Apple to Delay iPadOS 16 Launch Until October

[ProfessionalFan]

If Apple is finally splitting iPadOS away from iOS then release iPadOS when new iPads are announced, not when new iPhones are announced.

Appears to be what they possibly are doing

 

[Cromulent]

Appears to be what they possibly are doing

It certainly makes sense if that is what is happening.

 

[The Game 161]

Only a month I guess…

 

[4743913]

They are obviously putting the final touches on Final Cut Pro for iPad "Pro" first..

 

[Realityck]

If Apple is finally splitting iPadOS away from iOS then release iPadOS when new iPads are announced, not when new iPhones are announced.

It would be something major if they can break the Siamese twins OS's up so that they can each become their very best.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

So iOS in September. iPadOS in October. macOS in November?

Bingo! You got it. 100%. Apple really wants us to focus on one software update at a time.

 

[jdawgnoonan]

More of that great "work from home" productivity shining through.... Guess they need even more time for their one main feature, stage manager to work properly lol.

That comment makes no sense. Actually Apple and most other companies delivery record has been great despite work from home policies. Also, just because tech writers are calling this a “Delay” does that really mean it is one? This will not be the first time that iOS and iPad OS updates do not land at the same time. By your expectations I guess that Apple is also late when Mac OS doesn’t land at the same time. Work from home likely has nothing to do with this regardless.

 

[Realityck]

Bingo! You got it. 100%. Apple really wants us to focus on one software update at a time.

Sounds like we are comparing the ability to Multitask. it gets better as time goes by, iOS < iPadOS < MacOS.

 

[anthogag]

Don’t worry, install the public beta. I have it on my iPad 12.9”. It seems to be good.

 

[Ansath]

People are going to complain no matter what. The fact remains that iPadOS was a very minor update, delaying it doesn't do well for demonstrating the quality of their engineers, but yeah, working from home had 0 to do with it..... It's alright, you don't have to defend everything apple does, they are a huge company, they will be okay without you defending them.

I’m not defending Apple, I’m defending developers working from home instead of in an office. the company I work for has been working from home for over 2 years and it’s not impacted the quality of our developers working.

Basically, you’re making a false equivalency, because you want to hate on Apple, which is fine, but learn to separate your hate for them from impugning on the developers that work hard.

If you close an app and reopen it, it will not remember its last position/size.

macOS has Stage Manager but it's OK because macOS also has the old and good way of using windows, Stage Manager on macOS is an option, not imposed as the only way to use windows.

Seems to work fine for me, maybe a bug you’ve encountered, so report it.

Again, MacOS is an OS for laptop that shares a feature with iPad. iPad won’t be getting MacOS, it doesn’t need it. Some ‘power users’ feel like it needs it basically have MacOS, which is not the point of the device.

Absurd? Welll maybe. But just suppose I have a few thousand books and I use the iPad mostly for reading. Visit a couple of news sites, play a game once a month, NEVER watch youtube, listen to music only on the iPhone, have NO social networking apps. Plus I enjoy turning the pages like I’m reading a real book. On a sidenote I threw away my tv-set 19 years ago. Guess what? I’m not like you.

Yes, it’s absurd that a minor animation is the sole reason to not buy an iPad.

From your use case scenario, a kindle is more cost effective for you. An iPad for just reading is a silly waste of money.

 

[darcyf]

Tried Stage Manager on my M1 iPad Pro 11", didn't like it, turned it off.

I just want to use windows on my iPad the same way I always used windows on macOS and Windows:

- Let's supose I have Safari already opened, then I click on Mail to open it. The way I expect it to work is Mail to be opened alongside Safari. But this is not what happens with Stage Manager: it opens Mail on another app group, then I need to drag Mail to the Safari group, kind of merging the two app groups. That's a huge waste of time

- macOS and Windows remember the size and the position of each app/program, so every time I open the same app I know it will be opened with that same size and at that same place. But Stage Manager doesn't remember windows' sizes and positions, in fact it resizes and repositions each app depending on how much windows are opened at the same time. That really sucks.

Really, this is just a gimmick with small practical usage, at least for me. I don't want to resize and reposition the same app every time I open it.

The more I see and hear about stage manager, the less I care about it not coming to my iPad mini 6

 

[kToni73]

Continuity!

Is it really delayed tho since new iPads will be introduced in Fall October's event?

It would make sense to release the new iPad OS with the launch of new iPads on the lineup.

But they kind of always released updates in the same time. Between all the devices I mean

 

[Mr.Blacky]

Apple website says "Coming this fall", so nothing is delayed.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Apple website says "Coming this fall", so nothing is delayed.

Yep. Seems some people do not know October is in the Fall.

 

[hovscorpion12]

Apple website says "Coming this fall", so nothing is delayed.

Fall is between Sept 22nd - Dec 21. It has been delayed from its September release date.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Fall is between Sept 22nd - Dec 21. It has been delayed from its September release date.

Apple never said it was being released in September. They said Fall at the keynote, that's it. So there was no delay, tech writers can call it whatever they want.

 

[Macative]

Maybe they should use some of that ungodly cache horde and hire some competent people that can make deadlines. You know...hiring based on ability.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Maybe they should use some of that ungodly cache horde and hire some competent people that can make deadlines. You know...hiring based on ability.

What are you implying they hire on instead?

And they didn't miss a deadline seeing as they said Fall and it will come out in the Fall.

 

[Macative]

Yep. Seems some people do not know October is in the Fall.

Seems people are deliberately pretending that it isn't normally scheduled for September at the same time as the iPhone release.

 

[nortonandreev]

If Apple is finally splitting iPadOS away from iOS then release iPadOS when new iPads are announced, not when new iPhones are announced.

More likely they will release iPadOS 16.1 as the first official version of iPadOS 16, alongside iOS 16.1.

 

[chickeneaster]

That would be a fail, as is not releasing it on the date you were planning to.

They said Fall 2022 and October is still in Fall...

 

[Realityck]

Yep. Seems some people do not know October is in the Fall.

Thursday, September 22, 2022 to Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022 to be exact. (PST time zone)

 

[Marshall73]

Who cares, run the beta if you can’t wait.

 

[TonnyM]

iOS with new iPhones, iPad OS with new iPads and Mac OS with new Macs, makes sense.

 

[mectojic]

Separating iOS and iPadOS was a real mistake. It just seems to make iPadOS worse than iOS every year- this delay is just another example of that.