Handsomedan:iPad OS 26 will bring the iPad closer to Mac than ever before!

 

i've heard before! every year!

I found it yawningly boring.

Tinkerisk:

 

I found it yawningly boring.

 

The keynote, or the OS? 

Batman:

 

Handsomedan:iPad OS 26 will bring the iPad closer to Mac than ever before!

 

 

i've heard before! every year!

 

this year it definitely is a lot closer. Seen a good preview of it and it is the biggest step so far

mattwnz:

 

When the heck are they going to have multi windows on an iphone. It is the one thing that affects it's usability. The ipads multi apps has been flawed ever since it came out and they have had some improvements, but it was still very restrictive and not intuitive. This updates just proves it and it looks better. But it also looks like it is just a form of mac os. When the fact is that many people just want a tablet that will run mac os on it along with apps. 

 

as a UX person, I’m perplexed why one would want multiple windows on a single task mobile device.

TwoSeven:

 

as a UX person, I’m perplexed why one would want multiple windows on a single task mobile device.

 

Why is it a single task device? I am often wanting to see things in one app when entering things into another. Swapping back and forth is a chore.

TwoSeven:

 

mattwnz:

 

When the heck are they going to have multi windows on an iphone. It is the one thing that affects it's usability. The ipads multi apps has been flawed ever since it came out and they have had some improvements, but it was still very restrictive and not intuitive. This updates just proves it and it looks better. But it also looks like it is just a form of mac os. When the fact is that many people just want a tablet that will run mac os on it along with apps. 

 

 

as a UX person, I’m perplexed why one would want multiple windows on a single task mobile device.

 

But it isn't a single task device. You may watch a youtube video and making notes, or writing an email . Or you maybe using navigation but also getting messages via chat. I use split screen all the time on my samsung note, and it has been a feature for many years. It will come to the iphone, it is just when. It took them ages to get it onto the ipad.

 

 

I just want an iPad Pro running MacOS. I know it's not going to happen but.....

 

buy a Mac and pretend it’s an iPad. Good luck getting a 27” screen in your bag. :)

more interesting though, the usage and capabilities are much different - but Apple are focusing on Continuity to allow the different devices to work together.

(Note: I gave up with the nested quotes)

Handsomedan:

 

Tinkerisk:

 

I found it yawningly boring.

 

 

The keynote, or the OS? 

 

The keynote, the liquid glass gimmick, the versioning, the racing car, the actors, the lack of AI, …

The iPad OS is ok, but not worth the fuss.

richms:

 

TwoSeven:

 

as a UX person, I’m perplexed why one would want multiple windows on a single task mobile device.

 

 

Why is it a single task device? I am often wanting to see things in one app when entering things into another. Swapping back and forth is a chore.

 

I would say they are single task devices because they are used by a single person at a time.

but more historically, I would suggest that when a [mobile] app is switched out of the foreground it ‘tombstones’ becoming dormant with the data being flushed to persistant storage.  The new app in the foreground gets the resources the old one was using.

This was done I suggest because actual multi-tasking takes up a large amount of cpu, memory and disk space, which result in rapid battery drain on what is a low power designed device.

Tinkerisk:

 

 

 

The keynote, the liquid glass gimmick, the versioning, the racing car, the actors, the lack of AI, …

 

The iPad OS is ok, but not worth the fuss.

 

They had to distract from the AI problem. But as someone who hates  a lot of this gimmicky AI, and even the way AI has suddenly become the buzz word. The fact is that the iphone does do AI to a certain degree ok, and you can download third party apps to do it as well. Siri will ask you if you want to use chatgpt when answering a question, and will then give the chatgpt response.  iOS is just an operating system. People can install things to get AI.

Liquid glass is what windows vista essentially had. Not sure it is much of a change as it already has transparency. I was expecting round icons. Some of it looks a mess though. Also when are folders going to have more than 9 items per screen. 

TwoSeven:

 

hey are single task devices because they are used by a single person at a time.

 

but more historically, I would suggest that when a [mobile] app is switched out of the foreground it ‘tombstones’ becoming dormant with the data being flushed to persistant storage.  The new app in the foreground gets the resources the old one was using.

 

This was done I suggest because actual multi-tasking takes up a large amount of cpu, memory and disk space, which result in rapid battery drain on what is a low power designed device.

 

 

 

So is a computer or ipad but people can do multiple things at teh same time.

Maybe for the first few versions of the iphone resource usage was an issue. But the current iphone can have many apps running in the background. The current chip is very powerful. Pretty much every other phone now has the ability to split screen.  .

mattwnz:

 

… But as someone who hates  a lot of this gimmicky AI, and even the way AI has suddenly become the buzz word. The fact is that the iphone does do AI to a certain degree ok, and you can download third party apps to do it as well. …

 

I'm beginning to think that the buzzword AI is intentionally meant to make people turn a blind eye to what's really going on behind the scenes (in general, not specific to Apple now). Because things are moving more and faster in a certain direction than we would all like. I want AI to be able to fight AI locally 😉 not to use it to automatically create cat videos.

mattwnz:

 

TwoSeven:

 

hey are single task devices because they are used by a single person at a time.

 

but more historically, I would suggest that when a [mobile] app is switched out of the foreground it ‘tombstones’ becoming dormant with the data being flushed to persistant storage.  The new app in the foreground gets the resources the old one was using.

 

This was done I suggest because actual multi-tasking takes up a large amount of cpu, memory and disk space, which result in rapid battery drain on what is a low power designed device.

 

 

 

 

So is a computer or ipad but people can do multiple things at teh same time.

 

Maybe for the first few versions of the iphone resource usage was an issue. But the current iphone can have many apps running in the background. The current chip is very powerful. Pretty much every other phone now has the ability to split screen.  .

 

I would consider an iPad is also a single task device - a computer is a multi-task device because multiple people can use it at the same time (not anything to do with cpu multi-tasking).

I believe the iPad also tombstones apps when not in the foreground.  Not to be confused with background tasks that give the perception of the an app running in the background.

this is why I like the idea of stage manager, because the UI presents visually more app windows.

Worth noting for the member who asked - Apple will be completely dropping support for Time Machine from os27. They’ll become a paperweight.