Small windows at bottom of outlook emails

[Geezerbill]

How do I permanently remove the annoying five or so small windows at the bottom of my outlook emails? It has something to do with multitasking I believe. I can’t stand it and would like to totally get rid of them completely. I do not multitask at all. I have multitask turned off in settings. Seems to me Apple should have a switch to either enable or disable multitask and others that many of us do not want. Thanks for your comments in advance. Bill

 

[Jupiter7]

You cannot turn off the small thumbnails you are referring to. As you say they are part of multi tasking which is a built in feature of the operating system and cannot be switched off in settings. You can swipe them away and you may just find the ability to have a split screen or slide-over screen very useful if you give it a try.

 

[Geezerbill]

Jupiter7, thank you for your reply. I was afraid of that. I dislike it immensely! Just more damn clutter. I also don’t like the split screen but thanks for the suggestion. When I am reading emails on an iPad I want as much screen available as possible. As I mentioned in my post it would be so much more user friendly if Apple would provide an option to their system to allow the user to select or not select the use of all the various “enhancement’s”.

 

[Geezerbill]

Jupiter7, I also would point out that my wife does not have this issue on her iPad.

 

[Jupiter7]

Jupiter7, I also would point out that my wife does not have this issue on her iPad.

Maybe she is running an older iPad OS. I think from memory the thumbnails and the new version of split screen came with iPad OS 15. You only have to to touch anywhere on the screen to dismiss the thumbnails if you do not need them.

 

[Geezerbill]

Maybe she is running an older iPad OS. I think from memory the thumbnails and the new version of split screen came with iPad OS 15. You only have to to touch anywhere on the screen to dismiss the thumbnails if you do not need them.

I believe she is up to date on OS. I can’t make them disappear by just touching the screen. I have to use a finger from each hand on the outside of the five windows and slide both fingers to the center of the screen just above the five windows to get them to disappear. In my humble opinion just more crap to deal with.

 

[Geezerbill]

Nope, my apology, you are correct! A tap of the finger anywhere makes them disappear. Thank you!!

 

[Jupiter7]

Nope, my apology, you are correct! A tap of the finger anywhere makes them disappear. Thank you!!

No problem

 

[twerppoet]

To get rid of the small windows all you have to do is swipe up on each of them. Only the current window and the one with the + can not be removed this way. If only those two are active none of them will show up when you first open the app. You only see the tabs if you have other views available, so closing them will get rid of them for a while, until you accidentally create a new window/view; usually by starting to create or reply to an email, but not canceling it. Easy to do if you just tap outside of the editor window.

If you want to see the available windows (to use or delete them) tap on the three dots at the top center of the screen.

By the way, it's not just Mail that has this feature. Most of Apple's other apps and many third party apps have multiple window views.