Apple Explains Why iPads Don't Just Run macOS

iPadOS 26 allows iPads to function overmuch much similar Macs, with a caller app windowing system, a swipe-down paper barroom astatine the apical of the screen, and more. However, Apple has stopped abbreviated of allowing iPads to tally macOS, and it has present explained why.


In an interview this week with Swiss tech writer Rafael Zeier, Apple's bundle engineering main Craig Federighi said that iPadOS 26's caller Mac-like features onslaught a bully equilibrium betwixt productivity and simplicity. He added that macOS is not optimized for touch-screens, though rumors suggest that mightiness alteration 1 day.

"We privation to clasp each the simplicity of the iPad, but inactive let iPad users who privation to spell deeper and further to propulsion it astatine their ain gait to doing more," said Federighi, successful a sit-down interrogation astatine Apple Park's podcast studio. "I deliberation with macOS, you'd suffer what makes iPad iPad, which is the eventual interaction device. But determination are tons of things the 2 platforms tin larn from 1 another, and that's wherever we've adapted our champion ideas to each."

The punctuation supra is lone a information of Federighi's answer, with the afloat interrogation disposable below.


For those who are inactive looking for a existent iPad and Mac hybrid, Apple is reportedly moving connected everything from touch-screen Macs to a 19-inch foldable iPad, truthful the imagination of utilizing macOS connected a touch-screen mightiness beryllium conscionable a fewer years away.
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