Arthur Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) iPadOS includes native support for removable storage devices (like USB flash drives) and SMB file shares! Sources: The Verge / Ars Technica “We have some big changes coming to iPad,” says Craig Federighi, Apple’s software chief. Apple is unveiling a big software update for iPads today, and it’s now splitting up iOS to form a new iPadOS for the company’s tablets. Apple has long been tweaking iOS to include more multitasking features, including a split screen feature, / Slide Over and multitasking improvements, and changes to the dock. These updates have gradually moved iOS in two directions for phone and tablet, causing iPad gesture dilemmas. iPadOS now contains a new home screen with widgets that can expand alongside app icons. These widgets are the same as the ones you’d normally find in the Notification Center. Apple is also adding in more multitasking gestures to slide between multiple apps, and drag and drop apps side by side. All of these apps are then available in an Exposé-like view. iPadOS is designed to run on Apple’s iPad devices, and it will give the company more freedom to tweak the operating system for these larger screens. Just as Apple has watchOS for the Apple Watch, tvOS for its Apple TV, and macOS for its range of Mac computers, iPadOS will be separate but familiar to iOS users. iPadOS will also include an improved Files app. It has a column view just like Finder on macOS, and there’s an information pane so you can make small modifications on files. iCloud Drive also now supports folder sharing, and the Files app will even support SMB file shares natively. Perhaps most importantly, USB drives and SD cards will now be supported in the Files app, so you can just plug them into an iPad and get access to the files within this updated app. You’ll even be able to import photos into apps like Lightroom without having to use a Siri Shortcut. Apple is also improving its Safari browser for iPadOS with desktop-class browsing and a real download manager. There will even be 30 new keyboard shortcuts, text size controls, per-site settings, and photo upload options. iPadOS will also address some of the lack of computer-like controls on an iPad. Apple is adding fonts to the App Store so you can use these custom fonts in apps. Apple is also improving its copy and paste feature on iPadOS, so you use three fingers to pinch to copy and a three-finger spread to paste. Even the Apple Pencil is getting some love with this new iPadOS update. Apple is improving the latency from 20ms to 9ms, and the standard tool palette is also getting updated so third-party apps can use new controls. If you drag the Pencil from the corner of an iPad, it will now grab a screenshot for you to immediately start marking up. All of these features really make this iPadOS stand out from what Apple is doing on the iPhone side, and the company has made it clear today that it will now happily customize the iPad experience further. That should mean that while iOS will still drive many iPadOS features, we’ll see independent changes that make sense for the bigger displays and hardware that the iPad has. That’s great news for iPad owners. Edited June 3, 2019 by Arthur 1
Arthur Posted June 3, 2019 Author Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) More details here... www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/features Edited June 3, 2019 by Arthur
DrBeaker Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 "iPadOS" great marketing guys. How long did it take you to come up with that one?
Arthur Posted June 3, 2019 Author Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) "iPadOS" great marketing guys. How long did it take you to come up with that one? I wonder if Apple will rename iOS back to iPhoneOS next year (like it used to be)? Edit. Probably not... https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1135640410175332356 Edited June 3, 2019 by Arthur
Popular Post Arthur Posted June 3, 2019 Author Popular Post Posted June 3, 2019 Here are all the devices that are getting iOS 13 and iPadOS Apple has just announced the latest versions of its mobile software: iOS 13 for the iPhone, and the newly renamed iPadOS for its iPad lineups. But unlike last year’s iOS 12, which ran on every device that ran iOS 11, not all iOS 12 devices will be getting the update to iOS 13 and iPadOS. iOS 13 is coming to the following devices: iPhone XS iPhone XS Max iPhone XR iPhone X iPhone 8 iPhone 8 Plus iPhone 7 iPhone 7 Plus iPhone 6S iPhone 6S Plus iPhone SE iPod Touch (seventh generation) Dropped from the list this year are the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and the recently replaced iPod Touch (sixth generation), which did get iOS 12 last year but won’t be getting the new software going forward. As for the newly renamed iPadOS, it’ll be coming to the following iPad devices: iPad Pro (12.9-inch) iPad Pro (11-inch) iPad Pro (10.5-inch) iPad Pro (9.7-inch) iPad (sixth generation) iPad (fifth generation) iPad mini (fifth generation) iPad mini 4 iPad Air (third generation) iPad Air 2 Not getting the update are the original iPad Air and the iPad mini 2, which previously had gotten iOS 12. 5
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synaesthesia Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Wow, how long did it take for them to catch up with these ideas? With the ground they've been losing to alternatives it was probably necessary to keep sales up especially in enterprise.
jthompson Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 It does seem really late to the party when we're now starting to ditch network drives and prohibit USB storage. They need to shrug off all this inertia and get on with merging MacBooks and iPads with a unified OS and range of devices now. It's already a few years overdue.
Alis_Klar Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Yeah this.. Some people at Apple must be eating humble pie today! The iPad pro was a rediculous device before today. Now it may actually be useful. Wow, how long did it take for them to catch up with these ideas? With the ground they've been losing to alternatives it was probably necessary to keep sales up especially in enterprise.
FN-GM Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 It does seem really late to the party when we're now starting to ditch network drives and prohibit USB storage. They need to shrug off all this inertia and get on with merging MacBooks and iPads with a unified OS and range of devices now. It's already a few years overdue.It's years too late. More and more people are ditching USB for cloud storage.
FishCustard Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 I imagine this is partly aimed at photographers/videographers who often have to transfer footage around from cameras etc via USB.
DrBeaker Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Wow, how long did it take for them to catch up with these ideas? With the ground they've been losing to alternatives it was probably necessary to keep sales up especially in enterprise. Woah aren't you won over by the dark-mode apps? That's a game-changer! No issues with Apple kit, it's just their sales tactics and blatant stuff like this "Oh we're innovative" etc. No, you are no longer innovative IMHO. E.g. if you are - where's my MDM for Apple iPads?
Brimstone Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Yeah this.. Some people at Apple must be eating humble pie today! The iPad pro was a rediculous device before today. Now it may actually be useful. You're really behind the times aren't you, there are thousands of teachers across the world who only use an iPad Pro no laptop or desktop. I have one school with 96 teachers with only iPad Pro. Having a mouse to carry around as well, forget it.
Dos_Box Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 I wonder just how much this is to address whatever chunk that Microsoft's Surface has taken out of their corporate/education sales? In my own experience, it's now far more common to see a Surface in use where before it was an iPad for taking notes etc. 1
FN-GM Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 In my own experience, it's now far more common to see a Surface in use where before it was an iPad for taking notes etc. I have only ever seen 1 in the wild. It was the sales rep from Softcat.
jthompson Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 You're really behind the times aren't you, there are thousands of teachers across the world who only use an iPad Pro no laptop or desktop. I have one school with 96 teachers with only iPad Pro. Having a mouse to carry around as well, forget it. That's pretty impressive. Just out of interest, are those teachers needing to make use of dongles much?
Brimstone Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 That's pretty impressive. Just out of interest, are those teachers needing to make use of dongles much? A dongle...? For what...?
jthompson Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 A dongle...? For what...? For any non-wireless connectivity or non-natively supported wireless connectivity.
Alis_Klar Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Was actually not trying to bash Apple (unlike many EduGeekers). I have had every iPhone since the 4G and we have lots of iPads at my school because of my decisions. The iPad will now be an *even more* useful device.You're really behind the times aren't you, there are thousands of teachers across the world who only use an iPad Pro no laptop or desktop. I have one school with 96 teachers with only iPad Pro. Having a mouse to carry around as well, forget it.
Brimstone Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 For any non-wireless connectivity or non-natively supported wireless connectivity. Sorry.....non wireless connectivity, name one..?
Brimstone Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Woah aren't you won over by the dark-mode apps? That's a game-changer! No issues with Apple kit, it's just their sales tactics and blatant stuff like this "Oh we're innovative" etc. No, you are no longer innovative IMHO. E.g. if you are - where's my MDM for Apple iPads? *sighs* When are IT people going to realise that Apple are not in the "enterprise" space and have not been for years...thats why they don't provide an MDM. I don't hear people moaning that Samsung, Lenovo, Acer etc don't have their own MDM solution.
jthompson Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 *sighs* When are IT people going to realise that Apple are not in the "enterprise" space and have not been for years...thats why they don't provide an MDM. I don't hear people moaning that Samsung, Lenovo, Acer etc don't have their own MDM solution. IMHO the education sector is a subset of the enterprise space. Apple promotes their kit quite heavily at the education sector, but seems to want to try and do it with consumer-grade kit (albeit market-leading consumer-grade kit). Those other brands you've mentioned will be pushing products that already have well established enterprise tools (Windows and Chrome). If it wasn't for G Suite, I doubt many schools would be bothering with Chromebooks. 1
DJ-1701 Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 *sighs* When are IT people going to realise that Apple are not in the "enterprise" space and have not been for years...thats why they don't provide an MDM. I don't hear people moaning that Samsung, Lenovo, Acer etc don't have their own MDM solution. IMHO the education sector is a subset of the enterprise space. Apple promotes their kit quite heavily at the education sector, but seems to want to try and do it with consumer-grade kit (albeit market-leading consumer-grade kit). Those other brands you've mentioned will be pushing products that already have well established enterprise tools (Windows and Chrome). If it wasn't for G Suite, I doubt many schools would be bothering with Chromebooks. Yeah, you can't really compare Samsung, Lenovo and Acer with Apple, but you can compare Microsoft and Google with Apple.
jthompson Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Sorry.....non wireless connectivity, name one..? Nah. I don't think I'll bother.
localzuk Posted June 4, 2019 Posted June 4, 2019 Sorry.....non wireless connectivity, name one..? Connecting to any of the millions of non-wireless connected displays in the country eg. HDMI or VGA. The vast majority of schools do not have wireless screens to connect to. We'd have to completely rethink how we set up classrooms if we switched to iPad Pro devices. 2
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