I don’t think I’ve seen it talked about anywhere, but am I the only person that has realized the new windowing system on iPadOS 26 did actually bring Stage Manager to the iPad Mini? While not necessarily a huge deal for that particular device, it means there is no feature delineation at that level anymore across iPads, a win for the entire ecosystem.
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While there are many other faults with the characterization of the changes, here's a simple example.
Any reader that has installed a single beta of iPadOS 26 could determine that both an onboarding preference selection and the obvious toggle in Control Center hardly deserve the implied feature abandonment behind the words "buried in iPadOS 26 is a throwback mode[.]"
For a more balanced read, check out @viticci’s interview with Craig Federighi.
Interview: Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and the iPad’s Essence
It’s a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I’m walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, for a conversation about the iPad. It’s the Wednesday after WWDC, and although there are still some developers and members of the press around Apple’s campus, it
They could have used this opportunity to call out Apple on the actual problems with iPad: slow software innovation, reluctance to implement tried and true paradigms, etc. Instead, they sensationalized the lifespan of a product category that is only 15 years old while invoking the memory of a man who died midway between the 2nd and 3rd generation of a product. To honor the style of the piece and its quotes; if your product criticism depends on invoking the ghost of Steve Jobs, *you* blew it.(2/3)
I just read a piece from Wired call “Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good”. I have feelings about its quality / editorialization.
This is the most sensationalist thing I've read in Wired in a while. Granted, I might be feeling that because of my history with the iPad. However, there is an abundance of rhetoric in this piece — so much so, that it is approaching "clickbait" territory, in my opinion.
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Hot take: removal of SplitView/SlideOver doesn't make iPadOS easier to understand. It simply changes the mental model of iPadOS (and introduces a functional regression with the lack of an ephemeral window option) from what it has grown to be over the past 10 years, ever since those features were enabled.
Would it have been the worst thing if Apple simply left the "default" the way it was like they did with the introduction of stage manager?
Stuart Gibson@nileane Apple heard Federico hasn’t used iPad in six months and panicked.
Ricky MondelloI laughed out loud during the most recent ATP when I heard the suggestion to wire up a phone running Shazam to push a notification when a washer or dryer was done. Legitimately, actually, laughed out loud.
Unexpected Apple Intelligence use case: summarizing kernel panics. 🤣
Legacy widgets on the today view of iOS were the final bastion where glanceable, near real-time data could live. When I heard the guys at @connected talk about its removal, quick glance security camera feeds were my first thought, alongside possible use cases for checking in on those who are handicapped and at risk to cause injury to themselves. Has there been any update of widgetkit to account for this, or is Apple ok with this regression? I filed FB13909714 to note this regression.
I can't remember where the severe limitations of Continuity Camera were discussed a long time ago, but I think it was on either @upgrade or @connected. However, I just learned that Continuity Camera has the ability to manually zoom and pan on macOS.
Hover your mouse over the image preview and you get a zoom wheel and a RECENTER button. Click and drag and to pan.
On an iPhone 14 Pro Max, I have the ability to go from 0.5 to 3x zoom.
Has everyone else realized this, and I'm simply late?