I’m a bit late on posting about this, but it looks like the iPadOS 26.1 beta brings back Apple’s “Slide Over” multitasking feature. This is something that I frequently use on my iPad Mini so I was disappointed when I saw that it was removed in iPadOS 26.

Here’s an article by Jason Snell of SixColors that discusses “Slide Over”, as well as other updates that are included in the iPadOS 26.1 beta.