After its WWDC 2025 Event, Apple described its next Ipados 26 Update as “The biggest edition of iPados ever. “This does not seem to be just a self-enlargement exaggeration, yet-IPados 26 could actually change the way we think about the usefulness of a fifteen-year product, which has long felt an excessive iPhone designed for cyclopes.
The new OS brings us multi-task tools, a new window system and the preview program that may not sound as attractive as “Liquid glass. “But if you’ve ever tried to have a productive working day with an iPad, then this news is more exciting than Sabrina Carpenter’s A new album ad (and that’s not just because her new song was Kinda in the middle).
As it stands now, you can only have Two windows open at a time On the iPad, and navigating between the two windows is some kind of nightmare. If you try to write an email while you also look at your calendar to confirm that you give your co -worker a good time to call you, then you are likely to change the two windows back and forth, striving to see all the relevant information. It’s some kind of disorder, and a big reason why I never work in my iPad (though I spent more than $ 100 for the Detractable keyboard of Logitech …)
If I have to refer to some sources during the writing process – whether this is a press release, interview notes, email, research paper or, God forbids, all of the above – then I could just pull out my phone as a second small screen. Let’s just say it’s not the most usable experience.
With the new windows controls in iPads 26, you can see all your open windows at a time, then tile them intuitively to help you multitask. These window controls also match with Stage managerwhich allows you to organize your windows into specific environments. As a result, ipados is removing its older multitascular functions, Divide view and slide.
Meanwhile, the iPad’s new preview app makes it possible to edit and view PDFs natively, including functions such as Autofill and Apple Pencil compatibility.
Like Mac Products, iPad programs will now receive a menu bar, which makes it easy to locate specific commands or features within an app. Developers also have access to tuning the menu bar in their own programs.
And if you often work with folders, you can pin them to your dock, instead of navigating through a clumsy file app.
It’s more for the new you than these quality features (which, sincerely, could be shipped some time ago). Considering the computer power of Apple’s silicon chips, iPads 26 can perform high intensive background tasks such as exporting video, allowing you to continue working on waiting for the export.
The iPad will become useful especially to podcasts, video editors, content creators or anyone who works in multimedia. In another new feature – which doesn’t have to feel as new as it does – you can choose a specific audio file for any app or website.
Even better, the iPad gets a local capture feature that allows you to record your video calls from any conference app, then access audio and video files later.
The iPad may not match MacBook when it comes to general utility. But maybe, hypotheticallyYour company released is 16 ″ MacBook Pro, which weighs nearly five pounds and is too big to use in a plane or train without discomfort (please move forward and play the smallest violin in the world). And maybe, maybe, you have a job that brings you to several conferences every year, where you walk miles a day through mass congresses while vibrating around a laptop to write articles as news.
In that case, the ability to touch around iPad and still doing work is a game exchanger – and relief for back pain.
