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I still don't recommend downloading a public OS beta from Apple on your main device, because too many strange and bad things can happen. Apple's promising collaborative white board app, called Freeform, isn't in the public beta yet but is expected this fall. There are more integrated ways to share docs and group-collaborate through Messages, or FaceTime, extending what was started last year.

There's also an Apple-made Weather App, now, finally (yay?). IPadOS 16 has most of iOS 16's greatest hits, minus that cool new customizable Lock Screen feature. Overall: A step forward (if you love monitors), but a weird one And then when I try shifting Pages from the monitor to the iPad screen (which is done via that very small three-dot icon at the top of each window, which now has a menu that vaguely says 'move to display'), the app suddenly goes blank and I have to force quit it. I can shift the whole video up to the monitor completely, but not back down to the iPad again.

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I try launching Batman Returns on Apple TV to watch while I write this, and it automatically plays on the monitor instead of my iPad screen. The deeper I go, the weirder and buggier it feels. To me, it's specifically a monitor multitasking Mode. Stage Manager gets so annoying on the iPad display that I instantly turn it off again unless I'm connected to a monitor. Oh, and I tried launching Catan on my monitor, and it started up sideways. And, if I unplug from the monitor, I find some app groups suddenly having empty black windows. Sometimes I've had sudden crash restarts from too many apps open. Just when I started feeling like I was slipping into a Mac flow, iPadOS throws me into an uncanny valley again.Īnd there are public beta bugs, too: connecting to a monitor turns off my iPad audio unless I use headphones. And apps can't be easily dragged from one window to another, either. I lost my way, despite being a longtime iPadOS user. And then there's that three-dot icon above windows, which still handles app zooming, split-screening and minimizing just like iPadOS 15.

Apps can be re-expanded, but jumping back and forth to choose apps gets confusing fast.

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On the iPad itself, these other app windows stay open on the side, shrinking your free app display space. Stage Manager has instances of grouped open apps, but if an app is already open, you'll just swap to that instance instead of overlaying it with the others that are open, although you can also drag open apps on and off that side dock and into your workspace. No one will normally ever figure this out. Apple has introduced Stage Manager, a new multitasking manager, but the app/feature only launches from within Control Center, by swiping down and tapping a cryptic icon with a block and three dots.

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Getting all the apps to be open, and work, and figure out how to navigate them, is another matter.