{"id":37237,"date":"2022-10-06T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37237"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T15:35:40","slug":"stage-manager-in-ios-16-1-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/stage-manager-in-ios-16-1-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage Manager in iOS 16.1 Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In the latest iPadOS 16 beta<\/a> seeded earlier this week, developer Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a> and MacStories<\/em> editor-in-chief Federico Viticci<\/a> highlighted various user interface issues they continue to face from time to time while using Stage Manager, including the dock disappearing when rotating the iPad, content failing to scale properly when a window is resized, keyboard input failing to register in certain apps, and more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Today’s iPadOS beta: still able to bring down SpringBoard in the first 5 minutes<\/p>\n

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No joke, if Stage Manager ships the way it is in this build, it will break iPadOS. I only put a fraction of the stuff I come across on Twitter, but so many little things across the OS and system apps break in weird ways.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I understand that some folks think “this is good enough” for them. If so, great.<\/p>

Personally, if I open an app and can’t type, or use keyboard shortcuts, or can’t click into a text field, that’s a problem that prevents me from working with my iPad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When I try to use Stage Manager on my iPad Pro, I almost end up with a single configuration: two windows, more or less equally sized, next to each other. I end up so frustrated with Stage Manager that I essentially re-create Split View!<\/p>\n

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I’m troubled by the fact that Apple doesn’t seem to have a real vision for Stage Manager–or, if what we have right now is its vision, that it’s decided on some weird halfway step.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I don’t understand why I can create a much more complex\/powerful app w\/ UIKit on macOS than I can on iPadOS. They built all the APIs, means to make this stuff great — then utilized none of them for Stage Manager. It’s not that they haven’t done the work — they chose to ignore it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Damien Petrilli<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Stage Manager requires more power than a real windowing system like on desktop OSes, is ultra limited, unstable and with confusing \/ bad UX.<\/p>\n

It’s a disaster engineering and design wise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n