Apple's iPadOS 26 introduces a revamped multitasking system that improves app window management on the iPad, allowing users to resize and freely position apps on the screen. It combines familiar navigation with new features, such as easy resizing and the ability to save app placements even after closing. The enhanced support for mouse and trackpad interaction further streamlines this process. Users have the option to disable multitasking if desired, highlighting Apple's aim to accommodate varying preferences and ensure intuitive usability in this latest update.
The new multitasking system is mostly pretty easy to understand. You unlock the iPad and you're dropped onto the homescreen full of app icons, same as always.
You can even turn the whole windowing system off in settings, if you want to. But as soon as you tap and drag the little icon in the bottom right corner of the window, the app starts to shrink.
Once you've resized an app, that is now the size and placement of that app. If you close and re-open it, it'll open in the same size and place until you move it or resize it again.
I’ve come to think of this space on my iPad as kind of an 'app screen,' next to my homescreen, organized and laid out however I like.
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