iPadOS 16 will let you resize windows on the iPad

Apple has already confirmed key note WWDC 2022 this June. For this reason, it’s time to start preparing for the news that iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 have to offer. As the date approaches, rumors and leaks about what we might find are normal and that’s the case we’re bringing you today. According to a new report, iPads will get resizable windows for apps with iPadOS 16.

Steve Troughton-Smith was the first to realize this. Steve, who works as an application developer, found in the WebKit code published on GitHub the first signs that iPadOS 16 will let you resize windows on the iPad. “WebKit has just added a framework for ‘multitasking’ to iOS, which is very similar to the system for freely resizing windows,” says Troughton-Smith on his Twitter account. Twitter.

Additionally, Smith has detailed this new multitasking format as something similar to “Tablet Mode” in Windows 10. Thus, you can enter and exit it by activating the necessary functions. In fact, a few weeks ago we saw Apple’s patent on their iPad, in which, when a dedicated keyboard was attached, iPadOS would enter a kind of “desktop mode” with windows.

It seems that “multitasking mode” is something you can change at runtime to allow applications to go in and out of it. I’m envisioning something similar to “tablet mode” in Windows 10 that can be toggled at any time to change the user interface to touch or mouse and keyboard.

Steve Troughton-Smith of Twitter

iPadOS 16 could be the most revolutionary update yet

If true iPadOS 16 may be the most revolutionary version of the operating system. After all, Apple has been trying to sell us the iPad as a computer for years now, but without its features. A classic windowed multitasking system would be a great first step in the right direction.

In fact, in Apple’s patent for the alleged iPad keyboard, we see what the windowed version of iPadOS 16 will look like. In the image, Apple has introduced a system with a top bar, like in macOS. In addition, we have the classic status indicators such as battery level, Wi-Fi and others.

If they really go in that direction with the iPad, it will allow for completely new form factors for iPadOS. Larger iPads, iPadOS laptops and desktops, external monitors, and more. You can see Catalyst-optimized apps light up in iPad’s new multitasking experience: the full “desktop.”

Steve Troughton-Smith of Twitter

In one of the replies, one of Steve’s followers asks if this has anything to do with the current split screen system on the iPad. To this, the developer replied that “it doesn’t look like”; to all indications are that iPadOS 16 will arrive with the same windows as macOS. or Windows.

Of course, Please note that this information is not official.. Apple hasn’t confirmed anything, and until we see iPadOS 16 unveiled during WWDC 2022, we won’t know how true that will be. Of course, if this is the case, we may be facing the most innovative version of the system in a long time.