Jesus Christ, just finally put macOS (slightly modified for touch interface) on the iPad (or allow it as an "macOS.app" on iOS, to be run by those who just want macOS anyway) and call it a day. Why reinvent a wheel, more so if the original wheel seems by far better polished than the crippled-by-design iOS.
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Apple Criticized for 'Fundamentally Misguided' Approach to Stage Manager in iPadOS 16
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People are weirdly fixated on having windows overlap; you can also have them side by side, or above and below in portrait.
Are you kidding? I’ve downloaded macOS Ventura and absolutely love stage manager. I don’t know what I would do without it. It really declutters the whole window interface. I am the kind of user that constantly has a couple dozen windows or folders open and I would have to constantly hit command tab or the other option to toggle between windows and honestly it adds a little stress. Stage manager fixes all of that and everything is nice and clean. No clutter. I’m sure they will refine it more as updates are released but my only gripe so far (and I’ve been using it since the first public beta release) is that you cannot change the size of it. I was hoping you could like you could change the size of the doc, but so far, no dice.
What you want can be done since "forever", just don't activate Stage Manager. But in Stage Manager, there is no difference in windows size if you show the dock or not.
Stage Manager sucks so bad. So much padding. Moving apps is difficult because you have to find the right spot for it to latch onto. Very limited. Limited window sizes, that I have massive black bars for my media player (no it does not have PiP). It needs Mission Control for windowed apps, with the rest of the background apps featured as a row of apps above like Mission Control for Mac. You still can't have multiple audio playing simultaneously despite windowed mode.
Make the core experience similar between iPad and Mac.
Make the core experience similar between iPad and Mac.
Definitely, I'm just not sure why bother with the stage manager stuff when they could have simply added the ability to multitask/split view vertically. Heck even Samsung has had this for years where you can snap and resize 4 windows (might be more than 4, it's been a while since I've used it).
I thought you were saying the overlapping resolved your issue with using multiple windows in portrait mode by using the overlapping feature. I'm also curious, do the stage manager icons stay on the left when in portrait mode, or can you move those around? That's another bafflement, the stage manager icons are just covering up that iOS has no taskbar, which is really kind of comical.
its almost as if Apple should release it as a beta first before making it public or something.
It’s an ipad, not a Mac. You are an edge case. The vast majority of iPad users don’t want macOS.
Since I and many others do not have an iPad that run this feature I say that Apple would be best served to just shelve this whole debacle until they can release it to a larger audience. Limiting this to M1 (and above) is too small of a user base in comparison to the oceans of iPads without and it is at best a niche for people to brag about but never actually use.
It’s a cool idea and concept but they should wait a few more years and make improvements to it and by then the percentage of M1+ iPads out there in people’s hands should be much higher.
It’s a cool idea and concept but they should wait a few more years and make improvements to it and by then the percentage of M1+ iPads out there in people’s hands should be much higher.
I don't need windows on an 11" iPad with Smartkeyboard and Trackpad connected. I need apps like the real Firefox, real Chrome, a native Terminal app with Homebrew, long running tasks when screen is locked, custom keyboard app shortcuts like it's built-in on macOS and more gesture control like it's possible with BetterTouchTool on macOS.
I feel like this has to do with their obsession with depth on the iPad OS. They waste space could be argued that it provides a sense of stage manager sitting on top of the OS rather than just being the OS? Idk I'm just speculating around a design feature that doesn't make sense.
but he specifically states one of the reasons he wants it delayed is he can't go any length of times without crashes and unexpected, unacceptable behaviors of the apps.
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Apple should go full Mac-like with their multitasking experience on the iPad (including proper window controls). If you have a mouse and keyboard, there is no reason that an M1 iPad couldn't handle such.
Or, they actually do rewrite everything from scratch every time. Maybe that explains the bugs every release... /s
Wait, you could snap 4 windows at the same time, and stack windows vertically before this? I'm genuinely asking as I rarely use an iPad for anything.
Imagine you can't even keep playing audio messages in macOS Messages if you navigate away from them, even within the same app, for iPadOS they may need to cancel the WFH policy altogether to deliver it in 2026 along Maps Moldavia directions pack.
While I agree, the nose dive was apparent prior Craig imo, he just added hair & teeth to the smoke.
Of all Apple users, those using iPads continue to be the most frustrated and fragmented.
Apple will not put macOS on iPad because they know most iPad's are for light duty, general use, by causal users. They will not abandon Stage Manager because some vocal minority of iPad users aren't satisfied with it, and will never be no matter how they modify it. Get a Mac if you don't like the iPad. Stop being frustrated.
Apple will not put macOS on iPad because they know most iPad's are for light duty, general use, by causal users. They will not abandon Stage Manager because some vocal minority of iPad users aren't satisfied with it, and will never be no matter how they modify it. Get a Mac if you don't like the iPad. Stop being frustrated.
Apple does not want to put macOS on the iPad because they fear it would cut into their Macbook sales. Apple wants you to buy an iPhone, an iPad, and a Mac because it's more profitable for them.