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Widgets in iPadOS 14 Limited to Today View in Landscape Mode

As every last one of you has said, makes no sense.

They will need to change this. Problaby just ins't ready, which might be a good thing, with more features.

Then again, every last person may be wrong and Apple just doesn't like it.
 
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sonicrobby said:
I don’t like how Apple is half-assing portrait orientation on the iPad. “More icons” looks ridiculous when the iPad is in portrait mode. Might as well just have a big bezel at the top and bottom. I was excited about the widgets, but not if they don’t work like on the iPhone...
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It probably would look very stupid and cramped if they would add a 6th App row in landscape mode.
 
I think Apple has given up on portrait mode for iPad. ipads are mostly used by kids to watch videos (thus landscape) to keep them quiet and the rest by enthusiast who all have keyboards (i.e. landscape as well)
 
I kind of get it. You wouldn't want that side view of widgets AND more widgets to the right of that. I guess they could fix that by only allowing widgets if you don't have the side view activated, but there could be some UI weirdness with that as well. I think they will think of something, probably with a later beta.
 
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calstanford said:
I think Apple has given up on portrait mode for iPad. ipads are mostly used by kids to watch videos (thus landscape) to keep them quiet and the rest by enthusiast who all have keyboards (i.e. landscape as well)
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Funny thing, prior to my new iPad Pro I had used all my previous iPads in portrait mode almost exclusively. But with the 12.9” I have now and the Smart Keyboard Folio I have now switched to landscape full time.
 
profets said:
I get the sense that it is coming and its just not ready yet for the first beta.
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Rene Ritchie, who often reports directly from APple, suggests that lack of widgets is by design.
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cwwilson said:
Funny thing, prior to my new iPad Pro I had used all my previous iPads in portrait mode almost exclusively. But with the 12.9” I have now and the Smart Keyboard Folio I have now switched to landscape full time.
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Wish they’d move the camera/faceid to the pencil edge.
 
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Mimiron said:
Poor iPadOS, this year's WWDC was cringeworthy and disappointing.
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I wouldn’t say cringeworthy.

The pencil stuff is probably the only interesting bit for ipados, though.

A lot of things under the hood though - 3 panel uisplitviewcontrollers will be a big deal once third party software comes out using it. Also color pickers, etc. More Mac-like overall.
 
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It's probably because the logic for changing orientations with widgets is kind of jarring and confusing? When you have something that takes up 8 icon slots where should it go when you switch orientation? Just a thought.
 
ersan191 said:
It's probably because the logic for changing orientations with widgets is kind of jarring and confusing? When you have something that takes up 8 icon slots where should it go when you switch orientation? Just a thought.
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It’s the computer science “bin packing” problem. It’s been solved :)
 
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Mr.Blacky said:
It probably would look very stupid and cramped if they would add a 6th App row in landscape mode.
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Maybe, but I personally don’t think it would. The “bigger” option shows 5 rows in portrait, then 4 in landscape. The “more icons” has 5 and 5 for both. Wonder why they did this, but it’s the only reason I still use the “bigger” option. I’m on the go a lot and use portrait more, and it messes with my ocd.
 
While I understand that aesthetically it would be nice, and just for the sake of having something different, but from a functionality point of view, I don’t understand the point. On the iPhone, they added it in order to give you widgets on the home screen. With the iPad, you already have the widgets on the home screen, so the only thing you don’t have now is the ability to put them in between icons etc, but they are right there on the home screen nonetheless, so there is no lost function.
 
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Am I missing something, or is it currently not possible to add third-party-app widgets in iOS 14? I have a couple of third-party widgets that survived the upgrade and still show up, but no third-party widgets show up on the add-widget screen.
 
This does make sense. When you are on your iPad, you are looking at it for longer periods of time. It's not something you pull out of your pocket and take a quick peek at. So having it only on the home screen in the today view makes sense.
 
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The iPadOS implementation is similar to the macOS implementation: a today view with widgets on the side of the screen that you can hide out of view. I can see them doing it to make it more Mac-like, but then you would basically also need to get rid of the icon grid on the home screen.

It's too bad though, because I think the iPad is the only device where I would actually like to see widgets on my home screen like on iOS14, not in a today view bar on the left.
 
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I fear that if this was an early beta thing it would of been mentioned as coming for iPad later. I think its ridiculous to have it one way for one thing and another for something else. The App Library is surely required on both devices at the very least, its the same UI/Issue!
Are they really out of ideas so much they need to make this an iPad15 feature...

With Tim Cook in charge I'm trying to work out how this can be worked out Commercially to get you to buy both products... Surely only if the feature was iPad only!
 
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deuxani said:
It's too bad though, because I think the iPad is the only device where I would actually like to see widgets on my home screen like on iOS14, not in a today view bar on the left.
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Exactly. Widgets on a Mac are kind of stupid. On an iPhone, I bet most of the people who will actually use them will only use the weather and calendar widgets. On an iPad, however, I'd use all kinds of widgets.
 
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thisismyusername said:
Exactly. Widgets on a Mac are kind of stupid. On an iPhone, I bet most of the people who will actually use them will only use the weather and calendar widgets. On an iPad, however, I'd use all kinds of widgets.
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Stocks widget is nice too.

And there are some third party ones i am looking forward to. Too bad they aren’t interactive though.
 
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