I don't think it's a troll at all. For a device that can cost upwards of $2k; it has a solid chip/memory (1TB+), and cellular capabilities. It's a hyper portable PC with some oomph behind it. It's being severely gimped by its OS.
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iPadOS 26 Review: The iPad is Now More Like a Mac
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Thank you for saving me from ruining my iPad. Hoping this is a bug and slide over is fixed in future builds. I like to leave my trading platform full screen and just flick my messages open to answer a text and then flick them back out of the way (completely off the screen). The people who always whined about iPad sucking compared to a Mac clearly just never bothered to learn all the gestures. When I show people why the iPad (with Magic Keyboard) is better than my Mac their heads explode.
Slide Over was a terrific feature. Please bring it back, Apple.
iPodOS 26? Did you come from an alternate universe?
Why not just run MacOS in a virtual machine on the iPad and choose which to use? I mean it should be a no brainer. Apple could make this function only work on new iPad Pro models with 16GB of RAM to sell more. I would upgrade from the M4 in a heartbeat for the capability. It would allow me to travel with just an iPad Pro. To me they keep saying what’s a computer and showing the iPad but it’s been terrible at any type of multitasking. It could be so perfect if they didn’t try to reinvent the Mac and just did it. But you know the only reason they won’t is that Apple’s ecosystem makes 30% on iPadOS Apps and zero on Mac apps not distributed through the App Store. And here’s the thing for all the fans who have to defend AAPL and Crook, and just want to run one window iPadOS, let them. Let us all choose what we want. We paid dearly for these things that have as much power as a Mac but are so limited it has ruined what could be amazing for many years now.
Should be no problem to run any Mac App on an iPad if it wasn’t for the locked down ecosystem.
I’ve accepted that we’ll never get Mac OS on iPad because apple is afraid it’ll eat into MacBook sales.
I just installed it on my M1 11” Pro.
This is, by far, the most significant update to the iPad since the iPad was launched.
Really keen to see how this will be polished up by release date.
This is, by far, the most significant update to the iPad since the iPad was launched.
Really keen to see how this will be polished up by release date.
Glad all guys downvoting you are wrong. And glad all people scoffing at these ideas are wrong.
Mac can do coding and can publishing programs. Why iPad Pro can’t despite having the same processor and also passive cooling just like MacBook Air?
Also the stubbornness despite working hard to make both (iPadOS and macOS) so close and so similar.
A hologram resembling Steve Jobs appeared to me in a dream last night and told me the only way for Apple to survive is to bring back the iPod. His will is known, let it be done.
The issue that prevents me from going completely iPad is the apps. Office is too stripped down and no good IDE to code. Apple could make it more Mac like but unless apps follows it still is not doing it for me. YMMV.
They can do that any time. They won’t because then they lose the 30% revenue from iPad apps.
Talk about holding a grudge about a forum post…
Great, it's time Apple makes use all of those high performance hardware on iPad Pros. But will it be real this time? Apple has been telling iPad will be the only computer you need for years now, but that never happens.
Not a single Mac screen has OLED, or touchscreen, or FaceID with decent camera, or 5G network. But iPad Pro has it all, only problem is it comes with gimped iPadOS.
Not a single Mac screen has OLED, or touchscreen, or FaceID with decent camera, or 5G network. But iPad Pro has it all, only problem is it comes with gimped iPadOS.
This is meaningless to me. Part of the reason iPadOS doesn't feel like MacOS is because Apple is so strict with memory management on iPadOS. Just try switching between tabs in a browser on iPadOS. Unless you only have two or three tabs open, it's nothing like on MacOS. And good luck switching between apps and then back to the browser. Basically every tab then reloads. It's terrible behavior. iPadOS was designed as a mobile first OS back when the hardware was extremely limited.
And until I can install other web browsers that aren't just Safari with a different skin on top, I also won't use an iPad for anything serious.
And until I can install other web browsers that aren't just Safari with a different skin on top, I also won't use an iPad for anything serious.
Losing Split View and Slideover makes the iPad so fiddly to launch and arrange multiple apps on that I might as well just use my laptop. Well played, Apple.
On that note, I did notice that ios26 finally lets mail in landscape show inbox at same time as message again - it had annoyed me that it didn't on xr+ when it did on 6+
I think iPadOS 26 is a big step backwards. Apple was right from the beginning that in a touch-first device, desktop paradigms don’t work well. You don’t want traffic lights with small targets (even if they’re hidden by default) or an out-of-context menu bar on a touch device.
That’s the reason why some people in the comments think “something feels wrong”. Some will argue that you can connect the MK, but:
This is not about making the iPad more professional. Many people already use the iPad in professional ways, in the fields it excels at. There are many powerful applications that make use of its capabilities.
Now, long-time iPad users will be frustrated because UX is worse, while the tech bubble will be still frustrated because they’ll realise windows just can’t work on an iPad.
That’s the reason why some people in the comments think “something feels wrong”. Some will argue that you can connect the MK, but:
- It’s optional (otherwise an iPad would be just a bad laptop).
- The iPad needs to transition between keyboard and non-keyboard mode. You can’t create two completely different interfaces.
This is not about making the iPad more professional. Many people already use the iPad in professional ways, in the fields it excels at. There are many powerful applications that make use of its capabilities.
Now, long-time iPad users will be frustrated because UX is worse, while the tech bubble will be still frustrated because they’ll realise windows just can’t work on an iPad.
Why not just run MacOS in a virtual machine on the Apple Watch? I just find it very weird that some of you here associate the iPad to the Mac. There are some overlapping use cases (the iPhone also overlaps with a Mac) but they’re two completely different devices. The question is not “why not”, but “why”. And macOS on the iPad would be a terrible experience.