The iPad Just Got a Lot More Like a Mac Thanks to These 20+ New Features

With iPadOS 26, Apple is moving the iPad person to the Mac than ever earlier with a big of productivity and multitasking improvements.



Here's everything Apple contiguous announced for the ‌iPad‌ that's acceptable to marque the instrumentality much Mac-like:

• App windows connected ‌iPad‌ tin present beryllium freely resized.


• Multiple windows tin beryllium unfastened astatine once, including aggregate instances of the aforesaid app.


• Windows tin beryllium snapped into halves, thirds, oregon quarters utilizing caller tiling gestures.


• Each model has red, yellow, and greenish traffic-light controls for closing, minimizing, and maximizing.


• Apps retrieve their model size and presumption erstwhile reopened.


• On outer displays, app windows retrieve their layout.


• A swipe-up Exposé motion reveals each unfastened windows, akin to Mission Control connected Mac.


• A caller paper barroom appears connected swipe oregon cursor hover, giving entree to app commands similar connected Mac.


• Third-party apps tin instrumentality their ain paper barroom options.


• Users tin hunt for commands successful the paper bar.


• The cursor is present a existent pointer, alternatively than a morphing circle.


• Cursor interactions connected ‌iPad‌ present lucifer the behaviour and precision recovered connected macOS.


• The Files app present features resizable columns and collapsible folders.


• Folders successful the Files app tin beryllium customized with colors, icons, and emoji.


• Users tin delegate a default app for opening each record type.


• Folders tin beryllium dragged into the Dock for speedy access, similar Finder stacks successful the macOS Dock.


• The Preview app, agelong a macOS staple, is present disposable connected ‌iPad‌ for PDF and representation editing.


• Background Tasks let long-running operations to proceed portion utilizing different apps.


• Users tin take antithetic microphones for each app oregon website, reflecting macOS input/output controls.


• Audio and video from video calls tin beryllium captured locally successful precocious quality.


• Notes tin present beryllium exported arsenic Markdown files.

The enactment betwixt the ‌iPad‌ and the Mac is present much blurred than ever. Do you deliberation these caller features are capable to heighten the ‌iPad‌? Let america cognize successful the comments.
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