Apple just wrapped up WWDC where they announce a ton of
great features coming to iOS 16 and iPad OS 16.
Today, we're going to focus on a few features for the iPad,
specifically stage manager and external display to support
external display support for the iPad Mini six, the iPad
Air five, as well as the new iPad Pro.
But we're going to test those with the studio display as well
as LG's Ultrafine 5K.
So we're going to figure out what works, what doesn't and
where you'll be disappointed.
Now, just so you and I are on the same page, this is not a
review of iPad 2016 Beta one, but we're going to look at the
features that Apple's already discussed in the context of the
iPad Mini six, the iPad Air five and the 2021 iPad Pro.
So that's how the features are going to work.
And we're going to test that with compatibility on the
studio display and LG's Ultrafine five K Now a lot of
people are rightfully upset that there's compatibility
restrictions Apple's placing on which devices can be used with
external display when it's extended, as well
as stage manager.
Now if you have an M1, iPad Pro or iPad Air,
those devices should work.
And if you have anything else or if it's an A15,
anything that is a a12x a12z, those will not work with that.
And those experiences should be exactly what we see with the
iPad Mini six, which is going to be our baseline
test device.
Now, this iPad is capable of delivering speeds five gigabits
per second, which might be part of the reason why they don't
have that extended display on that.
But let's go ahead and find out how right we are plugging
it in now.
We see here display is up and we are getting the same exact
experience that we had prior to iPad Air 16.
So here on the iPad Mini, it is full screen here on
the studio display.
It is at a four by three aspect ratio.
There's the black bars.
It looks ugly now.
It does recognize here that the iPad mini is the built in
display shows the brightness.
It does recognize that I have the studio display selected and
that I can control auto brightness, I can control
the brightness of the display, but there is no availability to
mirror the display or to turn off mirroring, which we'll see
here in just a few minutes.
Any other iPad device.
If it's not an M1, iPad Pro iPad Air, you are going to see
the same four by three aspect ratio on your
external display.
Now let's check the LG Ultrafine five K and see
what happens here.
Should be exactly the same.
And it is.
Yeah.
So same exact experience.
We have the display, we see that there are two displays.
It does does detect the model display that is done as well.
The brightness is very high.
Now, one of the new features that Apple talks about in
Ipados 16 and they've talked about in keynotes on their
website is display scaling, where you have the ability to
scale down the display elements,
including text UI to allow for more screen real estate
on the device.
Now that is not available on this device here, we'll see.
It can be available on the other devices that we test and
come to a conclusion.
Now, the next device I have here, this is the
iPad Air five.
This is the one that just came out in this beautiful,
beautiful blue color, which I am a huge fan of.
This is 64 gigs of internal storage.
This is Wi-Fi only this version here, we're going to
plug it into the studio display.
You see it there?
It flashes for a second.
Like it goes through the process of detecting whether or
not like what model it is, I think.
All right.
So I have the display being extended here and we see that
here on the iPad.
I have my home screen now.
I can move around from the home screen and nothing changes on
the secondary display.
All right.
Now, once I go to settings, let's go to display and
brightness will go to the built in retina display.
That's this one right here.
The brightness is configurable.
The truetone configurable displays zoom.
So we have standard and more space.
So that is available on this device as well.
If I click standard, you'll see that the display
layer reboots.
All right.
And now all the UI elements are larger text size
built in display.
So we have standard studio display, we have
auto brightness, so the same configuration options.
But now we see that we have the display zoom for more space
turned on and we can use standard and that's only
changed here and use standard.
Now you saw the dock just get bigger there and let's
change the display.
Zoom to Zoomed, which sometimes it's nice to have.
You zoomed.
And the display got bigger as the dock got bigger there.
So that was one of the things that was not available on the
iPad Mini six and it wouldn't be available on
those other devices.
And I imagine that is going to be a function of the CPU that
is on the M1 processor.
So let's keep going here.
So we display Zoom.
I'm going to go back to standard Honda Studio Display
and now we see here arrangement.
So arrangement allows you to tell your device where it's
gonna be positioned in context or in relation to
the studio display.
So when I'm moving my cursor up and down that cursor,
then we'll go the right way.
So now I'm going to use my mouse and go to this way.
There you go.
You see the mouse coming in from the right hand side of
the studio display.
We see that that in the arrangement, there's even
an option to mirror display.
So when we change to mirror, it changes the aspect ratio
back to four three with those black bars on the side, which I
don't know why you would want this, but I can tell you
that let's just turn off mirroring and we're going to
leave this as is now.
One of the things that I do quite often is I take videos of
my screen, I use screen recording.
So now we're going to turn that on and I have it right in
control center because I use it so often.
Does the countdown and now instead of screen recording two
separate displays, it's only going to screen quarter one
display in that four by three aspect ratio.
So that's something that's maybe unexpected.
I would think that it would maybe record two files in MO or
maybe you'll see that with the M two processor.
I didn't think I would be able to change my wallpaper
for one device.
And in reality, what's probably being done here is that much
like CarPlay, where Apple outputs are, where your iPhone
outputs a second display to the CarPlay display and has a
limited set of apps.
That's probably what we're seeing some form of that here
on the studio display.
Now let's take a look here at Stage Manager now.
So we're on the same page again.
Stage manager is a way of, I would say, organizing windows
that can be used in a tile view on either your iPad or when
you're using a secondary display.
Now, there is a shortcut that you can that is here in the in
the control center.
We're going to turn that on in.
I think right now it's just a bug that this is happening.
I think it removes the display layer.
That's what actually is going on because it only happens when
you're connected to the secondary display.
But again, this is not a review of the beta, so keep
that in mind.
So let's look here at Safari and here you see that settings
is in the stage manager is in the is in maybe it's like
in the balcony.
And I think what the paradigm is because the stage manager
organizes and orchestrates a show and that's kind of what
stage manager is doing this area that it's in here.
I don't know what you would call that, but like maybe the
the waiting winger, if you know anything about
theater production, let me know and I'm going to take my note
and just drag it on top.
And now you see that these two windows are open side by side.
And these windows there are these handles here.
These windows can be resized.
And what is interesting to know that if you are used to
resizing windows on a mac, those windows resize very
fluidly and here they are limited to size classes.
So these are all pre-determined size classes and it's a little
bit jarring if you've used resizing of Windows on the Mac
and you come here to use it.
So just keep that in mind.
So here, if I have notion up here on the secondary display
and I want to view it on the primary display, if I go down
to the dock and click it.
It actually closes the window there and then opens it
down here, which is really strange.
It's just kind of a weird experience.
I don't think that's final.
If you want to expose Stage Manager, well, there's a
few different options here and let's actually cover
that real quick.
So when stage manager, if you go down to the glyph, you can
either have turn off stage manager, which is here at
the bottom, you can hide the recent apps docks, you can show
the recent apps and dock, or you can turn off
the bottom dock.
Let's show you how multitasking works on the app.
And now I have the dock running in both places,
which it should be.
If I go to this dock up here, I have notion I have to do it
and I can just click on these apps and they both come in and
out of focus.
Now let's just say I'm running the music app in full screen by
just take my mouse cursor and I drag to the left.
It shows me what is in stage manager like and you see that
that window goes that side.
Now let's just say I want to add a window here.
It tells me to then choose what the window is.
I'm going to take my node.
So now both these windows are running in this side by side
mode and these windows can be resized.
If I wanted to, I should be able to add a third window
up in here.
All right.
Now I have this one.
You see these?
We know they're all kind of different sizes here.
Let's add one more test.
This here.
I'm going to unplug.
The studio display.
And I'm going to plug in the.
LG Ultrafine So we could see here that we're getting
the same experience.
We have the LG Ultrafine five K which we show the display.
It's being extended.
Let's see.
Can I see the windows?
Notion.
Yeah.
So it shows the same windows that were open.
Continue.
I wouldn't worry about this black screen for this app.
I think that's just something that's going on right now.
Hmm.
Yeah.
There's not a clear way to send the.
What I.
Oh, it's because I have four apps, that's why.
So if I want to.
Now you can.
You can see a maximum of four apps.
Yeah.
Oh, that's why you can see a maximum of eight apps between
your iPad and the secondary display at any one time.
So let me close some of these.
One of the things that you will not get on the iPad Air five is
swap memory unless you have a 256 gig version, which I can't
imagine many people buy.
But that's going to improve the performance where it swaps out
from the memory of the device, which I think right now is
six gigs, if I'm not mistaken.
And it's going to give you the ability to swap memory through
286 gigs of whatever is available in storage.
Okay.
So now all those apps are closed.
So you can see it's actually a very comparable experience on
the LG five K and the studio display.
Now let's check out the 2021 iPad Pro.
Yes.
The very first time that you plug in your iPad, it does
mirror the display in that four by three aspect ratio.
But then after it's a lot, give it a second and then it
does show up.
Let's take a look here at the display and brightness.
I'm in the right place.
That's the normal way.
Both texts are a built in retina display displays zoom.
Here you have zoom standard and more space on the iPad itself.
Use more space and you see here that looks very clean.
Studio display.
I'm going to do the same thing.
Actually, it already is checked.
So the iPad, even though it does support HDR, the external
display does not and I don't have obviously a pro
display XDR, which does support HDR, but I would like
to know how that works.
So if you have that, let me know down in the
comments below.
How about that mirror display?
These are all the same options.
So that's good auto lock.
So the display brightness on the iPad Pro is not working
at the moment.
I don't know why, but there is this icon in the top right hand
corner which looks like the mirroring logo or the airplane
logo got a triangle around it.
And normally what's been showing is that it's
been too hot.
Any time that I use this tool, let's close all these apps.
And see what happens.
So now I'm going to open up notion here, full screen.
I'm going to click on Add app and I'm going to new tab.
And so now we see that both these apps are open.
If I resize this, it's that same kind of experience.
So that's not necessarily
it's not based on the device itself.
So we see that size classes are being resize into windows based
on size class.
Now if I want to go to this window here, I'm going to do it
to see if I can get stage manager running on both devices
at the same time.
Turn on stage manager.
And that same experience happened on the other device.
Now that we have canceled stage manager running here, I'm going
to open up.
Wow.
Uh.
Add an app.
And I'm going to open.
Let's see here.
Music.
These are not in their face time or they're not in
the stage manager.
Let's go back to stage manager.
So I turn stage manager off.
Now you see that these windows are back in the
traditional multitasking context.
So here I can just resizes windows dynamically.
If I wanted to add another window here, I could say I want
to open up Omnioutliner and I could say I'm going to actually
run this in, slide over, and then I can have
this happen, slide over.
So now I have these two apps open.
But what is interesting is that for face time, it doesn't
actually take my camera.
I don't know why that is.
Let's see if we disconnect it.
Does it recognize the camera then?
Wait.
Hold on a second here.
Let's get over just a little bit.
No, I thought I was going to use my face time camera from
the studio display, and that's not the case.
That's too bad.
Oh, good.
Now it is recognizing my camera, and there's that
silly that's there.
And here the windows that are open on this device.
So you can't run stage manager on your
external display independently.
From that, you have it on the built in display or the
iPad display, which is kind of silly.
So if you run it one place, it does have to run it
in both places.
Let's open that up.
All right.
And now that we have stage manager running.
All right.
So I have this open app that moves it here.
So the multitasking glyphs there is this
swap display glyph.
What if we change that?
It would make it better.
Let's find out.
What I'm thinking is if I go to settings and change.
That's weird settings runs in in this maximized window mode
in the middle.
Let's go to display.
It's bad because I have
to.
Please zoom more space.
Let's see.
I imagine that's just a weird kind of error.
Oh, that's right.
I'm going to go back to the display and brightness.
I'm going to go to arrangement.
And if I click on movie iPad over here and click set.
Oh, good.
That does do it.
Oh, wow.
Okay, so that makes it a lot easier.
So protip if you have the iPad arrangement like this and your
iPad is actually below it, you're going to have trouble
opening the dock on your secondary display.
So if you have it open, if you move the arrangement and have
it positioned in a different way, but not
physically changing the positioning, you can then
open the dock now.
Okay, I'm going to click on here and remove.
Cool.
All right.
So now that is not there in the dock.
And notion was already paired with this Safari app.
I'm going to take this out.
You know, I throw this to the side here.
Imitating this notion app.
I don't know why notion is not working.
Let's plug it into this display and just to make sure
things work, as is the expectation that it is.
Yeah, it works exactly as you would expect.
Let's turn on the brightness because that's going to
be super bright.
So if I want to manage my windows here, we see the four
different windows that are open on the iPad, but we don't see
what's there on the on the secondary monitor.
Now, if I unplug it, now we see that notion is here.
Here.
Let's check one more thing.
So if I am wirelessly air playing my display from my iPad
Mini to my Mac, it is going to be limited to this four by
three aspect ratio, is actually it?
So you're not getting the full display resolution.
It's not outputting it to a full display like it does
when you're connected.
So that is a little bit disappointing in terms
of the features.
I would say that it is working as expected.
It's not super polished, it's not smooth at all
by any case.
So don't upgrade to this unless you have nothing to do except
for troubleshoot problems.
I'm a little bit upset that the iPad Mini does not work
with stage manager.
That was one of my expectations.
I think I would like to have that.
And as I just showed you a minute ago, if you airplay your
display wirelessly to another Mac or any other display,
you are going to get that reduced resolution at four by
three resolution because you're air playing it,
presumably because it's not a wired connection.
Like from your monitor to your display, you still can't
use the camera from your studio display on your iPad.
That would be something I would expect.
Maybe that will come with continuity camera.
Who knows?
But that is would be a great option because I would love to
not have this weird angle where someone is like looking up my
nose during face time or during Zoom calls.
That would be great as well.
But let me know what questions you have.
My name is Mike.
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