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What exactly is the new iPad split-screen feature and how will it change the user’s overall experience? Find out more here. |
Alongside regularly bringing out innovative technology, Apple are continuously adapting and updating their current products to ensure they remain just as new and exciting.
One of those products that continues to receive updates is the iPad - and the iOS9 upgrade for iPad (including the new iPad Pro) has been no different. Among various enhancements to this device there has been the particularly exciting and much anticipated split-screen feature.
But, what exactly is this split-screen feature and how will it change the user’s overall experience?
Well, ultimately this multitasking function is set to enhance productivity – allowing the user to easily accomplish two tasks at once, by having two apps displayed on the screen at once. You will, for example, be
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This will come in two formats: a basic ‘Slide Over’ version and the more advanced ‘Split View.’ Therefore the way you use this feature will be dependent on the iPad that you have.
The basic version ‘Slide Over’ will allow the user to quickly and easily access a second app without leaving the one that they are already in.
Users simply need to slide their fingertip over the right edge of the screen; this will bring up a list of compatible Slide Over apps, then they can tap on one to open it. Apps that support this feature include: Tips, Contacts, iBooks, Mail, Reminders, Calendar, Find My iPhone, Podcasts, Find My Friends, Photos, Videos, Game Center, Safari, Messages, FaceTime and Notes.
After an application has been opened users can slide their finger down from the top edge of the Slide Over view to select a different app. This can then be closed with a simple swipe of the screen.
When using this feature, although both sides will be on display, only the right side can be interacted with, whilst the main task on the left is darkened.
The ‘Split View’ feature will work on the latest iPad Air 2 and the future iPad Pro. When activated, the user can divide the display into two separate windows – this will enable two apps to be open at the same time and (unlike Slide View) to be interacted with at the same time.
When in landscape mode the user can also choose the size of their screens – being able to make one larger than the other, or have them the same size. By dragging them, you can easily change which one is the primary and which is the secondary app.
When in Split View the status bar will remain in view in the primary app, whilst the secondary app will fill the screen. If you leave the split screen to use another application or close them to open another app, they will remain as you left them when you go back to them.
If something goes wrong with your screen it can be a nightmare when you can’t see half of it. This will only become more of a pain when a whole app is open in the half you are unable to view. This ipad screen repair in London service will have it fixed in less than two hours – meaning you can get back to multitasking in no time!
| By Debbie Fletcher | Embed |
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