14 iPad Features That iPhone Still Doesn’t Have

Earlier iPhone And ipad worked on one system of the system iOS. Then the developers divided the operating systems and began actively adding unique features to each of them. During this time, almost a dozen and a half options have accumulated that are available on the iPad, but are still not adapted to the iPhone screen.

We have collected the most interesting and useful features.

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• ▶ 1. Split screen – two applications on the screen at the same time.
  ▶ 2. Slide Over – one application over another
  ▶ 3. Director (director) for work on the big screen.
  ▶ 4. Multiple copies of one application
  ▶ 5. Hard, masterfully and with five fingers.
  ▶ 6. Customizable swipes at screen angles.
  ▶ 7. Floating keyboard
  ▶ 8. The central scene during FaceTime calls
  ▶ 9. Desktop version of the site in Safari
  ▶ 10. Apple Pencil Support
  ▶ 11. Landscape Interface on iPhone
  ▶ 12. Support universal control
  ▶ 13. Smart Folio Case with Magnets
  ▶ 14. Application Library in the Dock

1. Split screen – applications on two screens at the same time.

This feature has long appeared on the iPad and allows you to place two applications on the tablet screen. Programs can occupy the screen at dawn or divide it with success approximately 60/40. In portrait orientation, the option is not very convenient, but in landscape – quite applicable.

It will come in handy when you need to write and watch something at the same time, read or compare on two sites or in two documents. The iPhone screen diagonal is gradually increasing, and in the Plus/Max models such a division of space could be added.

Split Screen could become an exclusive feature of larger iPhones.

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2. Slide Over – one layer of the surface of another

Another option for multitasking on iPad, which allows you to keep one app in full-screen mode and take out and hide the second one behind the side edge. For example, it is convenient to use a calculator, dictionary or translator.

On iPhone you constantly have to switch between programs, even if one of them needs a few seconds. It would be possible to add an algorithm mode for some standard programs: Phone, Messages, Calculator, Translator, Clock.

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3. Director (director) for work on the big screen.

A bit of a strange mode, many tasks Director iPadOS 16 and still can’t reach its potential on tablets. The idea is to get additional workspace with a windowed mode in the style of the emitter’s desktop system when connecting the device to a monitor.

The iPad uses a trick. Either a tablet is suitable for a person to work in a normal mode, or he does not do nonsense and buys a Mac.

With the iPhone, the situation would be different. To get a similar window device when connecting the smartphone to monitors, which many wanted. A kind of spare working device that is always in your pocket.

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4. Multiple copies of one application

This option is sometimes very useful on the iPad. For example, if you want to launch two browser windows and lock them in split-screen mode, or simply open two duplicates of the same app and do different tasks with them.

There are no barriers to implementing such a possibility on iPhone. But for some reason, developers do not want to add this interesting option to iOS.

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5. Hard work and five fingers.

On the iPad, many actions can be learned using gestures. So that they don’t accidentally notice with swipes in applications, for gestures for actions of 4 or 5 fingers. It is very quick to get used to it and use them to switch between programs, rotate applications or go to the multi-task panel.

You might say that 4- or 5-finger gestures are impossible on the iPhone, but Apple has at least 3-finger gestures for cutting, copying, and pasting. They could have added a couple more 4-finger gestures to move between recent apps.

By the way, remember a handy gesture that brings up a lot of tasks that appeared from time to time. iPhone 6and then over time they abandoned it?

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6. Customizable swipes on the corner of the screen.

Now this is a really handy feature that is missing on the iPhone with its large screen. I would love to build something like this on a smartphone.

For example, to avoid reaching for the top screen to call up the control center or remote control, you could move their boundaries out from the rotation angle.

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7. Floating keyboard

The virtual keys on the iPhone take up about 30% of the screen and are always located at the bottom of the display.

Sometimes you want to move buttons to the right or left, and sometimes you want to completely unpin them from their usual position so that they don’t take up space and can be moved around the screen. The iPad has had this feature for a long time.

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8. Center Stage during FaceTime calls

This software feature is already available on all current iPad tablets. During a call via the front camera, the system takes a picture and keeps an observer of the user when he moves within the outer sensor.

It would be possible to transfer the option to the iPhone for more dynamic communication.

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9. Desktop version of the site in Safari

The iPad has long requested desktop versions of sites in the browser by default. This is convenient, except for cases when web developers intentionally push a mobile site under the additional screen of the tablet.

On iPhone, you can request a website’s desktop from the browser menu, but only if the device doesn’t have the corresponding app. Otherwise, Safari will immediately redirect you to it.

Sometimes you really need to open the web version of YouTube, your iCloud calendar, or your banking client in your browser without having to go to the app.

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10. Apple Pencil support.

Apple loves to segment products. The developers deliberately do not allow you to set up Apple Watch on iPad and use Apple Pencil on iPhone, in vain.

Many mobile users would be happy to get a compact artistic device for sketching and drawing, and the Apple Pencil that is sold could be a little bigger.

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11. Landscape interface on iPhone

I remember how the iPhone 7 Plus had a landscape home screen, it was added to many standard and external applications. It was possible to switch to some program while watching a video without turning the iPhone.

It’s strange, but with iOS updates the feature was removed, leaving only horizontal orientation within applications.

Here you can also turn on and turn the screen 180 degrees. You can do this on the iPad, but not on the iPhone. And so if you grab the smartphone upside down at night – proven messengers and go to bed without any stupid twisting and interception of the gadget.

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12. Support universal control

An interesting option has been working in conjunction with Mac and iPad for several years now. This is Universal Control. While working on a Mac, you can move the cursor mouse to a nearby iPad, adjust the necessary actions and return it back to the Mac.

Unfortunately, you can’t do that with iPhone. The feature partially replaces iPhone Mirroring from macOS Sequoia.

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13. Smart Folio case with magnets.

Some users like flip cases for iPhone. Lock and unlock the screen manually.

Apple has long since come up with a system of magnets that turns on the iPad screen when you open the case and turns it off when you close it.

On iPhone, this option would clearly not be superfluous.

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14. Application Library in the Dock

On iPad, you can quickly access ready-made applications directly from the Dock. This is convenient when you have many desktops set up and it is tiresome to scroll through the last one every time.

In iOS 18 this happens more often to access hidden apps and games and the library icon in the dock which might solve the problem.

Write in the comments what iPad features you miss on your iPhone!

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