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Nacho98

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I want to have hulu on one half of the screen, and Safari on the other half when in landscape.

I can open hulu, and then pull up safari from the dock, drag to the edge of the screen, and it only works in that super annoying slide over view where its a skinny app that floats on top of the hulu app, but I can NOT get the two apps to do a true split like you should be able to when dragging an app from the dock to the edge of the screen. I also notice the same with facebook and safari.

But then when I do the clock app and safari, it works perfectly fine. Or any other combo of two Apple apps. As soon as I try to do it with a non-Apple app, I'm limited to the stupid slide over view and can't do side by side.

Are there limitations on which apps can do true split view in landscape mode? It seems like it ONLY works when you have two Apple apps?
 
It depends on the app developers if they want to make use of the new APIs.
 
I want to have hulu on one half of the screen, and Safari on the other half when in landscape.

I can open hulu, and then pull up safari from the dock, drag to the edge of the screen, and it only works in that super annoying slide over view where its a skinny app that floats on top of the hulu app, but I can NOT get the two apps to do a true split like you should be able to when dragging an app from the dock to the edge of the screen. I also notice the same with facebook and safari.

But then when I do the clock app and safari, it works perfectly fine. Or any other combo of two Apple apps. As soon as I try to do it with a non-Apple app, I'm limited to the stupid slide over view and can't do side by side.

Are there limitations on which apps can do true split view in landscape mode? It seems like it ONLY works when you have two Apple apps?
You're going to have to wait and see if developers optimize their apps for split view.
 
It depends on the app developers if they want to make use of the new APIs.

When were the APIs initially released? Wasn’t it back in iOS 9, around 4 years ago?

One of my hopes with Apple now calling out iPad OS specifically as a separate entity of sorts is that they will apply more leverage to developers in some way to get adoption of key APIs that directly affect user experience.
 
When were the APIs initially released? Wasn’t it back in iOS 9, around 4 years ago?

One of my hopes with Apple now calling out iPad OS specifically as a separate entity of sorts is that they will apply more leverage to developers in some way to get adoption of key APIs that directly affect user experience.

Yeah it’s been a few years but it’s not a mandatory feature enforced from Apple same as night mode. If the developers feel like it’s a worthwhile feature to spend their time and money on, they’ll implement it, if not then they won’t. It all comes down to priorities.
 
Thanks guys, at the very least split view came out in iOS 11, if not earlier. I didn't realize this was programmed at the app level and not OS level by Apple.

Ideal setup would be landscape with Hulu playing on one side in Hulu portrait mode and browsing safari on the other half. Picture in picture is fine, but it's awfully small.

Guess I just have to wait...
 
As a workaround could you open Hulu in Safari and have two tabs displayed side by side?
 
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