INTRODUCING THE BEST FEATURES OF iPadOS

THE NEXT STEP FOR TABLET PRODUCTIVITY

“You may notice there’s been one thing missing from the iOS 13 story,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, told the audience at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2019 after enthusing about the various features of the new iPhone operating system, “and that’s iPad.” There’s a simple reason for that: this year, the iPad has been given its own dedicated OS called iPadOS, reflecting the “truly distinct” experience of using the tablet.

In a later , Federighi provided some further color on Apple’s rationale for introducing iPadOS. The executive explained that over the years, the iPad has “become something really distinct from the phone”. He clarified that iPad-specific features such as the multitasking functionality of Drag and Drop, Split View and Slide Over, as well as the Apple Pencil, “are things that really define a different way of working with the device.”