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In a beta version of iOS 8, developer Steve Troughton-Smith has discovered that the operating system supports resizing apps so that a single app might only take up three-quarters, one-half, or one-quarter of the screen. In a video, Troughton-Smith shows exactly how it works right now inside of Apples desktop iOS simulator, using two-finger swipes to drag an app into a smaller and smaller portion of the screen. The animation doesnt look beautiful yet — it isnt finished, after all — but the app scales to some extent to fit the smaller size, so its clear that Apples put some work into this. When well actually be able to run multiple apps side by side on the iPad remains to be seen, however. 9to5Mac reported earlier in the year that split-screen multitasking was in the works, but warned that it might not ship with iOS 8 — and indeed, it isnt for now.