This year, all iPad owners are waiting for a significant update to iPadOS: they improved it and added a windowed mode. Accurate, not everyone can use the well-known Stage Manager – only owners of the iPad Pro with M1, which have more than 64 GB of internal memory.
However, the debate around this feature has not died down to this day: fans are demanding that Apple create a simplified version of this feature so that it is available on other iPads, and the developers themselves have left a loophole in the system that allows the windowed mode to be enabled.
How to use Stage Manager on iPad?
However, let’s see how to activate and use Stage Manager on an iPad.
Stage Manager is one of the most anticipated features on iPadOS so let us learn how to use stage manager on iPad.
Configure Stage Manager on iPad
This feature is not enabled by default in iPadOS 16, so you must enable it manually. This can be done in several ways: the first is through the settings.
Stage Manager can be activated in settings.
- Go to Settings on the iPad.
- Tap Home screen & multitasking.
- Click on “Use Stage Manager on iPad.”
In iPadOS 16, Stage Manager organizes the applications as a strip on the left side of the screen, so you always have quick access to it. When you hide these “recent apps” or the Dock, they expand to fill the entire tablet screen, becoming more extensive. It’s an extraordinary decision because the apps you used before are also in the Dock. To do this, you can disable one of the options in the settings.
You can also long press to customize the Stage Manager view
- In the Stage Manager settings, uncheck the “Recent apps” box on the left.
- Uncheck the Dock box to keep only recent Stage Manager apps.
It is essential to know that the number of application groups in the Stage Manager on the left is fixed due to the RAM of the iPad, so there cannot be more than 5-6.
How to activate the scene manager?
You can activate Stage Manager directly from Control Center
You can also enable the new multi-window feature using Control Center: like most other program shortcuts, Stage Manager is already added there by default. This dramatically simplifies the launch of the function.
- Swipe up Control Center from the top right corner of the screen.
- Click on the Stage Manager icon with a rectangle and three dots.
- It is also possible to interact with the button by long pressing. Tap, and you will see that you can enable or disable the Dock or recent apps. After that, you will see the four most used apps on the left side of the screen.
Disable multi-window on iPad. You can tap the Stage Manager icon through settings or the control center.
How to Open Two Windows on iPad?
One of the keys Manager tokens is to let you open apps in Windows and resize them to fit the screen. So you no longer have to use gestures or open apps from the Dock. Here’s how you can change window size on your iPad.
Just drag the corner of the window with this icon to change the size
- With the app window open, press and hold the black brace-shaped indicator in the bottom-right corner of the app.
- Gently drag it to enlarge the window with your finger or the mouse cursor.
As you can see, multi-windowing on the iPad differs from Windows, where you can drag any edge or corner of a window to resize it. In iPadOS, apps offer either the lower right corner or, the lower left corner.
How to close windows on iPad?
Grouping apps on iPad just got easier.
Chances are you are using multiple apps simultaneously on your iPad. This is all possible thanks to the grouping of programs in the Stage Manager. How to do?
- Open the first app you want to bundle.
- Then drag the second app from the Recent Apps column on the left or the Dock at the bottom to the Home screen.
This way, you can bundle more than two apps. But if you no longer need them and want to remove them from there, that can also be done with just a few clicks.
With one click, you can remove apps from the group
- Click on the app you want to unlink.
- Click on the three horizontal dots at the top of the window.
- Click “Minimize” to remove the app from the group.
Remember that an iPadOS 16 tablet with Stage Manager can be used with an external display of up to 6K resolution. All functions will be kept: on the two screens, you can view several applications and drag them or files between screen.
As a reminder, Stage Manager will work on the 2023 iPad Air and iPad Pro M1, so 2020 and 2021 models won’t be able to run this feature yet.
