For the first five years of its life, the iPad could only run one app at a time. Then, iOS 9 changed everything. That update, released 10 years ago this month, introduced multitasking to the Apple tablet for the first time. "Split View" let you run two apps side-by-side at once; "Slide Over" gave you quick access to a third app in an iPhone-style window; and Picture in Picture made it possible to watch a video while working on something else. In an article published at the time, these changes prompted Lifehacker to proclaim that "iOS 9 actually makes the iPad usable for work."
In total, you could have up to four different windows on screen through this concoction of features, a huge improvement over the previous limit of "one." Coupled with the new keyboard shortcuts, iOS 9 transformed the iPad, and brought it closer to the laptop replacement so many users wanted it to be. "Closer" being the key word there.
Credit: LifehackerMultitasking on iPad is still a work in progress
By iPadOS 16, it seemed like Apple had had enough of people complaining that the iPad wasn't enough like a Mac. This update introduced Stage Manager, which let users display and resize multiple floating app windows on screen. You could even connect your compatible iPad to an external monitor to run Stage Manager on both displays, just as you might connect a MacBook to a monitor. iPadOS 17 improved the experience again, adding support for FaceTime calls from external webcams, while last year's iPadOS 26 provided another overhaul, introducing the closest thing to a macOS-like window system yet, right down to the traffic-light window buttons.
For me, iPadOS still feels at its best when I use one app at a time. All the above efforts to change its nature aside, that's probably because the iPad was originally designed that way.
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