LEARNENHANCED
MULTI-TASKING
Slide Over and Split View have
been enhanced. You can now have
multiple apps in Slide Over mode.
To switch between these apps,
simply swipe the bar at the bottom
of the Slide Over window. You can
also swipe up on the bottom bar to
see all your apps that are opened
in Slide Over mode — kind of like
Mission Control on macOS. The Slide
Over window can also be positioned
on the left or right of the screen.
This is useful especially if you need
to quickly reply to someone in
Messages or if you need to look up a
le in the Files app.
Split View has been improved too,
you can now have two windows of
the same app — nally addressing
one of the biggest limitations of
multitasking on the iPad. This
makes copying and moving les
around in the Files app so much
easier. It also makes it easy to
compare all sorts of things like
documents, images, and webpages.
You can even swipe the bottom
of your Split View screen or use
four ngers to switch between the
different combinations of Split
View apps that you have opened.
While the enhanced multi-tasking
capabilities are much welcomed, it
can also get confusing. Apple saves
all your instances of Slide Over and
Split View in what it calls “Spaces”
and if you use the two a lot, it can
get dif cult to keep track of all your
combinations of Slide Over and Split
View. The workaround is to trigger
App Exposé by holding down onto
PICTURES123RFthe app icon in the dock to show
all the various instances where
the app is opened.DESK TOP
BROWSING
This sounds mundane but it’s actually
a huge deal especially for contentcreators who rely on web apps and
online content management systems
like Google Docs and WordPress. With
desktop-class browsing, the iPad now
shows the site like they would
be shown on a Mac. This means no
more crazy workarounds just to get
Google Docs to work properly on
the iPad. There’s also a download
manager so you can download lesSlide over.Desktop safari. Pinch keyboard.72 HWM | AUGUST 2019