User level: Level 1 (34 points)iPadOS 27 has broken multitasking while using presentation apps. Tapping a window other than the presentation makes the external display leave presenter mode. Depending on the app implementation the presentation either ends, or the app is left stuck in a position where the presentation has to be restarted.
Posted on Sep 17, 2026 4:08 AM
User level: Level 6 (8,142 points)Oct 19, 2026 9:24 AM in response to tsvoronos
You should leave feedback. Apple don't read these boards so the more people that leave feedback the more likely they are to fix it.
User level: Level 10 (205,348 points)Sep 17, 2026 10:45 AM in response to tsvoronos
tsvoronos wrote:
iPadOS 27 has broken multitasking while using presentation apps. Tapping a window other than the presentation makes the external display leave presenter mode. Depending on the app implementation the presentation either ends, or the app is left stuck in a position where the presentation has to be restarted.
Report the issue to the app developer or look at their help site, they need to adjust their app to work with ios 27.
User level: Level 1 (34 points)Sep 21, 2026 8:30 AM in response to razmee209
What I am saying is that there is literally no way to change this behavior on iPadOS 27, other than having your app just leave presentation mode entirely whenever you tap somewhere else (as Keynote does). This is an OS regression, not something app developers can fix.
User level: Level 1 (34 points)Sep 17, 2026 1:19 PM in response to razmee209
My understanding from developers I have contacted is that this is a regression in iPadOS 27 and no APIs have been made available to address it from Apple's side.
User level: Level 1 (14 points)Oct 11, 2026 5:52 AM in response to tsvoronos
Hey 👋,
I experience the same problem under iPadOS27. In the 26 version, presentation mode in split screen worked unproblematically. However, installing OS27, presentation mode has stopped working. Whenever I have a presentation running and my notes in another app besides the app that holds presentation mode and navigate in it, presentation mode stops and my students see both apps open on the screen. That's unfortunate, and I wish for the previous behavior.
Hopefully, Apple will come up with a solution soon. At least I hope that has never been their intention to add that app behavior as given right now.
User level: Level 10 (205,348 points)Sep 17, 2026 2:37 PM in response to tsvoronos
tsvoronos wrote:
My understanding from developers I have contacted is that this is a regression in iPadOS 27 and no APIs have been made available to address it from Apple's side.
The developers had plenty of time to get their product lined up with ios 27. I highly doubt Apple didn't give them a heads up about it.
User level: Level 1 (8 points)Oct 19, 2026 9:20 AM in response to tsvoronos
Hopefully, it will be resolved soon.
User level: Level 1 (8 points)Oct 22, 2026 4:20 AM in response to razmee209
It is a os problem. Not something developers can fix. Why would you insist that they could? They have 0 control over this.
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256358868