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As expected, Apple announced the latest version of iPados to its WWDC Keynote Monday, bringing with him a series of new fascinating features for the popular tablet. Like iOS for iPhones, iPados will obtain A bump in version n ° 26 As Apple brings more consistency to its OS range, including Watchos, Tvos and Visionos. It is a cosmetic change like that We saw Samsung in 2020 To align your smartphones over the years they have been released.
Last year, we saw spectacular changes in IPados 18And that makes this year’s software update A little less visually interesting In comparison, but there is enough new here to passionate. Last year, iOS 18 and IPados 18 I felt like one of the biggest visual revisions that Apple had made for one or the other operating system for some time, by introducing new ways for users of Personalize their experience at homewith the first Characteristics of Apple Intelligence – many of which will finally make their debut in this last update.
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The largest announcement of iPados 26 is perhaps the updated window system that will run your multitasking game at 11. Apphe Bluring The lines between ESS Exhibition systems with the latest iPad update. All fear that he could have reduced the iPad in Mac sales seems to have disappeared, because the iPados make the two feel more similar than ever.
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Let’s go directly to it. Apple’s approach to the iPad and iPhone operating systems focuses on refining what was introduced in the update from last year while adding new features that give the impression that they play catch -up.
Liquid glass
Apple has announced a new inteface design called Liquid glass which cover all its operating systems. As its name suggests, a glass look will be in several parts of the user interface, including a new “All Clear” mode which looks smooth and can be applied to all your home screen icons. The new design is inspired by visionos on the vision pro helmet, adding a new futuristic atmosphere to your iPad.
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A multitasking revision
The multitasking redesign of iPados 26 makes the magic keyboard accessory required.
While Apple qualified the largest update iPados 26 of its tablet operating system never during its speech, the new window system for multitasking could be the greatest functionality in the minds of most people.
iPados 26 has introduced a new way to resize your applications in floating windows so that you can have several applications in progress at the same time and control exactly where you place them. The window tiles will allow users to reorganize the windows with a minimum of effort. In addition, the new window system works with the stage manager and external screens in case you need more space to work.
Another feature that iPados borrows from the Mac is the exhibition, allowing you to obtain a quick view of all open windows – demo using the Ipad magical keyboard accessory. Typically expensive, the keyboard seems almost necessary to fully use the new features of iPados.
The demos during the coverage gave iPados a macOS quality, and if it works as it should, your productivity on an iPad is about to improve considerably.
The best news is that the new multitasking modes of windows will work on all current iPads, even basic. How it works on smaller screens like mini, well, we will know.
A new menu bar for applications
The iPad slowly becomes the mac with touch screen that you have always wanted.
Apple pushes iPados in the territory of MacOS with the new way of multitasser, and that did not stop there. The iPados will also get a whole new menu bar that will provide parameters or application functionalities, and developers will be able to adjust what is shown in the menu.
To access the menu bar, you can slide at the top of the screen and, if you use a mouse, you can bring your cursor at the top.
A new file application which is also of the mac type
Mac feelings continue in a redesigned file application which now adds folders and a layout that is even more like the navigation of macOS files. The additional list arrangements and the flexible way of the application can be used to drag files in the home station below give this a really mac type atmosphere and should, hopefully, the work with files is more natural. The folders can also open to display the inside content, and you can even choose default applications to open files.
Best audio selection tools
For all those who are podcasts or flows from an iPad, added audio selection input checks also seem to help. Additional hook-ins should allow accessories to connect more easily.
Overview, just like Mac
An overview application arrives, and it looks like an overview of the Mac. It supports pencil annotations, but it should also be a more useful way to manage files. Currently, the search for images and documents is a more embarrassing process executed via the Files application; The preview division should allow better multitasking.
New features fed by Apple Intelligence
Although some of the new features of Apple Intelligence announced during WWDC were not specific to the iPad, there was enough to justify a mention in what happens to the supported devices. Here are some protruding facts.
Live translation Delivered on the phone, FaceTime and messages for iPad, allowing automatic translation in your default language. For facetime calls, legends will be displayed in your language, and for messages, automatic translation will always work even if the person you send SMS does not use an iPhone. And when you are on a standard telephone call, the translated voice will be spoken aloud.
Genmoji updates will now allow you to become more specific with your request, allowing you to modify the expressions, accessories or the length of the hair. And in Image Playground, you can now draw on chatgpt image styles. The example presented on stage represented someone to transform a contact photo into oil painting. And Image Playground now plunges more deep into the chatgpt, which allows him to send the description and image of a user to create something more specific.
Shortcots receives new intelligent actions that allow you to summarize text with writing tools and create images in Image Playground. A useful example of one of these actions was a student building a shortcut that used Apple Intelligence models to compare an audio transcription of a class conference and compare it to the notes they have taken themselves.
New applications and upcoming communication features and features
Many are transmitted from the iPhone to the iPad this year – even more than usual. It is not surprising that the messages app on the iPad also get the personalized background It has just been announced, but it also gets some new applications.
With iPados 26, the iPad will obtain the Journal Application To write daily thoughts via the Apple pencil or the keyboard. And like iOS, iPad will also receive the brand new Apple Games App. This will present a game superposition, so you can easily see events and updates, modify the settings or invite friends to play with you. The iPad will also obtain Apple’s telephone application, including its New maintenance and call screening features.
Reed
Perhaps the new, the least interesting, but nevertheless welcome, feature, announced in iPados in the addition of a new Reed pen which uses presets at racing angle. You can use the new pen in notes, preview, free form, newspaper and any third -party application that uses Apple Curyrekit Api Cur.
New accessibility features
Announced last month as part of a larger accessibility ad, iPad users with visual disabilities can impatiently await new useful features, such as the accessibility player and access to Braille.
The accessibility reader is a new system for system scale aimed at making text easier to read for low vision users and people with dyslexia. You can customize text to your liking and can be used in any application, with a real world text.
Braille Access will allow you to use your iPad to take notes in Braille. Using a Braille screen input or a connected braille keyboard, you can launch applications, take notes and even do calculations with Nemeth Braille. You can also open Braille Ready format files to access the files created with a Braille note intake device.
IPad models compatible with iPados 26
If you are wondering if your iPad will get iPados 26, these are the supported models:
- iPad Pro (M4)
- Ipad pro 12.9 inches (3rd Genn and later)
- iPad pro 11 inch (1st generation and later)
- iPad Air (M2 and later)
- iPad Air (3rd generation and later)
- iPad (A16)
- iPad (8th generation and later)
- iPad Mini (A17 Pro)
- iPad Mini (5th generation and later)
Keep in mind that the management of iPados 26 does not correspond Management of Apple Intelligence.
When can you try iPados 26?
For most of us, this version of iPados will not arrive before iPhone 17 Hits Shelves – Something we plan to happen in September. However, Apple has both a beta version of the developer and, later, a more user -friendly beta version for those who wish to test the latest Apple features with more reliability. Although the beta developer can already be installed now, you will have to wait until July before the public version arrived.
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