Will Apple ever take the training wheels off iPadOS?
Apple’s M4 iPad Pro models offer incredible, almost unbelievably amazing hardware, but the iPad experience, for iPad pro users especially, remains frustrating as Apple’s multi-touch training wheels remain stubbornly in place in iPadOS, in too many spots, even after nearly a decade and a half of development (or lack thereof).
Federico Viticci for MacStories:
First, as I’ve said multiple times, I love my iPad and want the platform to get better. If you care about something or someone, sometimes you have to tell them what’s wrong in order to improve and find a new path forward. I hope this story can serve as a reference for those with the power to steer iPadOS in a different direction in the future.
Second, lately I’ve seen some people argue on Mastodon and Threads that folks who criticize iPadOS do so because their ultimate goal is to have macOS on iPads, and I wanted to clarify this misunderstanding. While I’m on the record as thinking that a hybrid macOS/iPadOS environment would be terrific (I know, because I use it), that is not the point. The reality is that, regardless of whether macOS runs on iPads or not, iPadOS is the ideal OS for touch interactions. But it still gets many basic computing features wrong, and there is plenty of low-hanging fruit for Apple to pick. We don’t need to talk about macOS to cover these issues.
Lastly, I wanted to provide readers with the necessary context to understand what I mean when I mention the limitations of iPadOS. My iPad setup and workflow have changed enough times over the years that I think some of you may have lost track of the issues I (and others) have been experiencing. This article is a chance to collect them all in one place.
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MacDailyNews Take: From iPadOS inexplicably not coming with a built-in Calculator app after 14 years (it’s finally expected to appear in iPadOS 18 this fall) to multitasking remaining “a fractured mess” to the lack of background processes and system-wide utilities and well beyond, the in-depth full article is a must-read for iPad users, would-be iPad users, and Apple’s iPadOS team. Highly recommended – read the full article here.
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