HOW TO View multiple apps on iPad

1 Split the view

To use Split View, tap on the ‘…’ at the very top of the app you’re currently using and tap Split View. The app will move to the side and your Home Screen appears; tap the app you want to launch. You can adjust the split by dragging it.

2 Slide it over

If you want your current app to take up most of the available screen space, use Slide Over instead of Split View. This brings up the second app you choose in a much narrower panel. As with Split View you can drag and drop between apps.

3 Enable Stage Manager

On an iPad with an M1 processor, you can also use the new Stage Manager feature in iPadOS 16. To do that, you‘ll need to switch it on first. Go to Settings > Home Screen & Multitasking > Stage Manager and turn it on.

4 Stage Manager switch

To move into Stage Manager, pull down from the top right of the screen to display your iPad’s Control Centre. You should now see the Stage Manager toggle; here it’s the very bottom icon. Tap it to continue.

5 Open your first app

Open an app and you’ll see that now, it doesn’t open full screen. Instead it leaves room for other recent apps in the column at the left. To add another app, tap the ‘…’ at the top of the app and then Add Another Window.

6 Open your next app

Tap on the app you want to open next and you should now see the screen looking like this. You’ll see there are grab handles at the lower right and lower left of the two app windows; drag them to resize the app’s window.

7 Adjust the apps

In this screenshot, we’ve made Apple Maps take up the lion’s share of the screen space, and we can switch between our two apps simply by tapping on the one we want. As with Slide Over and Split View you can drag between apps.

8 Drag between apps

To drag between apps, simply highlight the text or image you want to copy from the first app then press and hold, dragging it over its destination. Here we’re dragging from a Wikipedia page in Safari to an open doc in Pages.

9 Leave the stage

You can go back to normal singleapp mode by tapping the ‘…’ at the top of an open app and selecting Zoom, or pull down Control Centre from the top right and then tap on the Stage Manager toggle to switch Stage Manager off again.