I really never expected to say that: It looks like Apple finally discovered multi -tasking on the iPad. With iPados 26, the company has not fully removed the patrons for how to use and place apps on its tablet, but it has come very close. With specific tricks related to the iPad, and better support for the mouse or trackpad, the whole system only means that it has never been before. I am driving the first developer son for less than a day on an 11 -inch iPad, and I can realize the change in how I already use my pill.
The new multi -tasking system is mostly easy to understand. You unlock the iPad and you are dropped on the home screen full of app icons as usual. When you open an app, it opens the full screen through default. In the WBBC, Apple’s executives have been cautious to note that if you don’t want to face a new multi -tasking system, you will never have to do, and I think it’s true. (If you want, you can close the entire winding system in your settings.) But as soon as you tap and drag the small icon in the right corner of the window, the app begins to shrink. You can make the app any size you want – at least the developer of any size, which is very different – and puts it on the screen anywhere. If you grab the upper bar of an app and toss it aside, it will automatically fill half the screen. Tap the new menu of the stop light, and you can either close the app or make it a full screen again.
Once you change the size of an app, now the size and space of this app is determined. If you close it and reopen it, it will open in the same size and place until you move it or change it. I have come to think about this place on my iPad as a “app screen”, which is in front of my home screen, organized and laid, but I like. And unlike the stage manager, everything is always how I left it. You can put more apps on this screen as much as you want – I had a dozen there at a time, which is much more than any logical meaning and definitely you can see together.
At least in this early bet, there are two pairs for the system. One thing I, I can’t know exactly what the yellow “minimal” button does. You tap it, and the app closes, just as an app usually turns off, and reopens like a similar app as you have closed. I suspect this is a new app that will take advantage of state developers, especially when the new background processing results, but so far it seems that there is nothing new.
You can only keep an app active at a time, but you can scroll up and down in an app in the background – if you are using the mouse or trackpad. If you are touching the screen, you have to tap the app to make it preview before doing anything with it. I am using the CMD tab app switcher to jump quickly between things on the app screen, but it doesn’t always show every app that I have fed. The only way to go Everything is through the exposé feature, which works well but is just a slightly sleep over to move.
However, though, it just works. You can connect multi -tasking with the stage manager, to convert one of your organized app screen into a handful of them. You can run a group of Windows on your iPad and more on an external monitor, or at least you can do in theory – the first beta has a bug in which I open the entire system whenever I open another app on an external display. (I’m not too worried about functionality in a long time, but as always, install beta software at your own risk.)
There are some other MacStiles about iPados 26 that help to do multi -tasking. First of all, the Stop Light Menu, which appears in the upper left corner of each app and makes it easy to close or maximize Windows. There is also a new pointer, which appears when you add a magic keyboard or other mouse or trackpad. I think I thought it less, rather than the old circle, how better it would be to have a small, more precise arrow pointer. And here’s the new menu bar, which appears in the upper part of the screen and offers all settings and options for whatever app is using.
In just a few hours with iPados 26, I felt some major changes in how I used my tablet. I am spending very little time on the home screen, which no longer needs existence-I’m launching apps with the spotlight, changing them to my app screen, and returning to them with CMD tabs or expos. I’m also using the dock too much, when I also use these apps as a fast way when I am not already front and center. It’s all like I use my Mac, and it is amazing how quickly this muscle memory kicked.
Whenever I tried to use numerous apps on the iPad, I always felt like I was fighting the system. It will be Couple You see multiple things at a time, but it Desired You have to see everything the whole screen. Now, and especially once the developers update it for even more fluid window size, the multi -tasking first -class tablet feels like a citizen. It feels like a Mac in the sense that it feels like everything is happening on one place, the same screen, rather than letting you constantly bounce between various complete screen experiences. Is this traditionally focused than a member of the Veb and occasionally suffering from more chaos? You Batcha! But I like it so far.
Finally, the answer to “what your iPad can replace your laptop” still relies mostly on the issue of your use, and even more on the condition of iPad apps. Unless the iPad really can run a desktop class browser, I am reluctant to say that this may be your main tool. But now, maybe the first time, the operating system itself does not feel that it is a problem. This is the most flexible version of Apple’s most flexible device. It can be a quiet, simple, single tossing tablet or it may be Windows’ mess in which you are kept together in any way. I’m really waiting for years to really remove the iPad, and I think it’s probably like that.
