How can I allow Split View on my iPad running iPadOS 26?

I used split view alot with folders application. I hope Apple brings it back. It’s more confusing now and lot more steps to do.

It no longer allows us to screenshot from the corner option when you’re on a multi-task window. It was really helpful for me as a student, since it was quick and easy. :( I hope this gets fixed.

In easy way

Split screen easy words

zayed12 wrote:

Split screen easy words

All the information that you need is included within my earlier replies to this discussion thread.

Split view does NOT exist. I just checked the guidance.

Please bring back those three buttons . SOOOO MUCH easier.

Ya I know that 2

My iPad feels far less productive now, might have to sell it

boxuanfromhalifax1 wrote:

Totally agree I recently just update my iPad to the newsoperating system it is a nightmare and I can tell you I hate it. I love the split review. This is what I used. I pay for easy to have a two Windows side-by-side. I can study techno lesson music and watch TV but now everything is getting so complicated and I still don't know what the **** the difference between stage management and the wi. I hope just get worse and worse. They turn iPad into a computer so what is different between iPad and Mac Air . I think a lot of people will get rid of iPad and switch the Samsung, which offer much much better product activities and currently there's no difference between an iPad and MacBook.

Split View still exists - and with a little practice, the new controls become second nature. Perhaps reading the guidance provided in my earlier replies to this thread will help to clarify how multitasking features are accessed in iPadOS 26.

We humans often resist change, but we must evolve - just as commercial products will evolve to maintain relevance in the marketplace. You are of course able to choose the device (and Operating System) that best meets your needs - including those that you perceive to be "simpler" and easier to use. Be mindful that other manufacturers devices may also evolve over time.

Apple invites submission of constructive comments and feature requests via its Product Feedback portal. If you would like to see the ability to use the earlier/simpler multitasking features with which you are accustomed, this would be the most appropriate channel to make you voice heard.

For iPad and iPadOS:

Feedback - iPad - Apple

I’m not sure what your stake in this is, but I have no idea why you keep directing people to a post you made that doesn’t address the issue at all. Did you ever use the feature pre-iOS26?

The new 3-dot button isn’t the same as the old one, it’s the equivalent of the macOS window controls and only lets you maximise, hide, or close the window. The friction now is that you used to be able to just drag an app to the side or tap the 3-dot button and choose side-by-side and have it snap into split-screen view automatically but now have to either manually resize and move both windows or swipe down and choose to snap each window through a menu once for each of the two windows you want to have up side-by-side.

The flick (but don’t drag!) gesture to snap windows is so unintuitive that I imagine most people won’t even know it exists, you’d only discover it by accident.

This is a tablet device OS that now has a more cumbersome window manager than both Windows and macOS do; it's a bad change to have made without leaving in the equivalent drag-snap functionality that we’ve had and loved for years. What reason would anyone have for having a window only partially open with the Home Screen visible behind it? Apple had it right already.