Fixing Stage Manager shouldnt be too hard at this point.
With Apples recent focus on catching up to its rivals regarding AI, no wonder it neglected Stage Manager.
Id gladly use my iPad full-time if only Apple made these three simple fixes to Stage Manager.
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Stage Manager limits me to four apps at once in a single window that Apple calls a stage.
This made sense when Stage Manager debuted in 2022, as earlier iPads had constrained RAM.
Fast-forward to today, however, and Stage Manager suffers from the same restrictions despite improved hardware.
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I use about a dozen apps on my iPad on any given day.
I dont want to juggle between multiple workspaces like an animal.
Instead, let me easily run at least eight apps in one window and drag-and-drop between them.
While multitasking, I check my widgets from time to time.
So why complicate my existence by forcing me to choose between Stage Manager and my Home Screen widgets?
But switching between Stage Manager apps is still a chore, especially with multiple overlapping windows.
Selecting something thats not in the foreground shouldnt be this clunky.
Mixing thumbnails of recent apps and Stage Manager workspaces in the app switcher doesnt help either.
But I know what would: porting the Macs App Expose feature to iPadOS.
The popularity of the 15-inch MacBook Air is proof that the mainstream consumer loves this size of machine.
That includes the Mac.
Unlike others, Im not asking to run a macOS fork on my iPad.
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Give me computer-level multitasking within iPadOS instead.
