Harnessing the power of the M1 chip, iPadOs 16’s Stage Manager feature offers a new way of multitasking with multiple overlapping windows and full external display support.
Stage Manager is a completely new multitasking experience that automatically organizes apps and windows, making it quick and easy to switch between tasks. For the first time on iPad, users can create overlapping windows of different sizes in a single view, drag windows sideways or open apps from the Dock to create app groups for faster and more flexible multitasking. The app window that users are working on is displayed in the foreground in the center, and other open apps and windows are arranged on the left side in recent order.
Available on iPad Pro and iPad Air with the M1 chip, Stage Manager also unlocks full external display support with resolutions up to 6K, so users can organize the ideal workspace and work with up to four iPad apps and four app on the outside screen.
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors:
In the latest beta of iPadOS 16 launched earlier this week, developer Steve Troughton-Smith and MacStories Editor-in-Chief Federico Viticci highlighted various UI issues that they keep facing from time to time while using. of Stage Manager, including the disappearance of the dock by rotating the iPad, content that doesn’t resize properly when a window is resized, keyboard input that fails to register in some apps, and more.
In August, Viticci criticized Apple for its “fundamentally misleading” approach to Stage Manager. The functionality has improved in the following weeks, but since the latest beta it is clear that several issues persist even as iPadOS 16 approaches release.
A tour of the latest beta of Stage Manager for iPadOS 16:
– I rotated my iPad and the dock was gone
– Black borders around the windows
– Keyboard crashes in apps like Mail and @theSpringApp after opening new windows
– I resized a window and it exploded in my faceSo there is that. pic.twitter.com/Twi5K3SeSH
– Federico Viticci (@viticci) October 4, 2022
We have reached the end of the development cycle and the Stage Manager is still forwarding events to apps that should be swallowed by the system, for example dragging a title bar to move a window keeps sending that drag event even in the app itself. It also conflicts with scrolling to go back pic.twitter.com/TX0uUFkCAV
– Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) October 4, 2022
MacDailyNews takes: Stage Manager is a window system with casters. Why Apple feels the need is beyond us. Provide us a real Mac-like window system that users can decide to enable or not.
As we wrote seven years ago (before iPadOS was separated from iOS):
Imagine an “iOS Pro” mode.
Activate iOS Pro on your iPad Pro:
- Tap Settings> General and make sure iOS Pro is turned on.
- There is no step two.
Hey, we can dream, can’t we?
– MacDailyNews, December 29, 2015
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