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Today, during the WWDC speech, at which Apple unveiled the next major release of its mobile software platform, iOS 13, the company also had a big surprise to share: iOS is now exclusive to the company. IPhone and gave birth to a new dedicated operating system for the iPad, named iPadOS.
iPadOS includes all of the existing iOS features, including the multitude of upcoming updates in iOS 13, but adds to a long list of enhancements to help solve common problems for iPad Pro users. From an updated home screen to multitasking improvements, file upgrades, including support for USB drives, a desktop safari, and much more. All of these features aim to make the iPad a full-time computer more powerful than ever.
Home screen
iPadOS introduced some changes in the home screen. Although these changes are more limited than many iPad users hoped to lead to today's ads, they still improve the usefulness of the iPad's main landing place.
For starters, the home screen contains a denser layout of the application icons that previously, allowing to display up to 30 applications on the screen – not to mention the dock – in its most complete form. Currently, on iOS 12, my 12.9-inch iPad can only hold 20 apps in the same space. The addition of 10 additional applications is therefore huge.
In addition to adjusting more apps, the new Home screen can also integrate with the day view widgets, which can be pinned to the left side of the home screen without reducing the number of apps. Application icons visible on the screen. Although users can choose to keep the widgets separate from the home screen, as before, the new home screen can place the entire day view in the same place as your applications, which you avoid having to navigate between two different screens.
multitasking
Multitasking receives a major update from iPadOS. While the basic mechanisms introduced in iOS 9 and refined in iOS 11 are still present here – including Split View, Slide Over and the use of drag-and-drop to engage multitasking – Apple has significantly enhanced the functionality of all existing multitasking features.
Applications can now be available in multiple windows, allowing you to enable split view of multiple documents or have separate instances of an application available in different spaces. application. For example, in Apple Notes, you can display two notes side by side, just like in Safari with two websites. This action is drag-and-drop and works just like the Safari system, where dragging and dropping a note from the other side of the currently displayed note will open both in a split view. And while this new feature is ideal for document-based applications, Apple has even used it for other UI elements that can now be detached as stand-alone windows. For example, the compose area in Mail can be detached from the rest of the application to live in a split view window or slide view.
The application spaces were an iOS 11 feature whose utility was limited because applications could never have a single "version" of themselves in the system. You can create a space containing, for example, Pages and Safari, and keep the view split until you break it, but if you need Safari in a different split view, such as placing it next to Messages, the original space will be broken. . In iPadOS, this limitation has completely disappeared. Applications can now have different instances spread across the system in different application spaces. So, you can have a particular note of Apple Notes in a space with Slack, and another note entirely in a space with reminders.
With applications currently available in multiple spaces, iPadOS offers a new feature to keep track of all these separate instances: App Exposé. Now, when an application has multiple windows open in different spaces, just tap the icon of that application in your dock or on the Home screen to open Exposé and provide a Overview of all spaces currently using this application.
In addition to the improvements made to the split view and the availability of multiple application windows, Slide Over is gaining momentum in iPadOS by providing easier ways to change the current application displayed in Slide Over. You can now switch between different Slide Over applications with horizontal drag at the bottom of the Slide Over window, then drag up from the bottom of the window to open an application switch view and choose from a collection of all your current slides. On the applications. To sum up, Apple has turned Slide Over into a dedicated iPhone user interface that floats above the rest of your iPad's interface: it retains the same size as the iPhone and you can use the same gestures as those available on iPhone X, XS and XR. between applications.
Files
The files debuted in iOS 11 as a major advance for file management on iOS, but no visible improvement has been seen since. iPadOS and iOS 13 change this, however, because Files becomes a more robust alternative to the Finder on iPad.
The files have a new Column view, joining the existing Grid and List views previously available. The column view takes advantage of the iPad's big screen, making it easier to dive into nested folders without getting lost. A key element of the new Columns view is a preview pane on the right, which includes a visual preview of the currently selected file, rich metadata for that file, and a quick action selection to easily perform tasks. such as using markup, creating a PDF, or rotating an image.
Finally, Files includes built-in support for external storage devices. You can now connect USB flash drives and SD cards to your iPad. You can access the documents they contain directly from Files and transfer them to a separate file provider, if you wish. One of the advantages of this feature is that Files, via its document selector, now allows users to import photos from a camera directly into the application of their choice. Previously, if you connected a camera, the imported images would go directly into the Apple Photos app, but this behavior changed in iPadOS. You can now access images from your camera via the Files document selector in each application that supports it.
Another feature of the "Finally" category is that documents can be compressed and unzipped into Files without the need for a third-party application.
One of my favorite file enhancements is that iCloud Drive now supports shared folders, a feature that has been available for a long time by Dropbox but is missing from iCloud Drive. If you're tired of integrating Dropbox's buggy files, folder sharing may be the last push you need to go all-in-one with iCloud Drive.
There is a new Downloads folder integrated into Files, the perfect combination with a download manager available in Safari. In addition, the existing folder on my iPad will now work as expected: under iOS 12, you can not manually add files or folders to On my iPad, it's just a storage location for applications that use offline storage for their own purposes. files; but with iPadOS, any file or folder you choose can be added and organized in On My iPad.
The files now natively include the document scanner that was previously exclusive to Apple Notes. This is a natural addition because I often find myself scanning something in Notes only to save it to files, which I do not have to do anymore.
When using the search, the updated Files application now displays search suggestions to make it easier to find what you are looking for. In addition, local file server users can connect to files via SMB. Finally, various keyboard shortcuts have been added to the application, which allows you to navigate more easily without lifting the fingers of the keyboard.
Safari
Even if the improvements to the files concern iPadOS, it's not the only key system application that is generating a lot of love: Safari is advancing by leaps and bounds to become a real desktop browser.
The most important change in Safari is that it now loads the desktop versions of the default Web sites. But not the same damaged desktop hulls that previously existed on the iPad: true desktop versions fully optimized for touch input. That's the kind of change I would not normally have thought of until I tested it myself, but Apple CEO Craig Federighi cited Google Docs and Squarespace as examples of websites that previously did not did not work properly with Safari for iPad, they work as expected in iPadOS. This is a huge improvement for the iPad.
Safari finally has a native download manager on the iPad. Files uploaded to the web via Safari are saved in the new Downloads folder of the Files application, just as Safari works on the Mac with Finder. The downloads can run simultaneously in the background and you can check their status from Download Manager in the Safari toolbar. Once the download is complete, you can even use a drag-and-drop to extract it from the download manager and share it with another application. Finally, iPad users can download files to the web without having to work around the problem.
The ability to access real desktop versions of websites on the iPad and to have a native download manager is without a doubt the best Safari improvements. But the app comes with a handful of other useful enhancements.
The Safari start page has been modified with an updated design that includes favorites, most frequent visits, and most recently visited sites, but it also includes Siri suggestions that display information such as links to you. recently received via an app like iMessage.
Websites can now change various site-by-site settings, including previously available player viewer settings, and indicate whether a site is displaying its desktop or mobile version, but you can now decide which version to use. activate or not. , microphone, or location, and enable or disable content blockers on specific sites.
When uploading photos to Safari, there is now a built-in option to resize the photo as if it existed in Mail for several years. You can make the Small, Medium, Large or Real size photo and see the file sizes associated with each level.
Finally, a multitude of keyboard shortcuts are added to Safari in iPadOS, accessible as in all iPad applications by holding down the Command key.
Everything else
Support for pointing devices. As Steve Troughton-Smith discovered, Apple has added support for a mouse or a trackpad connected to use as a pointing device on iPadOS. The feature is not meant to be a default interaction method, but rather an accessibility feature built into AssistiveTouch.
New multitouch gestures. Working with text on the iPad becomes easier thanks to new multitouch gestures added to iPadOS. There are three-finger gestures for copying, pasting and canceling; with three fingers, you pinch to copy, spread to stick and slide to the left to cancel and to the right to restore. In addition, you can enter text in one gesture, the text cursor can be moved simply by taking and moving it, and finally you can enter the scroll indicator on the right of the screen and move it to jump. to later parts of a document.
Improvements in pencil. The latency of the Apple pen is reduced from 20ms to 20ms, which is a significant improvement. The set of markup tools available in previous versions of iOS is being updated in iPadOS and iOS 13 and is also made available to third-party developers via PencilKit. Finally, you can mark anything that interests you in any application by dragging the Apple pencil from the bottom corner of the iPad. This will allow you to view a screenshot of what you are watching. However, in supported applications, the option change this screen capture to a capture of a complete page of the document. All annotation tools are available to annotate this document, then share it, and they can even now be moved to the screen in different places.
Font Manager. Apple has added a new, easier way to add custom fonts to iPads and iOS 13s – just download them from the App Store and manage them from the Settings app. Previously, adding custom fonts to iOS required the download of a third-party application, such as AnyFont, which would install font file formats via configuration profiles – processes that no average user should have to experiment. The system as a whole was working, but it was too complex to integrate with the general public. Going through the App Store will greatly simplify the process.
Floating keyboard. When the software keyboard is on the screen, you can pinch it with two fingers to reduce it to a floating mini keyboard that can be moved anywhere on the screen. This keyboard is essentially an iPhone software keyboard, perfect to ensure that your content is not hidden when you need the keyboard, but you do not write a novel.
Quick actions of the app icon on iPad. Previously reserved for 3D Touch-enabled iPhones, you can now access the quick actions of an app by tapping its icon and holding it down on an iPad. According to rumors, 3D Touch would be removed from the range of iPhone 2019 later this year, replaced by Haptic Touch, and this change of iPad gives a lot of credit to this idea.
Sidecar. Although this is more of a feature of the new macOS update than iPadOS, the iPad can now be used as the second screen for the Mac, both wirelessly and wired. We will share more details about this in our presentation macOS Catalina.
iPadOS takes again what was launched in iOS 9 and 11 and completes it in many ways. Apple has taken great care to solve the most common problems related to working on an iPad and, based on what we have seen so far, this update will transform the device.
Even more encouraging, what iPadOS means for the future of the iPad: nothing has been promised, but the iPad receiving its own dedicated software platform, separate from the iPhone, means that we will have updates to annual days specific to the iPad. As the first iPad user, accustomed with frustration to receive only new features of the iPad every two years, I hope that, thanks to iPadOS, the iPad will continue to receive the attention it deserves year after year. 2019 brings a powerful new base for the iPad, but the future potential of iPadOS, unrelated to the iPhone, is what really excites me.
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