> THE SHIFT
MATT BOLTON thinks that Stage Manager on iPad needs (a lot) more work, but it makes him imagine a smarter, adaptive future
WITH THE ARRIVAL of iPadOS 16, I’ve been playing with Stage Manager. Sadly, “playing” is the right word there; not “working with” or even just “using”. I suppose you could go with “investigating”, since a big part of your early time with Stage Manager tends to be figuring out its quirks. It has intentional behaviors I find counter–intuitive, seemingly unintended behaviors that get in the way of how the iPad is supposed to work, and stability problems that just rule it out of contention for now.