{"id":47641,"date":"2025-05-07T14:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47641"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:34:51","slug":"ios-19-more-like-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/07\/ios-19-more-like-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 19 More Like macOS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/13\/ipados-19-more-like-macos\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/13\/ipados-19-more-like-macos\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-04-13\/apple-vision-pro-2-details-low-latency-headset-ar-glasses-ipados-19-details-m9flf1fd\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em>&rsquo;s Mark Gurman today said<\/a> that iPadOS 19 will be &ldquo;more like macOS.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Gurman said that iPadOS 19 will be &ldquo;more like a Mac&rdquo; in three ways:<\/p><ul><li>Improved productivity<\/li><li>Improved multitasking<\/li><li>Improved app window management<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previous discussion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/13\/rumored-redesign-in-ios-19-and-macos-16\/\">rumored redesign<\/a> had focused on fears of macOS becoming more like iOS or iOS becoming more like visionOS, but this sounds more promising.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/04\/is-ipados-19-getting-more-mac-like\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/04\/is-ipados-19-getting-more-mac-like\/\">\n<p>This report is intriguing, but frustratingly vague. Apple wanting to tinker with iPad multitasking and app window management is dog-bites-man stuff at this point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2025\/04\/ipados-19-rumored-to-bring-yet-more-window-dressing\/\">Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/512pixels.net\/2025\/04\/ipados-19-rumored-to-bring-yet-more-window-dressing\/\"><p>That certainly sounds like what our anonymous commenter was describing, and while it would be great for the iPad to gain a more Mac-like windowing system, I don&rsquo;t think the people who want macOS on their iPads will look at iPadOS 19 and be truly satisfied.<\/p><p>Window management doesn&rsquo;t address the core issue that has haunted the iPad since the beginning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/24\/ipados-19-mac-like-menu-bar-rumor\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/24\/ipados-19-mac-like-menu-bar-rumor\/\">\n<p>When an iPad running iPadOS 19 is connected to a Magic Keyboard, a macOS-like menu bar will appear on the screen, <a href=\"https:\/\/majinbuofficial.com\/ipados-19-and-ios-19-new-features\/\">according to the leaker Majin Bu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>That makes sense.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/24\/ios-19-iphone-stage-manager-rumor\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/04\/24\/ios-19-iphone-stage-manager-rumor\/\">\n<p>A leaker known as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/majinbuofficial\">Majin Bu<\/a> today claimed that iOS 19 will enable support for at least a limited version of Stage Manager on iPhone models with a USB-C port.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/04\/21\/ios-19-will-make-a-design-change-thats-perfect-for-large-iphones-per-leak\/\">Ryan Christoffel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/04\/21\/ios-19-will-make-a-design-change-thats-perfect-for-large-iphones-per-leak\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/04\/08\/ios-19-design-leak-shows-apple-may-have-found-a-winning-formula\/\">According to Jon Prosser<\/a>, there&rsquo;s a change coming that will impact users of large iPhones especially.<\/p><p>iOS 19 will reportedly <strong><em>move apps&rsquo; search bar to the bottom of the app<\/em><\/strong>&mdash;a big change from its current location.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/13\/rumored-redesign-in-ios-19-and-macos-16\/\">Rumored Redesign in iOS 19 and macOS 16<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/gemmell-is-back-to-mac\/\">Gemmell Is Back to Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/28\/ipad-at-15\/\">iPad at 15<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/the-state-of-ipados-in-2024\/\">The State of iPadOS in 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-19-more-like-macos-update-2025-05-08\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-19-more-like-macos-update-2025-05-08\">2025-05-08<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/04\/25\/ipados-19-menu-bar\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2025\/04\/25\/ipados-19-menu-bar\">\n<p>One of the reasons why Apple&rsquo;s own apps are always better&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;and more capable&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;on MacOS than on iOS or iPad is that they&rsquo;ve got more commands, better organized, because there&rsquo;s a menu bar. Apple Notes, Apple Mail, the whole iWork suite&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;they&rsquo;re all better on Mac, and they all have way more features on the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Reading a menu is also far more humane than scrutinizing icons.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I know iPadOS today already supports a menu-bar-like HUD thing when you have a keyboard attached and hold down the Command key. I find that to be far less usable and far more distracting than a Mac-style menu bar. There&rsquo;s a reason the Mac only shows you one menu at a time. Focus.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Why shouldn&rsquo;t users be able to access all menu commands when they&rsquo;re just using the iPad via touch? It&rsquo;s unnecessarily restrictive that the full list of commands in an app is only available when a keyboard is attached&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;especially for a device that many users never attach a keyboard to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Bloomberg&rsquo;s Mark Gurman today said that iPadOS 19 will be &ldquo;more like macOS.&rdquo;Gurman said that iPadOS 19 will be &ldquo;more like a Mac&rdquo; in three ways:Improved productivityImproved multitaskingImproved app window management Previous discussion of the rumored redesign had focused on fears of macOS becoming more like iOS or iOS becoming more like visionOS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-05-07T18:17:44Z","apple_news_api_id":"92bd9cbf-6f82-45ca-8931-8ea11deaf808","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-05-08T14:34:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Akr2cv2-CRcqJMY6hHer4CA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2741,772,1814,2763,1940,2473,2224],"class_list":["post-47641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-ios-multitasking","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-26","tag-magic-keyboard-for-ipad","tag-rumor","tag-stage-manager"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47651,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641\/revisions\/47651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}