stop safari opening half screen

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stop safari opening half screen

I have an iPad. I’ve seen other posts about problems with Safari opening a tiny screen on the right when I click on a link in Mac Mail. I cannot find any place on the iPad to change this so Safari will open in a full screen, and I seem unable to enlarge the screen when it opens in mail. Hopefully there is an easy trick to this, but I haven’t figured it out. Thanks so much for your help.

Also, this is somewhat new: when I make a typo it is now impossible to place the cursor in the middle of a word to correct it. I have to touch at the end of the word and erase until I get to the correction point and retype. Why is this? It makes correcting text so much harder. Is this also a setting I don’t know about?

iPad, iPadOS 13

Posted on Jul 15, 2020 1:23 AM

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Answer 1

ProustGiulio

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Jul 15, 2020 1:31 AM in response to cat00x

Safari split view:--> How to split screen in Safari on your iPad - Apple Support

New gestures in iPadOS 13 or later:--> Type and edit text on iPad - Apple Support

Regards

Giulio

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LotusPilot

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Jul 15, 2020 3:01 AM in response to cat00x

You have clearly managed to enable a Safari Slide Over view - this being a major multitasking feature of iPadOS, fully detailed in the iPad User Guide for iPadOS.

Here is the easy way to change the Slide Over view, to full screen... Identify the small grey drag-bar at top-centre of the Slide Over window. Touch-and-drag the drag-bar to the top-centre of the screen - and lift your finger; the Slide Over window will transform into a full screen view.

Here are links to both the online and downloadable versions of the User Guide:

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/welcome/ipados

https://help.apple.com/epub/ipad/en/

You may also find these Apple’s YouTube videos to be helpful in understanding basic operation of the Slide Over and Split View features of iPadOS:

https://youtu.be/ITzy5J3j5Is

https://youtu.be/nSBZKr5kXYM

I hope you find these materials to be helpful in resolving any issues that you may be experiencing.

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