Opening Apps as a Slide Over on the iPad

In this video, we’re going to look at how we can open apps as a slide over, or what Apple calls switching an app window to a slide over window on the iPad. Let’s see how we work with slide overs on the iPad. Let’s go to my iPad. Now when you’re working with an app, let’s go ahead and open up Safari here, we know that it takes up the entire display, we can basically work with one app at a time on the iPad. Now we can open this up in Split view. But we also have another option, we can open up another app as a slide over. So I’m going to go back to my home screen here. I want to open up the music app alongside of Safari, I want to be able to change my music while I’m browsing around in Safari. I want to open up that music app as a slide over. So how do we do that? Well, there are a couple of different ways to do that. If you’re using iPad os 15. The easiest ways to use the iPads new gesture controls, the first thing you’ll want to do is open up the app that you want to use as a slide over. So in my case, what I want to do is I want to open up the music app here as my slide over. So now I just click on it, and it opens up in full screen. Now what I need to do is go to these three dots at the very top.

This is the new gesture control that was introduced with iPad os 15. When I click on this or tap on it, I have a few different options here, one of them being over to the right, slide over. When I click on this slide over button or tap on the slide over button, what I’m able to do is open up the music app as a slider. So let’s do that. I just tap on this, we can see the music app moved over to the right, we can still see it peeking out here. But now what I do is I tap on the app that I want to open up in the background. So now I just go over to Safari here, I tap on it. And now we can see we have Safari open in the background. I can work with Safari while having my music app open as they slide over. What else can we do with this? Well, we can hide it out of the way to do that you just go up to these three dots here again, and we swipe it over to the right now we do not want to drag it over to the edge. If we drag it over to the edge, it’s going to move it into split screen. That’s not what I want to do. I want to just hide it. So now I just take these three dots here. And then I just swipe over to the right, and we can see it disappeared. Now it is still accessible. If I go over to my right edge here. And then I swipe, there’s my slide over, I can have easy access to it yet. So now I want to change the music, I go and change my music, I want to hide it again, I go over to these three dots, I just swipe over to the right, and it disappears. Now I need to change my music again, I just pull over from the right edge. And there’s my slide over, I can also move it over to the left side. Maybe it’s covering something on my Safari browser. So I just take these three dots here. And I can drag it over to the left side. I can also move this off of the screen by just taking these three dots and now swiping over to the left. Again, we do not want to bring it all the way over to the left edge because then it’s going to open it up in split screen. That’s not what you want to do. I just swipe back over and it opens it back up. I can also hide it using a trackpad. If you have an iPad with a trackpad, when you bring your cursor all the way over to the left, and then you swipe again, it disappears. Swipe again to the left. And it shows. If this was over on the right side,

I can bring my cursor over to the right I bring it to the edge. And then I swipe to the right, it disappears. Being that my cursor is now at the edge. When I swipe to the right again, it brings it back. So now we know how to show it. We know how to hide it, we can move it from one side to the other. But also what you can do is open up other apps in this. So what I’m going to do is bring this back over to my right. I like it on the right side here. Now what I want to do is open up a different app as they slide over. Maybe I’m getting a message from someone and I want to open up my messages here. How do I do that? Well, if messages is in your dock, any app that is in your dock, this is the old way of doing it. By the way. If I go down to my dock here, you’re going to see I have messages. What I’m able to do is drag this on top of that, you’re going to see that it changed. We have a little bit of a float over here. And when I let go, it opened up the Messages app as they saw Slide over. So we can do that with any app that is in the dock, or any app that supports slide over not all apps support slide over. In other words, I would not be able to do this with the settings app, it does not support slide over. I can also switch between any of those apps that are in the slide over. So we know that I have my messages app here, we can see it. We also have the music app, you saw how I added that as a slide over. Well, I have a couple other apps too. I’ve the news app in there. To view those open apps, what we do is we go down to this horizontal line here down at the bottom, you’re going to see the StarCore on the line in the black horizontal line. When I drag up on that, and I pause slightly, I can see all of the apps there. So now I can see my music app. And I can see the news app.

So I want to go to the news app, I just tap on this, it opens it up in the slide over, I’m getting a message from someone, I want to go back over to my messages app, I just go down to the bottom here, drag this up and pause slightly. And then I can go to the Messages app. I want to open this up in full screen. Well, we just go back up to our three dots here, click on it. And now what I’m able to do is click on the full screen and it opens up that app and full screen. Slideshow words only work when you’re working within an app, you cannot have a slide over on the home screen. We can only use them when we’re working within an app. And again, not all apps support slide over, you’re not going to be able to open up a slide over with the settings app. But you are going to be able to open it up with the files app. So if I go back over to Safari here, and I want to open up the files app as a slide over, while being that files is in my dock. Again, this is how it worked prior to iPad, os 15. All you have to do is just drag up, we can see it is in my dock. So now I just drag this up, we can see it’s going to be a slide over. And now it’s a slide over. The last thing I want to show you what slide overs is when you are in Split View. So let’s put this into split view. I’m going to drag this over to the right edge, it’s now in Split View, I want to open up the music app as a slide over, watch what happens when I try to do that, I’m going to go to my dock here, we’re going to go to the music app.

And when I drag this up, what it tries to do is replace that split view, that’s not what I want to do, I want to open it up as a slide over. Well, if you drag it over the middle here, so I’m over the middle, this bar here in the middle. Now when I let go, it’s a slide over. So right now I have three apps open on my iPad, I have the files app, I have the music app, and then I also have Safari open. Now if you’re looking at all of your open apps, I’m going to swipe up from the bottom. And I’m looking at all of my open apps, we can also see all of the slide over is to the right, so when I drag this over to the right, I can see all of my slide overs. So that’s how we use slide overs on the iPad would slide over as what we’re able to do is switch to an app as a slide over, it’s going to float over top of our current app. So then we’re able to interact with both apps. To open up an app as a slide over, the first thing you’ll want to do is open that app up, it’ll open up in full screen, tap on the three dots at the top of the app. And on the right as the slide over button, tap on the slide over button, that app will move over to the right, you tap on the app that you want to open. And then once you do that, the original app will open as it slide over. From there, you’re able to move it to the left or right by dragging the three dots at the top. If you want to move it off the screen, you take those three dots and just swipe to the left or swipe to the right depending on where that slide over is. And then if you want to see all of your side over apps, you can take that horizontal line at the bottom and drag it up and pause slightly. When you pause, you’re going to be able to see all of your open slide over apps. And then lastly, when you’re looking at all of your open apps, you can also see all of your slide overs by dragging over to the left. So that’s a look at slide overs on the iPad.