Apple launches iPadOS 26 with a new look and way better multitasking

The iPad is getting a large refresh this year: Apple conscionable announced the caller mentation of iPadOS, its tablet operating system, astatine WWDC. (The keynote is inactive going, actually; Apple dropped its property releases earlier they were technically announced successful the virtual event. We'll support updating this station arsenic Apple gets to the announcements.) The flagship diagnostic is simply a caller windowing strategy for multitasking crossed apps, but there's besides a caller Files app, much Apple Intelligence features, and a Mac-like Preview app for looking astatine and editing PDFs.

As usual, the caller iPadOS has a batch successful communal with the caller iOS, including the caller Vision Pro-inspired visual connection called "Liquid Glass." The updated sanction besides follows Apple's wide scheme, switching from mentation numbers to years. The iPad tends to disagree successful its attack to multitasking, however you determination betwixt apps, and astir the operating system. With iPadOS 26 that quality is much stark than ever: Apple says it volition fto you "fluidly resize app windows" and spot windows anyplace you privation connected the screen. The windowing strategy tin beryllium utilized wrong of Stage Manager, too, and works crossed displays. Stage Manager has not ever been the astir intuitive of …

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