Productivity on Apple

Productivity on iPadOS 16: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

iPadOS 16 is not all peaches and ice cream for productivity enthusiasts, but I can hardly wait for the public beta

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I think that WWDC 22 has been huge for iPadOS. Apple finally seems to realise that an iPad isn’t an iPhone that won’t fit in a jacket pocket.

No, Apple marketing has finally spoken to the iPad hardware team, and understand that even the US$599 iPad Air is a powerful computer. The result? iPadOS 16.

I’m going to pick out:

• the productivity wins (the good)
• what Apple forgot to add (the bad)
• the clunky parts (the ugly).

All of this, of course, is subject to actually trying out iPadOS 16.

The Good

Stage Manager and external monitor support

Apple will finally allow an iPad with an M1 Processor to do what a MacBook with a M1 processor has always been able to do. Provide overlapping windows and properly support external monitors.

It says a lot that something that is taken for granted on every other computing platform is the star of…