What's New in iPadOS 14
It was a strange keynote. Thanks to the coronavirus lockdown, there were no crowds filling Apple’s Steve Jobs Theatre as Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and the rest of the Apple crew introduced new operating systems for the iPad, iPhone, Mac and more. Instead, we had an online-only Worldwide Developers’ Conference presentation.
The absence of crowds clapping, cheering and shouting ‘Woooo!’ every time a new feature was announced didn’t detract from the excellence of the new software. iPadOS 14 really is feature-packed and has a great new design that’s far less intrusive than before. It’s free too, and it runs on every iPad that can run last year’s initial iPadOS release. But if it’s only the second release of iPadOS, why is it called iPadOS 14? Before iPadOS, the iPad ran iOS, just like the iPhone. Last year, iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad was succeeded by iOS 13 for the iPhone and iPadOS for the iPad. The tablet got its own platform, a split
