Apple released iPadOS 26.1 beta 2 to developers today, and it comes with a major returning feature: Slide Over multitasking is back on the iPad. Here’s how it works.
Revamp of Slide Over works alongside new windowing system, but with a key limitation
When iPadOS 26 launched, it introduced a brand new, more powerful windowing system for apps. As a result, it did away with the prior Split View and Slide Over multitasking options.
But some users, myself included, found the absence of Slide Over a type of feature regression.
Split View is easy enough to replicate with Apple’s new system, but there was previously no way to easily pull apps in and out of view like Slide Over offered.
