Last-minute leaks offer quick taste of several important iOS 11 enhancements

A few of Apple's WWDC 2017 software surprises have been ruined just a few hours before the show, including Drag and Drop for iPads.

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YouTube on iOS finally takes advantage of Split View and Slide Over

Our iPad Pro review from late November showed off the Split View, Slide Over and Picture-in-Picture multitasking features that came with an updated iOS. Of course, a lot of time on iTunes was due, but just on half of the screen (or less!). But no time on YouTube was really possible as such — ...

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Google Photos on iOS grows with Split View and Live Photos

If you don’t have the latest in mobile technology from Apple, you’d still be able to take advantage of the latest update to Google Photos on iOS. But then again, you’d want to have Google Photos on iOS in the first place.While you can now back up your fancy-shmancy Live Photos to the service and also get the app into Split View on the latest iPads and

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How Android can really do split-screen multitasking right

Some of you are too young to remember the early days of computing. Back in the 1980’s most of us ran MS-DOS. In this environment your user interface was a black screen with a flashing white cursor (or some other color combination). From there you’d type a command to launch whatever program you wanted to run. That program might have been a word processor, a spreadsheet, an encyclopedia, a game, or some other “app”. Not only could you only run one program at a time, you had to exit out of it if you wanted to switch to another one. Yeah, try writing a research paper ...

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Android needs multi-window support if it’s going to succeed in the future

I’m Joe the Android Guy, and I’ve written over 1,500 articles for Pocketnow. How many of those were written on an Android-powered device? Sadly, only a handful. I would have expected someone with the moniker of “the Android Guy” to use that platform for the majority of the work he does. If you did too, I’m terribly sorry to disappoint you.Android is a great operating system. It scales from phones and phablets, to ...

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