As far as I know, iPadOS 26 will no longer have Slide Over. I don’t need five apps open on an 11” screen, but Slide Over is great for quick peeks and taking notes. Without it, I’ll probably end up using my iPad a lot less.
Please tell me I’m wrong and that Slide Over will still be available in iPadOS 26.
For me the iPad feels less and less as a tablet. Apple is moving it to a desktop computing device and I want a tablet. For desktop computing I have a Mac. Perhaps it’s time to sell the iPad and just buy a larger iPhone. Typing that feels sad, because for years the iPad was my most loved device.
maybe just wait till the final release before you jump on decisions? you can tile apps and then open other floating windows on top of that
Attack That feels cumbersome. On an 11" device, I want most apps full screen otherwise a big iPhone will do the job too. For example, why would I want to use apps like Books or Kindle tiled? With this direction, the iPad no longer fits my use case.
You can enable full screen apps or switch to stage manager for tiled windows in control center in just a few seconds. They haven’t removed the ability to use an iPad traditionally.
What I wish they would do is automatically switch between stage manager and full screen when connecting or disconnected from the Magic Keyboard.
Also, all apps default to the last state you used them in even with stage manager so you can combine both based on the app.
That is correct. And @McWimmish, they demonstrated that a quick flick to the left or right creates the Slide Over view. My takeaway from what I saw is that the iPad will gain many of the most requested features from the Mac while preserving the features that make the iPad a tablet. We gain functionality—we do not lose it.
I keep 1Password in slide over, and occasionally Drafts. 
I am personally not amused by having multipled tiled windows on an iPad. Or, better said, my eyesight does not allow me to cram all that content in a 13’’ screen, at that point I would use my desktop. That said, having the choice is great for those who still keep their eagle eyes 
On a tangential note, let’s see what happens with the Liquid Glass in terms of readability with all that transparency, although here I am less reluctant because Apple is usually great with accessibility.
Agreed. Though Apple is good with accessibility, they are not consistent. The text in Apple Remembers is too small and cannot be enlarged.
I’m not particularly interested in that either. What does catch my attention are the improvements to the Files app—I’m hopeful these changes will make a significant difference. Additionally, I’m curious whether the new menu option introduces features that bring the iPad apps closer to parity with their desktop counterparts.
At this point perhaps we will see Finder in iPadOS in a year or two.
I sure don’t want to wait that long. 
Alongside removing Slideover, I’ve just read that ipadOS will also remove the traditional Split View. 
Now this has really annoyed me.
I love the fact that with a single App or two in a split view the screen is still focused. I know they’re offering the ability to snap windows to the left and right, but I really hope Shortcuts is still able to pair windows like this.
You can create the same feature as Split View with the new tiling feature. And you can still adjust the division between the two windows from 50-50 to 2/3-1/3 to 1/3-2/3, etc.
Slide Over is gone, though. You cannot approximate Slide Over in the way that you can dismiss the slide over UI and bring it in over a full-screen app (or pair of Split View apps). That is too bad for people who loved slide over. I was a huge fan but I really like Stage Manager; so, I never really missed Slide Over. In the full screen app mode, I think the better approach would be to have Full Screen + Split View/Slide Over. That way every mode enables multitasking, but in Full Screen mode multitasking is obscured to anyone who doesn’t even want to bother with it.
From what they showed on the Keynote it’s not focused though. You can see the wallpaper at the sides for example. Having everything else blocked out is a significant benefit.
I use the Mac the same way with the fullscreen view with one or two windows.
All I can say to you and the OP is to report the Slideover feature “missing” using feedback assistant, early and often.
I know you can do that, but they are removing Slide Over and that drastically changes the way I use the iPad. To me it is a focused device and that will be harder to achieve with the current direction. I think this is due to a lack of product vision. To me, it seems that Apple is listening too much to a few noisy influencers, YouTubers or whatever you call them.
Probably unpopular opinion: if I were Apple, I’d kill everything but the new windowing system on the iPad. Support Slide Over there in some way, if possible. A clean break. There is zero reason a device like an iPad needs (now) three multitasking paradigms users can choose from. The Stage Manager should have been unified with the new windowing system purely as an option to create and display ‘stages’, not still offered as a separate system as it is now.
Apple is known for streamlining and simplifying things, and their approach to multitasking systems on the iPad over the years has been anything but simple – and just demonstrates a lack of vision. Stage Manager will probably be gone next on both the iPad and the Mac as it is clunky in managing windows compared to the new windowing system, in the same way Launchpad is now gone on the Mac.
As best I can tell, there’s no more stage manager. Just multitasking, which can be turned on or off.
