Ipados 26: From for Split View and Slide Over

Apple has put the iPad window system on completely new legs: With many bonds at MacOS, the manufacturer presented a fundamentally new system in iPados 26, which also comes to all iPads on which the upcoming version can be installed. However, an established multitasking mode fell victim to this step in the first beta of Ipados 26, as developers report. The previous “Split View & Slide Over” option is therefore missing.

It made it possible to open two apps in a shared view side by side and to collect several apps in a small view on the side with “Slide Over” and to wipe in if necessary. The latter in particular is estimated by many iPad users.

Window and stage manager for all iPads

With IPADOS 26, a simple basic mode is still to choose from with full screen apps. There is also the new window mode with free window design. Alternatively, the previously introduced window management Stage Manager can be activated, which allows you to group apps or windows.

Stage Manager is now also running on iPads without Apple’s M chip that have not yet supported this. As a reason for this, Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi referred to the fact that the new window system was working much more efficiently and that the group was therefore able to give up the previous restriction to iPads with M-chips. On iPads, windows must react immediately to finger inputs, according to Federighi, which is technically more technically challenging than on the Mac.

Split view as a hidden option in Ipados 26

The Split view is no longer available as an independent mode, but it flows into the free window mode: If the user pushes a window to the right and another window to the left side, this view is created again – with a small bar to adjust the division. Apple itself demonstrated this on the WWDC keynote. For the slide-over view, however, there is no counterpart in Ipados 26, at least not in the first beta.

In one fell swoop, Ipados 26 outstands several annoying restrictions on the tablet operating system. Instead of tinkering with new island solutions for the iPad, Apple has simply oriented itself to MacOS and adopted proven elements such as the menu bar. In other respects, however, iPados remains limited in terms of virtualization, tools for system expansion and app sales channels.