How to Use Split Screen on iPad
Apple has included a number of multitasking settings in iPadOS that enable you use many apps on your iPad at once. This makes it possible to utilize multitasking applications in a variety of ways. This article examines Split View, a feature that allows two programmes to run side by side on a split screen.
Thanks in large part to a new Multitasking menu that shows as three dots positioned squarely at the top of the screen while an app is active, recent feature updates to iPadOS have made multitasking on iPad simpler than ever. The following choices are available when you tap the three dots: Full screen, Split View, and Slide Over.
When just one app is open, full screen viewing is the default setting. In contrast, Split View allows you to resize the applications by sliding the divider that appears between them when two programmes are shown side by side on the screen. Then there is Slide Over, which allows you to slide a tiny floating window to the left or right side of the screen so that one programme displays over another. Let’s examine Split View’s operation.
How to Use Split View on iPad
- On your iPad, launch a programme.
- To access three alternatives, tap the Multitasking button (three dots) in the middle of the screen.
- The second choice, represented by a frame that is evenly split in half, is the Split View button. Tap it.
- The Home screen will become visible when the active app is pushed away. To see another app on the opposite side of the screen, tap it on the Home screen or in the Dock. Alongside the first app, a second one will be shown.
How to Use the Dock to Invoke Split View
- On your iPad, launch a programme.
- Release your finger after sliding it up from the screen’s bottom border until the Dock displays.
- Another programme may be moved to the left or right edge of the screen by touching and holding it while dragging it up from the Dock. Alongside the first app, a second one will be shown.
How to Adjust Split View
Drag the app divider to the left or right to change the amount of screen space dedicated to either app in Split View.
Hit the Multitasking icon (three dots) at the top of the app in question, then tap the Slide over button to convert it from Split View to Slide Over mode (the partially filled frame). As an alternative, you may drag the app onto the other app while touching and holding the Multitasking button.
Hit the Multitasking button (three dots) in the top-center of the app you wish to keep, then tap the Full Screen button to end Split View (the fully filled frame). You might also drag the app separator over the app you wish to close.
How to Replace an App in Split View
It’s possible to switch to a different app when you have two applications open in Split View. How? Read on.
- Swipe down from the Multitasking button in the top-right corner of the app you wish to replace (three dots). The Home screen will be shown when the app drops down and the other open app moves to the side.
- The replacement app will display in Split View next to the currently open app when you tap it on your Home screen or in the Dock.
How to Return to Fullscreen
You may extend one app to take up the whole screen in Split View while removing the other. There are three options for doing this.
- To the left or right screen edge, drag the centre divider.
- To utilise an app in fullscreen mode, first press the Multitasking icon (three dots) at the top of the app. Then tap the filled frame button (first from left).
- To utilize an app in fullscreen, tap and hold the Multitasking button (three dots) at the top of the app. holding the screen’s top edge, move the object to the centre until its name and icon appear, then let go.
