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iPadOS 19: Four New Features Being Announced Next Month

 

WWDC is only a few weeks away, and Apple has a lot of big announcements coming. Here are four new iPadOS 19 features rumored to be unveiled next month.

 

#1: Menu Bar

 

iPadOS 19: Four New Features Being Announced Next Month

 

Many iPad users have long wished iPadOS would offer more Mac-like productivity tools. And it sounds like iPadOS 19 might be Apple’s answer.

 

iPadOS 19’s menu bar is expected to look and work fairly similarly to the Mac version. Though as Apple has done with other Mac-to-iPad feature ports, there will undoubtedly be a fresh twist.

 

Bu says the menu bar will appear on-screen automatically when a Magic Keyboard is connected, but we suspect it will be available to touch-only users too.

 

#2: Stage Manager 2.0

 

iPadOS 19: Four New Features Being Announced Next Month

 

Multitasking is reportedly another big focus of iPadOS 19.

 

Apple’s last big iPad multitasking change was Stage Manager, which some users appreciate for its power, while others (like myself) have never taken to the feature.

 

iPadOS 19 will reportedly bring ‘Stage Manager 2.0,’ a revamped version of the multitasking interface.

 

Details are scarce, but here’s hoping Apple has cracked iPad multitasking this time around.

 

#3: Siri’s AI upgrades

 

iPadOS 19: Four New Features Being Announced Next Month

 

Alongside iOS 19, iPadOS 19 is expected to bring Siri some long-delayed upgrades.

 

New Siri features include:

  • hundreds of new actions in and across apps
  • onscreen awareness
  • intelligence tailored to your personal context

 

Originally, these enhancements were set for iPadOS 18, but Apple chose to delay them when they reportedly proved unreliable internally.

 

#4: New design

 

iPadOS 19: Four New Features Being Announced Next Month

 

One major theme for nearly all of Apple’s software platforms this year is that they’re getting redesigned in big and small ways.

 

iPadOS 19 is expected to benefit from design changes that focus on consistency, usability, and a visionOS-style “glass effect” for system elements.

 

If it proves anything like the early iOS 19 redesign leaks, iPadOS 19 should feel fresh yet still familiar for longtime iPad users.

 

iPadOS 19 new features: wrap-up

 

The iPad didn’t get many platform-exclusive features last year in iPadOS 18. The year before was a little on the light end too. So it’s been a full three years since major iPad productivity features shipped.

 

As a longtime iPad Pro user, I hope iPadOS 19’s upgrades can truly deliver, otherwise there may be another round of calls for Apple to simply enable macOS on the iPad.

 

Source: 9to5mac

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