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New iPadOS 16.1 Beta Expands Stage Manager to Older iPad Pro Models, Delays External Display Support
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And people here told me I was an idiot when I said it could be done and it was just apple gating the feature 
Wrong prioritization...Stage Manager is a big deal on an external display, but basicaly useless on the ipad screen, especially 11” one.
Except they then removed the external screen support.
Not bothered about the multiple apps, just wanted to have decent support if I connected a screen or TV.
Why did they have to have them both in one feature set
Not bothered about the multiple apps, just wanted to have decent support if I connected a screen or TV.
Why did they have to have them both in one feature set
I'm can't wait to hear all the people who complained that Apple had ruined their older iPads (because they bought out a feature on the M1 iPads that nobody with an older one cared about when they actually bought the damn things!) now complain if Stage Manager doesn't work properly on the older iPads!
"How dare Apple update the software with a feature that doesn't work as well on the older models... Why didn't they leave it out instead of being lazy and just releasing the same software for everyone!"
"How dare Apple update the software with a feature that doesn't work as well on the older models... Why didn't they leave it out instead of being lazy and just releasing the same software for everyone!"
Wow thank you so much, probably shouldn’t say this incase Apple see’s but was contemplating ditching my perfectly good iPad Pro 11” First gen for an Air just so wasn’t lagging behind on features. Glad I don’t have to as I have a cellular 512 GB model and promotion screen and face id on this device….man…really glad I didn’t do that lol.
I knew it was BS that the a12x/z couldn’t run stage manager. The a12z ran macOS!! Good that apple has opened up the feature to more users.
So Apple tried to force people into buying the new iPad just for this feature. People said GTFO we ain't doing that, sales continue to crash for Apple products, so Apple pretends like they didn't lie about the older products can't handle it and magically made it available to them.
Wonderful! Now add memory swapping and iPadOS on a A12Z iPad from 2018 will be on par with Windows 3 on a i386 PC from 1985!
Or they just had more time to work on it and optimized the code. Also it’s pretty clear they had to elimine the external monitor option so no, State manager is not able to run in older iPads without concessions
Exactly! We all knew this though😂
Once again, I am glad I didn’t fall into the frenzy of needing to leave my A12Z iPad Pro for an M1 model when the M1 models were announced🤣
Having seen Stage Manager in action I was not even bothered it was originally not coming as it seemed rather cumbersome to use anyway.
I sure hope it’s not a feature people bought M1 iPad Pros for recently, that would be silly. 😬
They can only do half the number of apps and no dual display support so it wasn't BS when Apple said they can't do the full Stage Manager.
Or just show how bad Apple is at coding and optimizing code, SwiftUI proves it.
A whopping 100 mb more on the 24GB machine - I should inspect actual app memory use on an iPad Pro to check but i maintain that it could be made pretty fluid if apples focus was on performance and they gave themselves more than a year to work out the bugs…
No love for the iPad Mini, a device still on sale which has the newest generation chip ever in an iPad (newer than M1 even) and faster performance than A12X/Z. The processor and ram are clearly not bottlenecks, so it comes down to a decision by Apple to not support it.
It does currently mirror the screen.
What it doesn't do is rescale and relayout the screen to fit external monitors or treat those as separate screens. that is reserved for M1+
It doesn't even work well on the device it's supposed to work well, this is simply badly written software and has nothing to do with hardware
Nope, only M1 has virtual memory swap, and not even all of them, you need at least 128GB
Puts the lie to a bunch of Apple's other orphaning moves, like blocking the original 5K iMacs and their peers from updating to Monterey.
Apple is a lot better than Android in this regard, but they're also known to be lazy punters when fairly routine design challenges (AKA necessary work) arise.
Not to mention: Who is clamoring for this BS anyway? I've never felt deprived by not having bunch of windows on my phone or even tablet. The Mac, which has a long heritage of apps that launched an idiotic flotilla of separate windows, has finally gotten away from that. Now they're trying to resurrect it on touchscreens, which already require fat, dumbed-down UI with finger-sized widgets? Retarded.
Apple is a lot better than Android in this regard, but they're also known to be lazy punters when fairly routine design challenges (AKA necessary work) arise.
Not to mention: Who is clamoring for this BS anyway? I've never felt deprived by not having bunch of windows on my phone or even tablet. The Mac, which has a long heritage of apps that launched an idiotic flotilla of separate windows, has finally gotten away from that. Now they're trying to resurrect it on touchscreens, which already require fat, dumbed-down UI with finger-sized widgets? Retarded.
It is still unrelated beta software that is changing quite a lot with each release. Best to go away for a while until it is actually released. Frankly, I hope that they still label it as beta after it launches and don't make it a default. I think it needs a little more time in the oven.
Because it’s not a pro. Clearly they’re going to be updating the iPad Pro lineup with specific prosumer oriented features, and they won’t make it to the normal iPad lineup.
IPad/IPad air > primarily a tablet
IPad Pro > going to get more and more ‘laptop replacement’-type features
Buy the iPad that corresponds with your needs.
Also you shouldn’t worry about it too much anyway since this is primarily a feature meant for the 12.9” iPad. On the smaller models it’s completely useless.