In this week’s edition of the In the News podcast, Brett and I talk about even more goodies coming in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. For example, there is buzz that the improvements to Stage Manager for the iPad may make the feature appealing to many more people. We also discuss upcoming improvements to the AirPods Pro, the future of the Apple Watch, and lots of improvements to Apple services coming later this year.
In this week’s Where Y’at? segment, we discuss a woman who was encouraged by her Apple Watch to move from her bed at home to the hospital, and thank goodness that she did so.
In our In the Know segment, we both share accessibility features that many folks might want to use. Brett explains how your iPhone can read to you what is on the screen. I discuss disabling auto-play on certain videos.
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Another great podcast guys. Throwing caution to the wind I loaded iPadOS 17 developer beta 2 (it’s not my production device) and it is remarkably stable for an early beta. I’m mostly testing Stage Manager, and it is an improvement over iPadOS 16, but still flawed. Windows do have better placement/sizing limits, but “limit” is the key here, because they still won’t fit to the edge or corner of a screen; they drift somewhat in size; waste space around the window (won’t touch each other or the edges of the screen). They desperately need a “Magnet” type utility to snap them into position and keep them there. YES, I am a long time Windows (even going back to DOS) user, and Windows snap is still the best window management system out there. Stage Manager is literally begging for it if you use the iPad with an external monitor.
The other issue is that “Files” is still a distant shadow of Finder (or File Manager). What this all tells me, and many of my friends who would like to use and iPad Pro as their primary device agree, is that Apple needs to dual boot MacOS and iPadOS (letting you switch between “MacBook Air” and “iPad Pro” modes), but they are not going to do that.