Hang on, did the iPad just become a computer?

I genuinely ne'er expected to accidental this: it appears Apple yet figured retired multitasking connected the iPad. With iPadOS 26, the institution hasn't wholly taken disconnected the guardrails for however you tin usage and spot apps connected your tablet, but it came awfully close. With a mates of clever iPad-specific tricks, and amended enactment for a rodent oregon trackpad, the full strategy conscionable makes consciousness successful a mode it ne'er has before. I've been moving the precise archetypal developer beta for little than a time connected an 11-inch iPad Air, and I tin already consciousness a alteration successful however I usage my tablet.

The caller multitasking strategy is mostly beauteous casual to understand. You unlock the iPad and you're dropped onto the homescreen afloat of app icons, aforesaid arsenic always. When you unfastened an app, it opens full-screen by default; at WWDC, Apple executives were cautious to enactment that if you don't privation to brushwood the caller multitasking system, you ne'er person to, and I deliberation that's true. (You tin adjacent crook the full windowing strategy disconnected successful settings, if you privation to.) But arsenic soon arsenic you pat and resistance the small icon successful the bottommost close country of the window, the app starts to shrink. You tin marque the app immoderate size you privation - immoderate size the developer supports, astatine …

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