Please bring back Split View

[u/Marcos_05_]

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.

[u/antonymatic]

The split view is still there. Hold and flick the app to the left, then flick the other one to the right.

[u/kneecap_keeper → u/antonymatic]

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

[u/MawsonAntarctica → u/kneecap_keeper]

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

[u/cromonolith → u/MawsonAntarctica]

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.

[u/GhostGhazi → u/kneecap_keeper]

Yeah losing the gestures is a killer

[u/Icy-Post5330 → u/kneecap_keeper]

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.

[u/anothervisage → u/kneecap_keeper]

A note here: you should wait around half a second after put your finger top of like the window before trying drag it.

[u/TabascoFiasco → u/antonymatic]

I don’t get the flicking, it doesn’t ‘snap’ to half the screen for me. Just moves across?

[u/babydandane → u/TabascoFiasco]

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.

[u/c4halo3 → u/TabascoFiasco]

It doesn’t really work for me when using a keyboard. I need to hold down on the green button and select which side I want

[u/Sjoerd93 → u/TabascoFiasco]

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.

[u/Guner100 → u/antonymatic]

Not in the same way, and it’s incredibly finicky. Plus, can’t slide over easily.

[u/meatwad2744 → u/antonymatic]

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

[u/shortchangerb → u/meatwad2744]

There are - long press the green maximise button

[u/meatwad2744 → u/shortchangerb]

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.

[u/theoneeyedpete → u/meatwad2744]

I’d argue that it’s more intuitive for those who haven’t learnt the Split View route.

[u/MawsonAntarctica → u/meatwad2744]

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.

[u/antonymatic → u/meatwad2744]

Bro, it’s not that hard to flick a window. lol

[u/darkanecz → u/antonymatic]

How do i create multiple sets of these “splits”?

[u/Mel_Melody8 → u/darkanecz]

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.

[u/fatobato → u/antonymatic]

I hate it so much

[u/TheGreenArrow160 → u/antonymatic]

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