Split screen keeps appearing and can’t get rid of it on iPad.

This sounds like multitasking.

Do you have a black line dividing the apps?

You should be able to slide it left or right to close the unwanted app.

If the app is floating you should be able to tap the top and slide it down.

You can turn off multitasking in Settings, Home Screen and Dock, Multitasking, Turn off allow multiple apps.

Does that fix it?

I wish I knew! It happens to me as well. I think I inadvertently cause it by holding down something in error or touching the bar you type in accidentally.

The only way I can get rid of it is to double click on the home button then swipe up to get rid of all the open pages. You lose all your tabs then which is annoying but not as annoying as the split screen.

When I get a split screen, there is a slightly darker section of the line dividing the two screens, about a 3/4 of an inch long. I use that to slide the screen I don’t want to right or left as appropriate. Do you have that?

North Face., when I go into settings and find screen and multi tasking all I can see is - “use large Apple icons” and where we want apps to show on screen or dock. Nothing allowing turning off multi tasking. I am running iOS 16.5.1. When I try pulling the bar to one side it refuses to stay there. It is a split screen but the screen doesn’t show enough to work on as it is so narrow
SueDonmin even double tapping and swiping still brings it back next time I go back into it. Thank you both for answering.

Nandalot, thank you but no it is a single line with no dark area to it.

Have you tried turning the iPad off , not just closing ? When you turn it back on it should have reset

Thank you aggie. I will do that now.

Press 3 grey dots at top of screen, in centre.
Drop-down give you choice if full screen, Split View, slide over or close

Thank you Patsyanna. That is brilliant. I had been touching the wrong three dots(the ones on the right hand in a circle. Suddenly saw them and lo and behold there were the options. Thank you.

Isn’t Gransnet brilliant!!
Now. . .I’ve successfully been using zoom for a long time now. These days I use it for my French Zoom group and, when we started to zoom cos of covid we were joined by a couple of French nationals some of us know so we don’t want to lose them now and we’re choosing to carry on zooming instead of meeting up in person again.
My problem is, suddenly, on my laptop I can see and hear the others and they can hear me but I can’t be seen. It is SO frustrating! I’ve tried everything.
The camera light is on.
I resort to using my mobile which means I can only see one person at a time and any articles we screen share are very small.
Any ideas? I have thought of deleting zoom and reinstalling it?

Newquay Gransnet is absolutely wonderful and the people on here are so very kind. I haven’t used Zoom but there will be so many on here who have, I would suggest you ask again by going into forums and then into technology and then start a new question. Good luck.