Apple didn’t mention anything about split-screen multitasking at its Worldwide Developers Conference, but developer Steven Troughton-Smith notes iOS 8′s internal SpringBoard includes code that allows apps to run side-by-side in multiple sizes. This feature is reported to only work in landscape mode and with the latest iPad Air.
We’ll have to wait and see if Apple enables this feature in an upcoming beta release, but for now, we can only speculate on what it will look like. The video below is a concept of how split-screen multitasking could work on iOS. But I think Apple could do much better than this.
