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But if you want to turn on Stage Manager, you can do so by swiping down from the top-right corner of your screen to access Control Center. In fact, you can act like it doesn't even exist. If you see inaccuracies in our content, please report the mistake via this form. If we have made an error or published misleading information, we will correct or clarify the article. Our editors thoroughly review and fact-check every article to ensure that our content meets the highest standards.

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This requirement is likely related to either processing power or RAM-the M1 iPads all include either 8GB or 16GB of RAM, just like the M1 Mac models.

They require an iPad Pro or iPad Air with an M1 chip, which means that only the latest generation of high-end iPads will be able to take advantage of the feature at all. The bad news for iPad multitasking fans is that Stage Manager and external display support have high hardware requirements. You can use up to four apps per screen with Stage Manager-four on the iPad's screen and four on the external display if you have one.
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Apple is also using Stage Manager to bring full external display support to the iPad for the first time, rather than the half-hearted display mirroring feature that iPads have used up until now. We'll need to see how this works in practice, but it could be an improvement over the iPad's occasionally clunky split-screen multitasking modes. On both the iPad and macOS, Stage Manager supports freely resizable, overlapping windows.

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Speaking of Messages, the app is receiving the same updates that it's getting in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura: the ability to edit or unsend recent messages, plus the ability to mark conversations as unread if you want to be reminded to come back to them later. An entirely new app called FreeForm also provides a shared canvas for collaborative meetings, note-taking, sketching, and communication using FaceTime or Messages. This ability appears to work in a way that's similar to apps like Google Docs. You'll be able to send a document from Apple's Pages app to a group through one "collaboration link," allowing multiple users to edit the same file instead of everyone having to deal with their own copy. As usual, the tablet operating system will share many of the features and app updates introduced with the newest version of the iPhone-focused iOS, but it will also include a few iPad-specific changes to improve the multitasking and productivity capabilities of those larger devices.Īn updated Collaboration feature, for instance, will allow users to work together in real time with specific apps.

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Further Reading Apple takes cues from Watch UI for iOS 16CUPERTINO, Calif.-Apple formally announced the latest update to its iPad operating system, iPadOS 16, during the keynote presentation of its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday.
