Floating resizable windows, that can be moved pretty much anywhere on the screen (just like on Windows, macOS, Linux) would be great.
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iPadOS 14 - What do you want to see?
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On the original '80s Mac, you could put file/app icons anywhere in a directory view. How hard would it be to have that: give the user the option to turn off the grid and allow stuff to be freely position stuff (including, perhaps, stuff that actually functions in place rather than requiring an app launch).
That is more of a pipe dream, though. What I really really really want is to be freed from the truncation created by maintaining phone-screen profiles. For example, in Wikipanion, I start entering a subject and it gives me search hits – which have to fit in a narrow pop-up that truncates the content to the extent that I sometimes have to guess which on is the one I want. This ridiculous limitation really needs to go away.
And traditionally windowing, I want that a lot. Full-screen/split-screen everything it just not good enough anymore. Again, that should be an option that the user has to proactively enable.
That is more of a pipe dream, though. What I really really really want is to be freed from the truncation created by maintaining phone-screen profiles. For example, in Wikipanion, I start entering a subject and it gives me search hits – which have to fit in a narrow pop-up that truncates the content to the extent that I sometimes have to guess which on is the one I want. This ridiculous limitation really needs to go away.
And traditionally windowing, I want that a lot. Full-screen/split-screen everything it just not good enough anymore. Again, that should be an option that the user has to proactively enable.
It would be great, the problem would be that the developers made their apps compatible. Apple has been asking them to make their apps compatible with split view and slide over for years, and until now they are starting to do it, so who knows how long it would take to make their apps compatible with floating windows
I believe it is mandated that apps comply with Slideover and split view effective at the end of this month, I believe. Apple can do this. I think it would be easier in the case of floating windows.
Yes. Slide-over and split view requires that an app be able to adapt to 4 or eight view sizes; resizable floating windows (or "windows") can be any size (usually within certain constraints), so a layout is simply constructed to work well arbitrarily, which is easy enough using Interface Builder's toolset. Or an app can be designed for a fixed window size (which would have to fit on the screen). Some games, of course, are just not suitable for split/slideover.
The iPad screen has sixteen times as many screen pixels as the original Macintosh (practically speaking, 4 times) and orders of magnitude more computing capability, so implementing an open windowed environment should not be such an enormous struggle.
Full screen apps have always made me feel a sort of claustrophobia, but that is probably just me. It should still be an option, but iPadOS should eventually make windowing an option as well, if the user wants it.
- "Tabs everywhere" for iPadOS (a built-in way for any app to have tabs like Safari for multi-tasking).
- Top/bottom split view in addition to left/right split view.
- Split view and picture-in-picture for iPhone (I don't like that iPadOS is diverging from iOS... if you've used split screen on Android you can see that it works just fine on a small screen).
I personally would like to see the following.
- Low power mode.
- Native battery health indicator.
- Smaller Siri window, (like iOS 6 had)
- NATIVE CALCULATOR APP, (please).
- Not a big deal, but maybe a guest mode for when I hand my iPad to a someone else to use.
- Default apps.
- Live widgets/icons.
- Maybe a Mac OS style downloads stack on the dock, that when you tap an item, it takes you to a selected app you can use it in maybe?
- Better way to connect your AirPods/speakers, like a specific button in control centre once paired.
- Adjustable windows, like somehow you can pinch and freefloat any app to a specific size/location on the screen, kinda like Mac OS.
- Always on Shazam, like how the pixel can show what the title of a song is when say, in a cafe. (More for my iPhone tbh, but I'll just slip it in here)
- Low power mode.
- Native battery health indicator.
- Smaller Siri window, (like iOS 6 had)
- NATIVE CALCULATOR APP, (please).
- Not a big deal, but maybe a guest mode for when I hand my iPad to a someone else to use.
- Default apps.
- Live widgets/icons.
- Maybe a Mac OS style downloads stack on the dock, that when you tap an item, it takes you to a selected app you can use it in maybe?
- Better way to connect your AirPods/speakers, like a specific button in control centre once paired.
- Adjustable windows, like somehow you can pinch and freefloat any app to a specific size/location on the screen, kinda like Mac OS.
- Always on Shazam, like how the pixel can show what the title of a song is when say, in a cafe. (More for my iPhone tbh, but I'll just slip it in here)
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only if it has an RPN option, can do tape and works conveniently in other apps
Actually quite interested to see if the handwritten text "to text" feature makes it in. I love being able to use handwritten input on-line in Windows 10 and Android. I did use an app before on iPad called Mazec which was decent but proper System wide support could see ne picking up an iPad Pro again.
I bought a decent WP that does handwriting recognition (WritePad became Penquills) for ten bucks. It is, naturally, less than perfect, but it does include a handwriting keyboard (that I am using for this post) that can go right into your keyboard set and even works in the floating mode, though it is not easy to write much more than two words in that tiny thing (me want resizable floating keyboard). Of course, you lose keyboard cursor tracking and all autocorrect, but you gain the ability to type a tab character anywhere.