I never expected to say this: Apple appears to have finally discovered multiple tasks on the iPad. With iPados 26The company did not completely remove the handrails of how to use applications and put them on your tablet, but it was very close. With two iPad smart tricks, better support for mouse or tracking plate, the entire system is logical in an unprecedented way before. I was running the first demo developer for less than a day in the iPad 11 inch air, and I can already feel a change in how to use my tablet.
It is easy to understand the new multitasking system. You can open the iPad and fall on the home screen full of applications, as always. When you open an application, it opens a full screen by default; In wwdcApple’s executive officials were keen to note that if you do not want to face the new multi -task system, you will never have, and I think this is true. (You can even turn off the entire Windowing system in the settings, if you want it.) You can make the app any size you want – any size that the developer supports, at least, which varies widely – and places it anywhere on the screen. If you hold the top strip with an application and throw it to one side, it will automatically fill the screen. Click on the new Stoplight menu, and you can either close the application or make it fill the screen again.
Once the application is changed, this is the size of this app now. If you close it and reopen it, it will open the same size and put it until it moves or changes its size again. I came to think about this space on my iPad as a kind of “application screen”, next to my optimal screen, organized, however, I love. and Unlike the theater directorEverything I always left. You can put many applications on this screen as you like – I had dozens there at one time, which is more than any logical meaning and definitely more than you can see it simultaneously.
At least in this early experimental version, there are two dribbling of the system. For one reason, I can definitely not know the yellow “Reducing” button. You can click it, close the application, just as the application usually closes, and reopens it exactly like the application you have closed. I think that the developers of a new application status will have to benefit from it, especially since processing the new background of the iPad comes to its victory, but so far it does not seem to do anything new.
You can just get one active application at one time, but you can scroll up and down in the background app – if you use the mouse or tracking panel. If you touch the screen, you should click on the application to bring it to the front before you can do anything with it at all. I have been using Switcher CMD-Tab much more to jump quickly between things on the application screen, but it does not always offer every application to open. The only way to reach Everything It is through the Exposé feature, which works well but it is just a little slower to navigate.
To a large extent, everything only works. You can combine multiple tasks with Manager Stage, to convert the organized application screen into a handful of it. You can run a set of windows on your iPad and another set on an external screen, or at least you can in theory – there is an error in the first experimental version that makes the whole system disrupt every time I open a second application on an external screen. (You are not very worried about long -term jobs, but as always, install beta program on your danger.)
There are a few other Mac things around the iPados 26 that help make multiple tasks. The first is this Stoplight menu, which appears in the upper left corner of each application and makes it easy to close or glorify windows. There is also the new indicator, which appears when a magic keyboard, mouse or other tracking panel is connected. I think I have reduced the extent of feeling that you will have a more accurate small arrow index instead of the old circle. There is a new menu bar, which appears at the top of the screen and provides all settings and options for any application you are currently using.
Within a few hours with iPados 26, I noticed some major changes on how to use my tablet. I spend a much lower time on the home screen, which no longer needs to be present-I run applications with the spotlight, change their size on my application screen, and return to them using CMD-Tab or Exposé. I was using a more also, as a quick way to access the applications that I use more when you are not at the forefront and the center already. It is all very similar to the way I use my Mac, and it is surprising how quickly the muscle memory starts.
Whenever I tried to use multiple applications on iPad, I always felt that I was fighting the system. will Leave Look at multiple things at one time, but they are required You see everything filling the screen. Now, especially as developers are updated to get more fluid windows sizes, multitasking seem to be a first -class tablet. It looks like a Mac, meaning that everything looks like in the same place, on the same screen, instead of your liar constantly between different experiences on the screen. Is it more preoccupied and sometimes more chaotic than the center traditionally? You are Betcha! But I love her yet.
Ultimately, the answer is still “You can replace your iPad to the laptop” to a large extent on your use condition, and even more on the IPAD applications. So IPAD can really operate browsers from desktop, as I am reluctant to say that it can be your primary device. But now, perhaps for the first time ever, the operating system itself does not feel the problem. This is the most flexible version of the most flexible Apple devices. It can be a quiet and simple disk and one task or can be a chaos of almost combined windows in any way you want. I was waiting for years to really launch Apple iPad, and I think it may have just done it.
