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iPad as a laptop replacement
- Thread starter Omar Comin' Yo
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Seriously?
The everyday persons doesn’t use Terminal.
I’ve done a lot with it on macOS before I made the jump to iPadOS and iPad only life, but I never felt the need for it on iPadOS.
My best friend who doesn’t want go iPad only and has been running with a Mac since 2006 has never even used Terminal before.
So yes, the line has faded. A specific OS need is only relevant if your need a specific application that does not run or isn’t made for any other OS. That has been the case for as long as we have different OS’s.
But if you think your use case is mainstream, be my guest.
Then let's try a more mainstream one. They finally let us see the whole URL in mobile Safari?
Again a nice. (I use it, and would think its helpful, but a nice non the less)
Try again.
How do you do that? When I swipe 3 finger left or right, it only bounce the window in that direction
If you tap the address bar, it shows the full URL. Also works on the iPhone. Some people will never be happy with iPad OS and should just stay with a MacBook.😉
The multitasking features DO NOT include extended display support. Just like stage manager on that iPad, which I own, did not include that.
No, because that is the pinnacle of small-minded senseless dumbing down of iPadOS. Or is it that my audiobook stops playing when I launch a game?
Two YouTube videos going at the same time. Or a YouTube video and Netflix series going.
Just a few of the apps available for that...
a-Shell
a-Shell is a complete local terminal emulator, allowing to run most Unix commands on you iOS device. You can transfer files using scp and curl, edit them with vim and ed, process them using grep, awk and sed. You can work with git repositories using lg2. Most commands are compiled for iOS...
apps.apple.com
Terminal#
Terminal#: An SSH client for securely managing your servers right from your mobile device. Features: Secure Connection: Allows securely connecting to your servers using the SSH protocol, ensuring secure data transmission. Convenient Management: The powerful terminal interface enables you to...
apps.apple.com
Prompt 3
Prompt is the terminal that goes where you do, whether you're on the road or at your desk. With Panic Sync, your servers are available on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. With Mosh and Eternal Terminal support, you can stay connected even on the most unstable networks. And with both local terminals...
apps.apple.com
Termius - Modern SSH Client
Termius is an SSH client and terminal how it should be. Connect with one tap from any mobile and desktop device—no re-entering IP addresses, ports, and passwords. With a free Termius Starter plan, you can: · Connect from your mobile and desktop device with SSH, Mosh, Telnet, Port Forwarding...
apps.apple.com
a-Shell looks interesting, will check that out, thanks. The rest seem to just be SSH clients.
You're welcome. Here's another free one that might interest you.
iSH Shell
A Linux-like shell on iOS. You can edit files with sed and cat, move them around, and more! https://github.com/ish-app/ish/
apps.apple.com
Oh, thanks for this. I remember now but I think I installed something or changed a setting to change it back.
Make menu bars grey again!
To be honest, with the launch of MacBook with a notch, and how grossly thick the menu bar appeared on them, I think it was a matter of time to see macOS redesigned getting rid of the bar itself, just the menus floating around.
I’m still not sure I like it… I still have to watch how they behave and how the menus look when unfolded, while being used (I could look it up now either here on the forum or in YouTube to be honest, I’ll do that later), but I guess it was only a matter of time, as many, many macOS concepts that reimagined how would be the future look of the system, most of them chose to get rid of the menu bar and leave just the menus.
I believe the new multitasking features will work with every iPad that runs iPadOS 26. 👍🏻
I mean when you listen music or a podcast episode and just want to click a video on Safari. When you do that the music or podcast will automatically stop in the background and you have to manually go back to the app tops play again. This is something I never understood why they do this for mobile devices when computer can handle this since forever. For me, it's completely against productivity as I often listen live radio and want to watch some video without the need to actually listen it. Also, with this current state, the background audio will occasionally stop when visiting some random websites or opening certain apps.
So for me, this alone is a major dealbreaker to use my iPad as my main computer.
One thing you could possibly do is just photoshop a translucent strip on the top of the wallpaper you’re using, which would add the Menu Bar background back. 👍🏻.
New multitasking does not mean extended display support
As bad as I want to (and I really, really want to
), I don't have enough nerve to load the developer beta on my iPad. I have always had good results with the public betas' though, so anxiously awaiting them. In the meantime, I'll watch (with envy
) all you brave folk that have loaded it.
I install it because I have a spare iPad so its almost no risk at all to do it. I say almost because there's always a tiny chance the update brick the device (ipadOS 18 on M4 pro last year) but other than that, the worse thing that could happen is just wiping it and go back to iPadOS 18.
The thing I'll never understand is people installing early beta on their main phones. I mean...I rely too much on my phone for taking the risk of installing a dev beta on it and potentially have problem with receiving calls and such like it frequently happened over the years. But like I've said, if you have any spare device laying around, there's no reason why you shouldn't try it.
The thing I'll never understand is people installing early beta on their main phones. I mean...I rely too much on my phone for taking the risk of installing a dev beta on it and potentially have problem with receiving calls and such like it frequently happened over the years. But like I've said, if you have any spare device laying around, there's no reason why you shouldn't try it.
Here, too - I'll wait for the public beta for more stability.