it's been nearly a week since apple announced ipad os 16 at wwdc which adds
a lot of much requested features to the ipads and now after we've used it tried
it out seen its limitations does ipad os 16 fix the biggest issues with ipads and
specifically the ipad pros well let's talk about that now ipads have been
crazy powerful for many years now but the biggest limitation was the software
and that hit much harder when apple added the m1 chip into the ipad pros the
hardware is mind blowing but the software is very lacking almost
insultingly lacking that's why we put out a review of the ipad pro saying that
apple really needs to step up and everybody agreed and going as far as not
buying these because you don't really
get that much extra use out of the extra power well what did apple add this year
what does it fix and what is still very lacking so let's start out with the
simple things we have the weather app now i don't know how many people really
care about this i typically use this on my iphone but this is the best weather
app when you click on something you have this full detailed view hour by hour you
have a lot of info about other quality as far as like uv air quality this thing
is incredible and that's thanks to apple buying out a company a couple years ago
that gives it this much data i don't think this is a huge deal though for the
ipad one thing that i appreciate with my terrible handwriting is a new
straightening feature so when you've written some text it's all over the
place like this you could actually go hold it down and then hit straighten now
as you see it doesn't fix my terrible handwriting but it made it look a lot
better the next thing i really appreciate is the display scaling option
so you can go over select displays scroll all the way down and go to
display zoom and just hit more space now since it's going to restart the ipad um
it doesn't really do that it seems like it just turns the screen off and then
turns it back on so now everything got smaller now as you can see we actually
can't add any more applications here we just have more space between these
applications but then if you go into say safari you'll actually get a little
refresh and all the text is smaller and of course if you're using
things that you want to see a lot more of you want to be more efficient have
more real estate this adds it now one of my biggest complaints was the files app
with ipad os 15 apple made a couple updates we finally had a transfer bar
that actually told us the speed which was nice but it was still severely
lacking now we have this list view where we have dates we have sizes available to
see we have this sub menu when you open something up that gives you different
options we can actually go in and show extensions on all these files so you
know what kind of file it is and then when you rename it you can actually
change the extension as well now obviously i shouldn't have done that for
a png but just to show you guys we have a lot more power we also have
customizable toolbars a system wide undo and a redesigned find and replace but
some of the things we really asked for were not added to the files app for
example i just tried to plug in my external hard drive to show you guys
something and i accidentally tugged on it while it was being accessed and now
when i plug it in it just simply won't show up and that's because it has a
little corruption from it being unplugged accidentally this has happened
to me numerous times over the last year and then i have to get out a mac or a pc
to be able to plug it in and use the disk utility to run first aid and
quickly fix this issue and bam now we can plug it in and our four terabyte ssd
shows up this is something that should be available on the ipad pro when you're
spending this much money now along with that the other thing that we needed was
the ability to format a hard drive not all hard drives or ssds are compatible
and when they aren't you can't format them to make them work like you can on
mac os or in windows or even on eight-year-old android tablets so if you
want to erase your drive or you want to reformat it or partition it you're still
going to need a mac and that should be built into your files app with all the
crazy ai software stuff they've been working on that's incredible they should
just be able to make this work it's not a huge deal now with that we also have a
new reference mode under displays if you have the 12.9 inch ipad like i do you
can go over here select reference mode then it allows you to do some fine
tuning but it also allows you to plug into a mac and then you can use this at
a display that will match specific professional work cases which is nice
now they do actually have a reference mode on apple's studio display which is
not a mini led display so i wonder why it's only limited to the 12.9 inch model
and finally for probably the most requested feature better less limiting
multitasking and external display support when apple showed off stage
manager on stage i was super happy until we got more news about the
limitations of it now let's go ahead and start off show you how to use it this is
technically kind of like a separate app it's kind of weird to do you open up
this little pull down the control center you select that and we are in stage
manager now you don't see anything until you start opening up some applications
and now we have this window here so right here i have multiple different
tabs i can also go ahead and grab let's say my apple music even though i don't
have it logged in here and i can switch behind it so we finally have one app
open behind another one we can actually go ahead and make this smaller you can
actually copy and paste from it and you can pair apps together like this and
then let's say we go back to the files app bam you swap through here you know
what i want files and i want my mail and now i can actually just use four fingers
and switch through these applications i can have different pairings and it does
work pretty well you can in fact make one of these windows smaller so you have
two of them side by side and i can even add another one here there you go we
have three applications opened side by side and then let me go ahead and swipe
through go to my files app overall i am very happy with this new edition and it
does work well and then if you're not a fan of it just turn it off and you could
use your regular side-by-side applications
the biggest issue is the fact that this is m1 exclusive and it doesn't make
sense why there's a lot of proof that it shouldn't be i'll explain in just a sec
now one thing that this does also add finally is external display support
properly in the past with ipad os 15 you can use mirror display but then you have
these giant black bars on the side just like that you guys actually just
saw it there for a split second alright guys so it looks like it is just bugged
out and no matter what i do it is stuck with the old frustrating version of
having an external display support i tried three displays restarted there's
no beta update so it's just stuck right now but as apple showed off on stage it
does work when it's not buggy and it works great you have a full external
display without those bars you can have different applications there that you
can open up and run other apps on your ipad at the same time this is what we've
wanted for years now so since stage manager works so well why are so many
people upset well the first one there's no pro apps the apple has been rumored
working on certain stuff we wish we can get some better applications to make use
of the hardware that didn't happen but the biggest one is the fact that stage
manager is limited to only m1 ipads and it just doesn't make sense why that
would happen now digitimes actually reached out to
apple and they asked why is this the case and apple said that they are only
allowing it for m1s because it can use memory swap and access more ram to run
these applications now on first stop that kind of makes sense all right well
you have multiple apps open you can switch through them it needs more ram
but if we dig a little bit deeper you will see that the ipad air 4 with the
a14 actually supports this memory swap
function if you have a 256 gigabyte version and with that if you have the
base m1 ipad with 64 gig that one does not yet it does support the stage
manager and external display functions now some people will say well the m1 has
eight gigs of ram already so maybe that is why
but older ipads can actually run three different sets of apps from multitasking
also with picture and picture included and now with stage manager when we go up
here and we enable this little sidebar we have four sets that are open so maybe
for the older ipads if it's a ram issue the ipad pros the previous ones have six
gigs of ram why not just give us three options instead of four those ipads can
already run that even worse ipads can now along with that if we take another
step back i was thinking about it and the a12z in the 2020 ipads that
processor was actually put into apple's arm transition kit for apple silicon and
that was running full on mac os with terminal with pro applications
with that processor from the ipad so if that can run full-on mac os why can't we
run stage manager on at least the ipad pros from
and 2018-2012 in reality once i did some more digging
there are different reputable people that are agreeing with this and also one
that actually said that there is code that will allow older ipads to run it
that you can flag and enable there's no reason why memory swapping is needed for
simple resizing of application and allowing an external display to be
connected without these bars here just to send data over
that is just crazy tablets android tablets from five six seven years ago
could do these kind of things without any issues and everybody knows that ipad
os in ios is a lot more memory efficient than android is i think we all know the
truth apple needs to sell more ipads that was actually the only category that
declined by 14 compared to macs and iphones and
everything else that actually gained sales
in the last quarterly reports so people aren't buying these m1s because the
software just doesn't take advantage of it and their older ipads do the job just
fine so how does apple get them to update well they gave them a feature
that is exclusive to the m1s a feature that works incredibly well gives you
more pro capabilities and you just have to upgrade to get that now that is
really unfortunate i think we should be able to have this on other ipads but
this is apple's choice this is what they're pushing and people will upgrade
because of this now of course there's other things that
are kind of missing for example the lock screen functionality with ios the new
widgets that's very nice why can't we have this on this large display when
you're in the lock screen i'm not sure maybe they will end up adding that
but overall if you're an owner of an m1 ipad you're going to be very happy but
everybody else is very frustrated that they are stuck in the past the same
thing goes to people have iphone sevens with ios
16. technically it should be supported even if they dropped the 6s last year
the 6s supported ios 15 and now apple is dropping two years of devices to get
people to upgrade all the to all the nice software improvements with ios 16.
so pete apple wants people to upgrade that is very clear you guys let me know
your thoughts down in the comment section below was this a good enough
upgrade to ipad os to make it more pro and to make it worth it i want to hear
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