I’ve always tried to publish annual OS reviews that are informed by practical, consistent usage of a new operating system which, I hope, has led to highly opinionated, well-researched stories that can stand the test of time. Normally, I would use the introduction of my iOS and iPadOS reviews to tell you how I’ve been living and working with the new operating system every day for the past three months. Before it was pulled by Apple and delayed to a future release, external display support in Stage Manager was impossible to rely on for production work. For nearly two months, I couldn’t type with Apple’s Magic Keyboard or use keyboard shortcuts when Stage Manager was active. And that was only the tip of the iceberg. When I say “crashing”, I mean I couldn’t go for longer than 10 minutes without iPadOS kicking me back to my Lock Screen and resetting my workspaces.
Stage Manager, the marquee addition to iPadOS that lets you multitask with floating windows, started crashing on my M1 iPad Pro in mid-July and it was only fixed in early October. That’s precisely why I had to stop writing about iPadOS earlier in the summer and until last week. When something works, I want to keep writing. That’s what I’ve been doing for over seven years at this point, and I don’t like breaking my writing patterns. Typically, MacStories readers would expect a full-blown ‘The MacStories Review’ to go alongside a new version of iPadOS. If you’ve been following the evolution of the iPad for a while, you know that’s very unusual.īut the reason this story was meant to be different isn’t to be found in Apple’s design philosophy for iPadOS 16. You can even resize them and make them overlap. IPadOS 16 is launching to the public today, and it carries a lot of expectations on its shoulders: for the first time since the introduction of the original iPad in 2010, Apple is embracing a Mac-like windowing system that lets you use up to four windows at the same time on the iPad’s screen. This article wasn’t supposed to go like this.
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