Ahead of iOS 8's launch, there were tantalizing rumors that the iPad would get split-screen multitasking. They were roundly ignored by Cook & Co. but persists because developers have found code which hints at its presence—and here's how it might work.
This
GIF and video, below, have been put together by Steve Troughton-Smith
after playing around in the iOS 8 iPad Simulator. He's managed to enable
some of those rumored split screen skills, using a two-finger swipe to
the side to activate them. The results show Safari being resized to fill
75, 50 and 25 percent of the screen. In fact, filling just a quarter,
it looks a lot like the iPhone running the same software.
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It
looks pretty great, and isn't hard to imagine using to, say, read a web
page while composing an email. Remember, though, that it is based on
some guess work, as well as the aforementioned code,
and we're yet to see what two apps running side-by-side might look
like. Indeed, given Apple completely ignored the new feature it may not
even see the light of day just yet. We'll have to wait and see. [@stroughtonsmith via 9to5Mac via Engadget]