This article shows you how to turn off split screen on an iPad, how to close and hide floating windows, and how to disable the split screen feature altogether.

It can be frustrating if you’ve started using split screen on your iPad, or accidentally ended up in split screen and don’t know how to get out of it. Don’t stress. Here’s how to get your iPad back to normal.

When you have two apps open on the screen, you will see a black bar.

Tap and hold that bar and slide it to the left or right, depending on whether you want to close the left or right app. In the example below, Chrome takes over the extra half of the screen where the Nebo app is active.