Apple Seeds New Public Betas of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1 With Stage Manager for Older iPad Pro Models

[johnnytravels]

So it’s totally possible now on A12x but not on the A15 of the iPad Mini. And the weak af multitasking has made it while the much more useful external full screen hasn’t. Apple really seem to have this under control.

 

[aParkerMusic]

iPad OS, changing between Apps or Safari Tabs makes them become blured/pixelated for a few milliseconds.
The worst user experience thing of Stage Manager is, there is no "touch on top bar" to auto scroll e.g. in safari to the top of the page.

Right?? This omission is driving me crazy lol. I can’t believe tap to go up is gone. Is this a normal part of Stage Manager? Or a beta bug, or a limitation of having it on older chips?

 

[Stevez67]

Exactly why betas are just not worth bothering with.
Now hurry it up with the general release please Apple.

And if no one bothered to test drive the betas, many of those bugs would still be in the general release.

 

[Eligos]

iPad Air 4th gen. Everything seems to be working well, looking forward to the final.

 

[Mahieu]

iPad Air 4th gen. Everything seems to be working well, looking forward to the final.

But still no stage manager. What a shame….

 

[_Spinn_]

Me waiting for the non beta version to drop.

Hopefully the final release isn't to far away!

 

[User 6502]

But but but...I was told by a few people on here I was wrong when I said this was completely possible...

They were not people, they were apple zealots. Normal people always knew the only reason why this wasn’t ‘possible’ was apple’s greed, and that their excuses were not credible.

 

[CC88]

Sorry I didn’t understand one thing. They removed stage manager on external display right?

Forget about stage manager for a moment.
An m1 iPad can use all the 4k resolution on external display without black bands, rights?

 

[danniehansen]

I have a issue not on 16.1 but the latest public build that my GPS do not catch up. Happens on Google Maps and Apple Maps. It is not working so the GPS are useless.

 

[2Xtreme21]

What is the version number of the beta that introduces stage manager to older iPads?

Beta 10. Or iPadOS 16.1 (20B5056e).

 

[Macusercom]

Immediately greeted with 3 "system crash notifications" upon reboot after the installation completed.

Apple's statement: "You're installing it wrong."
😂

 

[podiki]

I guess I should have read the article on MacRumors. Pity, but it'll be back.

"Meh, iPadOS now by default goes to Screen mirroring on iPad Pro. How do I turn that off?"

 

[boss.king]

But but but...I was told by a few people on here I was wrong when I said this was completely possible...

Same. All the self-proclaimed experts told me that this basic windowing feature from the 90s was impossible on anything less than an M1 chip with a bajillion gigabytes of ram.

 

[Wildkraut]

Same. All the self-proclaimed experts told me that this basic windowing feature from the 90s was impossible on anything less than an M1 chip with a bajillion gigabytes of ram.

They like to eat out of Apple's hands.

 

[BobClary1]

Stage manager on the attached screen was buggy but usable. Unfortunate that they removed it. I might as well turn the monitor off.

 

[coolbreeze2]

No issues so far with Stage Manager and it functions as expected on my 3rd generation iPad Pro.

 

[jfischer]

So far so good on iPhone 14 Pro, no crashes. Haven't tried it in the car yet to see if GPS still works

 

[Killerbob]

When you reckon Apple will release iOS 16.1? I have the beta on my iPhone right now, and my iPhone 14 Pro is coming in about two weeks, and I need to migrate, preferably without having to install a beta on the new iPhone.

 

[benmhall]

I find the language around this release confusing.

Does this mean that external displays are again limited to only mirroring?

If so, I am keeping the M1 iPad Pro I have now on the last Public Beta. Sure, it is buggy, but I do not want to go back to mirroring only for external displays.

This was the only part of Stage Manager I cared about. It was starting to make iPadOS feel like it was finally a capable OS that could do more than one thing at a time well.

 

[twinpeaks_sf]

I find the language around this release confusing.

Does this mean that external displays are again limited to only mirroring?

If so, I am keeping the M1 iPad Pro I have now on the last Public Beta. Sure, it is buggy, but I do not want to go back to mirroring only for external displays.

This was the only part of Stage Manager I cared about. It was starting to make iPadOS feel like it was finally a capable OS that could do more than one thing at a time well.

Correct. I'm doing the same. Considering Stage Manager isn't any better with this build, I don't think we'd be missing out. IIRC, one should be able to stay on an old beta build for ~8 weeks. I expect external display support to return in iPadOS 16.2 beta.

 

[MajorFubar]

I'm glad Apple caved on this. It's not so often they do.The whole world could see through the bull**** that it would only offer 'the right experience' on M1 machines. I wouldn't expect to be able to run it on my iPad 9 but owners of recent iPad Pros had every right.

 

[Mike Wolf]

Apple really needs to get their crap together and stop introducing new features to appease the gen Z. Would be nice to go a year where they simply introduce bug fixes and performance enhancements on already existing features.

 

[boss.king]

Apple really needs to get their crap together and stop introducing new features to appease the gen Z. Would be nice to go a year where they simply introduce bug fixes and performance enhancements on already existing features.

What makes you think anything they introduced this year is specifically for gen Z?

 

[spydey1909]

if a 2018 iPad Pro can get stage manager I don’t see why a 2021 iPad base or iPad mini 2021 can get stage manager when a 1 gig ram windows 95 can get the windows 10 overlapping windows, while apple requires 8 gigs of ram 😡😡🤬🤬 when the base ipad has 4!!!!