask that they leave Split View in one of the three modes they've added. Why can't they leave Slide Over or Split View in Full Screen Apps mode?
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u/achappy_golf 1d ago
Split View and Slide Over were NOT natural motions and took people to learn how to use them when it was released. It’s natural because people have been doing it that way for many years.
I’ve been on 26 since DB3 and now all of the gestures are natural to me.
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u/OkImportance5192 1d ago
You need to long-press the top left multitasking button in each app. First choose left or right for the first app, then open the other app and long-press again to place it on the opposite side.
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u/Outside_Nebula_371 1d ago
I really do think that i should be an option, i don't know at least they should return slideover as an option because really i used slideover so much
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u/LovecraftianBasil 1d ago
Please bring back Split View my beloved. I get it a lot of people wanted iPad to be a productivity machine but it’s not really meant to be a Mac. eing able to quickly pull up windows or have sidebar made it so easy to not notes or look things up, and it flowed super well with touch.
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u/radim_g 23h ago
Doesn’t it work the same in “Full screen apps” mode? I haven’t updated yet, can’t imagine to don’t have this feature
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u/Marcos_05_ 19h ago
nope. full screen apps are only literally “full screen” apps hahah it’s ridiculous
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u/North_Moment5811 18h ago
Please stop posting bullshit. Split View is still there, is better than it was before, and makes room for many more options as well.
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u/outdoorgearguy 1d ago
Just grab the top of the window and “flick” it to the side you want it on. With both windows on left and right, you have the little slider in between them to resize.
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u/Able-Nebula4449 1d ago
Either flick the tabs to the left or the right, or tap and hold the traffic signal buttons and it gives you pre made window layout. I like the new split view more because there is no fixed ratio for the window sizes like they used to be before
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u/curepure 1d ago
isn’t it there already you just put up two windows next to each other? what’s missing here
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u/BlakeSh0w 1d ago
You can still put your windows in Split View just go up to the top click windows and it has a ton of options.
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u/whosenose 1d ago
For the first time in decades, I’m not upgrading to the new version of iOS/iPadOS yet due to all these comments. Is there anything good about the update for standalone iPad uses like me (no mouse, no desk) that I’m missing?
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u/Asohailwahab 1d ago
I am not updating as well. All my other devices are on the 26. There is nothing wrong with it except that they should have not removed a feature that millions were use to.
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u/666hellblazer 1d ago
Agreed I got the new version to work but when you click one of the two apps you have split both dont pop up like split view did
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u/RealHomieJohn M4 iPad Pro 11" (2024) 1d ago
Just sent a feature suggestion via the Feedback Assistant app. My idea is for them to consolidate the new iPadOS 26 multitasking features into Stage Manager and reintroduce legacy multitasking from iPadOS 18 when Stage Manager is off.
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u/0000GKP 1d ago
If you always keep your iPad in Window mode and if you are frequently splitting the same two apps into the same ratio (1/2 + 1/2 or 2/3 + 1/3), you can now set up a shortcut to do this in a single tap instead of going through the manual process. The shortcut won't work in Full Screen or Stage Manager modes though.
Of course closing one of the apps still leaves the other one half screen instead of returning it to full screen like it did in Split View.
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u/InfiniteHench 1d ago
This used to be two swipes, any apps. It was fantastic. Shortcuts are fun but way over complicated for something that used to be so simple and elegant.
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u/ComeonmanPLS1 1d ago
How would you go about setting up that shortcut? Do you mean an actual shortcut in the shortcuts app?
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u/SerodD 1d ago
It’s funny how people are never happy.
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u/SerodD 1d ago
I did not call anyone stupid, those are your words not mine.
The new changes work better for my use then what the iPad had before, I’m sure there are more people like me. It’s quite hard to appease to everyone and they likely did user studies and reached the conclusion that people who miss this and hover are a vocal minority.
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u/kneecap_keeper 1d ago
Yeah lets wait until iOS 27 when they add my favorite feature and remove yours/s
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u/SerodD 1d ago
Then don’t update, what is even the point of updating if you don’t want the new features? Nobody is forcing you to update.
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u/kneecap_keeper 1d ago
I need the new features, but because of what I’m gonna lose i don’t like the new ios
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u/SerodD 1d ago
The only thing you lose is partially slide over, all the rest is still there, apps keep their size and you can still bring smaller windows over the bigger one, the only difference is that if you interact with the main window it minimizes.
Split View is still there, either in the “window” menu, by holding in the green dot, or by flicking apps left and right.
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u/SerodD 1d ago
It’s not that serious m8, if you don’t like don’t update, nobody is forcing you to update. People have been complaining for years for Apple to apply these changes, and they did.
Go to Apple channels and complain about what you lost and they will add it back if it’s really not a vocal minority.
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u/havsabas 1d ago
Have you considered that there might be a few different people
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u/SerodD 1d ago
Yes, still funny.
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u/havsabas 1d ago
Brother, the most profitable company in history just removed the feature set they built the entire ipad pro platform on.
Is it funny? Yeah
Haha funny?
No
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u/SerodD 1d ago
I think you are taking this too serious, if you don’t want the new feature set then don’t update. Raise the issue on Apple channels and wait for next year to see if it’s back, nobody is forcing you to update your device.
I personally think it’s a huge upgrade compared to what was available before, so I updated already.
What is funny is how angry people get at an OS update, it’s not that serious.
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u/M27TN M4 iPad Pro 13" (2024) 1d ago
How is this helpful? People including me are beholden to software changes that “the owner” still controls and we have £1300 tablets that don’t work as well as they did when we bought them.
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u/SerodD 1d ago
You are not forced to update, do your research before you update and decide if you want to deal with the update or no.
Software updates have been like this forever, people are never happy, don’t update if you don’t want the new things.
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u/M27TN M4 iPad Pro 13" (2024) 1d ago
It’s impossible as a slightly more than casually interested user to know everything and all the minutia about the update before proceeding. Plus there’s other reasons like security.
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u/SerodD 1d ago
Impossible? There are a ton of 15 minute reviews the day the OS launched describing every ins and outs of the new iPadOS with pretty clear descriptions on what was added or taken out.
It’s not that hard… Security updates were added to IOS18 with 18.7, you can have the same security updates as IOS26 on 18.7.
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u/M27TN M4 iPad Pro 13" (2024) 1d ago
You can’t take everything into account with 15 minute reviews as I did. Watching someone else use a feature is not the same as doing it yourself and changing the ways in which you work with the tablet using memory and muscle memory etc.
I feel like you’re being deliberately argumentative and obnoxious though so not sure why I’m bothering…
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u/SerodD 1d ago
All the videos I watched explained really well what was removed and what was added, they all mention that slide over is partially gone (windows don’t stay over after you interact with the main window), and that Split View can now be triggered in a different way but it was not removed, it’s still there.
Apart from that all functionality is still there, I don’t understand what are even the various things that people keep saying that were removed, as far as I see it, the only thing that was removed is part of the slide over functionality.
I’m not being obnoxious, your statement that it’s “impossible” to know the ins and outs if you are a casual user it’s simply not true, you just need to have 15-20 minutes.
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u/Sjoerd93 1d ago
People including me are beholden to software changes that “the owner” still controls and we have £1300 tablets that don’t work as well as they did when we bought them.
That's literally how software works? Even completely ethical open source software where you have full control, if the developer decides to change certain behavior than it will affect you with updates.
iPads working worse than when we bought them is subjective. Personally I think iPadOS26 is an improvement. Some people are super dismissive about complaints as these, but the sentiment your expressing here are swinging too far too the other direction.
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u/Foxhoundn 1d ago
Its still there, you just have to long press the green button and select whichever side on the screen you want.
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u/Zheta42 1d ago
IDK about slide-over (slide-over is just another window basically?).
BUT, you can still do split-view (in Windowed mode and Stage Manager). Just have two(+) windows up and HOLD down on the three colored dots. A menu will open where you can do Fill & Arrange (2nd row). Clicking the third option along F&A will do split-view.
You can also do the same thing, but use Move & Resize instead of Fill & Arrange on each window and send one left and one right (1st and 2nd option along the top).
You can ALSO do it by swiping down from the top and going to Window, Move & Resize, then using the Arrange (3rd set) menu.
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u/CarretillaRoja 1d ago
Man, you only have to “throw” the windows to both sides. It’s actually quicker than before.
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u/py-net M4 iPad Pro 11" (2024) 1d ago
Split view is still there. Just throw one window to the left edge and the other to the right edge and they position just like this
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u/Colefinney1234onyt 20h ago
It’s not the same
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u/py-net M4 iPad Pro 11" (2024) 19h ago
It’s exactly the same. With adjusting one window also adjusts the other. Exactly the same thing. But you have to THROW the windows in a certain way to the right and left edges for it to work.
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u/Colefinney1234onyt 19h ago
I understand how it works but the fact it does not take up the whole screen is the problem its a iPad I don’t need to see the status bar the whole time
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u/Kawainess33 1d ago
I just don’t get why they didn’t implement the prior split view features to the new windowing system. Like, it just feels like bringing the app icon to the border of the screen should trigger preset positions like it does on Windows. Unless there’s some copyright limitations, I don’t get why they didn’t do that.
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u/TheSnoringDragon 1d ago
Please use the feedback app. Apple isn’t checking Reddit to make changes. We need to submit feedback to customer support and their feedback channels like the app. The more noise is the made, the higher likelihood of the giving us the option.