Cramped might not be the correct word but each window will be small. Doing word-processing in 1/4 of a 13 inch screen is not preferable. Definitely time for bigger iPads. Even surface studio 2+ type of devices.
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I won’t know till September or so. Yes the mini 7 has a faster chip over the mini 6 and a big feature is the Mini 7 can tell you the battery health.
In the bottom right corner there is the little semi-circle on the edge that you drag to resize.
Looks solid but I wish they would address the fact that iPadOS still only allows one audio source at a time*
*unless they use two different AVAudioSession then it’s like two at the same time
*unless they use two different AVAudioSession then it’s like two at the same time
iPadOS 26: "Identity Crisis"
I hope they bring back SlideOver for those of us who want it and use it constantly.
Also please fix the "one audio source at a time" thing, as @Haiku_Oezu mentioned.
I can not STAND that.
It sounds like I'm alone on this, but I like to use my iPad basically the same way I did a decade ago.
The experience I'm going for is a very pure OG iPad one, with just the lightest touch of affordance for multitasking as needed to quickly check something in another app or copy/paste a password, or note, or have a video in PiP, etc.
For me this is where iPad shines.
When it gets more complex, I'm over to a Mac to quickly breeze through the more complex task with something truly meant for it.
I hope they bring back SlideOver for those of us who want it and use it constantly.
Also please fix the "one audio source at a time" thing, as @Haiku_Oezu mentioned.
I can not STAND that.
It sounds like I'm alone on this, but I like to use my iPad basically the same way I did a decade ago.
The experience I'm going for is a very pure OG iPad one, with just the lightest touch of affordance for multitasking as needed to quickly check something in another app or copy/paste a password, or note, or have a video in PiP, etc.
For me this is where iPad shines.
When it gets more complex, I'm over to a Mac to quickly breeze through the more complex task with something truly meant for it.
Now get me a MacBook with a touch screen and iPadOS 26.
Can you not already achieve the same outcome by buying a keyboard with an iPad?
Enjoyed the video. If no one has mentioned it already, I wish for a desktop version of Safari as on the Mac.
I dislike how mobile devices must have their own versions of browsers. Maybe that was more important in the past, but with the Apple mobile hardware's power, it should be possible.
I dislike how mobile devices must have their own versions of browsers. Maybe that was more important in the past, but with the Apple mobile hardware's power, it should be possible.
The biggest is normal software installation. I can install anything I want on a Mac.
The 2nd biggest is Finder, the iPad doesn't have anything like it for file management.
Fix those, and an iPad with a keyboard and mouse would be useful. As it is, it's a toy.
I think it is pretty clear that many people find the iPad very useful already.
If you live in the EU then you may well get the option to install software from sources other than the Apple App Store. I am in favour of restricting the origins of installable software but that is a personal preference. The preference for a broader range of software origins is, however, hardly a justification for porting macOS to the iPad. It is more an issue with the lockdown of the iPad than it being a missing feature that is only available only in macOS.
The iPad "Files" app could be enhanced (I have not seen the iOS 26 build yet), but the macOS Finder is hardly a "must have" and not really all that feature-rich as it is.