Apple Is Bringing Back Slide Over In Ipados 26.1

The guidance to iPadOS 26 has been mostly positive, but immoderate users person bemoaned nan absence of nan decade-old Slide Over multitasking feature. Well, Apple conscionable announced that it's coming backmost arsenic portion of iPadOS 26.1. It's really already available, though conscionable arsenic portion of nan beta build.

For nan uninitiated, Slide Over is simply a multitasking instrumentality that lets users quickly uncover and hide an app that slides successful and retired from nan broadside of nan screen. This is awesome for quickly revealing and hiding an app without permanently rearranging your workspace.

Apple besides sewage free of Split View pinch iPadOS 26, but nan caller windowing strategy tin easy do thing similar. There has been nary measurement pinch nan caller OS to mimic Slide Over, which has go a source of vexation for tablet fans.

Slide Over has been redesigned to activity pinch that caller windowing strategy and there's a awesome upgrade. Users tin quickly resize nan windows and alteration nan facet ratios, successful summation to swiping correct to wholly hide them from view.

There is besides 1 awesome downgrade, according to reporting by 9to5Mac. Users tin only person 1 progressive app successful Slide Over astatine a time. In iPadOS 18 (and earlier), folks could move betwixt aggregate apps successful a Slide Over window, but it looks for illustration that action has been removed.

Given really iPadOS 26 radically reworked nan measurement nan strategy handles aggregate apps, it's a safe stake that this aged Slide Over behaviour was incompatible pinch nan latest OS. Engadget has reached retired to Apple for explanation and will update this station erstwhile we perceive back.