Apple Launches iPadOS With App Expose, Multi-Instance Apps, More
- Mehedi Hassan
- Jun 03, 2019
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Apple is announcing iOS 13 today. And along with the launch of iOS 13, the company is separating iOS on the iPhone with iOS on the iPad. As the company increases its focus on the iPad and works on making iOS more powerful on the iPad, splitting up iOS on the iPhone and iOS on the iPad makes a lot of sense.
Meet iPadOS.
The new OS for the iPad is simply called iPadOS, and it’s a massive change in strategy for Cupertino. For ages, Apple has continued to distribute the same OS for the iPad and iPhones. But over the last years, Apple has introduced new features, like multitasking, that is only available on the iPad. And so, instead of working on the same OS for both iPhones and iPads, it makes sense to simply split it up and have a standalone OS for the iPad.
Here’s what’s new in iPadOS:
- Ability to pin widgets to the home screen
- Multi-instance capabilities for apps, so you can have two different apps of the same instance open side-by-side.
- App Expose on the iPad
- You can now plug in a USB drive and use it with the built-in Files app
- Import files from external drives directly to other, third-party apps
- Safari is getting improved on the iPad with optimized touch support for websites on the iPad, a new download manager, and 30 new shortcuts
- Ability to download fonts from the App Store
- Improved text editing with new gestures that make it easy to browse long texts, move around while editing, and a new three-finger-swipe-to-undo gesture
- Apple Pencil now has a latency of only 9ms, as well as a new experience for marking up things like screenshots
- New compact keyboard, with support for swiping-and-typing
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Conversation 57 comments
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PeterC
<blockquote><em><a href="#432704">In reply to VancouverNinja:</a></em></blockquote><p>MS are in huge danger of iPad OS. You might not think so, but everyone I know sees the writing on the wall….. it says …. MS will be last to the table and behind on apples big budget marketing campaign….. yet again. </p><p><br></p><p>Unless of course MS can put a bug free hardware product running Modern Lite OS out there before Apple does……. but we’ve been told it’s been delayed again and again. Apples chip development program is streets ahead and Qualcomm can only press release future products still…. ?? </p><p><br></p><p>In in a few months iPad os will roll out to whatever devices can run it and by Xmas their will be millions of people using it……..all before MS puts something out of the door.</p><p><br></p><p>MS are very afraid…. and if their not they darn well should be. (unless of course they deliver a full office product to the ipad OS in which case their share price will soar covering the blushes)</p>
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PeterC
<blockquote><em><a href="#433018">In reply to WP7Mango:</a></em></blockquote><p>My point focuses on the sizeable amounts of time and money MS have invested Modern OS and it’s intended place in the market. Unless I’m mistaken, iPad OS and Chrome OS are it’s direct competitors by default.</p><p><br></p><p>I agree about office subscribers and revenue, it’s been their saving, but the fact remains MS recent history is full of botched product/platform investments. Some success too but speaking a someone with an ms band, 3 windows mobiles and a couple of surface pros I do feel the £pain of some of these, failures.</p><p><br></p><p>Following a period of calculated retrenchment from the consumer hardware market they’re in the process of re-inventing what a Modern os is, they even appear to have used that as its name! And intend to see multiple OEM offerings from tablets, foldable to laptops and maybe their own branded surface one too.</p><p><br></p><p>So the fact a few million iPads will download and install iPad os in the next few months and suddenly occupy the market they’re targeting with Modern OS, (dwarfing chrome os too no doubt) should in my opinion, be a cause of concern…. if I were CEO I would be concerned given recent history as this one is all on Nadella, not an inherited problem. </p><p><br></p><p>I hope it’s a huge success as I’m an MS fan, but….. let’s see. </p><p><br></p>
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Stooks
<p>Massive FAIL not adding mouse support to iPadOS. Seriously they could have put a big dent in the laptop market. </p><p><br></p><p>Instead they demonstrated for everyone to see why mouse support is needed when that guy had to try multiple times to select some text with his fingers, hunched over with both hands.</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432737">In reply to Pbike908:</a></em></blockquote><p>You had me until you mentioned Windows Lite which wouldn't replace a laptop either (at least based on how little we know now).</p>
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skane2600
<blockquote><em><a href="#432728">In reply to Stooks:</a></em></blockquote><p>MacOS already has the mouse support covered. Why turn the iPad into a Mac Jr? Pure tablets will never replace laptops, the ergonomics are all wrong. </p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#432738">In reply to skane2600:</a></em></blockquote><p>"the ergonomics are all wrong"</p><p><br></p><p>That is why adding a mouse would help. </p><p><br></p><p>It has been of the biggest "asks" for the iPad but Apple refuses to do it. Many think it will gut Mac sales.</p><p><br></p><p>Lots and lots of people do not need the power of a PC. However the iPad, without mouse support, is makes it so they still need a computer for some things.</p><p><br></p><p>I use they heck out of a computer, desktop/laptop. When I go on vacation, I take a laptop with me so in case I have to connect to work and RDP into something. I can do it on my 12inch iPad but without mouse support it is PURE hell trying to get things done. Same for any office apps. Try selecting multiple Excel cells with your finger.</p><p><br></p><p>They guy in the demo, trying to select text failed multiple times. His "ergonomics" way ALL WRONG. He was standing over it, hunched no less, using both hands! He could have been sitting, with the 12inch iPad and its type cover, with a BT mouse, and selected that text so fast.</p><p><br></p><p>All they need to do is make it an option. Not replace touch, just add mouse support.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#432827">In reply to truerock2:</a></em></blockquote><p>It just needs to be a supported option. No need to replace touch. Touch has its place in tablet mode.</p><p><br></p><p>I know lots of people that could get a 12.9 inch iPad with the Apple keyboard and a mouse and it would be all the computer they would need. Double as a fantastic tablet as well. Lots of apps and very secure. Not the overhead of Windows, Linux or MacOS and the care and feeding those need.</p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#432763">In reply to digiguy:</a></em></blockquote><p>Very limited mouse support was added. Sorry it is not good enough. It emulates a single finger. No selecting of text, no right click support either.</p><p><br></p><p>So in the demo they used he could not have selected the text and then copied it with the mouse.</p><p><br></p><p>Also is has a huge round cursor. </p>
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skane2600
<p>I don't know how much this will help iPad sales, but creating an OS that is tailored to the device it is intended for is always a good thing IMO. This move proves that Apple believes iPad critics were right at least about one thing – iPads were too much like iPhones with giant screens.</p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#432826">In reply to lvthunder:</a></em></blockquote><p>It is good enough, but it is just the File App they had before that now supports SMB and external drives.</p><p><br></p><p>You can't get down to the actual iOS file system with it. Just see storage it allows you to see.</p>
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Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#432818">In reply to j_c:</a></em></blockquote><p>Check out the guys twitter post from the article. It does support mice, both USB and BT. However it emulates a single finger. He shows a video of it on Twitter. You get a big circle curser, the size of a finger tip, not your traditional arrow.</p><p><br></p><p>So no right click, no selecting stuff, like text or spreadsheet cells. Just clicking stuff. Also since its part of the accessibility feature apps DO not have to support it, just see it as it is…..a single finger.</p><p><br></p><p>Hopefully this changes but right now it is kind of lame.</p>
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PeterC
<blockquote><em><a href="#432898">In reply to dcdevito:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yup agreed. I can see what’s now iPad os carving out its own future now and quite rapidly in line with apples chip developments and the extra capabilities it brings. </p><p><br></p><p>So chrome OS, iPad OS or Modern Lite OS… </p>
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dontbe evil
<p>OMG that's revolutionary !!!</p>
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dontbe evil
<p>mmm where did I already see these thing…. any help?</p>
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dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#432930">In reply to curtisspendlove:</a></em></blockquote><p>nope, I remember, many of all apple new revolutionary inventions, were already implemented from MS, starting from 2010 and later on</p>
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dontbe evil
<p><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"You can converge a </span><strong style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">toaster</strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a </span><strong style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">refrigerator</strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user," Apple CEO Tim </span><strong style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Cook</strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p>