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I’m getting used to the new implementation of Slide Over.
Overall it is nicer but I’d like a one-step gesture to take the Slide Over app full screen, particularly when the app it is on top of does not support split view etc.
But it seems to take two steps:
- navigate to home screen and launch from there (this can be done with keyboard shortcuts also)
- double-tap Home to bring up task switcher and select it there.
- if the app underneath supports split view, then you can change from SO to SV by dragging the ‘handle’ on the SO panel and then to full screen by dragging the separator right or left.
I don’t really miss being able to change the Slide Over app in situ (by navigating a lengthy list of the SO-capable apps). Picking it from the Dock usually works well, though one might have to launch the app first so it is in the Recents section. But there is no visual indication that a dock item is SO-capable until you start dragging the item ‘into play.’
It also seems a little abitrary that there is no way to designate the SO app from Home screen: you have to have some other app in foreground first. Why can’t you have SO in Home screen also? Or Split view with Home screen in one of the panels?
It is nice that both the ‘underneath’ app and the SO app are ‘active’ - activating the ‘underneath’ app doesn’t hide the SO app. Wonder if drag-drop works there too?
And it is much more fluid to hide/reveal the SO app.
I see PIP is improved too: you can slide the PIP window off to the edge in any of the 4 corners it floats in. At least I don’t remember being able to do this before.
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