{"id":16836,"date":"2025-04-13T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16836\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:24:08","slug":"ipads-could-get-more-mac-like-features-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16836\/","title":{"rendered":"iPads could get more Mac-like features soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time Apple releases M5-powered iPads, using iPadOS may feel closer to working on a Mac, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman in today\u2019s Power On newsletter<\/a>. It won\u2019t be macOS running on a tablet, but he writes that the changes will be significant enough to make people who want such a thing happy.<\/p>\n

Updates to iPadOS coming this year will be focused \u201con productivity, multitasking and app window management \u2014 with an eye on the device operating more like a Mac,\u201d according to Gurman. He says these changes are due \u201cabout a year\u201d after the release of the M4 iPad Pro, a fantastic tablet<\/a> with far more power than its software demands.<\/p>\n

Gurman\u2019s report doesn\u2019t give any indication of what Apple\u2019s updated multitasking will look like, and it\u2019s best to reserve any excitement until we see more. Back in 2022, Apple added Stage Manager to iPadOS 16<\/a>, a feature that enables windowing and also groups app windows together in a dock-like collection on the side of the display. It might have seemed like an exciting change if you wanted to be able to ditch your MacBook, but what shipped felt too half-hearted to be a useful step in the direction of a proper desktop operating system.<\/p>\n

Apple has iterated since<\/a>, for instance by letting users resize windows more freely in iPadOS 17, but the approach is still much more iPad than Mac. That\u2019s not necessarily a problem on its own unless you\u2019re the type who wants to replace your MacBook with an Apple tablet. We\u2019ll see how much the company moves the needle on that when it unveils iPadOS 19 in June<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time Apple releases M5-powered iPads, using iPadOS may feel closer to working on a Mac, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1662,11380,1667,11381,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-16836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-rumors","10":"tag-ipad","11":"tag-macos","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114331350783123415","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}