

When I first discovered the new Split View support in the iPad version of the Music app, I thought: Who needs this? Well, if you love music and are constantly researching new artists, albums, and songs, being able to search for tunes in the Music app while reading reviews or music reviews on Safari is incredibly useful. When you’re done with Split View, grab the bar and move it back to a tab in the main window. Drop the tab into the grey space and it’ll expand to fill half the screen. The original window will shrink and a grey space will appear next to it. How it works: Press and hold the tab you want to put in its own window, then drag it to the left or right side of the screen. Now I can easily do that on the iPad with Split View for Safari tabs, new in iOS 10. But one way I multitask on my Mac is by having a few web browser windows open at once so I can compare notes without toggling between tabs. Multitasking on the iPad Pro is supposed to be easy. If you have a lot of email to wrangle or a slew of notes in various folders (as you can see below, I clearly don’t), the new view will go a long way toward helping you stay organized. You’ll only see this icon in Notes and Mail, and only on the 12.9-inch Pro. To view all three panes, turn your big Pro from portrait to landscape mode and tap a new multi-pane icon on the top left of your screen and watch the app expand. iOS 10 brings a three-pane interface to Mail and Notes on the 12.9-inch model, and it’s so useful that I hope Apple will open up that functionality to developers so I can have the same multitasking abilities in Outlook. I really dig the giant iPad Pro, but not a lot of apps make good use of that massive display.
