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iPadOS 26 is an Absolute Mess
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well its a huge leap in functionality! I have almost completed a 3000 word journal article in my 11 iPad Air M2. the windowing and multi tasking is a huge jump from previous versions, exactly what stage manager was supposed to be. yes there may be a few bugs. but im loving the idea of iPadOS 26.
a 2 year cycle would be better for everyone though
a 2 year cycle would be better for everyone though
I can’t believe I ever took the iPadOS 18 multitasking for granted and hate that one day I will have to give it up. Apple really did a spectacular job designing a touch-first multitasking system, and it’s a shame it’s now being thrown out.
And before anyone comes for me, I did use the 26 beta for a few weeks and never got to a point where I didn’t feel irritated by it. It’s just so inefficient.
And before anyone comes for me, I did use the 26 beta for a few weeks and never got to a point where I didn’t feel irritated by it. It’s just so inefficient.
Gawd almighty!
Seeing the two side-by-side really shows what a step back iOS26 really is.
The usability and the GUI is a complete step back.
I wish I never "upgraded"
How dare you actually enjoy all of the improvements and flexibility added in 26
The other day I FaceTimed my son and asked what he was doing. He turned the camera around and showed that he had is M1 12.9 IPP connected to a 27" external monitor. On the monitor he had 4 apps "quartered". He had a video window showing the MLB playoffs, Safari, Google Docs and some other app for school. On his iPad he had iMessage and WhatsApp split screen. I said "Oh, I see you are being productive LOL".I love how there are 2 of the most contrasting comments side by side to each other by what I think is pure coincidence.
Geninue question but would you rate your experience worse than the transition from iOS 6 to 7?😊.
The only good thing about iPadOS 26 for me is that it’s compatible for A12 devices and later and there is some multitasking for all compatible devices. Liquid Glass is great
Also when certain A12 iPads don’t get iPadOS 27 they won’t be stuck at the same level as those iPhones and iPads from OS 15- OS 18 since those devices are more or less equal now app updates and security updates will be there from them for years as well as all 4 OS’s looking more or less the same.
but yeah the thought of A12 iPads getting longer support in all areas than the A12 iPhones makes me not only love A12 SoC but iPadOS 26
But yeah they need to improve it a lot. Sideview is coming back to OS 26.1 for iPad. Wonder how you feel about this
Who on earth in Apple thought that was a good idea!!!
Does anyone else feel its less performant too?
My iPad mini 7th gen doesn't feel as zippy as it did on later iOS 18 builds. Wish I could go back.
My iPad mini 7th gen doesn't feel as zippy as it did on later iOS 18 builds. Wish I could go back.
No, not really, I use the base ipad and the performance has gotten a good increase in the ipadOS 26.1 beta 3.
That's probably it, maybe 26.1 will be better. I've stayed on 26.0, haven't even updated to 26.0.1 (which I dont think will make a drastic difference, if any)
Same. iPad user since iPad 2 and I posted about similar things and visual stutters on my Mini 6. Great ideas and wish list items in iPadOS 26 but apple has to fix the insane amount of bugs. It's almost like it needed to keep baking for 6 months but they rushed all of this out at the same time for a visual rebrand.
Cook is waaaayyyyy too focused on public perception and shareholder sentiment. He’s also the guy that would argue in meetings why they couldn’t just keep the same USB2.0 slot because when he polled users against USB3.0, they didn’t really notice the difference in speed. He’s always cared more about shaving off pennies per unit than he cares about actually spending the money and time to refine products and make them compelling. Hell he has no idea how technology even fits into our lives his interviews are perfect evidence of that; he’s never said anything insightful or even worth contemplating. His entire public image is one big commercial for Apple products written by marketing that he’s committed to memory. “We here at Apple believe…”, “This new iPhone takes the perfection…”, “We think you’ll really love the new iPad, now here’s…”. Jobs definitely was unique in that he did bring a lot of spirituality and integrity to Apple. All of which made a great dynamic against Jobs, who would almost tank companies to make “perfect” products.
Cook’s counterbalance is gone though. And it’s shown for some time.
OS26 has been the worst piece of software they’ve ever put out (been with them since ‘06 exclusively), without hyperbole. Even aside from what anyone thinks aesthetically, the actual performance and quality of OS26 is quantifiably abysmal. Not just because of the bafflingly poor UX (every function buried under sub menus in claustrophobic little widgets) or a failure to execute Liquid Glass (it has been horrendously fractured since WWDC25), but the fact that a third of their 165k employees are software engineers. Without working software, the entire kingdom comes crashing down (at least in my eyes) and we are right back to utter mediocrity.
Cook is like an Apple narrative programmed AI bot.
Has all the public facing charisma of a wet paper towel.
I do agree with you about how tim cook has become almost like a shill for apple but the USB 2.0? I mean unless there is something to utilise with USB 3.0 speeds like with the ipad and its external display, there isn't much reason to move over.
It is. Quantifiably. To get Liquid Glass working, Apple had to add a graphical shader to the UI. This comes on top of all the blur and existing shaders. If you’ve ever played games on emulators and used shaders like Geom or CRT type effects, you understand and appreciate how expensive they are. Apple’s LG uses multiple effects, from gamma shifts, to warping and blurs. I have no doubt future SoC will offload much of that work to specific hardware clusters (similar to video encoding and decoding) to improve performance, but you can’t come close with software. Anyone that’s ever tried to play a game using software rendering should be nodding incessantly right now.
I have real data to show how abysmal it is compared to performance on iOS 18 snd it’s not good. I am on an M4 iPad Pro and most apps get ejected under OS26 simply by using Safari with no more than 6 tabs. It feels like my 4th gen Air.
I'm on iPadOS26.1 beta 3 on my base ipad A16 and throughout most of the beta software, I've had higher than average geek bench scores compared to iPadOS 18.
(Latest one before moving to iPadOS 26 beta)IpadOS 18.5: 2597/6246
iPadOS 26.1 beta 3: 2730/6553
ipadOS26.0 beta 2 (when I first joined the beta): 2603/6229
ipadOS26.0 beta 3: 2613/6237
ipadOS26.0 beta 8: 2604/6265
All CPU benchmarks
What i don’t get is, you didn’t tell your son that he could arrange his apps as quarter- monitor on his external monitor since ipados16? Kept it as a secret? I just still don’t understand why you’re presenting this like this is new functionality. I get that it’s probably better ( ?) now but.. it was doable before, you said you knew about it so what gives? I still haven’t installed ipados26 after all the bugs I am reading about and it seems i won’t for a while or untill split view and slideover get reinstated, so i still don’t get the difference.How dare you actually enjoy all of the improvements and flexibility added in 26
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26 vs 18 Again Maybe it would help if you actually just installed 26 instead of reposting about functionality that’s no longer relevant.
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yes there was quarter arranged windows back in ipadOS 16 but that was in stage manager which was a mess back back then (and currently still is) and nowhere as good as windowed mode currently. The new functionality now is that you can place the windows anywhere you want instead of a set position and aren't restricted to 5 app windows.
The bugs for me at least, I haven't really seen much on the 26.1 beta 3 version. Slideover got reinstated though I've found it more useful as a pinning tool more than anything. I don't really see splitview being done as a separate option as per say but instead there would be a similar gesture to splitview just added into the windowed mode.
Well, i’ve asked you indeed and you just described that windows are now fully resizable which sounds meh since they were already adjustable to a great degree and they can now take up the full screen instead of leaving some space around the monitor which is also ok since the space gained is a few pixels wide. Using infinite apps also doesn’t sound exciting to me since 4 on the external and three on the ipad have always been more than enough. That just doesn’t justify the excitement for me and i am extremely curious by your enthusiasm, i have been onboard ios since the iphone 2, counting down the hours to each update. This year has been disappointing for me and I’m only trying to find any reasons to install 26, that’s why i’m asking. I just can’t afford to lose my ipad use if i absolutely hate it, especially since i won’t be able to downgrade. External monitor support has been huge for me for the last years, (but so has splitview and slideover) it’s been the reason i got a 4k monitor and i even switched to a 13 inch ipad again for the second time after my ipad pro 1st gen 12.9 of 2015, so i could take notes and keep references while reading pdfs on the monitor. I mean i invested on using it a certain way. So i’ll have to wait and see, ok.
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apps are limited to 12 but its dependant on RAM amount
There are always store devices which are updated to the latest OS and can let you try out the software. If you are scared to upgrade then maybe try the store devices first to gauge an opinion on it.
I don’t have stores around me that would showcase an ipad on an external monitor to verify how much better this all is, which would be the only reason i would ever consider upgrading and having to deal with the new windowing system on touch when off the monitor. It would have to make a great difference to outweigh the loss of my usual workflow. Thanks for the answer and the suggestion though.
If limited apps and not being able to freely and fully use the available space isn’t important then there may not be reasons to upgrade. My son had at least 10 apps open as he also had two other stages one with X/Instagram and Mail/Calendar. That may not be important to you but having that flexibility is an improvement.
The space gained around the border is more than a few pixels because it’s cumulative meaning there’s padding top, bottom and sides. Plus IIRC there was some padding between windows so that’s less viewable content in each window. May not matter on a 32” 4K monitor but on the iPad screen or smaller external monitors I want as much space as possible and I never understood why that “border” was added. It wasn’t there in earlier versions of Stage Manager.