What is the difference Between Stage Manager and Split View? During the presentation of iPadOS 16, Apple showed a new multitasking mode for tablets equipped with an M1 processor.
Managers became the central feature of the new operating system. With it, you can keep four apps active on the tablet screen in different windows. And four more stacks of four windows each. In total, the tablet can simultaneously switch between twenty different windows.
Using Stage Manager while connected to an external monitor takes iPad multitasking to the next level.
What is the Difference Between Stage Manager and Split View in iPadOS?
A similar mode has been long overdue on tablets, but it won’t be available on all iPads. What to do for users that Stage Manager has bypassed? Let’s see if it can shared view team up with Slide Over to rival iPadOS 16’s new multitasking.
Split View on iPad
Stage Manager is much closer to macOS Multi-Window than Split View.
Split View and Slide Over were introduced in 2015. The first is the opportunity split screen tablet for two active applications. Moreover, such a division can be made in different proportions.
And Slide Over lets you stack multiple apps in a floating window and scroll through them by swiping the bottom edge. Similarly, app switching happens on an iPhone without a home button.
The application in Slide Over completely covers one of the Split View windows. One in three applications becomes immediately unusable.
If you use these two multitasking modes at the same time, then three applications can be displayed on the tablet screen at the same time. At the same time, start the video in picture-in-picture mode, and it turns out that four applications are displayed on the screen.
Exactly the same as in Stage Manager. Moreover, you can add several other programs to Slide Over and switch between them. Thus, you get a good option for multitasking.
The disadvantages of this use include the fact that the system does not arrange open programs in convenient windows that can be freely moved around the screen. And open applications in slide mode, overlay information on split view windows. The screen is quite messy.
Manager on iPad
The screen size of an 11-inch iPad may not be large enough to comfortably use the Stage Manager.
At the same time, the principle of the Stage Manager is that the system itself organizes applications into convenient windows, similar to open programs in macOS. However, this multitasking mode is suitable if you use three or more applications.
In case you only need two programs running at the same time, it is better to use split view, as it lays them out across the full size of the screen, leaving no free space around the perimeter. That is to say, the entire useful area of your tablet’s display is used.
The only mode where using Split View is more appropriate is the option with two programs running.
Stage Manager also has an extended mode of operation. When you connect your tablet to an external monitor, you can show four windows on the iPad screen and on the monitor – four more. Turns out you can keep eight programs active.
At the same time, the Stage Manager remembers not only applications but also open windows.
For example, you can display several different documents in Pages. Interesting: Supports simultaneous use of Stage Manager in conjunction with Split View when connected to an external monitor.
The tablet screen will have two apps in split view and the monitor will have the required number of windows in Stage Manager.
Disadvantages of Stage Manager include the fact that some applications open in small windows. Slide not available, although picture-in-picture and quick note work. It seemed strange that it was not possible to call a quick note without an apple pencil. This may be an issue in the iPadOS 16 betas.
Users’ tablets with M1 processors have at their disposal all the multitasking modes and can select the layout of the applications that suits them. Everything else can only settle for the good old Split view and slide.
As you can see, using these two modes will not replace the Stage Manager, even if it just comes close in terms of the number of applications on the tablet screen.
It all depends on the convenience and logic of working with open windows. Here, with a large number of programs, Stage Manager is out of competition.
I Hope Apple hears from its users and enables this mode on A-series processors at least in a truncated form. But, looking at what resources the iPad uses for Stage Manager, it’s hard to believe.
