If you haven’t mastered iOS 9 and all its new
tricks introduced, then it’s easy to find yourself using the
iPad Pro as just a jumbo iPad Air or iPad mini. But new multitasking features
like Picture in Picture, Split View, and Slide Over transform the iPad Pro
experience and shine on the larger display if you know how to use them and
which apps work. And while the iPad Pro doesn’t have 3D Touch like new iPhones,
there’s a similar keyboard cursor gesture to now about. All that plus
much more on unlocking the full potential of the iPad Pro below:
Before we dive in, many of these tips will apply to all
iPads with iOS 9 while other features are limited to iPad mini 4 (7.9″), iPad
Air 2 (9.7″), and iPad Pro (12.9″). If you’re comfortable with the bigger
display of the Pro, however, it is able to present the most amount of content
at once when multitasking.
Newly available in iOS 9, iPads support three multitasking
features: Split View, Slide Over, and Picture in Picture. Not all features are
available on all iPads however, and each works best on iPad Pro unless the
display size is a deal breaker for you.
None of the new multitasking features are obvious, but Picture
in Picture is the easiest to stumble upon. Play a video in a
supported app, then press the Home button to leave the app and your video
shrinks into a mini player and doesn’t stop. There’s also a new “two boxes and
an arrow” icon on video players that support PIP. Tap it to continue watching
your video within that app, or leave the app and take your video with you.
The Picture in Picture window follows you from app to app
until you disable it, only going out of focus when you double click the
Home button or swipe up with four fingers to switch apps. You can move the
PIP around the iPad’s display, although it’s limited to the four corners for
now. Activating the on-screen keyboard will push the PIP up so you can
type, and you can even tuck the PIP out of view temporarily by pushing it off
screen.
Tap the PIP at any point to view playback progress along the
bottom, switch back to full screen, play/pause the video, or close it. You can
also pinch to shrink or expand the size of the PIP, and the iPad Pro supports
the largest version of any iPads.
Picture in Picture works on iPad Pro, iPad Air or
later, and iPad mini 2 or later. The only hitch here is that video
apps have to opt-in to support it. Built-in apps like Safari, Videos for iTunes
movies and TV shows, FaceTime, and Podcasts just work, but your own videos in
Photos and music videos from Apple Music won’t. Third-party apps like HBO NOW and Hulu are my favorites to use for Picture in Picture. Netflix and YouTube haven’t added support yet, but YouPlayer and Go Picture in Picture enable YouTube PIP on iPads with
different approaches.
source: https://9to5mac.com/2015/11/19/how-to-unlock-the-ipad-pros-full-potential-with-ios-9s-multitasking-features-third-party-apps-more/
by Zac Hall
http://www.buyetail.com
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