To close the center window, tap Done or Close. Tap Open in New Window in the menu that appears. Touch and hold an individual email, note, or other item from the app's list. Open an app that supports center window, such as Mail or Notes. Touch and hold the second app's icon when it appears in Spotlight results, then immediately drag it out of Spotlight. Press Command (⌘)–Space bar on your keyboard to open Spotlight.īegin typing the name of the second app that you want to open. To use Spotlight for multitasking, you need to have a keyboard, such as the Apple Magic Keyboard, connected to your iPad. You can also tap the App Library search bar to see all your apps, then drag one of the apps into a multitasking view. To see your other apps by category, tap one of the groups of smaller app icons.

Touch and hold one of the larger app icons, then drag it into Split View or Slide Over. Tap the App Library icon at the far-right side of the Dock. How to use the App Library to open multiple iPad apps If you let go of the app in the middle of the screen, it appears in a Slide Over window. If you drag the app to the left or right edge of the screen, it appears in Split View with the current app. Touch and hold a second app in the Dock, then immediately drag it up out of the Dock. Slide one finger up from the bottom edge of the screen until the Dock appears, then release. How to use the Dock to open multiple iPad apps If you chose Slide Over, the second app opens full-screen and the current app moves to a smaller window that you can move to the right or left side of your screen. If you chose Split View, the second app appears side-by-side with the current app. (Swipe left or right to see apps on your other Home Screen pages. The current app moves aside and your Home Screen appears. Tap the Split View button or the Slide Over button. Tap the Multitasking button at the top of the screen. How to use the Multitasking menu to open multiple iPad apps You can get started with multitasking by using the Multitasking menu, the Dock, or Spotlight.

To reverse this, just do the same procedure again, and the second app will hover above the main one again, so you can easily swipe it away.Center window: In some apps, you can open a center window that lets you focus on a specific item, such as an email or a note. Both tabs will blur over, but when you release they'll be sitting side-by side, so no text is obscured in either. Press and hold the grey bar at the top of the second tab, and drag it down (or up). The second tab now sits in front the first, but you can truly split the screen between the two tabs if you want. Then, if you want to bring it back, you can easily swipe in from this side and it will pop back up. If you want to hide this second app, you can simply touch the grey bar at the top of it and drag it to the side of the screen, which will cause the app to disappear off to the side. On iPad you've now got one big app taking up most of the screen, and another sitting in a slice on the side – this might not be what you're looking for, but you can rearrange things in a few ways. How to re-arrange split-screen mode on iPad

Next, swipe up from the bottom to bring up the toolbar, with your pinned apps and also your most recent ones – this is why you opened the other app, as it should be on this bar. Now open the main app you want to split screens with – if you don't want the apps you're splitting the screen between to have equal sizes, choose the one that will take up the majority of screen space as this. Now close it again – all you needed to do was open it briefly, so it appears in your toolbar at the bottom of the screen. To split your screen on iOS, you actually have to start by finding your second app, and opening it.

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