The Mac already has some very robust ways to manage workspaces whereas iPadOS has a huge void to be filled in that regard. If I relied on an iPad to get day to day work done I'd definitely prefer Stage Manager over whatever arcane series of swipes the iPad usually requires to get out of one-app-at-a-time mode.
"Arcane swipes" was amusing.
This is funny, only because I love it on my iPad with External Monitor. If I am home, this is really the only way I use my iPad. Haha. I don’t use it on the main iPad though. Only with the external display.
Yeah, I'm sure if I used iPadOS I'd get used to it. But I don't think the gestures are very intuitive to begin with. It just seems very easy to have something unexpected happen, and none of it seems particularly discoverable.
Just drag and drop calculator from stage manager.
That's me as well. I tried it and thought meh, I went back to mission control. It accomplishes pretty much the same thing for me.
nothing really just there are apps there on the left instead of the bottom.
First, you launch Calculator (from the dock or through Spotlight or however you normally launch apps). Then, when you're not using it, it automatically minimizes over to the left side of the screen. If you want to use it again, you click on the minimized app and it comes up. If you want to use it with something that's already in the foreground, you drag it out next to whatever window or app you're actively working on.
I don’t use it often, but when I do use it I don’t want the browser to disappear.
Yup, mine is off for good too. Far too finicky whilst working with multiple docs and apps.
Same here. I work from a 16" screen so screen space is much needed.
Since the goal of SM is to automate window management, why didn’t Apple just add this automation to Spaces and Mission Control? Why not re-use Mission Control as the holding area for inactive apps, and turn space into stages?
