{"id":40661,"date":"2022-06-07T17:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stage-manager-looks-great-on-the-ipad-but-its-a-very-expensive-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T17:34:04","slug":"stage-manager-looks-great-on-the-ipad-but-its-a-very-expensive-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/stage-manager-looks-great-on-the-ipad-but-its-a-very-expensive-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage Manager looks great on the iPad, but it’s a very expensive upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It was a close-run thing in our poll, between iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and the MacBook Air. For me, iPadOS was the most exciting announcement, and Stage Manager the standout feature.<\/p>\n
But there’s a huge caveat in the small print for Stage Manager, which poses a big dilemma for me\u2026 <\/p>\n
I’ve been calling for proper iPad multitasking for years now, with true windowed apps my number-one feature request.<\/p>\n
From yesterday’s demo, it looks like Stage Manager at least gets close enough to meeting that brief.<\/p>\n
\nStage Manager is an entirely new multitasking experience that automatically organizes apps and windows, making it quick and easy to switch between tasks. For the first time on iPad, users can create overlapping windows of different sizes in a single view, drag and drop windows from the side, or open apps from the Dock to create groups of apps for faster, more flexible multitasking.<\/p>\n
The window of the app users are working on is displayed prominently in the center, and other open apps and windows are arranged on the left-hand side in order of recency<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The sidebar of apps seemed a huge waste of space on the small screen of an iPad, but developer James Thomson showed that both this and the dock can be disabled.<\/p>\n