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> Oh, and apps that aren’t in the Dock can’t become the second app in split screen mode. What sense does that limitation make? I've heard people say this befor
by wlesieutre 7y ago
> Oh, and apps that aren’t in the Dock can’t become the second app in split screen mode. What sense does that limitation make?
I've heard people say this before, as if there's no way to use anything but your permanent dock apps in split screen. But if it's not in the Dock, you launch it, and now it's in the dock. That's why the recent items section on the right side exists.
My personal gripe with iOS multitasking is that it's easy to make a second instance of an app by dragging and dropping (such as Safari tabs to split screen), but then it's not as easy to close the second copy when you're done with it. When split screen was a special implementation within Safari, dragging the last tab from one side to the other would automatically collapse that side and bring the remaining one back to full screen. Now it leaves an empty Safari window hanging around.
If you want to close that, you have to make one side or the other full screen, open the app switcher, and swipe the empty one up off the top.
- bradleyankrom 7y agoI’ve had an iPad for over a month now and still can’t figure out how to close the second app when I am in split screen.
- wlesieutre 7y agoYou can't close it one at a time when it's in a split view pair, it only lets you close the whole pair together. If you just want to kill one of them, first you have to grab the middle divider and push it all the way to one side or the other to make either app full screen. The other app becomes backgrounded. Once they're separate, you can close them from the app switcher by swiping them off the top of the same, same as an iPhone.
- ihuman 7y agoSlide the border between apps to the left/right end of the screen