Easier App Switching<\/h3>\n
Easily the biggest change in iOS 9 for iPad users will be enhanced multitasking support. Up until now, multitasking in the iPad meant jumping from one app to the next or, for the truly fancy, using a four-finger gesture to swipe between apps. Apple is enhancing your multitasking capabilities\u00a0<\/span><\/span>considerably in iOS 9, giving you the ability to run apps side by side.<\/p>\n Using iOS 9\u2019s Slide Over feature, a leftward swipe on your iPad will bring a new app into a pane alongside the main window of the app you\u2019re working in. You could be reading messages in Mail and decide you want to consult something you jotted down in Notes; a swipe would bring up Notes, right next to the Mail window. If you want to take a glance at a different app, just swipe down in the Slide Over pane to bring up a list of other apps.<\/p>\n Changes to the QuickType keyboard in iOS 9 further emphasize how your iPad experience is going to be more laptop-like. Besides suggested words, the bar above the keyboard adds shortcuts for functions like cut and paste, formatting text, and adding attachments. There\u2019s also a camera shortcut for easily adding images to whatever you\u2019re typing.<\/p>\n Apple also added new multitouch functionality<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to the keyboard. Place two fingers on the iPad\u2019s keyboard and you turn it into a virtual trackpad, letting you move around the cursor, select text and drag entire selections to new parts of a document.<\/p>\n The other big multitasking addition to iOS 9 involves a picture-in-picture feature that allows you to watch streaming video in one window while continuing to work in\u00a0Apple\u00a0\u00a0A1022 Battery<\/a>. Demoing the feature, Apple senior vice president of software<\/span><\/span>\u00a0engineering Craig Federighi started off by watching streaming video from the WatchESPN app. Tapping the video shrunk it down to a smaller window and summoned up a different app.<\/p>\n iOS 9 will arrives this fall, though if you\u2019d like to experience some of the changes first-hand on your iPad, a public beta will be available in July. It might take new hardware, like a bigger screen iPad Pro, to fully take advantage of all of these new features, existing iPad owners will also get a significant productivity boost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"acer-aspire-3680-laptop-battery\"](\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/acer-aspire-3680-laptop-battery.png\")
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\nIn addition to these multitasking features, Apple is also modifying the task switcher in iOS 9. The task switcher now offers a full screen preview of all the apps, fanned out in a carousel-like view that appeared vaguely reminiscent of OS X\u2019s Cover Flow view.<\/p>\nMultitasking: Take That, Surface<\/h3>\n
QuickType Turns Keyboard into Touchpad<\/h3>\n
Picture in Picture<\/h3>\n