Other than Liquid Glass, there are hardly any groundbreaking improvements in Apple’s new working methods for 2025–with one main exception. iPadOS 26 will dramatically change the way in which we work together with our tablets and produce the iPad nearer to the Mac’s degree of multitasking. This fall, amongst different helpful upgrades, the iPad will get a window mode like on the Mac, and (lastly!) an actual pointer as an alternative of a morphing blob if you join a mouse.
As of the third developer beta of iPadOS 26, which was launched earlier this week, one other macOS operate has crept on to the iPad. In the event you lose sight of your cursor on the Mac, you may shake the mouse or transfer your finger shortly backwards and forwards so the pointer briefly grows to many occasions its unique dimension, and you may spot it. Apple is now porting this operate to the iPad.
Certain, it’s not an earth-shattering innovation, but it surely’s nonetheless good to have. It’s a enjoyable and genuinely helpful function.
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Though the brand new mouse pointer in iPadOS appears to be like completely different from the one in macOS–gray, clear, and simply an arrowhead with out a shaft–it really works in the identical approach. And it’s all wanting good for the iPad in 2025.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macwelt and was translated and localized from German.
