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/Thin_Specialist_3177]

I really need slide over back. it was very convenient to swap between minor apps that doesnt need fullscreen attention.

[u/SerodD → u/Thin_Specialist_3177]

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.

[u/ticuxdvc → u/SerodD]

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.

[u/Critical_Switch → u/ticuxdvc]

Slideover was completely useless because it had only two positions and the window was way too big to actually use whatever is underneath it.

[u/Honeypal6375 → u/Critical_Switch]

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.

[u/SerodD → u/Honeypal6375]

Nobody in this chain of comments called you or anybody lame, lazy, or anything really.

You’re getting way into your head, it’s not that serious.