The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10

Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by pdimitar on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:19AM (#22169048)

As a programmer, I absolutely gave up on the multitasking on my iPad Pro. I don't use it in such a way and usually don't care. And the very few cases I wanted to use it like that I couldn't succeed in doing it even after my wife showed me 3 times (she uses her own iPad Pro in split screen very often and gotten used to the gestures; and even she makes mistakes occasionally).

Just an anecdote. I am a very technical user and I still got confused by the multitasking / slide-over thing. So I just ignore it.

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by jrockway on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:00AM (#22170540)

I also can't figure it out. I still have some window that appears on the side and I can't figure out how to completely get rid of it (from my experiments with multitasking while I was reading the documentation, or at least some website describing it). I don't know if that's intended but I have no idea how to use it, so don't.

I had an easier time learning Xmonad back in the day, which might say something about Apple's UI design these days.

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Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10 by mlfia on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:29AM (#22169137)

Yes - I have the same experience.

I use the iPad Pro and Juno connect as my main development tools, together with a VNC connection to an AWS instance for tasks that need a desktop.

I tried to use split screen initially but found little value in it and now ignore.

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