iPad OS 15 Review

 

                           iPad OS 15 Review

The iPad Pro is at the top of the food chain best iPad there is and I've been using this thing a lot for the last month or so and I really like it and like a lot of other iPad users it's just really enjoyable to use this.

  So iPad os 15 it's nice it's a nice update with some tweaks and UI thing refreshes that makes sense on the iPad but it didn't change the way.  I use the iPad and it didn't really even get it much closer at all to actually replacing a computer the way I kind of wanted it to and I feel like that's kind of just where the iPad is destined to live for their for future but let's not let the expectations be the thief of joy I've I've used this beta iPad os 15 for a little bit like, there's been a developer beta now there's a public beta it's really good there's a lot of good stuff I'm going to show tell you about that stuff that's made the most difference to me that I like the most about the iPad and then I have some thoughts on pads as a whole so the biggest change.

 We've all seen by now is you can finally finally put widgets anywhere on the  ipad's home screen you know like you could with android tablets for the last decade it really shouldn't feel like that big of an upgrade but it does for the ipads since they were confined over to the side over area before where you can still put them by the way but now you just have all this huge canvas to lay them out and it's so much better plus there's also a new bigger widget size so you can really use some massive widgets, you can have a whole home screent that's just 100 widgets if you want to put, but then the other home screen upgrade that the ipad gets is the app library now too which just shows all of your apps in one place so of course you can now hide apps from your home screen that you don't want and it actually feels really natural that it just pops up after your last home screen so this is a long time coming it really like this new essentially app drawer for the iPad, the big thing that always comes up the most with ipad through is multitasking or at least having more than one thing open on the screen at once it's a huge canvas but you might not one task like you're taking notes on something or copying and pasting between apps things like that so yeah it's not necessarily multitasking but it is going to need window management. So ipads running iPad os 15 technically handle multiple windows exactly the same as before but the upgrade here is it's more visible and it's way easier to remember so they serviced it by just constantly showing you these three dots up here anytime you open an app there's three dots up top and when you tap the three dots it shows you three simple options full screen with one app split-screen, you can pick another app to go split-screen with, and right away you're half and a half so you can do just copy and paste or go back and forth multitask or whatever you want to call it the way you could before and if you pick slide over all the same slide, over app support still exist as well I don't use slide over as much as I've seen some other people but the functionality and the support are still the same. There's a bunch of small tall vertical apps and their own carousel in multitasking view though you can also now drag one window right on top of another to create a split-screen with them and then just dive straight into that which is pretty cool and if you ever have two apps open and you just want to replace one of them with something different you just swipe down from the top of that one and you can replace it and get your substitute in now you're not crazy a lot of this stuff is the same as before it's the same function, as before it's just presented more obviously now and I like that.

 I really like the dots actually that's just it's made everything easier to remember now there are also apps like a safari where you can have multiple instances of the same app open and so when you open safari at the bottom on the new shelf it shows all of the windows you've got open each with their own tabs you know got their own things happening and so that to me was the part that felt the most like a computer, all the time I have multiple safari windows open next to each other taking notes especially when I'm writing but on the iPad if you want to split screen any one of these safari apps you can so you can tap the safari icon and now it's like, Oh! did you want to use this one safari window here or a split-screen of this different safari window with photos next to it or whatever other app you have going on next to it no problem now.

The other biggest UI change to iPad os 15 is definitely the notes app now you might be like me and never really use the notes app very much because there's other better to-do list apps there's other better notes apps but notes on this new iPad software are so good that it is honestly tempting for me to use it over some other stuff like pockets that I use all the time to just jot stuff down or just remember something I need to come back to later this is really good so there's new quick note feature, where you drag up from the corner with your finger or the pencil and straight away you can start writing something down or typing a quick note and then that gets added to a dedicated quick note section of apple notes. But it's a bit deeper than that because you can drag whatever you're doing right into that quick note so sam in Twitter for example and I want to remember this tweet I can literally just drag this tweet right into a note and save it there for later write something down about it whatever you want to do. 

You can drag a photo from your gallery into a note it'll just add that photo to the note or if I'm on a website you can swipe up a quick note and immediately add the link you're at and with the apple pencil you can quickly highlight something on that page so later in quick notes when you click on that link it returns you to the page with that same thing highlighted how cool is that. So all of that plus the really good handwriting recognition and obviously it's syncing between this and the mac and the iPhone and all the stuff has the notes app it's really tempting I'm gonna keep using pocket I think for all this same stuff just because it also syncs to my android phone and, I'll be damned if I have one more plugin into the ecosystem but yeah the notes app now is really good but then there's some other smaller stuff safari for the iPad gets web extensions like the desktop version. 

So if you go into safari settings and scroll down to extensions you can just go load up the section of the store specifically for safari extensions I'm sure many more will be added here too when it's out of beta probably including a dedicated save to pocket button. And there's also all the other stuff that's coming to ios 15 on the iPhone to stuff like share play and facetime live text on photos in the gallery apple maps updates etc. Focus mode of course that's my favourite number one feature but there's a bunch of good stuff in ios 15 and they're also going to be adding that universal control feature that was a super cool demo to control your iPad with a mouse seamlessly from a mac. At the end of the day nice but aside from that iPad os is still just how you remember it which is really fun to use a lot of times just slightly frustratingly limited sometimes also this there's still no weather app by the way so there's this huge weather widget but when you click on it it just opens safari and goes to weather.com you bought dark sky just make a weather app also there's still no calculator, uh, the app officially on the iPad you can have a little widget from the quick settings or the control panel. But yeah there's no uh there's no full-screen weather app or calculator app in the iPad but generally , this is the update that we're all talking about and waiting for and for those of us who were teetering on being able to use our iPad pro full time and get rid of any laptop I don't think iPad os 15 is the thing that pushes us over the edge it doesn't really change that. This update didn't really lengthen the amount of time it took before I got frustrated and had to bring my laptop again but it did make the time I was using the iPad that much better so I think the thing to keep in mind here is just the background to all of this is the iPad is um it comes from a company that also makes laptops right so even though they've got all this big talk in this marketing campaign, What is a computer? All that fun stuff at the end day this company also makes computers so if they're gonna keep selling those computers the iPad basically has to stay firmly in between the iPhone and the mac and it's until they prove us wrong. Basically that I feel like that's still gonna be true uh they didn't become a two trillion-dollar company by being bad at the business they're not going to cannibalize their own products this in this is just where the iPad lives the one thing I will say that's on the other side of this is I'm reviewing all this new software on the perspective of someone who really wants to use this full time on a thousand dollar iPad pro but this software will also be on everyone else's ipads on all the 329 pads you know in peoples homes, in schools all the iPad airs. 

People who aren't replacing their entire computer or maybe they don't need all that much functionality and they can do everything they want already with a normal iPad and all those ipads will just get better for this so that's the iPad os 15 update so there you have it. 

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