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Iterm ipad8/14/2023 ![]() It gives me easy access to my HomeKit accessory controls and is often easier to use on the way out of the door instead of barking Siri commands or fiddling with my phone. In my home, I have repurposed an old iPad model and turned it into a dedicated HomeKit device by keeping it permanently docked and locked to the Home app via Guided Access. This is perhaps a niche feature, but one that I would personally love to see in iPadOS 16: a HomeKit hub mode for iPad. Ipad Mini 6 Review Home Hub (Image credit: Adam Oram / iMore) The iPad, particularly on the Pro end, is powerful enough for dev work, so let's see Xcode for iPad finally. While Swift Playgrounds 4 was touted as a proper developer tool last year, rather than a purely educational app, it's still not as fully featured as Xcode is on the Mac. Third-party apps have filled some of the holes Apple has left, such as Ferrite and LumaFusion, but many professional users of Apple products already use Apple's apps on their Macs and could stand to benefit from the same apps being available on the iPad. It's so long past due for Apple to bring its first-party pro apps to the iPad that it's possible it never will, but if it wants to continue to tell the pro story of the iPad then it shouldn't wait any longer.įor many years, Apple has pointed creative users to GarageBand and iMovie for making music and movies, but these apps are not as advanced as the pro-grade Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro that Apple makes for the Mac. Swift Playgrounds 4 Ipad Pro 2021 Hero (Image credit: Joe Keller / iMore) iPadOS does not really provide one just yet. This could allow for more Mac-like multitasking, a more advanced Home screen experience, and even allow for an iPad to properly extend its screen to an external monitor (rather than just mirror the display as is the case now).Īs I have written before, the people who spend laptop-like prices on an iPad and a Magic Keyboard today expect a laptop-like experience. As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman theorized earlier this month, a special mode could be activated when the right accessories are paired, such as Apple's Magic Keyboard or Apple Pencil. This is exactly why I think iPadOS 16 needs to offer a desktop or "pro" mode. "At its core, the iPad Pro is still a tablet with the right additions, however, it's also become the modular computer I didn't know I needed." Whether you want to use it as a handheld web browser, snap on a keyboard and use it as a laptop replacement, connect an Apple Pencil and use it as a drawing tablet, or pair a Bluetooth controller and play games, the iPad can do it all.Īs MacStories editor-in-chief and noted iPad enthusiast Federico Viticci wrote a couple of years ago, the iPad is a modular computer: One thing I love about the iPad is that it becomes whatever you need it to be. It could get a significant redesign while remaining that type of opt-in power-user feature. That being said, multitasking is already mostly hidden away and is opted into by those that know about it and want to use it. Granted, Apple has to make its iPad multitasking a touch-first experience if it is to run across all of its supported devices. Productivity on the iPad is being artificially held back by the software at this point. ![]() ![]() IPad hardware, particularly that of the iPad Pro and iPad Air 5 which both run the desktop-class M1 chip, is more than powerful enough to run several apps simultaneously. ![]()
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