One of the biggest features introduced in iOS 9 is Split View, which allows easier multitasking through the display of two apps alongside each other. The iPad Air 2 is the only iPad to currently support this feature, but fresh evidence has emerged that it will appear in the upcoming iPad Mini 4.
On Sunday, we pointed out a then just-leaked 3D render of the small tablet, but this shed far more light on the device’s appearance than its functionality. With assistance from developer Hamza Sood, 9to5Mac has come across two strong hints in the still-under-development OS X release, El Capitan, that Split View will be among the marquee iOS 9 features present in the iPad Mini 4.
Those hints are a tool allowing developers to simulate an iPad Mini 3 running a split-screen Safari and, in this OS X version’s Safari 9 web browser, a resource file indicating the option of a split-screen Safari on what the filename refers to as only “iPadMini”. As the current latest version of the tablet, the iPad Mini 3, does not actually support Split View due to its insufficient processor, support for this feature in the iPad Mini 4 now appears very likely indeed.