iPadOS 26 introduces major new windowing features designed to upgrade the iPad’s multitasking experience. But with those new features, two longstanding multitasking features have been removed: Split View and Slide Over are no longer supported in iPadOS 26.
Split View and Slide Over are gone, but Stage Manager lives on with new iPadOS 26 windowing
Apple has had no shortage of iPadOS multitasking takes over the years.
Most of those systems have co-existed within iPadOS, even as new features were added.
But that’s changed with the latest software update.
iPadOS 26 drops Split View and Slide Over entirely in favor of the new windowing solution.
And in a bit of a surprise, Stage Manager gets to live on—at least for now.
For those unfamiliar with current iPad multitasking features, Split View let you put two apps side-by-side in either a 50-50 arrangement, or a 66-33 setup.
Slide Over, meanwhile, served as a separate stack of apps you could pull in from the side of the iPad screen. It floated on top of the other apps you were using, and could be easily dismissed and invoked as needed.
But to make way for the powerful new windowing features in iPadOS 26, these features are no longer available.
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