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iPadOS 15 : we are stuck with 6x5 apps on home screen now?

Once I discovered (thanks to this thread) that you can retain maximum icons if you don’t have any widgets on screen, it bothered me less. I personally find widgets largely useless anyway, I just relegate them to a second Home Screen.
 
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I've long since given up on getting earth shattering updates to iPadOS and come to accept that I'll always need a mac for some stuff. Since reaching this conclusion I've come to really like the iPad and iPadOS merely for what it is. For me, the Magic Keyboard transformed it into something that's excellent....at a limited number of things.

Pinning your hopes on the next big number OS update is, unfortunately, pure folly and leads only to disappointment.
 
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yegon said:
I've long since given up on getting earth shattering updates to iPadOS and come to accept that I'll always need a mac for some stuff. Since reaching this conclusion I've come to really like the iPad and iPadOS merely for what it is. For me, the Magic Keyboard transformed it into something that's excellent....at a limited number of things.

Pinning your hopes on the next big number OS update is, unfortunately, pure folly and leads only to disappointment.
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I am ok with iPad only, Affinity cover most of my needs.

I did not buy the keyboard as I use the iPad as an iPad and not as a computer, still wish on some improvement on iOS, but maninly waiting on more developers releasing “pro” apps.
 
yegon said:
I've long since given up on getting earth shattering updates to iPadOS and come to accept that I'll always need a mac for some stuff. Since reaching this conclusion I've come to really like the iPad and iPadOS merely for what it is. For me, the Magic Keyboard transformed it into something that's excellent....at a limited number of things.

Pinning your hopes on the next big number OS update is, unfortunately, pure folly and leads only to disappointment.
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Same with me. Every year I hope the iPadOS update will finally utilize the power of my iPad Pro, but each year I’m disappointed.
 
I wonder how many people have a large number of Icons in the dock. On my 9.7 inch iPad Pro I keep my favourite Apps there plus most recently used. 16 in total with that number they are not too small.
 
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GlastoEls said:
Was this solved for iOS16?
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If you don’t put widgets on the home screen, you can have 6 x 5. Same as in iPadOS 15.

The pre-iPadOS 15 Today View was the optimal layout.

iPadOS 16 doesn’t even get the benefit of the iOS 16 Lock Screen changes.
 
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I hate the way iPadOS 15 no longer retained the same layout horizontally and vertically when you have no widgets. I understand why it happens when you have widgets, but I don’t use any so why it can’t have exactly same layout is beyond me.

Equally, it insists on completely jumbling your icons every time you move an icon and then go to the other orientation. Absolutely infuriating, I’m often reluctant to change anything as I know I’ll then have to rearrange them completely in the other orientation. Doesn’t bother me much on the iPad Pro as I use it almost exclusively in landscape. But on the iPad Mini…grrr.

I’ll never understand these design decisions.
 
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I have long since abandoned widgets and apps on my iPad Home Screen. It has beautiful wallpaper and a full dock. That’s it. Like my iMac, the screen is the work area. Why clutter it with annoying, jiggling, infuriating shortcuts just to save a tap to the App Library? My big wish now is a fully customizable App Library.
 
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