iPadOS 14 Features Enhanced UIs for Native Apps, Universal Search, New Handwriting Support with Apple Pencil, and More

[Yoms]

I was really hoping for a better external display support to use the iPad with keyboard/mouse as a laptop. Too bad.

 

[kreasonos]

External display support??

 

[NPC Compliant]

"People don't want a touch screen laptop."

But here's a touchscreen tablet with a laptop class CPU, soon to be the same CPU we use in our actual laptops, and a detachable keyboard, trackpad and mouse support, and a bunch of features from our desktop OS including multitasking and widgets and spotlight search and a file system browser and USB support and apps like Adobe and Microsoft Office and...

These two things are both correct; an iPad with its non-handicapped UI/X for touch input is in no way comparable to a 'laptop with a touch screen'.

 

[WildstarBR2020]

BTW, what app are they using when showing it converting handwriting and completing that pentagon during the keynote?

 

[bmac89]

With Universal Search on the iPad, can you initiate it from within an app without a keyboard or did I just get my hopes up!? If so what is the gesture?

 

[WildstarBR2020]

BTW, what app are they using when showing it converting handwriting and completing that pentagon during the keynote?

Nevermind. It's the native notes app...

 

[Chupanibre75]

Photos on iOS better support the 'unsorted photos' smart album feature that OSX has or i'm going to lose my mind.

And still no support for smart albums it seems. That‘s another disappointment.
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Why no multi user support?

At least a guest account would be nice. Where I may enable/disable apps for usage.

 

[aevan]

"People don't want a touch screen laptop."

But here's a touchscreen tablet with a laptop class CPU, soon to be the same CPU we use in our actual laptops, and a detachable keyboard, trackpad and mouse support, and a bunch of features from our desktop OS including multitasking and widgets and spotlight search and a file system browser and USB support and apps like Adobe and Microsoft Office and...

I believe Apple's answer (not mine, so don't @ me) would be that iPad is a new kind of a device, not a laptop, and when you attach it to a trackpad and keyboard, you don't need to use touch - it's there for when you use it as a tablet. In a way, they could claim people still don't want a touch screen laptop, the touch is here for the tablet mode.

There is some truth to that, when I have my trackpad and keyboard attached to the iPad - I don't use touch. Still, not saying that a touch laptop is a bad idea.

 

[balcis]

Why no multi user support?

so go buy another one?

 

[tks900]

When I first got my Apple Pencil, I naively thought that what they call SCRIBBLE now would already be a feature. I never imagined they would give you a pencil that you would have to put away whenever you wished to actually write something. So now, it's finally there. This is truly the feature I'm most excited about.