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With Apple's new iOS 11, the company not only introduced a brand new mobile OS for iPhones, it completely revamped the experience for iPads as well. Indeed, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said this is the "largest iOS release for iPad" yet.
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+4For one thing, the dock now holds way more apps than before, and you can hide and reveal it much like you can with the dock on macOS There's even a little predictive area on the far right that guesses what app you're likely to launch next. What's more, you can pull an app from the dock directly to the screen to have it appear in a Slide Over split screen windowed view. This, Federighi said, could be useful for multitasking.
Another handy feature is a new app switcher, which lets you not only swap out apps faster and easier by dragging and dropping, but also lets you see previews of each app, much like you can on macOS. What's more, you can also flick on keys to access number and punctuation for even faster typing.
Also, you know that rumored Files app for iOS? It's live here, on the iPad. You can access all of your iPad's files on here, including nested folders and tags. Oh, and it even supports third-party storage folders from the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive.
The drag-and-drop functionality is improved as well. Now you can drag and drop a URL from Safari right into an email, and images too.
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