Apple is bringing again Slide Over in iPadOS 26.1

The response to iPadOS 26 , however some customers have bemoaned the absence of the decade-old Slide Over multitasking characteristic. Properly, Apple simply introduced that it is coming again as a part of iPadOS 26.1. It is really already out there, although simply as a part of the beta construct.

For the uninitiated, Slide Over is a multitasking instrument that lets customers shortly reveal and conceal an app that slides out and in from the facet of the display. That is nice for shortly revealing and hiding an app with out completely rearranging your workspace.

Apple additionally removed Cut up View with iPadOS 26, however the brand new windowing system can simply do one thing comparable. There was no means with the brand new OS to imitate Slide Over, which has turn out to be a .

Slide Over has been redesigned to work with that new windowing system and there is a main improve. Customers can shortly resize the home windows and alter the side ratios, along with swiping proper to utterly cover them from view.

There’s additionally one main downgrade, . Customers can solely have one lively app in Slide Over at a time. In iPadOS 18 (and earlier), people may swap between a number of apps in a Slide Over window, however it seems to be like that choice has been eliminated.

Given how iPadOS 26 radically reworked the best way the system handles a number of apps, it is a secure guess that this outdated Slide Over habits was incompatible with the most recent OS. Engadget has reached out to Apple for clarification and can replace this submit once we hear again.