You’re right—I missed it in the beta because the control center toggle allows you to switch between “Full Screen Apps” and whichever of the two multi-tasking options you’ve enabled. I had thought there might be a three-way button or more than one button so you could chose any of the three modes from control center. But it looks like, at least in beta 1, it’s just on or off for one multi-tasking mode.
This describes article everything how I don’t want to use an iPad. People compare it to a Mac and that is what Apple is giving us, because they don’t have the vision and balls to be different (anymore). Now we have 2 different Macs, but I was doing fine with one Mac system.
Apple famously never used to do focus groups, or seek outside opinions, they go with what they know and what their gut tells them would be a good direction.
What we don’t have access to is any of the analytics Apple has. They may be seeing that an insignificant percentage use the Slide Over function (e.g. like 0.02% of users), and that wouldn’t surprise me as it’s not discoverable for your average user. 0.02% is still millions of people, but as a metric to justify developer time, it doesn’t move the needle at all.
This is why, if you want your “voice” to be heard, you should share analytics with Apple. I know people will turn them off for privacy reasons, that’s completely their call, but this means that how they’re using the ipad doesn’t come into Apple’s view.
This is probably stupid on my part, but I’ve always turned that off, not only for privacy reasons, but because I assume that when I am on battery power, the sharing of analytics uses additional energy. Probably minuscule, but that has been my thinking. Am I wrong?
From a battery perspective I would guess the difference is minimal for sending Analytics data.
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I have always shared analytics data, both with Apple and with the developers, across all my devices, and never have I noticed any negative impact on the battery life. The analytics files are quite small by today’s standards so any transfer of these will not use much energy.
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I have the beta installed on my iPad, and I tested all three modes. The Slide Over function is not working. I hope that this is a bug and Apple will allow us to use Slide Over in Full-Screen Apps Mode.
Yes, the tiled windows have margins just like on macOS. However, unlike macOS, I don’t see a setting to turn off the margins as of now.
Report, Report, Report through Feedback app.
Feedback early and often as once they’re through the first couple of betas, the chances of something being “fixed” over the last 12 months is zero.
Already reported it. I mostly use iPad for Writing with Ulysses open full-screen. Any reference material is hidden in slide over mode. That gives me the perfect distraction free environment. I need Apple to bring this feature back.
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Sadly I think that’s really unlikely 
I’ve been using iOS 26 on an iPad Pro 11" M4 and 12.9" M1, confirm I’m seeing the same as what @appsntips, no more Split View or Slide Over.
Personally I moved away from using Slide Over a while back, so I’m not impacted on that change. I will say that using the new windowing system for my use case is amazing.
@geoffaire is right, if this is an issue, make sure you submit feedback using the Feedback Assistant and submit with each new release through the beta cycle.
How stable is the beta for you?
Anyone else using the iPadOS beta, is swiping left and right with 4+ fingers to switch to previous apps not working for you? I hope that gesture hasn’t changed. (Multiple apps are active in memory. I have four and five finger gestures enabled and Windowed Apps enabled in Multitasking settings.)
The beta is quite unstable across devices, so I wouldn’t recommend installing it on your primary device.
I just tested it. The gesture works in Full Screen Apps and Stage Manager modes. It is not working in Windowed Apps mode. I think it’s a bug, which should be resolved with future updates.
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I just watched a video from 9-to-5 Mac showing that the new Split View really matches the functionality of the old Split View we know and love. Here is a clip from the video showing how it works. He starts with quad windows but moves over to dual windows.
That doesn’t help with Slide Over, but at least it addresses one of these two issues.
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Has anybody heard/discovered whether Stage Manager retained the 4-app-per-stage limitation or whether it has also increased to 12 on the higher end iPads, as with Windowed Apps?
It appears that the 4-app-per stage limit is gone.
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