Apple just released iPadOS 16.2, which enables many
great features, including the ability to use your iPad on
a secondary display.
But let's be honest with each other.
There are still a ton of things missing from iPadOS, and here
are ten things that you'll be surprised that the iPad still
cannot do in iPadOS 16.2.
Let's get started.
Starting with number one, it's the ability to play games
full screen when you are on a secondary display.
Now, I don't know what Apple was thinking about this one,
but any game that I have tried to play, it doesn't matter if
it's Apple Arcade, doesn't matter if it's from a
third party developer, I cannot play a game on my secondary
display and actually use it in full screen.
Now, I don't think this is a restriction of having a 5K
display or 27-inch display because I've tried on a number
of different displays.
This one.
The LG Ultrafine 5K, the LG Ultrafine 4K, and a
32-inch BenQ 4K display, and none of the games will run
at their full-screen size.
I end up getting something that is about 50% of the screen
real estate, which is annoying.
The good thing is if you use Sony PS Remote Play and you
have a secondary display, you can use PS remote play and
play any of your games on your PlayStation from your iPad
in full screen.
You don't get the full-screen resolution of the 5K or 4K
display that you're using, but it's good enough to play.
Let's put it that way.
Now, let's talk about number two.
Now, I don't know what Apple's thinking is behind this,
it just doesn't make sense to me but if it makes sense
to you, let me know down in the comments below.
But if you are using an external display with your iPad
and on an external display, you have an app that is running
in full screen.
If I open up a second app and I want to use that where the
primary app or the first app it had opened, I want to have it
in the center of the display.
I can't.
They always have to be tiled.
I cannot have one app in the foreground and have the other
app in the background.
It always has to be tiled and I don't know, but tile doesn't
really make sense all the time.
Sometimes I want to be able to use a app just by itself
without having the other app behind it.
I don't know what Apple's thinking is about that.
That is really annoying for me.
Let's move on to number three, which is specific to the
M2 iPad Pro.
Now, the M2 iPad Pro here now, if you remember, I think it was
in iPadOS 15.4 or 15.3 where Apple introduced the ability to
have kind of dynamic volume rockers where depending on what
the orientation is of the iPad, the volume rockers
would do one thing versus in another rotation that they
would do something different.
Well, in iPadOS 16.2,
No matter which orientation that the iPad is in, it doesn't
have that behavior.
So they're dynamic, but you can't shut it off.
The setting used to found in menu settings and then volume,
but that feature is not available on the M2 iPad Pro.
I don't know what Apple's thinking.
They haven't told us about it.
They're just going to go with the feature and super annoying
cause I don't like that feature at all on this iPad because I
only use the iPad in this orientation and I don't want
to press, which would be the right arrow key to turn up the
volume on the left arrow keys to turn down the volume.
I want it to be the very way that I'm used to using it.
So a little bit of annoyance there with that device.
Let's move on to number four.
I know a lot of people out there are using their iPad for
the day to day work activities,
their streaming, they are talking to their
family via FaceTime.
And number four has to do with the ability to use the webcam
that you might have either integrated into your display
like I have on my Studio Display and that
FaceTime camera, or maybe you even have a third party camera
that is connected to your display and you might run it
through a Thunderbolt dock.
Well, you still cannot use a third party camera, even the
FaceTime camera that's integrated into the Studio
Display as your primary FaceTime camera.
Every time you open up the FaceTime camera on the iPad,
you get that really getting that weird view where it's on
the left hand side.
If you have the new iPad's 10th generation where it's built in
the center of the display, it's a little bit better,
but the camera still not that great.
Having the camera here in the top of the center, that would
make so much sense, but you can't select as an output.
I would really like to see Apple allow me to choose which
camera I have, especially when it's connected to the
display on here.
So I want to see Apple bring continuity camera from the Mac
to the iPad and allow me to use my iPhone as a camera when
I want to, right?
Why can I do that?
It's available on the Mac, which makes it
seem really silly.
Apple, tell me what you're thinking out there, because it
doesn't make sense to all of us.
Now, let's talk about number five.
This is going to surprise you because I didn't even know this
is available in iOS 16, but if I take my iPhone and I say
"reboot iPhone" and Siri says, do you want me to reboot and it
turns off the iPhone, that's awesome.
That's such a great feature because now I can reboot my
phone without needing to interact with the volume
rockers in that kind of crazy reboot pattern that Apple has.
You know, volume up, volume down, hit the
power button anyways.
However cool that is, you cannot do it on the iPad
where I think that is where it's ultimately more useful
than on the iPhone.
At least it is useful on the iPad, not where it
shouldn't even be included.
What is going on here, Apple?
Why isn't it on the iPad?
It would make sense on the iPad as well, in addition
to the iPhone.
But I don't know.
Apple makes some strange choices sometimes.
Now, let's talk about number six.
And this is another strange choice Apple seem to made.
When you are connecting your iPad to an external display,
you want to make sure that that external display has built
in speakers, because any time that you want to listen, audio,
listen to a movie, you play a game, whatever the case is,
the audio is always will come out of the external display,
even if it's a Studio Display.
Now, there's no way of changing the default set of speakers so
I can't say I want to use the iPad speakers instead of the
external display speakers.
There's no way to change that.
Well, you cannot even use AirPlay while you are connected
to your external display.
So if I wanted to use a better set of Homepods and HomePod
mini's for some surround sound,
that is not possible.
I can not use those speakers to play any type of content
actually to disconnect my iPad from the external display and
then use those speakers.
It's just like it's so confusing some of the choices
that they made and why they decided to implement them in
the manner that they did.
I don't know.
I like using my HomePod with my iPad.
It does sound good watching movies playing games even that
much more immersive.
If you use HomePod with your iPad to listen to content or
watch content, let me know about that down in
the comments below.
Number seven is the ability to update the software version on
your Studio Display.
Now, I don't know how many of you are out there buying the
Studio Display for your iPad and to use it with iPadOS
16 extended display.
I like it.
I think it works good.
I'm going to do a review on it so if you want to see that,
make sure you click that subscribe button
right down there.
But thing is in iPadOS 16.2, you cannot update your software
of your Studio Display.
What?
Apple what are you thinking?
Why would you tell me to use this display that if the best
display for my iPad but I can't update the software,
I have to get a different piece of hardware to update it?
That makes no sense and whoever thought of that feature or
thought of that feature shouldn't be included.
I mean, this is kind of like a day one feature should be there
because I think people are buying the Studio Display.
They might not even have another computer, which, hey,
it makes sense.
And that goes on with number eight, which is the
ability to control stage manager and the ability to use
stage manager via global shortcut keys or even
controlling them via the Shortcuts app,
You know, CMD + Space + S,
None of the control keys or modifier keys work where you
can control Stage Manager.
I always have to pull down from control center and
hit the button.
It's just really, really annoying and I wish
Apple would have brought that out as kind of a
day one feature.
If we're using it, we want the ability to turn it on, turn it
off without that barrier to, you know, swiping down and
turning on it might not seem like a lot, but it does
prohibit your workflow and it's kind of a pain in the butt if
you just think about it.
And that's not what I'm talking about at the summary.
Now what I'm looking for at all.
Now let's talk about number nine.
This is another feature where why are we not thinking this is
a day one feature?
It's a must have to launch.
If I want to use my iPad with my secondary display and maybe
I just want to not use the primary display on my iPad,
I want you to kind of put it in clamshell mode or even if I
sleep at my display, if I close my iPad, the display
still stays lit.
Say what?
Why is the display saying lit?
This is an LCD display.
I don't want to keep it.
I'm don't want to burn back light to want to burn energy.
That just seems like it's a waste.
Like here.
It's still on.
Hello.
Apple.
Are you there?
This is silly.
I don't know why they would do this.
And that brings me to number ten.
Number ten.
If I want to control the brightness of two displays,
my actual iPad display and the external display I can control
won't be a control center.
Okay, that makes sense.
I control the internal iPad display via control center.
But if I want to control the secondary display, where do
you think I got to go?
You got go to settings.
You got to go to display.
You got to click on the display.
You go change the brightness there.
Is it exactly what you need to.
It's just a real pain in the butt.
And I don't know what Apple is thinking.
If you're going to bring the feature out and make the
feature well rounded for like external display support at
least gives the ability to change the display brightness
of both displays in the same location.
Don't make it kludgy.
Like why would you do that?
It just doesn't make sense and it makes using your iPad as
kind of your primary work machine just a little bit more
cumbersome where you, you know, you don't get this
great taste, so to speak, of, you know, this is really all
it should be.
Apple, help me out.
I want to know what you guys are doing over there.
Please throw us a line.
Something before iPadOS 17.
Guys, thanks for watching my video on ten things that iPadOS
16.2 still can't do.
Let me know what your least favorite feature is down
the comments below.
If you have a great feature that I should know about,
let me know about that.
My name is Mike and I will talk to you the next one.
Happy holidays.
Happy New Year.