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For the first time, iPads will support customized Lock Screens, while Home Screen widgets will be interactive. There's also now support for Live Activities, and a new Health app for the bigger iPad screen.
YES!!!
YEAHHHHH!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

...Ahem.

Yes! I will really enjoy this feature! This will be my favorite bit of WWDC yet.
 
"Healing Crystals"??? I guess that indicates Apple's target audience.

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I have a feeling that this is the iPad OS that has the automatic slowdown/make borderline unusable feature built in for anything older than iPad 6th generation... that is, if they didn't drop those iPads from updating...
 
Did this justify m2 upgrade for you ? This sad, and annoying. Apple should add multi user, and virtual machibe for Old apps. They can cut this apps access to the internet or location data, but being able to run a broken app on your machine by having a light version of your old os running in the background would be great.
 
Thank goodness they’re making all those improvements to stage manager!

That’s what I wish I could say.
 
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I'm a bit disappointed in this part of the presentation as well. I was hoping they were going to move things forward more with iPad OS. I really, really hope they've fixed that stupid sound output issue with external displays!
 
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Lol still no MacOS for iPad, multi-user support or a functional file manager that won’t dismount external drives halfway through a multi-gig file transfer.

“What’s a computer?” Not this thing.
None of the things you mentioned require macOS. They just require iPadOS to be improved.
 
macOS before had an (interactive widget calculator) in widgets view. now that iPadOS has interactive widgets, i'm assuming an iPad (interactive widget calculator) would be available
 
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Shame they didn't do much with multitasking and file management.
They should just bring the Finder (renamed to files and given a touch-UI makeover of course) to iPad OS... also, I want to be able to download everything in iCloud to my iPad and keep it there.
 
This shouldn’t be consider as whole generation update…

I mean, they created so powerful devices and they’re show wallpapers change?

It’s like putting F1 engine to road car and show people how nice cup holder car have :/
Such a true statement. As I was watching, I kept thinking, ok, when's the big reveal? They led off with wallpapers and widgets!
 
The iPhone needs interactive widgets
It's confirmed coming to iOS. It's just really odd how they demoed it on iPadOS and only casually mentioned that it will come to iOS. I guess they needed to spread out the talking points to iPad since it didn't have as many new features?

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Lol still no MacOS for iPad, multi-user support or a functional file manager that won’t dismount external drives halfway through a multi-gig file transfer.

“What’s a computer?” Not this thing.
If you're expecting the iPad to become a Mac, then I'm sorry to say you'll likely be disappointed for the far forseeable future
 
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