![]() The tablet runs Apple’s iPadOS, which has limited multi-tasking capabilities compared with macOS, leaving the M1’s power confined to individual apps. Some apps can be used in a split-screen configuration for limited multitasking with iPadOS. Outside of HDR video the screen is restricted to the same 600nits brightness as previous iPad Pros, which is still far brighter than most tablets, laptops and monitors, but helps keep the solid 10 hours of battery life. With very few rivals reaching a brightness of more than 500nits ( a standard measure of screen brightness), only the very best smartphone screens such as that on the Galaxy S21 Ultra come anywhere near close to the iPad Pro’s peak HDR brightness of 1,600nits. Night scenes are a particular treat with lights shining out from the pitch-black darkness, while sunrises burst with colour and vibrancy. An array of 2,596 individual LEDs behind the LCD display only light up behind bright parts of the image, producing super-bright lights and deep, inky blacks in dark areas.įeed the iPad Pro an HDR movie and you’re treated to arguably the best picture this side of a £1,500 television. The new screen technology is an evolution of the traditional LCD display called “ mini LED”, which has hitherto been the preserve of high-end televisions. “For many, the iPad is the primary computer,” Federighi said, announcing the new iOS 9 features, which also include a new keyboard that becomes a trackpad that can control the cursor.The tablet is 0.5mm thicker and 41g heavier but otherwise looks the same as 2018’s wow-factor redesign and its 2020 follow up: functional, attractive and premium. In the new desktop OS’s version of Safari, splitscreen browsing windows that snap to the side when dragged were demonstrated, hinting at the possibility that a splitscreen mode would arrive in iOS as well. ![]() The feature includes a new app switcher that lets users swipe to pull an app into the new multi-tasking view.Įarlier during the keynote, Federighi showed off a similar splitscreen feature in the newly announced OS X El Capitan. Slide-over is available on iPad Air, Air 2, Mini 2, and Mini 3. Split View is only available on iPad Air 2. The latter lets you open a second app without leaving your current app. The former allows two apps to run at the same time, side-by-side, on the same screen. There are two different terms Apple used for its new multitasking mode, Split View and Slide Over. The best news, Federighi notes: “If you’ve adopted auto layout, this will all just work,” he says. You can then drag the picture-in-picture video around the screen, and resize it with a pinch zoom. By tapping the notification, you’re able to open up the Mail app while the ESPN video goes picture-in-picture and continues to play. Each app is running fully independently.Īs the demo continued, Federighi was able to tap a Map link within a note, and it opens within the Apple Maps application on the left side of the screen.Īnother example showed how, while watching a video within the ESPN app, an email arrives. On the left side, he was running one app, and on the right, another. While using Safari, he swiped from the right side of the screen - and a view of the Messages app slides into place. He then swiped down from above on the Messages view, and is able to switch just that one app independently. In addition to Surface, Samsung Galaxy Tab devices also previously offered a multi-window mode.Ĭraig Federighi, Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, demonstrated the iPad’s new split screen view during the WWDC keynote this morning. The iPad splitscreen feature has been rumored for some time. ![]() This sort of feature is something Microsoft has previously used to target the iPad in its advertisements, which highlighted its own Surface tablet as something that’s better for those doing “real work” on its hybrid laptop/tablet computer. Apple is looking to make iPads more functional devices for business productivity with a new split-screen app mode which allows iPad users to run two different apps side-by-side.
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