Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take a look at multitasking in iPad OS15.
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So Apple has revamped multitasking in iPad OS15. This was really needed because
multitasking was difficult to navigate. Just try to figure out how to create SplitView,
Slideover, and go between different windows was very difficult in iPad OS14 and earlier. While
it is different in OS15 it's still rather complex. So let's say, for instance, that you're in Pages
and you want to have SplitView between Pages and another app. Now previously there was a bunch of
gestures you need to learn. But now with iPad OS15 there's this simple little interface here, these
three dots at the top. You tap those and now you get the opportunity to go Full Screen which is the
mode we're in now, SplitView, or Slideover. Now the important thing to realize with these three
options is the build-in rectangle. That represents what's going to happen to the app we're looking
out now. So for SplitView you could see that the app is going to go to the left and we're going
to choose one to the right. But for Slideover the app is actually going to become the slideover app.
Let's focus on SplitView first. If I tap here you can see the app does go to the left, briefly, and
then it goes off-screen and now it lets us choose a new app to be on the right. Previously you had
to settle for whatever was in your Dock at the bottom. Now you can go and select any app you want
using any of your Home screen pages or the Dock. So let's go and select something like Notes. Just
tap that and it's going to end up being the app that's on the right. So that works with
SplitView we could use the line here to actually adjust SplitView and give more space to one or
the other app. Keep in mind going into SplitView depends on the app. Some apps don't support it.
Other apps will support it but only at 50% of the screen or 33% of the screen and all of that. So
what you can actually do here, moving the middle, depends on the app's you're using. Now notice each
of these apps has the three dots at the top again. So I could select here and I could say let's take
Pages back to Full Screen. You could also exit by simply dragging this line. If I drag it all
the way to the right it knows that I'm trying to get rid of Notes and go back to Full Screen Pages.
Now we can also take one of these into Slideover mode. So if my intention was just to go to
Slideover I can start with SplitView and now go to Slideover. You can see it gives Pages back full
screen mode and now Notes is in Slideover mode. Slideover works similar to how it did before.
I can grab the top here and drag this over to the left or to the right. I could also kind of drag it
off the screen. I get this little indicator there you saw for a second and if I put my finger right
there it appears again and I can pullout Slideover like a drawer. I could also put Slideover away by
dragging the bottom line up until it goes away. Now you can have multiple things in Slideover.
So, for instance, let's go and pick Clock and have that in SplitView and then I'll put it
in Slideover. Now when I drag up and I wait a little bit you can see Slideover
shows there are actually two windows in Slideover. It's easiest to think of things
in two layers. One is the main screen layer and that's where you have Full Screen apps
and SplitView apps. Then the layer above that is Slideover and Slideover has these slideover apps.
So now that I put two apps in Slideover mode I can swap between the two of them
like that. It's already a bit confusing I know. It will be a little clearer if you use the App
Switcher. To use the App Switcher drag up from the bottom and now you go to the App Switcher and you
could see all of the different windows I've got open and I can jump to anyone of those. So here's
Setting, here's Photos, here's Pages. But to the right I'll see all of the Slideover windows.
So you can see the Slideover windows are definitely different. They are these long
vertical things than the main screen ones. Here I could dismiss one of these Slideover windows
if I want to if I tap it to jump to where I last was. In this case Notes over Pages.
Now note I could use App Switcher to do some of this. So in App Switcher I still have the Dock
here. Let's say I want to have Pages in SplitView with Safari. I could drag Safari from the Dock
into Pages here. Then when I'm on the screen I could do Slideover or I could go all the way to
one side and do SplitView. Then when I go back to the App Switcher you could see here I've got Pages
and Safari in SplitView. I can actually drag one out to return it to Full Screen mode for Pages.
Okay ready for even more. In addition to Full Screen, SplitView, and Slideover there's a fourth
mode. Center View. So you can use Center View only on some apps. Here you can do it in Notes.
If you tap and hold on a Note you'll get Open In a New Window. So for the app you're looking for
this option. You could do it say in Mail with a message as well. Tap that and then it goes
to Center View. So now this is a window that's kind of over everything else. It has its own
multitasking controls here. You could see I can go between the four modes. I can make this window
a Full Screen window. I can make it SplitView, Slideover, or Center mode which is where it is
now. So let's say I wanted to take this Slideover I could. I could tap here and go back to Center.
I could tap here and go Full Screen with this one window. So if I went Full Screen with the
one window what happens to the other Notes window? Well, if you go back into Slideover View you'll
see that there are now two Notes windows. So what happens when you have two windows like this?
Well, if you launch the app just from the icon you'll see what's called the Shelf at
the bottom. It shows that there is more than one window. I can tap each one to switch between the
window. Now how do I intentionally open up more than one window? Well, for instance for Pages
we already have a window open for Pages. But if I tap and hold Pages here if an app is capable of
multiple windows you'll see Show All Windows. Select that and it will show
you all the windows for the app. Just one in this case. Then I can use the plus button here
to create a new window. Let's open up the school's newsletter here. Now when I'm in the App Switcher
you could see I've got two Pages windows open. If I just go to Pages now from the Home Page
you could see I now have the Shelf and I can now choose which one I want to go to. Also if
I use four fingers and swipe back and forth on the screen I can actually swipe back and forth
between all of these apps in the App Switcher. I can see all of those here in the App Switcher.
Note that you can still use the old ways of multitasking as well. So I could,
for instance, bring up the Dock here. Use the Dock to bring an app into Slideover
View or SplitView like that. If you're confused a little I don't blame you because
there are a lot of different ways to handle multitasking. Apple just added a bunch of
new ones on top of the old ones. But I think, at least now, it's a little clearer of how to
enter SplitView and exit SplitView using that button at the top. The App Switcher
really makes it clear what's going on and you could easily control things from there.
Now watching this tutorial is just the first step. What you really need to do
to learn how to use this is to practice it. So before you need to use it create a Pages document,
try to bring Notes in, try to bring the Clock in, use the Slideover, use SplitView, use the
App Switcher. Get used to it and then you'll be able to use multitasking when you need it.