Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, November 18th, 2025.

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Leading off today, Apple has released iPadOS 26.3 beta 3, and it brings a key upgrade to slide over and split-view multitasking.

The context here is that iPadOS 26 brought an all-new multitasking experience to the iPad,

but it came at the cost of slide-over and omission that proved controversial among iPad users.

It also removed important split-view features as well.

With iPadOS 26.1, Apple responded to some of that feedback and added a new version of Slideover back on the iPad. But in the initial

implementation of Slideover in 26.1, Apple just covered the basics. You can use the green Traffic

Light window control to put an app in

slideover mode. That window then floats on top of your other windows and can easily be hidden

when needed. Split view is activated the same way. One feature that's missing, however, is the

ability to drag an app out of the dock to enter slideover or split view mode. But in iPadOS 26.2,

that functionality has been restored. You can now drag an app out of your iPad's dock or spotlight

search results to quickly put it in slide over or a split view window. As you drag the app icon,

the window preview morphs to indicate whether you're placing it in split-view,

slide-over, or a full window.

This is very similar to the iPadOS 18 implementation of these features.

Slide-over is still missing features like the ability to have a stack of multiple apps,

and it still requires that you use the new windowing mode in iPadOS 26.

But that said, iPadOS 26.2 is a big step in

the right direction for people still longing for the initial implementation of slideover and

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