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there is one old feature that was locked and this This was a feature if you could choose that the applications similar to the iPhone are open in the window that you could glide on everything that you worked on.
The stage manager is now a couple of years, and this is a system of applications or documents together. was transferred to the system setting, and not to the option for the control center
Now that there is a new system, in fact, the director manager really needs only people who liked it. For them, they can go to settings, multitasking & amp; Gestures and click to turn it on.
for everyone else did Apple so that you simply never find it accidentally or without intentional hunting through the settings. The previous option of the control center has disappeared both by default and even from the extensive list of control parameters.
So if you like the stage manager, it's good that he is still present. But this is bad that you can no longer just turn on or off it using the control center button.
, however, if Apple is trying to push you to use new window systems, well, Apple knows better. And in this case, it may not be as sarcastic as it seems & mdash; Because new windows are very good.
How to start using new windows on the iPad
The new system turns on by default, so you do not need to do anything but learn how to use its options. But the same panel, which includes a stage manager, also contains parameters for full -screen applications and with window applications .
by default, you will choose a new Windowed Apps option, but you go to the old-screen system of the old style
, perhaps this is not the way these options and more about turning off the scene manager. But if you choose a full screen, you will not get the opportunity to move and change the size of Windows later.
Plus, if you choose Windowed Apps , you no longer have the opportunity to spend from the left lower corner to take a screenshot. Or spend to the right of the lower part to start a new fast note.
Otherwise, full-screen applications mean at any time when you start the application, it captures the entire display & mdash; This is exactly what the iPad has done from the moment the device is launched. With the windows applications, the application opens in the center of the screen with a wide boundary around it, showing the desktop and the dock.
The goal is to actively emphasize that you can use more than one application, more than one window. And the way you do this begins with the fact that it simply opens any other application.
a new capture handle, which is by default in the lower right corner of each window
Then this is a question of moving and changing the size of the window, which is probably what you will do the most. To change the size of the window, you press and hold a new capture handle in the right lower part, and then just drag it until the application is needed.
there are restrictions, for example, there are only narrow or abbreviated, which the application can be, and it varies depending on the application.
But as soon as you use the capture handle, so that the application is something smaller than the full screen, you can also press and hold the top line of the window header to drag it around and change it. You must be careful so as not to touch any of the controls that appeared there, and it is becoming more and more difficult that the window.
, depending on where you put the window, it may also be the fact that other iPad elements interfere when you want to drag it to a new position. If the window is now located to the very top of the screen, then it presses on it and begins to drag it, it can instead call the application of the application.
Or if the application is in the upper right corner of the screen, it is very easy to unintentally choose the control center.
it is easy to choose a control center or a line of the application menu, when you are trying to drag too close to the upper part of the screen
but you get used to these gestures, and there are three more new ones that can help. With your finger or apple pencil, you can press and hold the title window panel and click it.
If you click it straight up, the application turns into a full screen. Instead, turn it into the upper right corner, and it automatically changes the size to take the entire right half of the display.
numbers (left) automatically rose with the right side of the screen because its window was closed, and right
similarly a click to the upper left forces the application to remove the entire left side of the screen.
This is one of those gestures that take time to get correctly. For example, in testing Appleinsider it became easier to click using different hands. To click to the right, it was better to use the right hand, and the opposite with a click to the left.
If you switch anywhere, you can press on the top of the window and drag it so that it automatically turns into the size that you had before. This does not automatically return to the position that you had before the film, although.
there is a way to move the application windows without a single click, neither Picking, and this is that you get accurate, but limited options.
Click on the three icons of traffic lights, which are now in the upper left corner of each window. This makes them jump to a larger size so that you can more readily choose one.
Mac traffic light icons on the iPad
just by clicking on green, immediately expand the application to take a full screen. But if you press and hold green, instead you get a series of eight options from eight options in a pop -up menu:
- go to the left side
- move to the right side
- go to the upper half
- go to the lower half
- Arrange Two Open Apps to Take Half the Screen Each
- Arrange All Open Apps to Take of the Screen Each
- Move Apps to Each of the Four Corners
Tap and Hold on the Green Traffic Light Icon to Get Mac-Like Options for Automatically Moving and Resizing
That Last Is the Least Effective because, at least on an 11-inch iPad, the result is that the two upper windows of the application hang over the two lower ones. This means that you must click on the application below to move it forward before you can use the application, drag or change the size.
wither split view
while the slide is leaving, and the scene is hidden, the old manner is hidden, old The divided appearance is somewhere between them. This still exists, but it is less useful than before.
it used to be that if you had two applications, opened and took half the screen, you will automatically get a small vertical strip between them. The tapping and holding of this panel meant that you can move it left and right to increase the size of the window of one application, while reducing another.
It was also a way to get out of a separate look, because you can drag the slide to the end or to the right to stop separating the screen.
Now, if you have any two applications nearby, regardless of whether they occupy the full height of the screen, you get a slider with a divided look. You can use it in the same way to change the size, but it cannot close the application.
a vertical dump of separation of the type between applications still exists, but its use is more limited
In addition, when you are three or even four applications nearby, you get this slider, but it may have no place for moving. For example, if you used the Windowing iPados 26 option to arrange three applications throughout the screen, the slider is meaningless, because all three applications are as narrow as possible.
Another advantage
in what way you would use to position and change the size of the application window, or in fact, even if you do not do any of this and instead save full-measuring applications, there is another advantage of the new system.
This is due to the opening of the second or subsequent document in the same application. This was possible before, but it took some distortion, and it was unthinkable that you would find the path by chance.
Now you will just find the application icon. It can be simple, just rising from the lower part to get the dock, what you should do if your application is a full screen. Or this may mean tapping on an empty place on the desktop, which then makes all the open windows of the applications leaving the road.
Pressing and holding the application icon now gives you this extremely useful pop-up menu
As soon as you see the application icon, you can press and hold it to get a new pop-up menu. This menu includes either new document or new window & mdash; Or depending on the developer, both.
This is a little inconsistent at the moment, since you expect a new window will give you a second idea of the same document that you have already discovered. Instead, this gives you the opportunity to open another document.
So it is required, as it requires, like most of the new windows. But in general, everything works as you can expect how the iPad & mdash user; But better.
for everything that Apple launched on the WWDC 2025, nothing was more radical than this change in the window on the iPad. Probably nothing was such a big surprise.
and, of course, nothing else or little is still useful.
