Apple has — mostly — brought back Slide Over to the iPad, while the company is looking more focused than ever on Apple Glasses, it may also be shaking up its management team. Plus speaking of teams, the Underdogs are back.
Apple has bowed to pressure from iPad users and brought back Slide Over in the latest beta. It's a feature that used to be how iPad users could run a third app at the same time so it was superseded by iPadOS 26's windowing system, but if you liked Slide Over, you really liked it.
So far it is only in the latest beta release of iPadOS, but then it's also not complete. At present, it's a token nod toward demands of its return, though hopefully Slide Over's full functionality will be back by the time this update is officially released.
Apple has also bowed to pressure, though, from the US government. In a move that has caused controversy, it has removed apps related to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
Although speaking of bowing to pressure, Apple's Underdogs are doing anything but. Ignoring that their last video was pulled, the team of characters try to get their packaging business off the ground, and manage to use every Apple feature you can imagine along the way.
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Links from the show:
- What's new in iPadOS 26.1 beta 2: Slide Over returns, visual tweaks
- AR screen won't come until the second generation Apple Glasses
- John Giannandrea wasn't Apple's AI savior, and the company may be looking for a replacement
- Apple's leadership page will look very different in the next five years
- One of these three Apple executives will probably be Tim Cook's replacement
- Apple's EU Digital Markets Act antitrust debacle may be settled soon
- ICEBlock app removed from App Store after DOJ demands, citing safety concerns
- Ex-execs slam Tim Cook for eroding Apple's moral authority after ICEBlock pull
- ICEBlock isn't the only ICE-tracking app that Apple and Google have removed
- Developers must comply with new Texas age requirement law, and Apple has detailed how
- Discord support was breached, and accounts vary on how bad it was
- The Underdogs return to attack Windows' Blue Screen of Death
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