Google finally updates Docs for multitasking support on iOS

Google has finally updated its Drive apps (Docs, Sheets, and Slides) for iOS, giving it the true productivity it’s given to Android and the web for so long now.

The update adds support for the Split View and Slide Over feature rolled out with iOS 9 last year, letting users finally multitask on Docs with multiple windows.

While Docs and the like were updated earlier in March, that only fixed the apps’ resolution while this crucial feature has been left out until now. In fact, Google has been gradually updating all it’s other apps on iOS this past year. First, Chrome got Split View on the iPad, while also expanding YouTube to the iOS platform.

It has taken a while but Google has finally introduced multitasking support for its Drive productivity apps (Docs, Sheets, and Slides) on iOS. The Split View and Slide Over feature that Apple introduced last year with the iOS 9 made multitasking on the iPad a whole lot easier. Soon after, many developers including Google began updating their apps to support Split View and Slide Over multitasking.

Split View lets users run two apps side-by-side on the iPad screen, so they don’t have to swap between apps while working, while Slide Over lets users float one app window over the others running in the background.