Federico Viticci has tried a bunch of foldables and they’ve left him excited for Apple’s upcoming folding iPhone. As an iPad expert, he’s curious about which direction Apple with go for its multitasking system:

But here’s what gets me excited about Apple entering this space: the company has decades of expertise in designing polished UIs, windowing controls, and multitasking systems that they can bring to the table and instantly one-up every other Android manufacturer. Apple can literally go shopping in the iPad’s long archive of current and formermultitasking UIs and choose whatever they see fit for an iPhone Fold. Split View? Been there, done that…multiple times.

After trying iPadOS 26, I’ve come to appreciate how good we had it with iPadOS 18’s Split View and Slide Over. I think I’d want SV/SO for a naked, touch-first iPad or iPhone Duo. iPadOS 26’s new windowed multitasking is a fine option for when you’ve connected a trackpad and keyboard. But you should always be able to return to SV/SO. Or turn those off too for a true single window mode. Three established levels of increasing complexity doesn’t seem like too much.