Leaker Majin Bu has printed a weblog submit with just a few new particulars about iPadOS 19 and iOS 19, and the way they’ll work to enhance multitasking and productiveness.
The primary rumor considerations iPadOS 19, which we’ve got already heard will function improved multitasking and extra “macOS-like” capabilities, whereas not really operating or copying macOS. Bu says this may take the type of what he calls “Stage Supervisor 2.0” (we will see Apple calling it Stage Supervisor 2, however in all probability not 2.0). It will reportedly activate robotically when a keyboard is connected, although we presume you’ll have the ability to set off it and not using a keyboard by utilizing the Management Middle, as you’ll be able to at the moment.
When docked with a Magic Keyboard (and possibly any keyboard?), iPadOS 19 can even present a menu bar on the prime of the show, simply as Macs do. This raises all kinds of questions—will there be menu bar utilities for iPadOS 19, as an illustration?
Transferring over to the iPhone, Bu says iOS 19 will deliver an enormous enhancement to the way it operates with an exterior show. Because it stands, you should use the USB-C port to attach an exterior show, however it merely mirrors your iPhone show (this function dates again to a lot older iPhones when utilizing Lightning-to-HDMI or digital show adapters). With iOS 19, the exterior show will reportedly present an expanded view, one thing Bu calls a “Stage Supervisor-like interface.”
It’s not clear how you’ll management this view, as your iPhone (the only technique of enter) would presumably present the identical single-app view it at all times has. Maybe when utilizing an exterior show, your complete iPhone’s display screen will develop into a keyboard/touchpad just like the Apple TV Distant app, whereas the show reveals a multi-app interface? The rumor makes it sound like lower than the complete desktop mode of Samsung’s DeX mode, however nonetheless an enormous step up from the easy iPhone mirroring we’ve got at the moment.
All of those modifications are in service of offering a extra constant expertise throughout iPhone, iPad, and Mac, one of many key objectives of the large redesign coming to Apple’s working programs this fall. Apple will unveil the brand new working programs on the WWDC keynote on Monday, June 9.
