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iPad mini iPad Mini 7 & Stage Manager ?
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Yes - no Stage Manager. Some Final Cut Pro support:
New iPad Mini Compatible With Final Cut Pro, But Lacks Stage Manager
Apple last year released Final Cut Pro for iPad Pro and iPad Air models with the M1 chip and newer, and now we have confirmed that the professional...
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Yep. I tested it with great success at my office desk set up last week.
I have a QGEEM USB C hub, with power pass through, an old membrane Apple Keyboard, hard wired in Magic TrackPad 2, HDMI to a a 1080p monitor - all function as expected.
I see 0 reason (Besides apple being apple) that this feature shouldn't be something that can be enabled on Mini 6/7.
Check the post above. I think it's a no. Pretty disappointing because I got the impression that it is a yes from the previews.
i'm guessing now but if its being released for iOS (which was rumored for iOS26 but didn't seem to happen) it prob will happen on lower spec iPads too.
They didn’t give us stage manager on the mini citing the same reason ! Can we really believe that extended support is limited by the chip ?
Regardless, sadly expecting a lag fest with the windows on the mini 6.
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Although Stage Manager was the solution that allowed extended display, the reason for non M iPads to not get extended display was different (in fact, the pro 2018 and 2020 got Stage Manager but not extended display, and by the way now the mini and other iPads offers Stage Manager in addition to windowing, but still no extended display).
The reason was the same stupid reason for which M1, M2 and partially M3 Macs can only support 1 external display.
Because Apple wants their devices to support THIER high resolution displays (6k and 5k), and A12X could not support 6k plus the iPad screen, while M1 could not support 2 6K displays....
Yeah it should work well on iPad mini A17 Pro and iPad mini 6 because I remember I tried Stage manager on iPad mini 6 (and a friend too) with nuggets... It worked fine...
But I don't know how it will look like in iPad mini 5 with A12 and very small screen
But I don't know how it will look like in iPad mini 5 with A12 and very small screen
For those who still hope in extended display support on non M devices, this is from apple.com "Full external display support is available with iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (M2 and later), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation and later), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation and later), and iPad Pro (M4)."
Very disappointing! I would have been ok if it supported lower resolution monitors!
That's precisely why is not supported. If it can't run Apple displays, let's give it no external monitor support (non M iPads) or only 1 external monitor support (M1/M2 Macs)
For the mini there is also probably another reason, no Magic Keyboard support (I wouldn't be surprised is A17 pro could actually run the Apple pro display)