With iPadOS 26.2, Apple is bringing two major upgrades to the iPad: Split View has returned, and Slide Over has a new gesture. Now, you can just drag and drop apps from your dock, and they’ll snap into place – there’ll no longer be a need to manually resize your windows in the manner you need them.
This was already how things worked in iPadOS 18 and prior, and now it’s finally back.
iPadOS 26 initially removed Slide Over
When Apple unveiled iPadOS 26 at WWDC25, they announced a whole new windowing system for the iPad – making it much more like the Mac. App windows had traffic lights, you could resize them as freely as you’d like, you could have overlapping windows, and you weren’t forced to utilize Stage Manager.
This was awesome for heavy iPad users, but this came at the cost of the legacy multi-tasking system for lighter users. For this reason alone,
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