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Anyone else hate the new multi-tasking?
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If they’d keep the pull a new app in from the side as another way of doing it, it would’ve been perfect, having to close out the app you’re using, selecting a new one on the home screen and re-opening the other app is a bit of a pain. Cluttering up the dock with every app you might want to use simultaneously with another is also a pain...
I really enjoy it. Probably a product of being on it from Beta 1. With time you get acclimated to it. It’s not perfect as I’d like to be able to move and resize all over the screen and maybe with 4 apps, but that’s down the road I imagine.
There’s a few differences, and I may miss some.
1) Slideover is fixed size. Although, as you note, you can move it from side to side you cannot change its size. You can slide it off screen to the right temporarily and summon it back quickly by swiping from the right.
2) Split view is resizable. You can merge it initially on the left or right and then resize 50/50 or 1/3 to 2/3rd on either side. Unlike slideover if you dismiss a split app by resizing it to 0 width it cannot be brought back without repeating the procedure.
With the above in mind I’d say slideover is best for things which you want to refer to often but briefly (maybe a reference sheet or Messages, while youre primarily doing something else) and split is good for bringing in longer running tasks, especially ones where you might want to do a lot of dragging and dropping between them (say, splitting a Word and Excel session)
Don’t forget you can have both 2 apps in split, and one in slideover simultaneously. You can even have a Picture in Picture video at the same time. However, only the newest iPad pros can do all four at one time. If you have one full screen app, one slideover and one PiP they can all be running actively on all iPads. On all but the newest Pros if you have two apps in split and bring in a slideover the split apps grey out temporarily and suspend their work, until the slideover is dismissed.
I'm not a fan of the new dock, the app switcher, or multitasking in iOS 11. I can't figure it out fully, and I've used the iPad since the 1st gen on launch day, and have owned an iPhone since the 1st gen as well. New iOS updates used to be great at adding new features without making it feel like you have to "re-learn" stuff.
It's becoming more like a desktop experience, which is good and bad. More features, more customization is nice, but I also miss the simplicity of earlier versions of iOS.
It's becoming more like a desktop experience, which is good and bad. More features, more customization is nice, but I also miss the simplicity of earlier versions of iOS.
This is the conondrum of technological advancement. People want improvment, but not change.
Couldn’t have put it better
“Oh my God, it’s so boring”
*changes radically*
“Ugh! It’s different!!”
Absolutely. But I think Apple did a pretty good job for the first few versions of iOS by finding the balance... things changed - sometimes radically - but it didn't quite feel like it.
OP is making sound more difficult than it really is. I can do it in one swift motion with no problem.
On the other hand, with the old method you would have to sometimes scroll all the way to the top to find the app you want split screen.
On the other hand, with the old method you would have to sometimes scroll all the way to the top to find the app you want split screen.