Check Out iPadOS 15's New Multitasking Features

[MacBH928]

Of course using your hardware will drain power. You know how to make the battery last forever? Turn off the device and put it away. But that's not useful.

I meant execessive, making the use of iPad irritating for most people. People are already complain about iphone battery life, imagine put in there multitasking and it runs out in 3 hours. You can see Apple's POV here.

 

[Ubuntu]

Having used this for a few days now I have to say it's a great improvement but it's just still so complicated compared to windows. It's great that they've added visual indicators for most of the gestures but:
- they added Quick Note, which is hard to discover and only works for certain apps
- Slide over still feels a bit mysterious to trigger, but it does at least show when it's hidden again.
- The shelf is just another concept to learn.
- The centred modal view is handy, but again is just another specific case to learn.

I feel like they're introducing very specific windowed situations (e.g. Quick Note if the app supports it and if you drag from the bottom right) and I think it could still be much simpler, but I guess there's OS limitations in the way.

 

[cardfan]

Having used this for a few days now I have to say it's a great improvement but it's just still so complicated compared to windows. It's great that they've added visual indicators for most of the gestures but:
- they added Quick Note, which is hard to discover and only works for certain apps
- Slide over still feels a bit mysterious to trigger, but it does at least show when it's hidden again.
- The shelf is just another concept to learn.
- The centred modal view is handy, but again is just another specific case to learn.

I feel like they're introducing very specific windowed situations (e.g. Quick Note if the app supports it and if you drag from the bottom right) and I think it could still be much simpler, but I guess there's OS limitations in the way.

Not sure why we can’t have grids or something. Pick a grid. Split screen. 4 squares. Even 6. Each square has a plus symbol to open an app there.

 

[cardfan]

So how would the full MacOS, with the full MacOS Finder and multitasking, be cumbersome on the iPad? You could use the keyboard and mouse/trackpad when you need more precision, but otherwise just full screen or split screen the MacOS apps when you want to use touch. MacOS could detect the lack of a mouse/trackpad and add padding around touch elements.

It wouldn’t be. Not sure why anyone is opposed to having an OPTION to use macOS on an iPad. Did having an option to load windows via boot camp make people lose sleep? Did it change macOS or the way you use macOS on a Mac? I suppose we’d have a bunch saying no to windows. I hate being able to do more with a device. Don’t let us do that. Lol. You can’t make this stuff up.

 

[JD2015]

Having used this for a few days now I have to say it's a great improvement but it's just still so complicated compared to windows. It's great that they've added visual indicators for most of the gestures but:
- they added Quick Note, which is hard to discover and only works for certain apps
- Slide over still feels a bit mysterious to trigger, but it does at least show when it's hidden again.
- The shelf is just another concept to learn.
- The centred modal view is handy, but again is just another specific case to learn.

I feel like they're introducing very specific windowed situations (e.g. Quick Note if the app supports it and if you drag from the bottom right) and I think it could still be much simpler, but I guess there's OS limitations in the way.

Whatever system is in place will be a learning curve. For example, alot of people don’t even know about right click feature on a mouse for windows or Mac as it is not intuitive. Non tech people are worried about breaking it if they experiment or mess around. I personally prefer multi tasking on iPad to a Mac at times as window management can be difficult at times, messy and be distracting. If want more functionality with i this I go to a Mac. One of the things about the iPad is it is supposed to be so easy to use for anyone and balancing this against the needs of power users is difficult. I am of the opinion you pick whatever tool you need to get a job done.

 

[The Game 161]

Also, how do you initiate a centre floating window?
Is this only available with mail currently?

Guessing so and I guess developers can add it in later maybe

 

[darngooddesign]

As a heavy Lightroom user, I'd much rather process photos on a Mac desktop or laptop. Yes, I could add a mouse/trackpad and keyboard pieces to an iPad and maybe attached disks when needed, but why would I want to when my laptop and desktop computers already handle that beautifully - for both home and travel.

Using an iPad with macOS with a touch interface only having to control LR and edit my photos and with attached disk or networked storage would be awful. Yes could be done in a pinch. But certainly not for me.

I enjoy using LR on my iPad more than my Mac.

 

[darngooddesign]

I agree with you and this is where I would like to draw the line, iOS was not made to do work unlike many people are forcing it to do so. Its a consumption device, it will not do multi-tasking. You want multi-tasking buy a Macbook Air , better than buying iPad PRO then buying an external keyboard and try to force it do what MacOS can do very easily.

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

What about bringing a gun with a removable bayonet to a gunfight.

 

[Ubuntu]

Whatever system is in place will be a learning curve. For example, alot of people don’t even know about right click feature on a mouse for windows or Mac as it is not intuitive. Non tech people are worried about breaking it if they experiment or mess around. I personally prefer multi tasking on iPad to a Mac at times as window management can be difficult at times, messy and be distracting. If want more functionality with i this I go to a Mac. One of the things about the iPad is it is supposed to be so easy to use for anyone and balancing this against the needs of power users is difficult. I am of the opinion you pick whatever tool you need to get a job done.

Oh no doubt, there'll always be a learning curve but the current windowing system we see in conventional computing is a solved problem. If you were to ask a non-tech person to learn the windowing system in macOS they'd struggle for sure but once they've learned how one app works it's more or less OK. With iPadOS there's still just too many variables.

The iPad is certainly easier to use but it seems to then leapfrog the Mac in complexity once you look at multitasking.

 

[Ubuntu]

Not sure why we can’t have grids or something. Pick a grid. Split screen. 4 squares. Even 6. Each square has a plus symbol to open an app there.

Exactly. It could also get quite complicated but I think the mechanism to open more windows would be much more straight forward this way.