What is the difference between Stage Manager and Split View in iPadOS

At the presentation of iPadOS 16, Apple showed a new multitasking mode for tablets equipped with an M1 processor. Stage manager became the central feature of the new operating system. With it, you can keep four applications active on the tablet screen in different windows. And four more stacks of four windows each. In total, the tablet can simultaneously switch between twenty different windows.

ПОДПИСЫВАЙСЯ НА НАШ КАНАЛ В ЯНДЕКС.ДЗЕНЕ И ЧИТАЙ ЭКСКЛЮЗИВНЫЕ СТАТЬИ БЕСПЛАТНО

A similar mode has been waiting for a long time on tablets, but it will not be available on all iPads. What to do for those users whom Stage Manager bypassed? Let’s see if it can split view team up with Slide Over to compete with the new multitasking in iPadOS 16.

Split View on iPad

Stage Manager is much closer to macOS multi-window than Split View.

Split View along with Slide Over were introduced back in 2015. The first is the opportunity split screen tablet for two active applications. Moreover, such a division can be made in different proportions. And Slide Over allows you to create a stack of several applications in a floating window and scroll through them with a swipe along the bottom edge. Similarly, switching applications occurs on an iPhone without a Home button.

The application in Slide Over completely covers one of the Split View windows. One application out of three immediately becomes unusable.

If you use these two multitasking modes at the same time, then three applications can be displayed on the tablet screen at the same time. At the same time, start the video in picture-in-picture mode, and it turns out that four applications are displayed on the display. Exactly the same as in Stage Manager. In addition, you can add several more programs to Slide Over and switch between them. Thus, you get a good option for multitasking.

ПОДПИСЫВАЙСЯ НА ТЕЛЕГРАМ-КАНАЛ СУНДУК АЛИБАБЫ. ТАМ КАЖДЫЙ ДЕНЬ ВЫХОДЯТ ПОДБОРКИ САМЫХ ЛУЧШИХ ТОВАРОВ С АЛИЭКСПРЕСС

The disadvantages of this use include the fact that the system does not arrange open programs into convenient windows that can be freely moved around the screen. And applications opened in slide-over mode, overlay information on windows in Split View. The screen is quite a mess.

Stage Manager on iPad

The screen size of an 11-inch iPad may not be enough to comfortably use the Stage Manager.

At the same time, the principle of the Stage Manager is that the system itself arranges applications in convenient windows, similar to open programs in macOS. However, this multitasking mode is suitable if you use three or more applications. In the case when you need only two programs running at the same time, it is better use split view, as it arranges them across the entire screen size, leaving no free space around the perimeter. That is, the entire useful area of ​​u200bu200bthe display of your tablet is used.

The only mode where using Split View is more appropriate is the option with two running programs.

Stage Manager also has an extended mode of operation. When you connect your tablet to an external monitor, you may displaying four windows on the iPad screen and on the monitor – four more. It turns out that you can keep eight programs active. At the same time, Stage Manager keeps in memory not just applications, but open windows.

For example, you can display several different documents in Pages. Of the interesting: supports the simultaneous use of Stage Manager in conjunction with Split View when connected to an external monitor. The tablet screen will have two applications in Split View, and the monitor will have the required number of windows in Stage Manager.

ПОДПИШИСЬ НА НАШ ЧАТИК В ТЕЛЕГРАМЕ. ТАМ СОБРАЛИСЬ ТОЛЬКО ИЗБРАННЫЕ ЧИТАТЕЛИ

The disadvantages of Stage Manager include the fact that some applications open in small windows. Slide Over not availablealthough picture-in-picture and quick note work. It seemed strange that it was not possible to call a quick note without Apple Pencil. This may be a glitch in the iPadOS 16 beta.

Users tablets with M1 processor got at their disposal all the multitasking modes and can select the layout of applications that is convenient for themselves. Everything else can only be content with the good old Split View and Slide Over. As you can see, the use of these two modes will not replace the Stage Manager, although it just comes close to it in terms of the number of applications on the tablet screen.

Everything depends on the convenience and logic of working with open windows. Here, with a large number of programs, Stage Manager is out of competition. Let’s hope that Apple hears its users and activates this mode on A-series processors at least in some truncated form. But, looking at what resources iPad uses for Stage Manager, it’s hard to believe.