so until now, my personal iPad 9 (which gets used as a netbook for notetaking, journaling, and quick webdev stuff) has been running specifically iPadOS 17.5, which is vulnrable to SparseRestore so i can use Nugget to enable stage manager, despite it being officially unsupported since it has an A13 and not an M-series chip (macos on ipad when). It actually runs just fine. Stage manager has a limit of 4 apps on screen at a time (Don't know if this is based on your devices specs) and you can't move windows wherever you want (there is a grid.). Traditional/Backwards Compatible iPad and iPhone apps also don't resize beyond landscape and portait- there's no option like the Windows Subsystem for Android and ChromeOS have for full resize mode. but finally in iPadOS 26 we'll be getting a better window managment system, no more grid, and stage manager will be optional (stage manager is essentially multiple desktops). The cursor also gets to be an arrow now instead of that weird blob shape (which was meant to work better with touch screen apps, but apple seem to be pushing iPadOS closer to macOS every year now), and they upgraded the menu bar (the existing one that you can get to by holding down cmd is hardly a menu bar). they also upgraded their "multi tasking menu" (the three dots at the top of the screen) to the same stoplight that macOS uses, just it minimizes when the mouse isn't hoveing above it.
on top of all this, they ditched the splitscreen and slide over functionality released with iPadOS in iPadOS 13 in favor of this new system
so the new system replaces it.
anyways, iPadOS 26 won't come out for a good bit and since it's essentially macOS Vista with that new design language, i'm going to hold out on updating once it comes out, especially since i can't go back to 17.5..
update: iPadOS26 dropped. been out for a while. it's god awful aside from the new multitasking... even so it's worse than Stage Manager was from a technical standpoint
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