iOS 9: Multi-User Support, Split-Screen Mode On iPad

The iOS 9-related rumors have been aplenty during the past couple of days, and a report earlier today keeps the brawl rolling in suggesting that Apple is prepping support for multiple users in a future software update. Additionally, there could too be a very interesting dual-app viewing mode, and given that many iOS users have been hoping to see such features for a long time, this is arguably the most exciting iOS 9 tidbit to appointment.

The source of this report is 9to5Mac'due south Marker Gurman, who seems to accept the inside scoop on many of Apple'south future plans. Today, equally well equally corroborating the thought that a 12-inch or thereabouts iPad "Pro" may be on its manner, he's also spoken near a key feature that could be introduced with iOS 9 - separate-screen apps.

The ability to use ane or more than apps on a device with a display the size of the iPad Air's is something that the iOS community has collectively yearned for over the years, but every bit nonetheless, nothing has happened in this regard. If this report is to be believed, though, split-screen multitasking could be here as soon every bit iOS 9, and the unannounced larger iPad, in detail, would be able to take full advantage of such a feature.

Plainly, Apple wanted to introduce split-screen app support with iOS 8, which would have given iPad users license to run 2 apps side by side on the latest software. All the same, with the Apple Watch and other priorities consuming time and resources, the project was put on hold, and since the wearable is now out in the wild, Apple tree now looks to be picking things back up.

Likewise every bit split-screen, another long-awaited feature may be on the cards. Multi-user support has been a characteristic of Android tablets for a while, with Google having added smartphone support with Android five.0 Lollipop. Rivals of the iPad running Microsoft's Windows, such as the Surface Pro 3, tin too store the data and settings of more one user, and Gurman's source believes that iOS will before long offer similar functionality.

Apparently, "several users" will be able to share the aforementioned iPad just retain their ain apps, documents, media and other personal info, and since many groups and families share tablets every bit they would a desktop reckoner, it's definitely time that Apple presented users with such an choice. In addition to the general consumer, Apple also sees multi-user capabilities as important to the "enterprise and teaching sectors," so it seems that this feature could be among Apple's priorities.

The divide-screen mode could make the first iOS 9 beta when it's released after the Worldwide Developers Conference side by side month, while multi-user support might non arrive until slightly later down the line. Regardless, let'southward just hope that these major gaps in Apple's mobile software are not left unchecked for much longer.

(source: 9to5Mac)

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