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[RetroGamingUK]

Apple is Reportedly Transforming the iPadOS 19 with macOS Features—Major Overhaul Coming This Year

Apple is reportedly transforming the iPad experience soon, focusing on macOS features coming as part of iPadOS 19's major overhaul.

www.techtimes.com

Hopefully they add more MacOS functionality to iPadOS while maintaining the touch friendly UI across the entire OS

Here's some Mac features I want on iPad…

- Better window management
- Better file manager
- Command line terminal
- File folders on homescreen/desktop
- Files on homescreen/desktop


Think I'd like would will unlikely get…

- Multi user support
- Sideloading outside of EU

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

Looks like PS Vita, better let me choose or this is going in the trash.

 

[SJRB]

I don't know if I want the VISION look on my phone.

Vision is a dead product I think, or Niche.

Vision might be dead but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's an incredible machine and the UI/UX looks great.

 

[Audiophile]

There's something weirdly dated about all conventional Apple UI/UXs, I can't even put my finger on what it is, but anytime someone hands me an iPhone or an iPad I feel like I'm in 2005, but faster.

Then again, Windows is abysmal too in other ways. Can't grasp how these trillion dollar companies can't juj things up a little. I appreciate there's a lot of legacy baggage on the back end but in terms of what you're interacting with, I find it very hard to believe they can't skin and present things in a nicer manner. Feel like there's room for a revolution in these things, but the few companies that got their foot in the door at the beginning just aren't interested in it and anyone who comes along at this point wouldn't have a chance.

 

[Lord Panda]

All I'm asking for is FaceID on MacOS. It's been 84 years since we've been asking for this feature FFS.

 

[kevboard]

maybe a universal back gesture or button?

whenever someone hands me an iPhone I am astonished how annoying it is to navigate that thing. one app goes back with a button top left, one with a button on the bottom, one with swipe gestures... it's insanity

 

[ResilientBanana]

maybe a universal back gesture or button?

whenever someone hands me an iPhone I am astonished how annoying it is to navigate that thing. one app goes back with a button top left, one with a button on the bottom, one with swipe gestures... it's insanity

Agreed. But that's all phones

 

[Trilobit]

There's something weirdly dated about all conventional Apple UI/UXs, I can't even put my finger on what it is, but anytime someone hands me an iPhone or an iPad I feel like I'm in 2005, but faster.

Then again, Windows is abysmal too in other ways. Can't grasp how these trillion dollar companies can't juj things up a little. I appreciate there's a lot of legacy baggage on the back end but in terms of what you're interacting with, I find it very hard to believe they can't skin and present things in a nicer manner. Feel like there's room for a revolution in these things, but the few companies that got their foot in the door at the beginning just aren't interested in it and anyone who comes along at this point wouldn't have a chance.

What I don't understand with a massive company like Microsoft is how they succeed in making the UI worse. The taskbar is ugly fat and having the Windows button in the middle is an unnecessary change. Not to mention the Start Menu itself which offers very little cusomization. Thankfully I have Explorer Patcher that allows me to dramatically minimize the size of the bar and it also allows me to use a Windows 10 style menu. I'm neither hoping or asking for much in each new OS version, but at the very least I'd hope that they don't make it worse.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

What I don't understand with a massive company like Microsoft is how they succeed in making the UI worse. The taskbar is ugly fat and having the Windows button in the middle is an unnecessary change. Not to mention the Start Menu itself which offers very little cusomization. Thankfully I have Explorer Patcher that allows me to dramatically minimize the size of the bar and it also allows me to use a Windows 10 style menu. I'm neither hoping or asking for much in each new OS version, but at the very least I'd hope that they don't make it worse.

I remember in the late 90s and early 00s nearly everyone used Windows exclusively.

Nowadays kids are growing up on iPads at home and Chromebooks at school, so Microsoft probably felt the need to make the first thing you see when logging into Windows more familiar to these people.

Look at their Windows 12 leak and how goes even further…

 

[AJUMP23]

Vision might be dead but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's an incredible machine and the UI/UX looks great.

I will take your word for it. I wonder if there are any relatively cheap visions on the second hand market.

 

[CobraAB]

DOS was my favourite UI they did

Nothing quite like DOS gaming!

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Vision might be dead but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's an incredible machine and the UI/UX looks great.

I wouldn't be surprised if a similarly specced version released in a few years minus the Eye-Sight display.

This would be the non-pro version.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

All I'm asking for is FaceID on MacOS. It's been 84 years since we've been asking for this feature FFS.

They better not take away my fingerprint ID to make it. Thank god the fingerprint is still on the laptops, incredibly useful.

I hate Face ID on phones so much that it's the primary reason I'm still considering leaving their mobile ecosystem--lost the plot completely when they dropped the fingerprint id on mobile and went with faces. That and the removal of the home button in general.

 

[Lord Panda]

Yeah that decision still pissed me off too, and they will most likely do the same thing for their Macs too given the chance.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

I miss the Jobs era. I'll celebrate the day Cook is finally gone and hope for an actual visionary again.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

I miss the Jobs era. I'll celebrate the day Cook is finally gone and hope for an actual visionary again.

To be fair the early days on computing there were far more opportunities for new ideas as it was uncharted territory.

As computers (regardless of form factor) have become more ubiquitous people have also become less adaptable to change.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

To be fair the early days on computing there were far more opportunities for new ideas as it was uncharted territory.

As computers (regardless of form factor) have become more ubiquitous people have also become less adaptable to change.

True, although we're currently standing at the edge of a possible total revolution in what constitutes a computer and an interface, thanks to AI... I feel like Jobs might have actually been able to see how a completely new category of interface is opened to us, when no one else can do much but bolt new features or assistants on top.

 

[Trilobit]

iPadOS 19 Rumored to Show Mac-Like Menu Bar When Connected to Magic Keyboard

When an iPad running iPadOS 19 is connected to a Magic Keyboard, a macOS-like menu bar will appear on the screen, according to the leaker Majin Bu. ...

www.macrumors.com

iOS 19 Rumored to Add Stage Manager Support to USB-C iPhones

A leaker known as Majin Bu today claimed that iOS 19 will enable support for at least a limited version of Stage Manager on iPhone models with a...

www.macrumors.com

It seems like Apple might have been listening to their Pro customers. I just hope they do something new and exciting with iPadOS. I can't see any point in iPhone getting Stage Manager unless it's because they are preparing for the foldable iPhone and want to give the unfolded layout a more iPadOS-like feel while still keeping it iOS.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

iPadOS 19 Rumored to Show Mac-Like Menu Bar When Connected to Magic Keyboard

When an iPad running iPadOS 19 is connected to a Magic Keyboard, a macOS-like menu bar will appear on the screen, according to the leaker Majin Bu. ...

www.macrumors.com

iOS 19 Rumored to Add Stage Manager Support to USB-C iPhones

A leaker known as Majin Bu today claimed that iOS 19 will enable support for at least a limited version of Stage Manager on iPhone models with a...

www.macrumors.com

It seems like Apple might have been listening to their Pro customers. I just hope they do something new and exciting with iPadOS. I can't see any point in iPhone getting Stage Manager unless it's because they are preparing for the foldable iPhone and want to give the unfolded layout a more iPadOS-like feel while still keeping it iOS.

It'd be the first ever device using an A series chip to have multiple window support if true.

Maybe you'll be able to connect your iPhone to a monitor, mouse and keyboard to use stage manager.

It's been done before…

 

[DeepEnigma]

Apple is reportedly planning a design overhaul for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

New looks.

www.theverge.com

Looks like iPhones, iPads and Macs are going to sport a visual style similar to Vision Pro from later this year

Images from VisionOS

 

[Magic Carpet]

I'm getting old, somehow my phone had the moon icon near the clock, I know that means do not disturb but I could not find the setting. Had to have a coworker poke around in my phone to bring the menu back into control center so I could turn it off.
It's the 'focus' menu for any other dumbasses who need to find it.