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Does iOS not support split screen?
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YouTube doesn't even allow you to close the app and listen to the audio, they're probably want money to allow you to split screen
It's stupid that it's missing. It's only available on the iPad, and is an obvious miss right now for power users.
That said, we've had this thread a bunch in the last year.
That said, we've had this thread a bunch in the last year.
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My bad, it's just shocking the things that iOS doesn't have in comparison to the competition.
On ipad you can run up to four apps at once (split screen, one floating, one picture-in-picture video). I use it frequently.
On iPhone X you can slide between apps effortlessly and I've never been bothered by the lack of it.
Oh, this is a platform war thread in disguise.
iOS allows it, but only on the iPad, not the iPhone. Doesn't really make sense because the Plus models can definitely handle it. They probably won't add it in iOS 12 since that's (from the rumors) mostly bug fixes/optimization/speed improvements, but hopefully with iOS 13.
You need a YouTube Red for background audio, but split screen is something free that works on Android and iPad. iOS just doesn't do split screen on smaller devices, I guess.
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Hopefully they add it in the future
I agree, but we can't turn them to the light side. Just hope that Apple let's them use more features in the future.
Any idea why YouTube doesn't allow PIP on the iPad? I could've sworn 3rd party apps use to have this feature but I think YouTube stopped it from being a thing, I guess to support Red?
Yeah, I can only assume it's because of Red. PIP works great with Hulu and DirecTV Now, for example.
This is a separate question, but before with YouTube videos on era for example, I could play them and exit fullscreen without interrupting the video, and they would keep playing in the background as I browsed. Now however they're either fullscreen or they won't play.
Is this an Era issue or iOS issue? I can't recall what caused to stop working, since the site update and iOS11 update blurred together for me.
Is this an Era issue or iOS issue? I can't recall what caused to stop working, since the site update and iOS11 update blurred together for me.
I'd like split screen on iPhone, the one thing I miss from my iPad.
What else, though?
It's not like Android has had it since time immemorial. It's been there since 2016.
Im sure Apple will deign to give it to us eventually :P
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Can you change default apps yet? If so that's another big one that iOS didn't have for a long time
Eh I remember using it on my note 3 and it probably wasn't a new feature then either
Split screen is so overrated it's trash on Android and it's trash on iPad, what it really lacks on the iPhone which is a shame is picture in picture.
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It's nice if you are emailing someone and doing research on the browser or wanna browse and watch YouTube at the same time. Plenty of good use cases for it imo
The former is a good example I have not thought off. But the latter? That would be super awkward on a phone, that's more of a tablet or laptop use case.
People love to hate Samsung's TouchWiz interface, but their phones have had features that stock Android didn't get until years later. I'm pretty sure Samsung phones had split screen for about three years before it was on stock Android.
I wouldn't mind picture in picture but I can't really think of a practical use for split screen on a phone if I'm honest. I can't say I've ever felt limited because of it anyway.
You might be onto something :thinking:
You might be onto something :thinking:
Certain Android phones had shitty hacky splitscreen early on but it wasn't an official Android feature until Nougat.
And it's shocking the competition doesn't have a lot of what Apple has.
Like a competent processor for starters.
Samsung had their own implementation of it prior to Android officially supporting it. It was limited, as apps had to have support built in, but it was something. 2016 sounds about right for actual Android support.
Since the question in the OP appears to be answered, we are closing this thread to further replies.
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