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Video: Top 5 Most Useful Features in iPadOS 15

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iPadOS 15 is gaining almost all of the new features that were introduced in iOS 15, but there are also several updates that Apple introduced that are designed exclusively for the larger screen of the iPad or have been adopted from iOS 14.


Widgets can now be placed anywhere on the iPad's Home Screen, and technically this doesn't count as an iPadOS feature because it's something that Apple is bringing over from iOS. In iPadOS 14, you could have a set spot for your widgets, but with iPadOS 15, you can put them anywhere, just like you can on the iPhone.

App Library is another new feature that was introduced on the iPhone first, and it's a useful change that lets you see and manage all of the apps you have installed on your iPad in one spot.

Multitasking is an iPad exclusive, and it's been improved in iPadOS 15. We already did a whole dedicated video on it, but we couldn't ignore the user interface updates in our list of top iPadOS features.

Also new to the iPad is a "Quick Note" option for the Notes app. With a swipe of the Apple Pencil, you can open up a Quick Note no matter which app you're in to jot down notes. You can also create a Quick Note from Control Center or with a keyboard shortcut.

Apple introduced Safari updates across iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey so this isn't an iPad-only feature, but Safari has a streamlined tab bar and support for Tab Groups so you can better organize your tabs. Web extensions are supported in iPadOS, there's a new customizable start page, and you can refresh a webpage by pulling down from the top.

Safari also now prevents trackers from accessing your IP address, and if you have a paid iCloud account, a Private Relay feature will encrypt all of your browsing activity.

What are your favorite iPadOS 15 features? Let us know in the comments.

Article Link: Video: Top 5 Most Useful Features in iPadOS 15
 
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iPad OS is really disappointing..... Took a year for them to bring iOS 14 to the iPad, make multitasking the bear minimum of what it should have been years ago (and still feels restrictive), and can't deliver on the hardware they currently sell at nearly twice the price of a much more usable mac with the same hardware.....

I am glad the youtube community seems to be ganging up on Apple on this release.... sometimes Apple doesn't spend enough time listening to their customers and too much time dictating
 
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Serban55 said:
Beautiful features
Lets hope with beta 2 the app limit will rise from 5gb to 7gb
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My hope is that Parallels 17 becomes available and there is no Ram restrictions in iOS 15. Run ARM versions of Windows and Linux on your iPad Pro and take advantage of the 2 TB, the M1, and 16 GB without Apple. That would be a dream setup for me in the year 2022.
 
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BornAgainMac said:
My hope is that Parallels 17 becomes available and there is no Ram restrictions in iOS 15. Run ARM versions of Windows and Linux on your iPad Pro and take advantage of the 2 TB, the M1, and 16 GB without Apple. That would be a dream setup for me in the year 2022.
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parallels is still an app, so by definition it will be restricted at 5gb ram, for now .Apple must lift the 5gb ram restriction, not Prallels. Maybe with beta 2. What you will do with windows on arm? there are not so many apps there...is useless...developers didnt jumped on that platform architecture
You have better apps in the ipadOS store
 
Last time I checked, VMWare was taking over 20G for (Intel) Windows, so I would not have high hopes for the usefulness of Windows on the iPad with only 7G (or 5G) available per app. I have to say, though, I do love the iPad (w magic keyboard!!) for what I use it for, which is writing, emailing, reading stuff on Safari ... will love the new tab groups because I often open a page that's on the mac or the phone, so it would be convenient to open a tab group too.
 
dguisinger said:
much more usable mac with the same hardware.....
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Quick note is way more usable on the iPad than the mac, for example. There are more examples but this one is relevant to the article. The mac is NOT automatically better, more useable or anything else. These things do what you need them to. Buy the most suitable.
 
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cupcakes2000 said:
Quick note is way more usable on the iPad than the mac, for example. There are more examples but this one is relevant to the article. The mac is NOT automatically better, more useable or anything else. These things do what you need them to. Buy the most suitable.
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Exactly .... for example, what happens when you poke your finger on the Mac screen, apart from get fingerprints on it? Nothing?
 
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The_Martini_Cat said:
Last time I checked, VMWare was taking over 20G for (Intel) Windows, so I would not have high hopes for the usefulness of Windows on the iPad with only 7G (or 5G) available per app. I have to say, though, I do love the iPad (w magic keyboard!!) for what I use it for, which is writing, emailing, reading stuff on Safari ... will love the new tab groups because I often open a page that's on the mac or the phone, so it would be convenient to open a tab group too.
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Parallels runs just great on a 16GB Intel Mac. I generally have 3-4 separate instances of Visual Studio in it, along with some other apps like Charles, TC, a browser, a VPN client etc.

Heck, even on a 8GB it's OK if you don't run memory-intensive apps.
 
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What a snooze fest. I love my new iPad Pro; but man, underwhelming. If I was upgrading from a 2018 or newer; I would regret it. The 10.5 upgrade was a large jump in design and accessories; but for those with a 2018.. why bother? And a whole year for.... widgets? Really? That's what you spent a year working on? Something that was shockingly missing from last years release.. what a damn shame.
 
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Since the same hardware is being supported they should have kept it iOS 14.8,9,10 etc.
 
Serban55 said:
parallels is still an app, so by definition it will be restricted at 5gb ram, for now .Apple must lift the 5gb ram restriction, not Prallels. Maybe with beta 2. What you will do with windows on arm? there are not so many apps there...is useless...developers didnt jumped on that platform architecture
You have better apps in the ipadOS store
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Windows future will likely be ARM but there are some tools I need that only run on Windows that can work under emulation within Windows ARM like Toad or some games on Steam. Linux would be nice too with access to things like MySQL, Tomcat, PHP, or Bash as a sandbox environment to try things out. I was reading a discussion of Parallels on iPad on the site and one major hurdle is the App Store. Apple can just pull of the app on a whim and all that time and effort to get it working would be lost. It wouldn't be your regular tablet app so it would be risky for the developer.
 
The_Martini_Cat said:
Last time I checked, VMWare was taking over 20G for (Intel) Windows, so I would not have high hopes for the usefulness of Windows on the iPad with only 7G (or 5G) available per app. I have to say, though, I do love the iPad (w magic keyboard!!) for what I use it for, which is writing, emailing, reading stuff on Safari ... will love the new tab groups because I often open a page that's on the mac or the phone, so it would be convenient to open a tab group too.
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Memory for a VM is whatever you assign to it. Windows VM can be using 2 GB, 2.5 GB, 8 GB, or whatever you assign to it and whatever requirements the software needs in it. With 1 or 2 TB of storage, you can have a ton of VMs offline that can range from 10 GB to ~100 GB in the iPad storage and with 16 GB on an iPad you can probably run a few VMs easily at the same time.
 
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magicschoolbus said:
What a snooze fest. I love my new iPad Pro; but man, underwhelming. If I was upgrading from a 2018 or newer; I would regret it. The 10.5 upgrade was a large jump in design and accessories; but for those with a 2018.. why bother? And a whole year for.... widgets? Really? That's what you spent a year working on? Something that was shockingly missing from last years release.. what a damn shame.
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Yes, only widgets and absolutely nothing else.
 
Speaking of syncing tabs between devices, I wonder if they increase the limits of iCloud syncing bookmarks? :rolleyes:

iOS 14 is

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