iPadOS 16 is a Big Update but the Best Feature is Not Coming to All the iPads!

Apple has finally delivered what consumers have been asking but everyone might not be on the happy side

Sithara Ariyarathna
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Apple announced iPadOS 16 a few days ago at the 2022 WWDC keynote. It brought some big changes to iPadOS multitasking to get the most out of the iPad capabilities. iPads had great hardware from the beginning but lack of software support made them just another tablet. Given the multitasking capabilities of the Samsung high-end tablets and Chromebook tablets, Apple always had to deliver something better for the iPad multitasking situation which was limited to a maximum of 3 apps with the slide-over app open.

But now Apple has introduced the Stage Manager feature which is also found in the macOS. Stage Manager will let you resize the windows, so you can easily hide away other apps behind one main window. And it would do the rearrangements automatically whenever you move the window around on the screen. It will also let you see the active apps on the left-hand side and make the transition between apps more easily. And in iPad Pro, you can use 8 apps in Stage Manager with the help of an external monitor.

Stage Manager is not quite the macOS mode some were expecting Apple to deliver but this is a…

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Sithara Ariyarathna
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