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Now that developer beta 2 and the first public beta of iOS 13 and iPadOS have dropped, we’re going to keep rolling through the features of Apple's latest OSes. One feature that saw some tweaks and enhancements was multitasking on the iPad.
Multitasking allows you to run more than one app at the same time, allowing for better inter-app productivity. In iPadOS 13, Apple has added some minor changes to the different flavors of multitasking on the iPad. These changes make it easier and more accessible to do more on Apple's touch-based computer platform.
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What's going on, everybody
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Ian here. And now that beta 2 has dropped for iOS and iPad OS 13, we're going to keep rolling through
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unpacking some of the newest features in Apple's latest OS's. Now last time we covered the new gestures, which is linked below and up here
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But a few people asked me about multitasking on iPad OS, and specifically some of the nuance
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in how the multitasking features work, the different types of. in multitasking that exists in iPad OS and kind of how to interact with them and how to use
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them to your advantage to do more with your iPad. And just as a reminder, if you have something
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specific you want us to take a look at in the latest OS's before their official release
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leave a comment down below and let us know what it is that you want me to dig into next
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Multitasking on iPad and iPad OS can be done in a couple of ways, with the basics remaining
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mostly unchanged since iOS 11. Now, the first way to do multitasking is with SplitView
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Split View allows you to run a pair of apps side by side. And the most common one for me is having Safari on one side and notes or a text editor of some sort or messages or something on the other side where I'm pulling things back and forth between two different apps
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Now, a ton of apps support this and your use cases obviously will vary, but this is just one example and the process is the same regardless
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To get two apps in Split View open the first app then do a short swipe up from the bottom to reveal the dock then long press on the second app until you heat kind of pop off the screen and drag it towards the left or right side of the screen letting you drop the second app right next to it
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From there, if you want one to be a little larger or smaller, you can slide the divider between the two apps
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to give one or the other a little more space. To close one of the apps, just grab the divider between the two
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and drag it all the way to one side or the other over whichever app you want to get rid of
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and that will close that app and take the other app back full screen. The other flavor of multitasking in iPad OS is slide over. And now I love this
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for apps that you're only going to use for a second or two here or there. Things like music or
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podcasts or maybe even messages or something where you're going to jump in, do a quick action
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and then jump back out to whatever you were doing. It's kind of the just quick shift, quick mode
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shift without fully taking you out of the main app you're in and into a secondary app. And to get
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one of those apps, the first step or two of the process is basically the same as
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getting apps in split view. You swipe up a little bit from the dock, you long press on the app
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icon until it pops, and you lift it up. And instead of taking it all the way to the left or right
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edge and having it fill half of the screen, kind of hover it over that main app, and it should be
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a fairly tall rectangle. Take that tall rectangle and just lift your finger up and the app should
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pop over into the slideover panel. From there, you can do whatever you need in the slideover app
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or even cycle through a bunch of slideover apps, which is a new feature in iPad OS, just by swiping
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that home indicator at the bottom which allows you to quickly switch between 3 4 5 6 however many apps you have open in Slideover without having to grab each one from the dock every single time you need to get into it
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Slideover apps also now have their own multitasking switcher, which allows you to drag up on the home
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indicator and fan out basically an iPhone-style switcher so you can quickly pick and choose the app you want
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Now, when you're done using an app and slide over, getting it off the screen has been one of the frustrations and one of the things that I've heard the most comments about in iPad OS
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or at least in the betas of iPad OS. It used to be that you could kind of just grab the little indicator at the top
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and swipe it off the edge of the screen, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Now, since Beta 1, Apple has refined it a little bit
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but it's still kind of buggy. The basic trick is to grab the left side of the application
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and drag it to the right side of the screen or off the edge of the right side of the screen
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In Beta 1, you had to kind of pull it into the middle and then take it off to the edge
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but it seems like Apple's more or less sorted out so you can grab the left end
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and take it off the right side of the screen, or you can grab the right edge, pull it in a little bit
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and then take it off the screen, but that's just way too fiddly. Once you've thrown an app off the screen
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and it's in slide over and you want to bring it back, a simple swipe from the right edge of the screen
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will bring slide over back to whatever the most recent slideover app was
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allowing you to jump back in, again, like if you're in messages or music
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you can quickly swipe it in, change songs or respond to a message
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swipe it off the screen, and then the next time you want to switch or do something
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you can just pull it back in, in and swipe it back off the screen dismissing it when you don need it and bringing it in when you do The final tip for multitasking in iPad OS 13 is how to take an app from the slideover window
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to full screen or split view. Now previously in iOS 11 and 12, to do that, you had to take the app, grab the little grabber
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at the top, pull it down into Split View and then make the Split View app full screen
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Now you can actually take those Slideover apps and grabbing that little grabber at the top
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pull down and up to the top center of the screen, and you'll see the slide over app go from this tall, thin rectangle
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to a kind of wide rectangle. Release the app, and it will now pop up full screen
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taking you from the thin little iPhone-size slideover window to a full iPad-size iPad class application
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taking up your full screen. Like I said before, a bunch of these multitasking features in iPad OS
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aren't dramatically different than they were in iOS 11 or 12. They're just more refined, more thought through
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and a little bit more considered to make the iPad a little bit more more user-friendly and functional as a true computer
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If you guys enjoyed the video, give it a thumbs up. Leave me a comment down below. Let me know what features you want me to cover next
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out of iPad OS or iOS 13. Be sure to subscribe to the channel and hit the bell
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so you don't miss any of our new feature coverage or anything else we're doing. And until next time, I'm Ian for Cult of Mac. I'll see you in the next one
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