Also, you can swipe an app off to the right of the screen to dismiss it, and swiping back in from the right side will bring that app back, just like in iOS 9 and iOS 10.

Slide Over panels appear on the left or the right, unlike in iOS 10. Sometimes getting the windows to play nice is like trying to manhandle an oiled fish. To convert this to Split View, just flick the tab at the top of the panel. If you drag the app and just drop it onto the other one, you enter Slide Over, with the dragged app hovering in a panel. Which are: The different methods to add appsĭepending on where you drag your second app, you’ll get different results. Tap Command-Space to invoke Spotlight, type the name of there app you want, and then just drag it down into the main screen using one of the available methods. If you use a keyboard, this last method is fantastic. When it appears, you can drag the app’s icon from the search results and drop it over the current app. Then type the name of an app into the search box. With an app already open, swipe from the top of the screen to get the Notifications view, then swipe right to get to the Today view (or, if you have a Bluetooth keyboard hooked up, just hit Command Space).

You can do the same trick using Spotlight Search. Safari will launch “under” your dragged Mail icon, and then you can drop Mail to enter Slide Over or Split View. Then, while you’re dragging, tap the icon of another app, say Safari. Try this: Hit the home button to return to the Home Screen, then start dragging an app. You can grab an app straight from the Home Screen. If you use an app often in Split View, then, you should keep it in iOS 11’s Dock.īut the Dock isn’t the only place you can drag from. The easiest of these is the Dock, because you can swipe the Dock onto the screen while in any app, and just drag an app up into your workspace. Now, you add apps by dragging their icons from wherever you might find them: The Dock, the Home Screen, and Spotlight Search. You can even drag apps from a Spotlight search. This terrible picker made Slide Over and Split View mostly useless. This was a UI joke, and not a funny one, especially as it survived through two iterations of iOS. In iOSs 9 and 10, you’d invoke Slide Over and Split View by first dragging the app-picker panel in from the right side of the screen, and then scrolling around until you found the app you were looking for. Grabbing apps using Slide Over and Split View A Slide Over panel can be converted to a Split View panel by flicking the little tab line at the top of the panel (this line is also used to move the panel around the screen).īoth kinds of panel have their uses, so let’s see how to use them. Responding to an iMessage, say, or dragging a document from the Files app. Slide Over panels are best suited for quickly checking something in an app. This is much more like a macOS window, in that it covers up whatever beneath it, but you can also move it over the screen to get it out of the way. Slide Over is when you take one app and put it put it in a panel that floats over the other apps. Even last year’s big iPad Pro can’t manage to show three active windows. Previously the smaller section was only allowed on the right. That is, you can have the smaller window on the left or the right.

Unlike iOS 9 and iOS 10, the iOS 11 Split View allows the 70:30 split on either side. Split View is when you have two separate apps (or two Safari windows) sharing the same screen, at the same “level,” with a moveable divider between them to choose between a 50:50 split, or a 70:30 split.

Essentially, Slide Over and Split View are iOS’ equivalent of windows on the Mac and PC.

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