IPADOS-26-multitasking: Coated window variant comes back

With the latest iPad operating system that Apple provided in September, a completely new window management came to the tablets. For the first time, Ipados 26 enables app-windows to be freely distributed, as you know from the Mac, limits, as the Stage Manager once set, were lifted. At the same time, Apple has also deleted a popular multitasking mode: the so-called Split View & Slide Over. However, the group has noticed the complaints: As beta testers of Ipados 26.1, which should still be released in October, the feature has now returned with the second version.

New option in the traffic light area

The function works with the existing new window options, so it was changed. The idea is that you can have several app windows open and then display another by means of a slide over on the side. The advantage: this app then hovers over the other and is always accessible. Apple has implemented this via the new traffic light symbols that iPad windows have since iPados 26.

If you click on the green button, the window size options appear – and below is now also Slide Over. Once a window is in this mode, it always remains visible, but can also be wiped away to the side and then bring it out again later. This is very practical for important apps that you need during the day. New in iPados 26.1 is that the window size of the slide-over window can also be changed.

Step to a more powerful iPad

The split view section of Split View & Slide Over is no longer available (unless you build up this representation manually), but also not necessary. It made it possible to open (only) two apps in a shared view side by side and to collect several apps with Slide Over in a small view on the side and to wipe in if necessary. Ipados 26 are no longer limited to two apps, but allows a free window design. Slide Over is now another way to get order on the tablet screen.

Apple had refused to miss Ipados a full window system for years – among other things, with the argument that this is too memory -intensive. However, the new window management supports significantly more devices than was originally suspected.