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Split screen not working for IPad Air 2

I updated my IPad Air 2 and I am able to do the Slide Over feature, but from there I cannot pull it over and turn it into a split screen. My bf has the same iPad and I upgraded his and it works just fine. Not sure what to do about this.

iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 16, 2015 2:03 PM

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Oct 6, 2015 8:39 AM in response to scamper

So mine's working again. I went into the task switcher and swiped up every app, then force-rebooted the iPad (i.e. home/sleep until it reset). On wake, all the apps were still in the task switcher, so I quit them again. I opened Notes and dragged from the right. Only the tab appeared. But then I dragged again from near the home button and it worked.


My assumption now is that something gummed up the feature somehow, and that the tab thing is a separate process somehow, to make you drag from the 'correct' point. Only dragging from there does nothing it if gets stuck. I suspect (although have no proof of this) that Pixelmator might have been to blame, because it has support but also happens to be such a resource-hungry app. (On an iPad Air, it sometimes can't open, due to RAM requirements.)

Oct 8, 2015 12:19 AM in response to CraigG

Tweetbot!


Okay I can't honestly blame Tweetbot, but that's the app that gummed up slide over on my iPad. I was reading an article about how great the new Tweetbot is, and I realized that I hadn't really taken the time to peruse it. Back out to springboard, and I see that the Tweetbot icon is dimmed, as if it's in the middle of an update. But it's not. And not only that, I can't delete it, even after a restart. So I log out of my Apple Store account, and that unsticks it. As I'm redownloading Tweetbot it occurs to me that that's the last app I tried in slide over.


Now, with all my apps unstuck, slide over is working as it should. I still don’t know how my apps decided to get stuck in the first place, but let it be known that a stuck app may very well take slide over down with it. And, as we suspected above, deleting the app that took down slide over seems to be the solution.

Split screen not working for IPad Air 2

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