iOS 9 – iPad Multitasking

50 Comments on iOS 9 – iPad Multitasking

1. We went hands-on with the new iPad multitasking feature in iOS 9. Check out
   our video:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jorwzOsPAYs

   http://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/12/ios-9-ipad-multitasking-feature/

   • Not that I really care that much but I don’t get why my first generation
     iPad Air can’t do split screen.

   • +Roy Milican RAM, mainly. And the A8X is triple core, though that’s not as
     important as the RAM.

   • +Roy Milican The iPad Air 2 is the only iOS device with 2gb of RAM. When
     has Apple held back iOS software functionality for no reason?

   • +Dustin N a lot of people don’t know these details, so they are genuinely
     confounded. I’d guess that was +Roy Milican’s position.

     There are plenty, especially on the internet, who really don’t care, they
     just want to put something down that they dislike, but are annoyed that
     other people like. I suspect the two people who +1’d him did so for that
     reason.

   • I haven’t been keeping up with Apple hardware recently. I totally
     forgot/didn’t know the iPad2 actually had more memory. I was only
     remembering they made it thinner (of course) and have the fingerprint
     scanner.

2. no support for older ipads? such bs.

3. Guys need an opinion. Should I wait for the next iPad? 

   • +Matthew Norzan yes

4. Copied from our beloved Samsung!

   • +Isaac Cachia Microsoft was actually first to release this feature with its
     Surface 2 tablet.

   • +Finnish Spartan they wouldn’t mind because of Microsoft but they do
     because of Samsung. Samsung is a different story. Apple’s competitor is
     Samsung while Samsung ‘s competitor is the whole market because Samsung
     changed the industry and they run the market.

   • +Finnish Spartan nope it was available since s3

5. Does it work with third-party apps?

   • It will in the future

   • +Simone Armanni yes

   • some

6. Ipad mini 1 supported?

   • +Lightning Wolf Alpha Mine is still on 7.1.1 since 7.1.2 had battery life
     issues while 8.0+ was all about slow downs.

   • We can only hope ..

   • +chrischoy9 I wouldnt make the mistake on updating any farther since ios 8
     was full of bugs, but ios 8.4 seems the most stable so far.

   • +Raf Yi yeah, wtf is wrong, what you said made literally no sence.

7. Apple is all about the marketing. Why can’t we have split-screen
   multitasking on ipad mini ? As long as the hardware permits, why can’t the
   soft offer ?

   • They should put this on all iPads

   • I SPENT ALL DUCKING DAY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY IT WASNT WORKING!!!
     AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

   • I know the feeling bro.

8. Can you split screen on the iPad mini three?

   • Nope I have an iPad mini 2, and it only lets me do the thing from the side
     of the screen and you could do the movie thing too

9. None of this is on my iPad

   • Im using an iPad 2 and non of this is in my iPad

   • +Candy Rayne If you have an iPad Air, iPad mini 2, or iPad mini 3, you can
     use Slide Over and Picture in Picture, but you can’t use Split View because
     those older iPad models are not powerful enough to reliably support two
     apps at once. If you have an older iPad, like an iPad 2, an older Retina
     model, or an original iPad mini, none of the multitasking features will be
     available.

10. This sucks because I have a iPad 4th gen and it doesn’t work! Apple I’m
    disappointed!

11. Does this work on iPad mini?

    • No 🙁

    • Yea I figured that out sadly 🙁

    • I wish it did because it would be realllllllyyy helpful for school etc.

    • Indeed that is very true 🙂

    • Well I have it on my iPad mini 2 but I can’t expand the apps and it is very
      limited.

12. I got iOS 9 but how did you multitask? I can’t do it..

    • +Rayvex Do you have one of the following:

      iPad 1, iPad 2, iPad Mini 1 or iPad Mini 2?

      If so, those ipads wont get these feautures :;w;

    • I have IPAD 3

    • +Kasper I should have read this comment first …..

13. I am commenting this same complaint! Apple just has to market a higher
    priced device just for split screen. And I’m sure millions of people are
    pissed right now that they haven’t invested in adding it to some of their
    old devices. I myself have an iPad Air. And I’m so annoyed.

14. Oh poo….. I have the 1st iPad Mini. OnO

15. is it possible to have two safari’s windows in the split view?

    • +Rafael Dalben Use Google Chrome and Safari at the same time or some other
      browser

16. The video thing isnt working and my ipad is ios 9 :/

17. When I tried the picture in picture, it got out of YouTube instead 🙁 and
    also the using two apps at once doesn’t work for me either 🙁 but I could
    do the multitasking thing tho :D

18. On my iPad Air 2, I am unable to to split screen, I can only do the slide
    view that takes up one third of the screen. Anyone else have this problem,
    if so, do you have a solution?

19. Does youtube work with the split screen? I know it doesn’t work with the
    normal multitasking