Matt Birchler: ‘The Mac-ification of iPadOS’

Take window management, for example. The iPad started by supporting one window at a time in full screen. 5 years into it’s life, it got split screen, which was implemented in a limited, but very iPad-feeling way that embraced the touch UI […] With iPadOS 26, users are forced to make a strange choice: revert back to one window at all times or adopt the Mac-like windowing system, the iPad-native split screen is dead.

Count me as someone who rejoices the unbridled window mangement for folks who want it, but mourns the loss of Split View and Slide Over.