iPads could get more Mac-like features soon
- Potentially significant updates to iPadOS are coming this year, aiming to make iPads more Mac-like.
- The focus will be on productivity, multitasking, and app window management, with an emphasis on improving the overall user experience.
- These changes are expected around a year after the release of the M4 iPad Pro, which has demonstrated that the device can handle demanding tasks without overheating.
- Apple is reportedly working on improved multitasking features, although details are scarce and will likely be revealed in due time.
- The goal is to make iPads feel more like a Mac, rather than running macOS on a tablet, but the exact nature of these changes remains to be seen.
By the time Apple releases M5-powered iPads, using iPadOS may feel closer to working on a Mac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. It won’t be macOS running on a tablet, but he writes that the changes will be significant enough to make people who want such a thing happy.
Updates to iPadOS coming this year will be focused “on productivity, multitasking and app window management — with an eye on the device operating more like a Mac,†according to Gurman. He says these changes are due “about a year†after the release of the M4 iPad Pro, a fantastic tablet with far more power than its software demands.
Gurman’s report doesn’t give any indication of what Apple’s updated multitasking will look like, and it’s best to reserve any excitement until we see more. Back in 2022, Apple added Stage Manager to iPadOS 16, a feature that enables windowing and also groups app windows together in a dock-like collection on the side of the display. It might have seemed like an exciting change if you wanted to be able to ditch your MacBook, but what shipped felt too half-hearted to be a useful step in the direction of a proper desktop operating …
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