After recently completing the months-long rollout of Dark Mode in Gmail's iPhone and iPad app, Google has at long last gotten around implementing support for Split View multitasking.
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Astrid brings a snazzy new multitasking experience to jailbroken handsets
Multitasking is an important feature on modern smartphones and tablets, not only because we demand more and more out of our apps at any one given time, but also because we want to be able to do more than one thing at once to save time. Multitasking has come a long way on the iOS platform over the years, but one fact remains true: the jailbreak community continues to have of the best multitasking concepts that Apple still has yet to incorporate out of the box.
Astrid by iOS developer MTAC is the latest of such multitasking concepts to come to fruition in the form of a jailbreak tweak as of late. Astrid aims to be a no-BS interface for simply accessing your most recently-used apps in a jiffy. Best of all, it includes creature comfort features that the standard App Switcher doesn’t.
How to use Picture in Picture on iPhone and iPad to multitask like a pro
Learn how to master Picture in Picture on your iPhone and iPad to continue a video call or video playback while you use another app.
Word and PowerPoint gain Split View, trackpad support coming to Office for iOS by the fall
Keeping true to its promise, Microsoft yesterday updated its Word and PowerPoint productivity apps on the App Store with the ability to open two documents in a side-by-side view on iPad via Split View multitasking support. The Excel app did not pick up Split View support at post time, however. Microsoft has also acknowledged that it's working on implementing iPadOS trackpad support for the Office suite, but don't expect to be taking advantage of it before the fall.
Multi-window support is coming to Word and PowerPoint on iPad
Microsoft is now testing iOS 13's ability to have apps run several windows of the same app on iPad with its own Word and PowerPoint software.
The best free Mac apps for managing simple work and home projects
You may not be a project manager by trade, but you do have projects to manage. So you probably don’t need a fancy or extensive project management tool. But you do need one to keep track of smaller projects for work, school, or your home.
These Mac apps can help you stay up to date on all of your projects. They offer project and task management with extra features but still keep things simple. Best of all, they’re each available for free. And those that have in-app purchases do so to give you more features you might want but don’t necessarily need.
For keeping track of all your projects, check out this list of the best Mac apps for managing them.
The best free Mac apps to help you focus when working from home
When you work from home, there are a lot of distractions. And while you certainly have interruptions in a physical office or workplace, those you have at home are just a bit different. So if you aren’t used to working at home every day, you need to prepare for these disruptions.
To help you readjust after an interruption and concentrate better on your work, we’ve assembled a list of Mac apps to help you focus. These apps use different techniques and combinations of them such as the pomodoro timer and Eisenhower Matrix methods.
If you need some assistance getting used to working in a home office, these apps should help.
Apple-owned Shazam updated with Split View multitasking support on iPad
Shazam, the Apple-owned song identification service that's built into Siri, today pushed an update to its App Store app bringing support for side-by-side multitasking.
This cool concept shows one way to improve iPad multitasking, but has a few usability issues
We've been hearing some complaints lately about multitasking on iPad which, for all its advantages and advancements, hasn't really reached a point where average users could figure out that stuff on their own to multitask like pros. Honestly, it's a convoluted mess. Such harsh criticism is grounded in facts, and that's precisely why this deceptively simple iPad multitasking concept has been making rounds in the past couple of days.
First major iOS 14 leak: a new iPad-like grid design for the app switcher on iPhone
A somewhat reliable leakier last evening shared alleged videos on social media of iOS 14's purported new iPad-style multitasking switcher on iPhone with recent apps displayed on a grid.
You can now open multiple emails at once on Outlook for iPad with Split View multitasking
Microsoft today pushed an update to the native Outlook app for iPhone and iPad which brings support for iOS's side-by-side Split View multitasking mode on iPad. This makes you more productive by making it easy to open multiple emails at once on your Apple tablet.
Documents 7 brings new design, full PDF editor, iPad multitasking features & much more
The Documents app by Ukrainian developer Readdle is the best iOS file manager — think of it as the Files app on steroids. And now, it's gotten even better thanks to a major update bringing some great productivity enhancements and several features people have been waiting for.