iPadOS 26.1 expands Apple Intelligence, brings back Slide Over

Apple has released its iPadOS 26.1 update to the public, bringing changes to Liquid Glass as well as a return of Slide Over following its removal in iPadOS 26.

Slide Over is back again in iPadOS 26.1

After the milestone release of iPadOS 26 on September 15, Apple has issued its first major public patch to the operating system. The update brings the iPad operating system to version 26.1, in line with others in Apple’s ecosystem.

While the main version 26 release introduced many new features, the version 26.1 update doesn’t have quite as many changes. Instead, such releases make smaller tweaks to what’s available, and typically introduce new elements that didn’t quite make it to the first one.

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