You’ll lastly be capable to get your palms on iPadOS 16 subsequent Monday, October twenty fourth, Apple introduced this morning. The new OS contains assist for Apple’s Stage Manager multi-tasking function, which ought to make it simpler to maneuver between a number of apps in your iPad. That function can also be headed to macOS Ventura, which launches on the identical day. iPadOS 16 is touchdown alongside Apple’s new iPad Pro, geared up with an M2 chip and Wi-Fi 6E, and also will later arrive on the revamped (and dearer) customary iPad. You’ll want a fifth-gen iPad or iPad Mini, any iPad Pro, or a third-gen iPad Air to put in the brand new OS.
In our preview of iPadOS 16, we discovered that Apple is doing a greater job of marrying it is glorious {hardware} with higher software program. It’s no marvel the brand new iPad additionally has a redesigned Magic Keyboard Folio—iPad OS 16 will make Apple’s pill a much better laptop computer alternative for some customers. As for macOS Ventura, it is a extra important replace than final 12 months’s OS, although Stage Manager will seemingly be a controversial function for some customers. Personally, I discovered it higher than transferring between icons on the macOS dock, and I appreciated that it was straightforward to show Stage Manager on and off as vital.