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I think AirTags have been the single best anti crime invention this century!

charlesn said:

To a degree, Apple is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't. While I have sympathy for developers whose businesses get upended when Apple Sherlocks their app's functionality into the OS, surely no developer could be unaware--24 years after Sherlock--that this is always a risk. But the apps keep coming, so I assume that developers have made their peace with this possibility. 

Apple, unfortunately, will get criticized either way. When it Sherlocks apps into the OS, it's accused of being the 800 pound gorilla stomping on small businesses. And if Apple leaves it to consumers to either purchase or pay ongoing subscription fees (mostly the latter these days) for third party apps to provide these functionalities, then Apple's various OSes get criticized for being "behind" in features.   

Exactly. 

This is an awesome (if a bit overdue) addition to iPadOS. Preview on MacOS is an incredibly simple yet useful tool and was frequently one of the main reasons I had to use my Mac instead of my iPad. I doubt the more limited set of exports commented on in the article will be an issue for the majority of users and there exist dedicated apps for those who need the functionality. For most, Preview will more than fit the bill.

Does anyone know if the iPad version allows adding, deleting and reordering pages like the Mac version does?

StrangeDays said:

sflagel said:

The iPad should not be “as powerful as the Mac”; it should have been a different computing experience.  Now we even have menu items, towel thrown. 

Instead of a natural human experience using fingers, eyes, voice, and a pen, we have a substandard Mac with a detachable screen that you can scribble on. 

The “iPad experience” needed a lot more work annd imagination, and it would have turned into a useful magical third device. 

Nah there’s nothing inherently wrong about lists of actions (a menu). Without such a thing apps could never be more than simple affairs. I don’t imagine menus on iPad will be unwieldy 

it really depends on the implementation but I agree - one can only develop apps so far without some sort of menu structure.

ihatescreennames said:

I’m curious, do signatures that were created on a Mac sync over to the iPad? If not, is there a similar “write your signature on a blank sheet of paper and hold it in front of the camera” way to get signatures into iPad Preview?

Why not just write on the screen? The iPad touchscreen is built for this kind of input/interaction.

TomPMRI said:

twolf2919 said:

leeroy said:

twolf2919 said:

I've been using iOS and macOS 26 for a bit over a day now and my first impression was: "Is it me or is this much faster than iOS 18?"  I know it's weird, since this new version is supposed to be more hardware intensive, but everything just seems faster than they were before the install - both iOS and macOS.

Yeah it does seem much faster... at first straight after the install it was very slow and clunky and almost unusable so was worried... then rebooted again and it got better, (not amazing but usable), then a day later it's now really smooth and responsive/snappy and feels better than iOS18. And this is on iPhone 12 Pro Max. 

For me both were faster right after the install, not a day later.  I've seen the 'day later improvement' on other iOS upgrades, and this wasn't it.  I have a recent phone (16  Pro Max), but my MBP is 4 years old.  But both are faster than they were.

Form the Apple Insider article, "The software takes advantage of the improved hardware available in Apple's latest A18 and A18 Pro chips, which have the necessary processing power to achieve these glass-like effects."

So, how much of a reduction is there in the battery life per charge due to these two "improvements" (faster software response and glass-like effects)?  Also can the glass-like effects be disabled in Settings?

And how will it run on older hardware?

This article repeatedly conflates interface design and function with appearance. They are, of course, related but they are not the same. 'liquid glass' is the appearance. Virtually all of the design and function changes could have been made with the liquid glass visuals. 

The dock is a great example. Sequoia can be set to automatically hide the dock. Giving you full use of the screen real estate, or show the dock full time. The liquid glass dock in Tahoe seems to be the worst of both worlds - it's less obtrusive but still obscures what's underneath while at the same time removing the colors makes it harder to see and identify specific apps, making it harder to use. The end result is minimal benefit with decreased ease of use.

My first reaction to the menu bar is the same - it doesn't really add any useful screen real estate but the reduced contrast makes it harder to identify the icons.