Apple is also investing in improvements to iCloud’s infrastructure and iOS applications as well as a public transit routing feature for the Maps app. Apple is working on a Healthbook application for the iPhone that would connect to medical/fitness devices and applications to track points of interest such as blood data, calorie intake, sleep cycles, and weight changes. In addition to multitasking changes for the iPad, iOS 8 is said to include a slew of other features. The feature may also be key to a larger-screened iPad, which Apple is actively developing for a launch either later this year or in 2015. The feature is said to work exclusively in landscape mode. The feature is said to be designed with the 9.7-inch iPad display in mind, and it is unclear if the feature will work on the smaller-screened iPad mini. This functionality may mean that Apple is finally ready to enable “XPC” support in iOS (or improved inter-app communication), which means that developers could design App Store apps that could share content.Ī split-screen iPad multitasking feature has been requested by iPad fans for several years and some designers have even designed sample user-interfaces, unofficial tweaks, and videos for how they would like the feature to function. Apple is said to be developing capabilities for developers to be able to design their apps to interact with each other. For example, a user may be able to drag content, such as text, video, or images, from one app to another. In addition to allowing for two iPad apps to be used at the same time, the feature is designed to allow for apps to more easily interact, according to the sources. The feature has opened up the door for the Surface to be a true laptop replacement, and will further herald the iPad as Apple’s vision of the future for mobile computing. Microsoft has even released an ad comparing multitasking features for the Surface and iPad: The feature is popular in the enterprise and in environments where users need to handle multiple tasks at the same time. Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets has a popular “snap” multitasking feature that allows customers to snap multiple apps onto the screen for simultaneous usage. The ability to use multiple applications simultaneously on a tablet’s display takes a page out of Microsoft’s playbook. Up until now, each iPad application either developed by Apple or available on the App Store is only usable individually in a full-screen view. These people say that the feature will allow iPad users to run and interact with two iPad applications at once. IOS 8 is likely to supercharge the functionality of Apple’s iPad with a new split-screen multitasking feature, according to sources with knowledge of the enhancement in development.
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