I knew Stage Manager can run on 2020 iPad Pro. Apple was straight up bsing. But glad they got it to work 😄. I don’t use external displays so I don’t mind that part missing.
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Testing Stage Manager on a 2018 iPad Pro With the New iPadOS 16.1 Beta
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Yeah, that was not well stated in the article.Ah...okay. Now I understand. Thanks for the info!
That sounds like non-M1 iPads lose external display support, with or without Stage Manager, which didn't make any sense at all.
Uh...And no doubt that 2006 app worked to the same level of performance (and camera resolution) as today's Stage Manager while driving a multi-display setup where the external display is a 4K or 5K display. Right?
The strangest part is that MacOS is taking on more of iOS/iPadOS paint every new major OS release, example: System Preferences/Settings.
Guys, How about actual “reviews” of how is it working as a beta for now?.
Works fine on my 2018 iPad Pro. Same like an M1. Didn’t notice any issues.
Yet iPadOS and iPad cannot do something as simple as extended display mode. Apparently to accomplish that we need M1, I wonder what all those Intel chips prior to M1 were capable of on a Mac. SMH
Of course. You're not able to answer my question.
I am glad they were able to do this, but I am still not going to use it. It seems like such a poor use of the limited screen real estate to work that way.
Man, I just wish the iPads would run Mac OS when docked and “iPad OS” when undocked. One device for everything. Paired with an Apple Watch Ultra instead of phone…. (The ultra watch with cellular activated is almost the first device that I can say I could go without a phone for a few hours at a time)
I would pay for that….
I would pay for that….
I just watch this demo of Stage Manager and feel so much better about sticking with macOS.
Apple will say you need an M3 iPad for that 😝
I am surprised that guest account/login or child mode has not been incorporated on iPadOS even though lockdown mode is available on iPhone.
No they couldn't. The iPad has no desktop, so the code is radically different between macOS and iPadOS implementations. Notice that even with external display in prior betas, you could not drag apps between each monitor. That is the limitation of not having a desktop. None of the monitor groups interact in any way with the other. MacOS is different where you could do pretty much anything you wanted to do. To make it the same, Apple would have to introduce the desktop to the iPad and that creates new issues.
When external display support returns, Globe-Control-Backslash will be your best friend. That is the keyboard toggle to move apps between monitors.
Don’t let apple distract you from the fact that a core 2 duo from 2008-9 ran the macOS window server and window manager… and could manipulate much more than 4 apps at a time. Let’s not forget that an even slower pentium processor from 1995 could run windows 95 with the ability to manipulate many windows.
Don’t buy in to the reality distortion field that stage manager requires an m1 or even an a12.
That being said, I have an m1 iPad Pro so I was always going to get stage manager. But I’m happy that folks with the 2020 and 2018 iPad pros can get stage manager too (even if limited to a single display).
Don’t buy in to the reality distortion field that stage manager requires an m1 or even an a12.
That being said, I have an m1 iPad Pro so I was always going to get stage manager. But I’m happy that folks with the 2020 and 2018 iPad pros can get stage manager too (even if limited to a single display).
Would prefer extended display mode vice StageManager, I have no issues with the present AppSwitcher.
Works great on my 2018 gen 3 IPad Pro. Glad we get to test and use it I do not need external monitor since I dont have one just my macbook pro 15 inch
An implementation of MacOS Spaces would also be out of the question considering AppSwitcher looks like a similar implementation.
Why do you keep pushing the "2006 idea" thing? To do certain things on a desktop OS, you need the circuitry to be built into the SoC to support basic functions that don't exist in A-series chips. It doesn't matter if an idea was introduced in 1806. If it isn't present, it can't be used. What it seems like Apple did was to figure out a workaround for the circuitry that wasn't present on the A-series.
I don't know exactly what they needed, but it probably has to do with virtual memory because the A-series never had to do it before, so no circuitry was added to them to do it. If the controllers are present, it's easy to implement. If they aren't, you have to figure out some other way to do it. I'll give you an example. Encoding H.264 is a pretty basic thing these days. Any SoC can do it, but it might take a long time. Throw in a hardware decoder and it takes a tiny fraction of the time it takes to do it with the non-optimized SoC. Note Apple never said it couldn't be done under any circumstance. They said it didn't run acceptably. They say they figured out a way to make it run less crappy than they had it earlier. Make sense to you now?
There was something called Quasar windows manager for Jailbroken iPads that did something similar. It did have issues.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/jailbroken-ipads-can-now-multitask-apps/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/jailbroken-ipads-can-now-multitask-apps/
I'm betting they delayed the second monitor support because it was buggy. If you followed Fernando at 9to5Mac, he was saying for several betas now that the feature was working really well on the main iPad monitor but was buggy as heck on the external monitor. It seems Apple agrees with Fernando and pushed out external monitor support until they can fix it. This is an admission by Apple that they can't fix it in time for when the new iPad Pros and iPad 10 are introduced sometime next month.
4th Gen iPad air gets left out not even 2 years after its launch. Never buy a first year model/refresh lol