YouTube's iPad app is getting an upgrade.
The latest version of the app, released Tuesday, brings support for two iPad multitasking features that arrived in Apple's iOS 9: Split View and Slide Over. As its name suggests, Split View lets you display two apps side by side on the iPad screen. So, now you can watch all the cat videos you heart desires, while also chipping away at some real work on the other side of your screen.
Slide Over, meanwhile, "provides a user-invoked overlay view on the right side of the screen that lets a user pick a secondary app to view and interact with," as Apple explained on its developer forum. It takes up less screen real estate and lets you overlay Slide Over-supported apps on those that do not. Want to pause Netflix for a second to check your email, Slack status, or Twitter feed without closing out of Netflix? Just slide over.
Tuesday's YouTube update also brings a small user interface tweak: the home tabs are moving into the navigation bar when your tablet is in landscape mode. This new version also fixes an annoying bug you may have encountered that prevented URLs from opening in video descriptions on your iPad.
The update comes after Apple earlier this week announced it is beefing up its 9.7-inch iPad with some pro features, like support for the company's popular Pencil. The gadget, which Apple is calling the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, runs a 64-bit A9X chip and a display that Apple says is 25 percent brighter and 40 percent less reflective than iPad Air 2.
You can pre-order the 9.7-inch iPad Pro starting tomorrow and pick one up in stores beginning March 31. Pricing starts at $599 for a 32GB Wi-Fi model and $729 for 32GB Wi-Fi plus cellular. A 128GB version starts at $749, but for the first time, Apple will also offer 256GB iPad, beginning at $899. It will come in silver, gold, space gray, and rose gold.