Unclear to me if this is or isn’t old news—that I was just bad at searching for—but I wanted to let more^[1] people know regardless:

Context: I have set up safari to always open to specific tab groups on phone and iPad, to avoid losing tabs on inadvertent close and to ease pickup from Mac.

This is the safari that lives in my dock, but a large irritation was that on iPad it only worked to open safari fullscreen now (vs a drag onto screen split). So I was still having to go looking in the app switcher or use Spotlight (which I have on AssistiveTouch double tap) to find “real” safari

but I figured it out (ish*)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/02f75ac8f5b143049fb3420911191c2e

*caveats:

1. the split is actually with a generic new safari window rather than one with my desired tab group … but I’ll take it over nothing
2. it may behoove one to filter out the Shortcuts app explicitly rather than presume first is correct. It seems to list windows in opening order? I have only once so far (which isn’t zero times) ended up with a shortcuts/safari split closing something

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It’d be fairly straightforward to add a branch for a 3 app count (if you pulled up to slide over on top of a split) and use open app as slideover there. I don’t do that much tho so haven’t bothered

It’s irritating that the type App drop down gives windows as an option but always returns an empty list (except on macOS), and “is frontmost” is there but it’s always false. So I’m not sure there’s a better detect than count without going to screenshot and quick image analysis ?

(Incidentally doing “view content graph” on a current app or visible apps appears to always freeze shortcuts - I have to lock and unlock to exit it)

If anyone has ideas about where to pull a split v slide over detection from lmk ; left v right detection would also be nice. Don’t think they are possible tho