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Apple Aiming to Make iPad More Mac-Like With iPadOS 16 Multitasking Changes
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Sorry folks, I don’t believe Apple is going to make the iPad more like MacOS, they are just going to add features to iPadOS… (you heard it here first!) 😉
IPadOS uses the same APFS file system as Mac OS. If you mean a file browser like Finder, then IPad OS has the Files app. It could use some enhancement to bring it more in line with Finder but it still does most of the things that Finder does. Apps are more strictly sandboxed on all the iOS variants so they can’t see or open each other’s files directly, so that is a difference. Otherwise, they are more alike under the skin that many people realize.
Anything. Multitasking has gone from bad to worse with every version since the simple vertical-scrolling side app menu. It really gives the impression that no one at Apple actually uses an iPad or has any idea how anyone would. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, they add a bunch MORE random popup clutter, AND remove the ability to turn this dysfunctional clusterbang off in the current release. Outrageously terrible and I sincerely hope everyone associated with the design choices that led to this travesty has been sacked.
This most recent update to multitasking was a huge improvement. It gave us much clearer controls for working with multitasking instead of the difficult to learn and reproduce gestures from before. It would probably be good to give us the ability to turn off some or all of the multitasking controls as some users don't need it and some can be confused by accidentally invoking it.
They are not about to make MacBooks redundant - so don’t get too excited about this news.
It’ll probably be incremental and a tad disappointing, as usual ?.
What do you mean by “Turning it off”? I only ask because you can just choose not to multi task. Lol.
You are probably right. I am really hoping that we get some kind of easy functionality…Like, I really wouldn’t mind having Windowed apps on iPad at all. Like, even if they are only kind of windows. I picture text fields being windowed and able to move around for the desired app that you are using. For example, when typing a message when using a keyboard, you would be at the very bottom of the screen, the text field for the messages app would “Float” and you could move it around where ever it needed to be. I don’t know how this would really help in practicality, but it is kind of what I think Apple might be doing. I hope that makes sense. Lol.
I sometimes still trigger multitasking by mistake when trying to swipe down the notifications shade. So not really a choice to not use it.
For real though. One of the biggest pet peeves I have with my Apple devices is the lack of parity when it comes to Apple’s own stock apps. Like now more than ever it’s soooo easy for them to have their entire suite of apps on all their flagship devices. It’s just so silly!
Agreed. I love the updates they made in 15; they nicely solved the issues with adding a second app which isn't in the dock to split screen.
I sometimes trigger multitasking in Safari when trying to move tabs around. If you don't do it just right, it will jump into multitasking and then you have the choice of either making it a slideover or split view, but you can't just back out at that point.
By steadfastly refusing to ever make macOS touchscreen compatible, they’ve dug themselves a hole too deep to get the iPad out of. It’s now a weird, halfway house quasi-laptop that sits in a strange no-man’s land of trying to be more than an outsized smartphone but actually being an unintuitive mess where users accidentally initiate all kinds of annoying and irritating drag and drop app behaviour. I never called for touchscreen Macs, but if they had gone down this road years ago instead of digging their heels in with the Touch Bar, which incidentally I do like, then making macOS run on iPad would have been trivial at this point. That’s what happens when you try to Think Different without thinking it through.
Incidentally is there any chance we could get back the old looking-glass magnifier for editing text? Hilarious that they backpedaled on its removal but settled with a new magnifier that doesn’t magnify. This would be especially helpful since the keyboard behaviour in Safari text fields has been bricked since iPadOS 13. Come on Apple, sort it out for goodness sake.
Incidentally is there any chance we could get back the old looking-glass magnifier for editing text? Hilarious that they backpedaled on its removal but settled with a new magnifier that doesn’t magnify. This would be especially helpful since the keyboard behaviour in Safari text fields has been bricked since iPadOS 13. Come on Apple, sort it out for goodness sake.
The countless people I’ve had arguments with who are against these changes are gonna have a bad day on WWDC, if true
Same here, that’s where this “don’t make it a Mac, it’s fine as is” arguments don’t work for me. It’s hard for me to imagine even a causal user not running into the constant little frictions.
Try scrolling social media and listening to music at the same time for example.
I don’t want the iPad to be a Mac, I do want a much more frictionless experience in doing the things iPad is supposedly meant for.
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Give me multiuser support for ipad os, for god sake
Apple should give the users the option to use iPadOS or macOS, on their iPad(s). I think the hardware could handle it.
I’d like to think they could start with a guest mode (allowing access to installed apps but removing personal stuff like mail and iMessage for when you want to lend the iPad to guests) if they don’t do full accounts at least this year. It’s at least something that shouldn’t require an M1.
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Better multitasking is always nice but please add proper external monitor support 🥺🙏
Now you do not need an iPad Pro for snappy performance. It's going to have to step up it's game with pro users.
With Macs now having iPad Pro chips, I got a M1 MacBook Pro and it allows great performance on both mobile and desktop apps. My iPad Pro has become a second class citizen.
Not in a million years would I have considered using a MacBook or any desktop machine running MacOS when you could get the same crappy performance but much cheaper on a Windows machine.
With Macs now having iPad Pro chips, I got a M1 MacBook Pro and it allows great performance on both mobile and desktop apps. My iPad Pro has become a second class citizen.
Not in a million years would I have considered using a MacBook or any desktop machine running MacOS when you could get the same crappy performance but much cheaper on a Windows machine.
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