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“We have discovered many, many optimizations,” Federighi said. “We re-architected our windowing system and we re-architected the way that we manage background tasks, background processing, that enabled us to squeeze more out of other devices than we were able to do at the time we introduced Stage Manager.”<\/p>\n

Stage Manager still exists in iPadOS 26, but as an optional extra multitasking mode that you have to choose to enable instead of the new windowed multitasking system. You can also choose to turn both multitasking systems off entirely, preserving the iPad’s traditional big-iPhone-for-watching-Netflix interface for the people who prefer it.<\/p>\n

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\n The $349 base-model iPad is one that stands to gain the most from iPadOS 26.<\/p>\n


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However, while the new iPadOS 26 UI takes big steps toward the Mac’s interface, the company still tries to treat them as different products with different priorities. To date, that has meant no touch screens on the Mac (despite years of rumors<\/a>), and it will continue to mean that there are some Mac things that the iPad will remain unable to do.<\/p>\n

“But we’ve looked and said, as [the iPad and Mac] come together, where on the iPad the Mac idiom for doing something, like where we put the window close controls and maximize controls, what color are they\u2014we’ve said why not, where it makes sense, use a converged design for those things so it’s familiar and comfortable,” Federighi told Ars. “But where it doesn’t make sense, iPad’s gonna be iPad.”<\/p>\n

There will still be limitations and frustrations when trying to fit an iPad into a Mac-shaped hole in your computing setup. While tasks can run in the background, for example, Apple only allows apps to run workloads with a definitive endpoint, things like a video export or a file transfer. System agents or other apps that perform some routine on-and-off tasks continuously in the background aren\u2019t supported. All the demos we\u2019ve seen so far are also on new, high-end iPad hardware, and it remains to be seen how well the new features behave on low-end tablets like the 11th-generation A16 iPad, or old 2019-era hardware like the iPad Air 3.<\/p>\n

But it does feel like Apple has finally settled on a design that might stick and that adds capability to the iPad without wrecking its simplicity for the people who still just want a big screen for reading and streaming.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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