It is hard to believe that it's been 12 years since the iPad
was first introduced on stage and seven years since the iPad
Pro and the Apple Pencil first came out.
And with WWDC right around the corner, many of us
are hoping, I would say, even wishing that Craig and the
software engineering team knock it out of the park when it
comes to iPadOS 16.
But until then, we are talking about ten things the iPad can't
do in 2022.
And we're not just talking about the iPad Pro,
we're talking about all the iPads.
The gloves are coming off and even my beloved iPad Mini.
So my name is Mike.
Let's get started.
Number ten is multi-user support.
It's really hard for me to believe that in 2022, we do not
have the ability to share a single device with many users
in our household or are friends.
It doesn't really matter.
And allow them to pass a device from one person to the other
and have their own home screen,
login, and messages.
Why is that not possible?
What is going on Apple?
Where is this feature at?
Why is it only available to education?
But it does require the iPad to do a full reboot in order to
have that feature once enabled.
Maybe it something to do with the way that messaging works.
Maybe that's something to do with the storage size
of the device.
They need to make some considerations.
I really want them to bring this feature to all of the
iPads whether you're in education or not.
It would be great if it didn't require a full reboot of the
device like how it does today.
This is a must have and I really want Apple to deliver
this at WWDC coming up next month.
Number nine is app density.
If you've used iPadOS 15, you know that the app density
can look a little weird.
You know.
The grid spacing is a little too much and
this looks ridiculous.
This is so small and depending on how old you are,
depending on how bad your eyesight, it's kind of
hard to read.
This runs at 3x and it's just a little bit too small.
I wish Apple gave us the ability to not only increase
the number of apps that you would have either per row
or per page.
But also the ability to increase the widget size.
That would very much help I think, for a lot of people.
Apple tried to address some of that by allowing you to change
the size of the icon to giving you bigger icons, but they
don't allow you to change the grid spacing.
But I really want Apple to address the app density
in iPadOS 16, not just on the Mini, but even on the
iPad Air, the iPad Pro, on the iPhone.
You know, that's another device as well.
Now, good thing you have the ability to change Per App
Text sizing, which is another great feature that they
added thist year.
But it's not something that all apps support and I wish it
would be able for Apple to enforce it.
But to me, app density is another big thing that you
still cannot change in 2022.
I mean, come on, let's let's just get with the program,
guys.
Number eight, face, unlock and unlock with Apple Watch.
Now, if you're anything like me, you probably depend on
your iPad a lot to accomplish everyday tasks.
Whether it's replacing your iPhone like my iPad Mini has
done for me, or you're using your iPad Pro or your iPad Air
to replace your computer or supplement your computing,
it is probably a very important part of your computing
experience that you use on a daily basis.
Well, the problem is with these devices that support Face ID,
if you're outside and you're wearing a mask because
obviously there's still a pandemic going on and you want
to unlock your device, you can't without taking
off your mask.
Well, you can face unlock with mask on on your iPhone.
Why can't you do that on the iPad?
Or why doesn't the Apple Watch work with my iPad or my iPad
Mini to say that I can unlock it when my watch is near?
That's a really critical feature, and it's
amazing that you still cannot unlock your iPad while wearing
a mask or with an Apple Watch on without actually having to
pull your mask off.
I really do see this feature come in iPadOS 16, and I think
it's just about time they have enough data.
They should be able to, I would say, kind of forklift
it from the iPhone into the iPad and make it work for us.
I would really love that feature.
Let me know what you think about that down in
the comments below.
Number seven CarPlay.
In my opinion, one of the greatest features of the iPhone
is the ability to use CarPlay with your device.
Where's the support for your iPad?
I think it's kind of weird that Apple just left this off the
table and maybe they think that no one is using their iPad
in the car.
I could tell you that I would love to use my iPad Mini
connected to my receiver in my Subaru and to get it to work
for CarPlay because I'd like to have those directions I'd like
to have a bigger screen.
When you use the iPhone as an adjunct or an adjunct display
to the CarPlay you get a little bit more information, get the
turn by turn directions and I'd like to see that in
a bigger screen.
Again, that's just it's kind of weird to me that Apple doesn't
support CarPlay as a feature which is something that Apple
needs to do, though I don't think it's really high on
their priority list.
I just don't.
Number six - expanded USB and Bluetooth support.
If you use a keyboard or a mouse with your iPad that's not
first party, not made by Apple, you notice that
there's probably lackluster support and there's probably a
stigma around using Bluetooth keyboards with your iPad.
Everyone says there's a delay, it's not
neccessarily a good typing experience.
One, I'd like to see Apple solve that for good.
I don't want to see that anymore.
Second, I'd love to see Apple address the ability to assign
key combinations like you can to certain mice,
certain Keyboards, where you can do these kind of
combination functions with those devices.
Because, you know, the standard function keys that are on the
Apple keyboard or even on the logitech keyboard,
the bridge keyboard, they're great, but I would love
to do other things than that.
I'd love for Apple to open up third parties where they could
have apps like the Logitech app that allows you to configure
the keyboard and much, much more now.
But there's also a few other things I'd like to see Apple
address and one namely is expanded support for different
USB-C use cases.
Like if I wanted to record my podcasts or even record this
video using the iPad and my audio recorder that I
have here, which is USB-C, I can, but I can't capture the
data that's coming over the interface which is just kind of
weird that they haven't expand the number of use cases.
You know, you want the iPad to be your almost catch all device
that you have when trying to solve a problem because again,
it's a tool and you use it to solve problems I love to see
Apple support that as well.
If you have any use cases that require usb-c that I didn't
talk about because you know, it's only a limited set.
Let me know what those are down in the comments below.
Number five is external monitor support.
Now we've talked about this for five years since the iPad Pro
first came into existence.
We really want the ability to take our iPad Pro and connect
it to a larger display.
This might be coming given that Apple released a studio display
and the fact that there is talk from Mark Gurman that there is
this new feature coming in, I think they call it Mixer,
which is a way of an app that runs part of iPadOS that
automatically expands and scales app windows if you are
plugged into an external monitor.
That would be really great.
But even if you can, I hope Apple fixes the fact that I
plug in my iPad Pro into a monitor it runs in a four by
three (4:3) aspect ratio there are black bars that frame
the content, which looks ridiculous.
And the fact that if I close my iPad, the screen on my
display still stays lit even though it is closed, you can't
even use your iPad in clamshell mode.
If you want to use your iPad as a true desktop replacement,
good luck.
Number four is the ability to install apps that are not
coming from the App Store.
Now, this might be a contentious subject for some of
you that are out there.
But it is coming.
I could only believe that it's coming based on some of the
antitrust talks that have been going on with Apple in a number
of different countries.
If they're able.
To evade that, I don't know how they do it, but I would love to
see the ability, you know, again, in 2022, if you're using
your device as your sole computer, there's has to
be a way to allow for apps to be installed outside from
the App Store.
They do it on the Mac.
It should be no reason that they can't do it on the iPad as
well with some type of gatekeeper type functionality,
which is what they use on the Mac.
It's still hard to believe that you can't do that in 2022.
I mean, come on.
Number three, interactive widgets.
Apple gave us a preview of what the future would look like in
iPad OS 13 with the introduction of widgets in the
Sidebar or the Today View.
Took their foot off the gas a little bit in iPadOS 14,
but iPadOS 15 really deliverws the goods and allowed us to use
widgets anywhere in iPadOS.
But I really think we need to take this to the next step and
start using widgets in their in active manner so that we could
actually use the widget and have information at our
fingertips without needing to drill into the app or having
the app opened.
When we click on the widget, it seems like it's just a
step too much.
Now we all know Apple likes to increment things very slowly.
Change is slow until it's not.
But I would love to see Apple change this in iPadOS 16.
Let me know what you think down below.
I think interactive widgets is really a good contender for
Apple to consider in iPadOS 16.
Number two
The fact that you are forced to reformat drives using a mac
or even, you know, heaven forbid a Windows PC and
you can't format them on iPadOS 15.
Really?
What in the heck is going on at Apple?
Why can't every fourth drives?
I can rename the files.
Can't reformat the drives.
In apfs or any other format that I want to.
I love to see this functionality come to
iPadOS 16.
Where are you at?
And the number one thing that you cannot do in 2022
on your iPad.
Drum roll, please.
It is use first party weather app.
I mean, seriously there's a number of apps that are still
not available on the iPad.
There's obviously no weather out.
There's no calculator app.
I mean, come on, I got to pay $5 for a calculator app
in 2022.
There's no health app.
I can't see my health data.
I can't delete iMessage cache on the iPad.
You cannot even record ProRes on the iPad pro.
You have to use the iPhone, which is kind of silly because
the processor on the iPad Pro is more powerful than it is
on the iPhone.
I don't know what's going on there now.
There's a number of other apps that I didn't include which are
going to pinned down the first comment below.
Let me know what you see in.
There and maybe it's relative to you or not
If there's something.
I didn't talk about and you want to see the release in
iPadOS 16 comment down below.
My name is Mike.
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