How are there hidden menus inside iPad apps? The answer lies with Catalyst, which enables iPad app developers to bring their apps over to the Mac. You don’t even need to use keyboard shortcuts–tapping on any command will execute it.
Hold down the Globe or Command keys in iPadOS 15, and you’ll see an overlay that lists all the available keyboard shortcuts-organized in a quite familiar pattern that begins with File and Edit. Apple is also rebuilding the Mac menu bar on the iPad, and it’s doing it in plain sight. Some apps are a bit ridiculous on a 12.9-inch display, but quite delightful when displayed in the compact frame of an iPhone 12 mini. I think I’d actually prefer to run the iPhone layout of some apps on my iPad. But imagine resizing a window and having it snap to a bunch of different aspect ratios and sizes-corresponding to the dimensions of various supported Apple devices.
I doubt that any iPad windowing scheme would offer pixel-perfect resizing of the sort the Mac offers. And once again, the Mac shows the way: If you use an iOS app on an M1 Mac, you’ll see that they’re resizable-with limits. Modern iOS apps have to adapt to numerous screen sizes and orientations. There’s truth in that, though it’s not true as it once was.
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It’s a window that initially appears hovering above the app that spawned it, but it’s got Apple’s new three-dot windowing interface at the top that will let you drag it around (hmm, I wonder why would you need a drag area for iPad windows?), or move it to its own full screen, Split View, or Slide Over location. First off, there’s the new “floating center window,” which appears (among other places) when you create a new message in Mail. Regardless, the Shelf’s very existence shows that Apple is trying to find ways to make multi-window interfaces in iPad apps discoverable and usable.Īnd then there are iPadOS 15’s new additions to the growing family of iPad windows. This feels like Apple adding complexity in order to add clarity, and I’m not entirely sold on it conceptually. Pressing Command-tick cycles through multiple windows within a single app.Īdd to that the introduction of the iPad’s newest interface element, the Shelf, a visual representation of an app’s currently open windows. On iPadOS 15, pressing Globe-tick will move focus among different visible apps when in Split View and Slide Over, so you can choose which app will receive keyboard input.
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This is the Mac’s “cycle through windows” keyboard shortcut that became a part of my muscle memory in the early days of Mac OS X, and I still use it all the time.
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