Apple is taking one other crack at iPad multitasking, in accordance with a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This 12 months’s iPadOS 19 launch, because of be unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Builders Convention on June 9, will apparently embody an “overhaul that can make the pill’s software program extra like macOS.”
The report is mild on particulars about what’s really altering, other than a broad “deal with productiveness, multitasking, and app window administration.” However Apple will apparently proceed to cease in need of permitting customers of newer iPads to run macOS on their tablets, even supposing trendy iPad Airs and Professionals use the identical processors as Macs.
If that is providing you with déjà vu, you are most likely fascinated with iPadOS 16, the final time Apple tried making important upgrades to the iPad’s multitasking mannequin. Gurman’s reporting on the time even used related language, saying that iPads operating the brand new software program would work “extra like a laptop computer and fewer like a cellphone.”
The results of these efforts was Stage Supervisor. It had steep {hardware} necessities and launched in fairly tough form, regardless that Apple delayed the discharge of the replace by a month to maintain sprucing it. Stage Supervisor did permit for extra versatile multitasking, and on newer fashions, it enabled true multi-monitor assist for the primary time. However early variations have been buggy and irritating in ways in which nonetheless have not totally been addressed by subsequent updates (MacStories’ Federico Viticci retains the Web’s most complete document of the problems with the software program.)
