I would hope they do, for video viewing especially it saves a ton of wasted space even compared to landscape mode. The portrait multitasking is stupid as I look at it more, you can barely see anything
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iOS 9 MULTITASKING!!!
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Are you sure? Because every tech news site and blog is reporting that it is only available on iPad Air 2. I don't have high expectations for tech journalism, but they can't all be wrong.
I 100% agree, but I would want picture and picture on my iPhone 6 (not a plus) because that would just be so useful. You could have nonstop text message convos and still watch a video or at least just listen to a video.
Do you mean play a video in both frames simultaneously?
EDIT: Oh I see. No I couldn't get netflix to play while safari is in the other frame. I guess netflix has to do some updating to enable the window to be resized in multitasking mode.
Ohhhh that's an extremely good question! Can someone please check on this? This and picture and picture.
Split-screen is only for iPad Air 2, other multi-tasking features are on other iPads as well.
From the looks of it you can get the 70:30 view and PiP on the air, mini 2 and mini 3.
The Air 2 gets the full split screen.
I do and it's very useful. I'd say sweet spot is 5.5"+ while minimum usable is about 5". Nice to watch two live blogs of WWDC on two different sites at the same time.
If you happen to have an Air, does the 70:30 view really work? I think one of the apps needs to stay inactive, so it's more of a "100 in the background:30" view
If they have it for the iPhone 6 plus they won't announce it until the iPhone 6S Plus
My bet is that apps have to support adaptive UI which dynamically resizes apps and their content to arbitrary sizes. You know, what Apple's been encouraging developers to implement since iOS, expressly to easily resize for iPhone 6/6 Plus and secretly also to support multitasking on iPad.
Netflix was probably never updated to support adaptive UI.
People seem to be confused by the Slide Over multitasking (supported on all iPads), and the proper Split View multitasking (only supported on iPad Air 2).
In Slide Over multitasking, the secondary app swipes in to cover 30% of the screen, but the primary app is not resized automatically. Instead, the app is dimmed and behaves the same as if you switched to the secondary app completely on iOS 8 - you can't interact with the primary app while it's dimmed.
In Split View multitasking, you can have two apps side-by-by side in either 50:50 or 70:30 split (there was a rumour of 75:25 split too, but I don't think that made it in). This is proper multitasking mode and the 70:30 split in this mode is completely different to the one in Slide Over - both apps are active and the larger app is resized to 70% of the screen, not partially obscured and dimmed.
So when you say 70:30 split screen, if you mean Split View, that is not supported at all on older iPads, but there is the Slide Over feature as described above on older iPads. The other prerequisite is probably for the app to support adaptive UI as described in my previous post.
I think they're now on the search screen (Spotlight). Swipe left from the home screen.
Are you sure? apple didn't mention anything about the iPad air first generation having multi tasking?
Side by side is Air 2 exclusive. Slide-over is Air, Air 2, Mini 2 and Mini 3. Picture-in-picture I'm not sure about
I think a lot of people are going to find this feature really useful, it may even increase usage for many people. Also this (in my opinion) is a BIG indication that a bigger (iPad Pro maybe?) iPad is going to happen, weather it will be this year i don't know.
So by close of 2015 the devices that support this will be:
iPad Air 2
iPad Air 3
iPad Mini 4
iPhone 6S (Maybe)
iPhone 6S+
iPad Air 2
iPad Air 3
iPad Mini 4
iPhone 6S (Maybe)
iPhone 6S+