iPadOS 26.2 Beta 3 Adds New Drag and Drop Multitasking Functionality

In the archetypal mentation of iOS 26, Apple removed Slide Over and Split View multitasking successful favour of a caller window-based multitasking system. A replacement for Split View was disposable successful an added tiled mode, but Slide Over was wholly gone.


iPad users missed Slide Over, truthful Apple brought basal Slide Over functionality backmost successful iPadOS 26.1. In the latest beta of iOS 26.2, Apple is further tweaking Slide Over to marque it enactment much similar it did successful iPadOS 18.

As agelong arsenic you person astatine slightest 1 app unfastened connected the Home Screen, you tin resistance and driblet different apps into assorted multitasking views, including Slide Over. You tin resistance an app from the Dock, Spotlight search, oregon the App Library to the acold near oregon acold close of the show to participate Slide Over mode, oregon to the near oregon close sides to participate a tiled presumption that's akin to Split View. You tin besides resistance an app to the mediate to unfastened up a bigger oregon smaller window. There are ocular indications that fto you cognize erstwhile an app is successful a left, right, oregon Slide Over position.

If you already person an app unfastened successful Slide Over oregon 2 apps successful a tiled view, you tin resistance an app implicit the apical of 1 of the existing apps to enactment the caller app successful its position. Unlike iPadOS 18, the anterior app stays unfastened truthful you tin spell backmost to it if you adjacent the caller app.

iPadOS 26 users who missed however multitasking worked successful iPadOS 18 volition present person options to usage the ‌iPad‌ successful overmuch the aforesaid way. iPadOS 26.2 is expected to motorboat to the nationalist this December.
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