I am just curious, other than a telephoto lens, what other updates would you like to see in both of those devices?
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Stage Manager Criticized as 'Poorly Tested' Feature With 'Plethora of Bugs' Still Unfixed as iPadOS 16 Released
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I am just curious, other than a telephoto lens, what other updates would you like to see in both of those devices?
If Apple removes Stage Manger, iPadOS is going backwards essentially rendering the "Pro" iPads as useless.
The majority of people should understand that MacOS not coming to iPads, but iPadOS can be a hybrid of tge two.
All Apple needs to do is prioritize the bugs and fix them.
The majority of people should understand that MacOS not coming to iPads, but iPadOS can be a hybrid of tge two.
All Apple needs to do is prioritize the bugs and fix them.
Apple must be very proud of this feature because it is nearly completely invisible upon upgrading. I finally found it in some settings menu and turned it on. I was then completely unable to make it do anything. Great work!
It took me a bit to figure it out on my iPad, that being said I'm actually starting to like it on the iPad. However, on Ventura, not so much, I turned it off.
Why Apple won't just bring macOS to the iPad I'll just never know. The iPad hardware is clearly powerful enough to run macOS. There is no reason to run a mobile OS on a tablet with an M1 chip.
Maybe Stage Manager will work better on the M4 when it comes out in a few years.
Because they probably figure it'd hurt their overall sales numbers, it'd stop a bunch of people from getting a Mac AND an iPad.
Apple now does most of their software development overseas to save on cost... and anyone who has any meaningful experience in software development knows that's a death sentence for quality.
We need another iOS 12 and a Snow Leopard.
Too many bugs and too many features not well executed.
Too many bugs and too many features not well executed.
So this is the reason why last sunday Tim Cook was waving the chequered flag at the F1 race like it was surrending a war.
He was thinking about the reviews like these flooding the Internet in this week. 🤣
He was thinking about the reviews like these flooding the Internet in this week. 🤣
I agree - Stage Manager falls short of useful - I want to be able to layer windows - but that is not really feasible with this implementation. You try to window part of the UI off the screen, and it pops it back in. When not in full screen you always have the dock which wastes precious space on the iPad, and windows only go so small - which is dumb. I want to place a timer on top of an app to keep track of presentation times, etc - but the smallest size of the clock is ridiculous and doesn't help. Apple should go back to the drawing board on this one.
Abysmal feature.
Functionality and visual language are on the level of Windows Vista.
Functionality and visual language are on the level of Windows Vista.
I started using it on my MacBook last night and spent a good amount this morning playing with new ways for my productivity. I am a programmer so I have a ton of windows I am always managing.
So far the stage manager is acting as sub menu of sorts for all my spaces. For example I keep all my messaging windows in one space. Previously they just stacked on each other and looked messy. Now they instantly minimize to the stage manager sidebar. Very nice. I use another space for utilities such as notes, terminal, text editor, etc. Also a nice touch minimizing them all to the sidebar.
Now where I wish it could be improved. You shouldn't have to group multiple windows of the same app. I want to be able to have two seperate browser windows to two different stage managers. That way I can quickly go between two sets of tabs. This is not the case, however, and itstead it groups the browser windows so when you minimize one and repoen it opens in the same stage manager as your other window. Not nice.
On iPadOS, I guess my first thought is 'why not just use a mac?' if you need multitasking like this. That's not snark, rather serious. By the time you add a keyboard, you've essentially got a small mac, so why not just use one?
But on the mac itself, I tried stage manager, and turned it off after a few minutes. I'm constantly drag-dropping stuff from one app to another, and don't see how that works. If I could choose which windows to minimize to it, sort of a hybrid between the dock and stage manager, I'd probably use it. I really do like that it has separate stages for each monitor, but the 'only one active app' piece of it just doesn't work for what I do.
Or did I completely miss how to do that on the Mac?
But on the mac itself, I tried stage manager, and turned it off after a few minutes. I'm constantly drag-dropping stuff from one app to another, and don't see how that works. If I could choose which windows to minimize to it, sort of a hybrid between the dock and stage manager, I'd probably use it. I really do like that it has separate stages for each monitor, but the 'only one active app' piece of it just doesn't work for what I do.
Or did I completely miss how to do that on the Mac?
It's completely unusable.
Something bad is going on inside Apple.
Something bad is going on inside Apple.
So are we still saying WFH isn’t effecting their products and services or are we still denying there’s a problem with quality
It's a big deal that Apple is putting time and effort into disaster features like this, regardless of whether you are going to use it.
Apple likes to brag about all the money they have and how big and innovative they think they are, but there QA testing keeps getting worse and worse with every release and every release they keep up the complexity of the software. Apple stop using your customers are your QA testers you have real deep pocket reach down and start spending the time and money are QA testing.
Alongside the release of iPadOS 16 on Monday, MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci shared some candid feedback about Stage Manager, a new feature that allows for multiple overlapping windowed apps on the iPad. Viticci expressed his continued disappointment with Stage Manager, criticizing it as an "over-designed" and "poorly tested" feature with a "muddled constellation of missing features, bugs, and confusing interactions."
"Right now, Stage Manager is just another mode that was tacked onto existing iPad apps, disabled by default, slimmed down in scope, and shipped with a plethora of bugs," wrote Viticci. "It's disheartening to see Apple fumble this opportunity so badly."
Viticci shared a long list of bugs, technical issues, and challenges that he experienced while using Stage Manager and that he says are still present in the iPadOS 16 version released to the public this week. For example, he said there are keyboard-related bugs when QuickType predictions are enabled, layout bugs when switching the iPad from portrait to landscape orientation, full-screen app windows resizing incorrectly, and much more.
While he believes that windowing on iPadOS can be useful, Viticci said that Apple has botched the execution with Stage Manager so far.
"There's the seed of a valid idea behind Stage Manager: create a continuum between the Mac and iPad that allows power users to go beyond what iPadOS has offered thus far," he wrote. "But that idea has been paired with the worst technical implementation of multitasking I've seen from Apple in the several years I've been using and writing about the iPad."
Viticci is hopeful that Apple will be open to feedback and continue to iterate on Stage Manager in future iPadOS 16 versions. He also hopes that Apple will release an API for developers next year that will allow apps to better support the multitasking feature.
Stage Manager supports up to four apps on an iPad's built-in screen, while another four apps will be supported on an external display on iPad models with the M1 chip and newer. However, Apple delayed external display support for Stage Manager and said the functionality will return in a software update later this year.
Viticci's full Stage Manager review can be read over at MacStories.
Article Link: Stage Manager Criticized as 'Poorly Tested' Feature With 'Plethora of Bugs' Still Unfixed as iPadOS 16 Released
Sounds like Spaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaces_(software) might work better for you.
Apple software being bad? What a surprise!!! /s
Coming from android to iPhone was an incredible bad decision. Hardware wise they are top notch but software wise they are 3 years behind android.
The problem with quality started long before that, and you know it. It started when Apple started prioritizing purple hair over qualifications during the interview process.
I think its a nice iPad feature, I admittedly haven't used it a ton to run into any bugs yet, but at face value I think it is nice and much more usable than the prior split screen and slide over system that felt incredibly unintuitive to use. Seems pointless for macOS, but don't completely understand all the hate for it on iPadOS.