Use multitasking on your iPad

With iPadOS, you lot can use multitasking to work with more one app at the same time. Notice out how to utilize the new Multitasking card, the Dock and Spotlight to work with multiple apps.

iPad screen showing two apps in Split View

  • Multitasking types

  • Start multitasking

  • Make adjustments

  • Drag and drib

  • Gestures

  • Picture in Moving picture

Types of multitasking

Apps that support multitasking can be used in a few different means.

Carve up View: In Dissever View, 2 apps appear side by side. Y'all can resize the apps by dragging the slider that appears between them.

Slide Over: With Slide Over, one app appears in a smaller floating window that you can drag to the left or right-mitt side of your screen.

Centre window: In some apps, y'all can open a centre window that lets you focus on a specific item, such equally an email or a note.

Start multitasking

Yous can get started with multitasking by using the Multitasking carte du jour, the Dock or Spotlight.

How to use the Multitasking menu to open up multiple iPad apps

How to use the Dock to open up multiple iPad apps

  1. Open an app.
  2. Slide ane finger up from the bottom edge of the screen until the Dock appears, then release.
  3. Touch and hold a second app in the Dock, then immediately drag it up out of the Dock.
    • If you elevate the app to the left or right border of the screen, it appears in Split View with the current app.
    • If y'all permit become of the app in the eye of the screen, it appears in a Slide Over window.

How to utilise the App Library to open multiple iPad apps

  1. Tap the App Library icon on the far right of the Dock.
  2. Touch and hold ane of the larger app icons, then drag information technology into Split View or Slide Over. To meet your other apps by category, tap one of the groups of smaller app icons. You tin can also tap the App Library search bar to run across all of your apps, so drag one of the apps into a multitasking view.

Utilize Spotlight to open multiple apps

To apply Spotlight for multitasking, you need to have a keyboard, such as the Apple Magic Keyboard, connected to your iPad.

  1. Open up an app.
  2. Press Command (⌘) – Space bar on your keyboard to open Spotlight.
  3. Begin typing the proper name of the second app that you want to open.
  4. Bear upon and concord the 2nd app's icon when it appears in Spotlight results, then immediately drag it out of Spotlight.
    • If you drag the app to the left or right edge of the screen, information technology appears in Dissever View with the current app.
    • If you lot allow go of the app in the centre of the screen, it appears in a Slide Over window.

How to open a centre window on your iPad

  1. Open up an app that supports centre window, such as Mail or Notes.
  2. Bear on and concord an private email, note or other item from the app's list.
  3. Tap Open in New Window in the menu that appears.

To close the eye window, tap Done or Close. You can also tap the Multitasking push, and so tap one of the buttons to change the middle window to full screen, Split View or Slide Over.

Make adjustments to multitasking windows

When you have multiple apps open, you can make adjustments to customise your multitasking experience.

Arrange Divide View

Adjust Slide Over

Utilize the shelf on your iPad

When you lot switch to an app that has multiple windows open, the bottom of your iPad screen shows a shelf containing thumbnails of all the app's windows.

Tap ane of the thumbnails to open the window. Yous tin can also swipe up on a thumbnail in the shelf to close that window. In some apps, you tin can also open a new window by borer New Window in the shelf.

Drag and drop between apps

With elevate and drop, you lot can motion text, photos and files from one app to another. For example, you tin drag text from Safari into a annotation, an image from Photos into a an email or a calendar event into a text message.

  1. Use Split View or Slide Over to open the two apps that you lot want to move information between.
  2. Touch and hold a photo or file until it appears to lift off the screen slightly. To drag and drop text, select the text start, then impact and concur it. To select multiple photos or files, touch and agree one, drag it slightly, then continue to hold it while you tap additional items with another finger. A badge volition bespeak the number of selected items.
  3. Drag the photograph, file or text to the other app.

Employ gestures to navigate your iPad

You can use Multitasking gestures on your iPad to quickly run across the app switcher, switch to another app or render to the Home Screen:

  • See the app switcher: Swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen and hold in the middle of the screen until the app switcher appears, then permit get. And then swipe left or right to discover some other app or pairing of apps that you've used together in Split View. Swipe all the way to the left to come across all of the apps that you have open in Slide Over.
  • Switch apps: While using an app, swipe left or right beyond your screen with four or five fingers to switch to another app. On an iPad Pro with Face ID, iPad Pro 11-inch or iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), swipe along the bottom edge of your screen to switch to another app.
  • Return to the Home Screen: While using an app, swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen. You can also put five fingers on the screen and then brand a compression gesture.

Use apps while you lot scout a video with Picture in Picture

With Pic in Moving-picture show, you can do things such as reply to an email while watching a Goggle box programme. If you're using FaceTime or watching a pic, tap the Picture in Picture buttonthe Picture in Picture icon and the video screen scales downwardly to a corner of your display. So open a second app while the video continues to play.

To move the video, drag it to some other corner. To return the video to total screen, tap the Full Screen push buttonthe Full Screen icon in the left-mitt corner of the video. You tin can also hibernate the video by dragging it to the left- or correct-manus edge of your display. Tap the pointer button to make the video reappear.

You can utilize Motion-picture show in Picture with iPad Pro, iPad (5th generation and later), iPad Air 2 and later or iPad mini 4 and after.

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