Gurman: Apple Preparing to Debut Enhanced Lock Screen, Windowing in iPadOS, Redesigned Mac Apps, and More at WWDC

[Nathan King]

Isn’t that more of a developer issue?

I think he's getting at the fact that there isn't a meaningful file manager or multitasking support in iPadOS. Each app is its own island, and it's very difficult to move data back and forth between apps. There are a lot of impediments to developers in the form of artificial restrictions in iPadOS. Apple is touting the power of the iPad, but the software prevents fully realizing its potential.

 

[Marco0107]

No plans for the Health app to come to iPad?

How I’d love to see a year’s worth of health data spread out on my iPad Pro’s display instead of pinching and scrolling on my iPhone.

Maybe one day, maybe in my grandkid’s lifetime, Apple will overcome the incredible technical hurdles that prevent the Health app from running on the iPad.

Amen to this. I cannot understand why this feature isn’t prioritized higher. Scrap new emojis, please let me see my health and activity data on a bigger screen!

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

On an unrelated note why does macOS have something like five different built in note taking functions?
Notes, stickies, pages, text edit, and now the new quicknote thing.

Notes is a notes app.
Stickies is a legacy app from ClassicOS, which is a different type of note taking.
Pages is a document editor.
Text Edit is a plain text editor.
Quick Note is a function of Notes…

 

[Mr. Awesome]

iOS 9 Lock Screen clock font was better
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Looks like you might have a higher text size and Bold Text enabled in the 15 screenshot. Turn those off and see how you like it.

 

[tgwaste]

>> The Health app is not expected to expand to iPadOS or macOS

I mean really? and let me guess.. still no wallet app or calculator for iPad. LOL. I'm sorry. Apple is a joke now. At what point do people say "this company is making garbage and is 5 years behind"?

Ill buy the new phone and get the new OS cause I'm dumb.. but I will definitely be trying out the fold 4.

 

[tgwaste]

Get me this lock screen for the iPhone. We are Golden.

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You want the icons to be cut off on the side like that? where is the freaking battery percentage? This is just more of the same 'lack of thought'.

 

[jwolf6589]

Considering iPadOS 15 is still supported on the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4, I don’t think you’ll have much to worry about with iPadOS 16 getting on your mini 5!

Thanks

 

[Zdigital2015]

No plans for the Health app to come to iPad?

How I’d love to see a year’s worth of health data spread out on my iPad Pro’s display instead of pinching and scrolling on my iPhone.

Maybe one day, maybe in my grandkid’s lifetime, Apple will overcome the incredible technical hurdles that prevent the Health app from running on the iPad.

More like the economic hurdle of you parting with money for an iPhone to keep revenues at record levels every quarter. This and adding the ability to manage the Watch (Watch app) from an iPad will never come to fruition. Not that I want an Android phone, but the sheer inconvenience of being tied to my iPhone to do certain things with other Apple devices has long since gotten old. It also proves Apple will protect their iPhone hegemony at any cost, even to their own user’s detriment.

 

[Kylo83]

Give us new icons, split screen and interactive widgets and remove home bar and I’ll be happy, but we will get none of that I’m sure lol

 

[Unregistered 4U]

My prediction is that, as a touch first device, the windowing on iPad will require gestures that build on the ones that are already used. Such that, those who find the current gestures complex/confusing won’t be able to use windowing effectively.

 

[jav6454]

… and how about unlocking the potential of M processors in iPad?

How so...

 

[Kylo83]

They think by making multi tasking better on iPad will help iPadOS, it needs a complete change not just multitasking

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

You want the icons to be cut off on the side like that? where is the freaking battery percentage? This is just more of the same 'lack of thought'.

The battery percentage will show up once the pill-shaped iPhone is here. Notice the notch is still here that’s why there is no space for the battery percentage 🤪

 

[GuruZac]

Windowing in iPadOS may be the feature I’m most looking forward to this year.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

At what point do people say "this company is making garbage and is 5 years behind"?

Today, they say it today. MILLIONS of them. Fortunately for Apple, there are BILLIONS of people in the world of which a couple hundred million may be buying their first Apple device every year.

 

[GuruZac]

The battery percentage will show up once the pill-shaped iPhone is here. Notice the notch is still here that’s why there is no space for the battery percentage 🤪

I wish they would put the carrier info including signal strength all on the left and batter with battery percent on the right! Especially since we got the smaller notch last year 😃

 

[Zdigital2015]

Proper extending the iPad desktop to an external monitor and support for a specific user defined multi-monitor workspace, an Eject button for removable media in the Files.app, recording audio from multiple sources at the same time, better Thunderbolt 3 peripheral support for the iPad Pro, better multitasking windowing (this isn’t easy) and a better feature support in third party iPadOS and iOS apps (many apps only feature a subset of their website, I’m looking at you Chewy and SquareSpace), although this isn’t an Apple ask. Better and more wallpapers and actual real font support without the janky workarounds we have now (font Profile is stupid). A modern Font/DA Mover as it were. And better support for devs to take advantage of the 8GB/16GB DRAM in iPad Air and iPad Pro. Some of these are reasonable asks, some are harder. I don’t want the iPad to be a Mac, but I would like it to be more than it currently is today. There are changes that Apple can make without remaking iPadOS into a less intuitive experience. Hopefully without creating a Pro Mode, this is something that never works out well in the end for the end user.

 

[bluecoast]

it's good that preferences/settings are going to be more like the iPad.

Preferences has a pedigree going all way back to NextStep, however the iOS UX is now the 'default' and it's just confusing that the Mac does things differently to the rest of the iOS derived OSs.

Great that the stock apps will get a makeover - but disappointing that many iOS apps still don't seem to be moving over to macOS.

Health in particular would benefit from the bigger screen of the Mac (and iPad).

Often, it feels that Apple only ever has a handful of people working on their in-box apps!

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I wish they would put the carrier info including signal strength all on the left and batter with battery percent on the right! Especially since we got the smaller notch last year 😃

I agree. Apple needs to bring back the old design factor and stop messing around with it. Hopefully, the pill shape will open up the space.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Notes is a notes app.
Stickies is a legacy app from ClassicOS, which is a different type of note taking.
Pages is a document editor.
Text Edit is a plain text editor.
Quick Note is a function of Notes…

And only two of those justify their existence.
Drop Stickies and integrate its functionality directly into quicknotes.
Drop text edit, integrate its functionality into Pages.

 

[sunapple]

This. Split screen handling is bad. The hoops you jump thru to get rid the extra window is very “user unforgiving”. Side by side, pop over, side by side. Slide the divider to collapse/remove the unwanted window. Euh. Just give me a close button like the tabs in Safari!

Yes a close button would be nice. I want crucial UI elements to be in plain view…

 

[Aston441]

So iPadOS might be starting to get close to Linux desktops of the late '90s.

Neat.

 

[R2FX]

thank the Apple gods.
The way Settings are handled on the Mac is a mess.
For example, want to show harddrives on your desktop?
You’d think The options for what appears on your desktop would be in the system preference labeled “desktop,” but nope, it’s in the Finder preferences which are different than the system preferences for… some reason.
On an unrelated note why does macOS have something like five different built in note taking functions?
Notes, stickies, pages, text edit, and now the new quicknote thing.
I feel like some of these can be combined.
Oh and my final request, put iOS style widgets in the launchpad so it can basically become a new modern dashboard instead of the half-feature it is now

Managing drives is and always was function of Finder, not sure why you’d ever expect to have it in Desktop settings when it had nothing to do with file system, but with how your Desktop UI looks and behaves…

Dumbing down Mac from iPad and iPhone is really going to be Cook’s legacy, but let’s reinvent the wheel for a while before someone passionate about product design emerges in the future.
The menu bar Control center is a great example of how porting touch driven UI falls flat on Mac (lack of information at glance, 2-3 clicks to get to options, taking up space in bar etc).

None of the new widget stuff comes even close to Dashboard - visually and functionality wise.

Mac should stay Mac, not some trans-iPad:iPhone monster

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

And only two of those justify their existence.
Drop Stickies and integrate its functionality directly into quicknotes.
Drop text edit, integrate its functionality into Pages.

Why does this bother you so much? The Stickies app uses 1.8mb of storage and isn’t doing any harm sitting there for those that prefer the way this app works.

TextEdit is borderline essential for many tasks; Pages is an entirely different application.

 

[tubular]

Gurman claims

Enough said.