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iPadOS Stage Manager?
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As it acts now, Stage Manager is useless for me - as you said, why do we need this useless thumbnails on the left??
Also, why can’t we use external monitor as primary display and have our iPads closed?
Long tap on the stage manager icon when it’s turned on.
In general I agree that stage manager is not quite there yet, hopefully it’ll improve in the next OS version.
Stage Manager has changed quite a bit in the last two versions of iPadOS. When it originally shipped, it was really quite terrible.
Thanks!!
Wasn’t aware of the possibility to remove both Dock and the thumbnails on left side…
But, of course there’s a but - still Apple isn’t allow us to use the whole screen in Stage Manager mode - as it is now there’s a 5mm frame around the edge of the desktop surface that can’t be used to place screens/apps on… Why Apple, why!!
It’s annoying that some apps can be used as windows in Stage Manager but can’t be used in regular split screen. (In particular iPhone apps that have no iPad support.) The last thing I wanted to come to the iPad was having to manually manage window positions and sizes as Stage Manager forces me to do. But I do it since that’s the only way I can get some apps on-screen with others.
Apple is often hard to understand concering decisions made to “improve” iPadOS…
It’s like we’re hungry, Apple give us food, fine, but, they have not used salt and spices in the food…
It’s all about cannibalism of the Macbook platform for Apple - make iPad desktoplike, but not 100%, no no no, then the stock owners will be disappointed!
Screenshot by quickly pressing the power button and volume up buttons simultaneously
If you want side by side windows that fill the screen, simply use Split VIew. Stage Manager is for people who want some of the custom clutter that a more conventional windowing system gives them. The problem with the original implementation was that it only gave you the illusion of customisation. Like, you could control practically nothing about how windows were placed.
In Stage Manager mode, why isn't that a command that split the windows in a equal grid?
Or, two windows side by side, same size in one command?
Yeah, typically Apple to give us an hint and feeling of a Mac system on iPad, but, still limited in many ways to not let it be a real Macbook equivalent…
That’s why we all have an strong love & hate relationship with dear Apple…
I use Stage Manager in MacOS where I find it useful for storing different window configurations of apps, e.g. multiple Finder windows of the most accessed locations.
I guess it's useful in iPad as desktop replacement scenarios. For how I use my iPad it would be overkill I think, I don't really use it for office related work or file management or with a keyboard and mouse attached.
There's also a native side by side feature for the full screen mode, just hover over the green dot in a mac window which should reveal it.
Thanks for the tip. I've heard of rectangle but never installed it because I already owned Magnet, which isn't free but quite cheap. Then later I bought Moom which I've used before stage manager to size windows to the same amount and layer them on top of each other for easy cycling through with cmd tab.
As a cmd tabber the only times I've used mussion control was by accident pressing the wrong function key, lol.
It's quite powerful, but I've only used a couple of features like specifying the exact dimensions for recording app windows in 16:9 or 4:3 etc.
You know, when Windows 1.0 first came out and it couldn’t do overlapping windows but had this tiling bullshit, I laughed so hard. Now I will admit that I have Magnet installed on my Mac. 😆 Will check out Rectangle.
Personally I'll always favor the one available in the Appstore if the apps are similar. That said I just replaced Moom with a custom Shortcut!
Maybe there's something in the Shortcut app for you as well, I've seen a split screen step in there and it's also available in the ipad Shorcuts app.
This is how I've build one that resizes the active window into a 16:10 resolution (I'm on a 24" 16:10 monitor) so that it works with the stage manager and doc.
There are more options hidden under the blue dimensions and coordinates labels, but the general structure of the shortcut is still the same using find and get.