Introducing iPadOS

The original 2010 iPad ran iPhone OS 3.2, renamed iOS later that year with the release of iOS 4. Over time, as the entire family of iOS devices evolved, iOS on iPad gradually gained features not available on iPhone, such as picture–in–picture and multitasking options, such as Slide Over and Split View, added in iOS 9 in 2015, then drag and drop between apps, introduced in iOS 11 in 2017 along with an overhauled Dock.

Optimised for iPad

Now, to formalise the divergence, iOS on iPad has been