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#ipados26

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Not a fan of the peekaboo apps that appear off screen on iPadOS after you switch away from them. They even show motion effects like video in the apps and content updating off screen.

i was an idiot that immediately installed iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 and then had a "i've made a huge mistake" moment but beta 3 is largely smoothed a lot of things out for me.

there is a TestFlight of Spark Mail if you have been annoyed about it crashing every time you launch it.

The liquid glass effects in #iPadOS 26 are so extra and unnecessary but I am here for them.

Here I’m pulling down Notification Center over a photo in Flickr. Just look at how the edges bend everything, especially the lamp posts and text. Frivolous yum.

there's a new Model Selection option in #Shortcuts on #iPadOS26 and #iOS26. you can pick local compute, private cloud, or a chatGPT extension. huh.

the local model doesn't seem to have any MCP capability or even any real privileged access to anything it can't even read my calendar or tell me how much memory is free. but there is none the less a local compute option for an LLM on devices coming to aOS26.

It’s rare to get a ScreenCasts ONLINE-like video without being a member, but owner @leegarrett has created a couple of videos of his first impressions of iPad OS and macOS 26. Here’s a link to the one he did on iPad OS 26. It’s not a big whine piece like so many others; rather it’s “here’s what I think is cool and how it works”.

myproductivemac.com/blog/ipado

MyProductiveMaciPadOS 26 - My First Thoughts — MyProductiveMacGet an early look at iPadOS 26 in this mini hands-on review. Discover the new multitasking features, improved window management, and honest impressions of Apple’s latest beta. Includes a video walkthrough of key changes.
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If I didn’t have to use so many Microsoft apps for work, I think that #iPadOS26 in ‘Windowed apps’ mode with an external display is now a solution for doing productive work for many more people than was the case with iPadOS 18.

Improvements to the files app are huge and I think I prefer manipulating OneDrive files for work within the Files app rather than in the OneDrive app.

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Another comment I would make is that OneNote on iPad is okay for many things, but not everything.

It’s fine to take and view notes but if you have a lot of note/notebook reorganisation to do, then it gets clunky and slow. Especially moving/copying pages between notebooks.

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3. I miss other desktop functionality, things like my Fluent Search app/file launcher (maybe Spotlight will get these improvements in iPadOS27?) and OneNote’s global keyboard shortcut for adding a new note.

I also can’t customise all of my mouse buttons which I use extensively for things like next/previous tab in browsers and spreadsheets.

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2. My managed Microsoft environment means that if I click on any link in a managed Microsoft app it will open in Edge. This is not the end of the world, but Edge is not my favourite browser. There is one browser extension I use a lot at work and I can get by on my iPad by using Orion browser for that functionality (Orion supports some desktop Chrome extensions).

Our organisation prevents copy and paste out of Microsoft apps and I can also can’t screen grab them which is an additional limitation compared to what I can do on desktop.

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1. Some Microsoft iPad apps are just not good enough.

ToDo regularly crashes on me all the time - which is a shame as I otherwise really like this as an iPad app.

Outlook lacks too much functionality in the iPad version (can flag an email but not mark as complete).

Teams is a good app on iPad and I don’t really ever notice any missing functionality compared to the desktop version.

So I just about survived a day in the office yesterday using my iPad Pro (running beta 2 of #iPadOS26) connected to a large external display.

It is just about workable but I don’t think I would do this on a regular basis and that is really down to a few factors…

I have yet to play with #ipados26 and apparently its so good now. It still is an iPad.

iPad has always been good for iPad like things.

Personally, it still is a mobile first device as opposed to desktop first.

The browser is its biggest weakness. With so many apps being web apps, #apple really should have a desktop class browser on iPadOS.

Browsers should be able to use #chromium on #ipad

Maybe next #wwdc