iPadOS 16
Apple’s OS updates have basically been fairly constant over the past few years, and will be capped shortly after the annual September presentation.However, according to Bloomberg reports,This year iPadOS 16 It is possible that it will not be in time for the September schedule, but will be launched about a month later. The main problem is rumored to be with the M1 processor iPad-limited multitasking tool called Stage Manager. This tool allowed windows to be resized and overlapped for the first time, but many users found it problematic during beta testing, and it was significantly different from the completion of past beta versions.
It’s not clear where exactly the problem is – macOS is coming It also has its own Stage Manager, but it doesn’t have as many bugs as the iPad version, so it’s not necessarily that the feature is too late to develop. Another reason is that due to the relatively large update range this time, Apple hopes to stagger the launch time of iOS and iPadOS to ensure that there are enough resources to deal with the problems that may be encountered when both sides go online. In addition, there are really not many machines that can correspond to Stage Manager in iPadOS 16 at present, and Apple may also make it possible to make the launch of iPadOS 16 closer to the release of new products, so as not to create the impression that “few models can enjoy new features”.
In any case, the launch of Stage Manager is an extremely important step in Apple’s gradual positioning of the iPad as a productivity tool in recent years, making it closer in appearance to macOS Ventura. Maybe delaying iPadOS 16 to the same October as Ventura also means that iPadOS is closer to macOS than iOS?