Extended Monitor Support and iPad: A New Era for Productivity

As we dive into the world of extended monitor support on iPads, it's clear that Apple has been working hard to bridge the gap between their mobile devices and desktop computers. With the latest update, users can now enjoy a seamless experience of using their iPads as they would with traditional desktops.

One of the key features that sets this new update apart is its stability and performance. As I demonstrated in my video, extended monitor support works flawlessly on the iPad Air M1, M1 iPad Pro, and M2 iPad Pro models. Whether I'm browsing through social media or working on a presentation, the app's functionality remains intact, even when switching between displays.

But what happens when we take it to the next level? How does extended monitor support perform during video conferencing calls? In my live test, I found that the camera defaults to the iPad's internal webcam, despite having an external webcam connected via the monitor. While this might seem like a minor issue, it highlights the seamless integration of this new feature into everyday tasks.

To further explore the capabilities of extended monitor support, I conducted another test involving a Zoom meeting. With the camera app open on the secondary display, I was able to participate in a video conference without any hiccups. When I moved the camera to the upper display, it still worked as expected, showcasing the flexibility and adaptability of this new feature.

For those who may be wondering, extended monitor support is not to be confused with Stage Manager, which will be available on all iPad Pros with the new design, starting from 2018, 2020, M1, and M2 models. While both features aim to enhance productivity, they serve different purposes. Extended monitor support allows for seamless integration of external displays, whereas Stage Manager provides a more traditional desktop-like experience.

As I mentioned earlier, extended monitor support is not available on the 2020 iPad Pro with the A12Z chip, which means it will only be accessible to those using M-series iPads. However, this limitation shouldn't deter users from exploring the capabilities of these devices. For those who have adopted the M-series iPads, they can now enjoy a more extensive range of tasks and applications, making them suitable for everyday use.

For individuals like myself who rely on Microsoft Suite, Slack, iMessage, email, create thumbnails with Affinity Photo, edit videos in Luma Fusion, and play games on Apple Arcade, the iPad has officially become a computer. While there may be specific cases where traditional desktops are still preferred, such as intense Excel users or those working with 3D renders and gaming applications, the M-series iPads have proven themselves to be capable of handling most tasks.

In conclusion, extended monitor support on iPads marks a significant step forward in bridging the gap between mobile devices and desktop computers. With its seamless performance and flexibility, it's clear that Apple has been working hard to create a more comprehensive user experience. Whether you're using an M-series iPad or not, this feature is definitely worth exploring. If you have any questions or thoughts on extended monitor support or Stage Manager, feel free to share them in the comments below.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso the other day I posted a tweet about the iPad finally being a computer now that Apple readded extended monitor support for certain iPads so in this video what I wanted to do is go over that extended monitor support I want to talk about all the good that comes with it because it does really change again what the iPad can be to certain people first we have the iPad Pro then iPad OS finally breaking away from IOS made it a completely different experience then we got the magic keyboard which turned into a twoin one a tablet and a laptop then we got cursor support then stage manager and now finally extended monitor support to finally kind of bring this all together to make the iPad an actual computer replacement and not just a supplemental device for a Macbook computer in your workflow so let's talk about everything you need to know about extended monitor support all the good and some of the bad that comes with that but without further Ado let's get into it okay everyone I want to get right into this video this is going to be a nice walkthrough and explainer video of all the Nuance differences all the new features all the UI differences that come with Stage manager so just to preface everything for stage manager and for specifically extended monitor support you will need an M series powered iPad so that includes the iPad Air M1 that includes the 11 and 12.9 in M1 iPad Pro as well as the M2 iPad Pro in both size variants if you have a 2018 or 2020 iPad Pro you will only be able to use stage manager on device and then when you do plug into an external monitor you will get the classic mirror display still be able to use stage manager it'll just be mirrored with the letter box as we've seen you know for the past 5 6 years with an iPad but let's get started guys so I am using a 27in 4k monitor Apple does recommend to go 4K and I wanted to plug this in real time just to show you guys what it looks like and what the situation is like so you can see that now it's charging you see I get external display that little icon down there that popped up you give it a second to populate the screen and ideally it should come up and there we go we now have the extended monitor running on the actual display we had the iPad running whatever is on the iPad itself and you can see that the only thing that gets brought over to the extended monitor is the actual dock itself everything else stays on the main display so I am using a combination of my mouse right here just to give you guys an idea of what's going on and then it also obviously works with the trackpad itself now in order to get this to work functionally you will need either the actual magic keyboard right here or you need to at least have a Bluetooth connection to a mouse or keyboard in order for this to happen if you are not connected via mouse or keyboard then it's just going to mirror the display even if you do have an M1 or M2 iPad Pro so another thing that I do want to bring up is that for the actual extended monitor right here this will only be in stage manager mode so you cannot have the classic split view so for instance for split view if you open up notes right here you can press the three dots to then go into split view and let's say I want to open up another Notes application then this is the classic split view that you see on the iPad itself this is not possible on the main display so if you go up here here and let's say I want to open up the notes application then it's going to open up the notes that I had on the bottom display and it's going to open them in stage manager view or floating window view on the actual extended monitor so first let's go into the settings and see exactly what kind of settings we're dealing with when it comes to the extended display so we go into display go into your displays down here you do have a couple options down here so you can actually do an arrangement so arrange it however you see fit just like any other one you have some options to go into your built-in Retina Display and then you have some options on the actual display itself depending on what display you're using so this one I have the ability to go HDR or SDR we can display zoom and then always display mode changes so again I do think that using a studio display will probably work the best when working in this extended monitor view but again that's $1600 I do recommend going with 4K because that's what Apple does recommend for scaling and sizing but I'm sure apple is going to be able to accommodate all different shapes and sizes of displays or at least hopefully they will and just know that they do work there just probably be some nuances depending on what display you're using but from a setting standpoint that's all you really get you get to basically change the arrangement and then change whether you have SDR or HDR depending on your display so now that we have that out of the way let's start opening up some apps on the actual extended display so if I click on Twitter you can see that it does take up a lot of the display but you can easily resize it you can change it to again this iPhone mode you can change it into iPad mode or you can even go all the way to full screen if you would like and take up the entire display which is very cool shout out my man Felipe from 9 to5 but you can see that Twitter is taking up the entire display and then I can still go down here and use my display on the actual ual iPad itself and then to make it smaller again all you do is you go into one of the corners and start to resize it now as you can see on the bottom right here the dock actually disappears The Dock does disappear whenever a single application is open but to pull it up you just kind of go to either the right or the left of the display itself pull down and then all of them open up again so if I want to open up Safari if you just click on Safari it's going to move Twitter to the actual app shelf but if you long press and drag it onto there then it will actually open them together so just to show you if I just tap on Safari it moves Twitter over here to the app shelf and then if I go back down here and if I want to grab a new Safari window I just go like this and then it opens it up together so some of the little nuances that you learn as you're using it and then you also have the ability to go to your app shelf grab Twitter and move it into your you know your floating window situation so you can have up to four different windows or applications open depending on what app you're using some apps support multiple instances of the same application obviously something like Safari allows you to just grab this right here move it over and now you have three safari windows open you can see that that's it works intuitively depending on what app you're using and it's very familiar and the more and more that you use it the more your efficiency will gain and the more your flow will pick up on exactly what Apple wants you to do on exactly the apple way of doing multitasking on the iPad and I would say that 99% of apps support this there's some applications which still do not support kind of going full screen which we'll touch on in a little bit you can see that it works extremely well right and every single application when you open it does have these three dots up here and it gives you a couple options so if I click on the three dots you can enter into full screen mode which we've shown you already ready and then from full screen mode you can't actually undo the full screen mode from there you have to go into the corner and resize it so that's one thing to take note of I wish Apple would kind of change that maybe add it into here but if you go back in here you can actually add another window so you can see it asks me what do I want to add do I want to add something from the app shelf that's was there earlier or do I want I grab something like Luma fusion and open it up with Safari so kind of works the same way as it did down here with the split screen but just another option you also have in the three dots you have the ability to minimize it so you literally minimize it and it goes into the app shelf so if I want to bring this back bring it back and then two more that I have is you can move it to the iPad you can see quickly moved it to the iPad or finally you can close it which actually completely deletes that instance of safari it doesn't get rid of all the safaris as you can see we still have a couple over here it just gets rid of that certain instance so now let's talk about some user interface kind of situations right so first off as you guys saw earlier if I do do my multitasking down here the reason it's opening up side by side is because I'm still not in stage manager mode so if I do want to go into Stage manager mode on the actual iPad display all I have to do is click on the stage manager button and then my floating windows also populate down here which allows you to actually now click and drag any window that you have down here I can actually drag it into the main display up top or that extended display which is something that could not be done when it was originally released with iPad OS 16.0 and 16.1 you can see that it does work in that fashion now which is beautiful to see and I can just continue to drag other windows over here which is great some other things to take note of is let's say if you're used to a Mac OS setup or a desktop setup and you have have something with a scroll wheel right so you have a mouse that uses a scroll wheel and use it all the time whenever you hover your mouse over a certain application so here you can see that this is the one that's visible to everybody so the scroll wheel works perfectly fine I'm scrolling up and down but let's say there's an app in the background technically Twitter is in the background I'm not going to click on Twitter but I'm going to scroll on Twitter so you can still scroll on Twitter and passively be able to view things which is great so it's very similar to a desktop experience which I love and then personally one thing that I actually have been using all the time and this is now what I do to edit my videos is so for Fusion which I use on a daily basis to edit these videos I'm now able to have a larger screen so if I grab this and full screen it I now can work with my entire screen I can move this around and customize how big my viewfinder is I can actually look at all the rows that I have on there you know I can look at all my settings go into whatever files I need so I absolutely love that and then if I want to move it to the iPad I can do that as well and you can see it moves to the iPad perfectly and the iPad does have also its own version of the app shelf it has a dock down here which is beautiful to see some other simple things that you know you would think are just by Design there but you always want to test out are can you actually copy and paste stuff and move it around from app to app so let's pull up the notes application right here we'll move it into here we'll start up a new note so let's see if my actual hot Keys work so I'm down here if I want to grab this maybe contrl C go over here can I actually paste it of course I can so if you want to click and drag you can even right click I can copy so I'm using my mouse for everything here you know press enter enter right click paste and then there is the entire Mac article that I was reading before and now I'm pasting it on for some notes that I'm taking for whatever for an essay or whatever the case may be so your hot keys and being able to use a mouse so like I now I highly recommend the ability to use a mouse this one's by Logitech this is Logitech anywhere S2 I'll link it down below if you guys want to check it out it's my favorite Mouse and I've had it for over three maybe even four years now at this point but again it's just cool how the iPad has come such a long way and you can see that you can resize it and it seems like apple has some predetermined sizes for these windows so there is a certain amount of customization where you can resize it to whatever you see fit but you can see that the things move around it as well so there's still a level of inertia very similar to how whenever you move applications on the home screen itself if you move one application on the home screen then everything kind of changes up because it's still staying in its own grid this kind of has the feeling of a more variable grid so you're still kind of following some sort of rule and you'll get used to it as you go along to know you know how big they get and you can see for instance on Twitter right this is a great example right now I consider this the iPhone view of Twitter and if I move it a little bit bigger you get that sidebar which is the view of an iPad application version of Twitter if I go full screen you can see that it still stays in that iPad view so all things to consider when kind of playing around but I do recommend kind of going in and playing around with them and in terms of limitations you get up to four different applications up on the screen at one time so for instance if I wanted to grab something like YouTube drag it into here it'll drag it into here but then it'll kick your farthest used app over to the app shelf so you can see that this Safari window was probably the fifth app that I used so it's going to kick it off to there and it'll continue to do that with every application that you open so let's say I want to open up maps move it over here it's going to kick another one over there so you can have up to four applications working at one time on the main screen and then each shelf can have four applications working as well and I can grab this move it back over here and then it's going to kick something else into that shelf then I can start switching shelves move this over here so I can have multiple instances so let's say there's like a group of four applications that I use together for let's say creative task another four applications for productivity to communicate with my team another four for leisure and I can just group those all together and have access to them ready to go so another quick thing that I do want to show off is exactly how multitasking works with all this so normally multitasking let's go onto the iPad screen now you know hold three fingers and go up you can see that multitasking still kind of works the same but the multitasking is a little bit broken in a good way in terms of like multitasking now refers to multitasking on the iPad and then multitasking on the secondary display so if I use those same three fingers and scroll up for multitasking you can see that now I'm multitasking not only with the application but also with the different instances of the shelves and to quit out of them is the same way you can quit out of each one individually so if you can see if I hover over each one they kind of get a little bit bigger so you're doing them one by one so you can see I got rid of notes I got rid of Twitter I'm getting rid of maps and now all those applications are gone and it's an empty screen on the extended monitor so that is what we're dealing with from a multitasking perspective it's very familiar very easy to use and it's again very intuitive okay so now let's talk about some smaller details that people have had questions about pretty actively on Twitter so if you guys do want to follow me on Twitter it'll be right here if you guys want to see some updates as this goes live but what I want to show off is can you have two audio sources playing at once which has been one big detriment about iOS and iPad OS for a while so so basically if I open up this video by 9 to5 Google it is playing let's skip the ad we'll let it start playing I'm going to resize it a little bit so there you can have the video you can see it's playing but then the second I actually open up let's say something from YouTube TV as you can see it pauses that video so can you have two audio sources going at once no you cannot so if you're somebody that likes to maybe edit your own video while having background musics you know instrumentals going in the background then sadly you won't be able to do that because again if I even grab let's say something like Luma Fusion so now I have three video apps going at the same time you can see that the YouTube TV app is still going but the second I press play here it's going to pause that YouTube video and then start moving Luma fusion and start actively playing that and then continuing on that same topic of audio source so not only can you not have two audio sources playing at once but also as you can see I am connected via USB c/ Thunderbolt right I'm connected directly into the monitor so basically when it comes to audio coming out of your iPad there's no way to default to using your iPad speakers whenever you are connected via either HDMI or USBC or whatever the case may be so you have to make sure either a that your monitor has built-in speakers because it's going to default to those speakers or B use some sort of Bluetooth speaker in order to get some actual audio coming out of your device so I have both so there is so my monitor does have you know very tiny speakers but they are speakers and then I also have my Marshall Bluetooth speaker behind there as you guys can see to actually get audio out or for the most part whenever I am editing a video I just use my airpods Pro and then I'm good to go but just so you guys know sadly as of right now and I hope Apple changes that if you do want to use your iPad speakers which are amazing speakers in their own right while using the extended monitor it's now impossible and then lastly what I do want to touch on is gaming everybody so you guys always want to know about gaming want to know what it's like so here we have apple arcade and just so you know you can still use your Xbox controller your PlayStation controller whatever the case may be so here I have NBA 2K it's you know it's an apple arcade game press continue on here obviously you can see that I am in stage manager mode right now on the iPad so first off if I want to full screen it down here obviously you can full screen it here but what I do want to show you is if I press this move it to the top display can you full screen it on the top display at least for NBA 2K you can't do it so maybe each game is a little bit different but you can see that if I'm try to make it any bigger it just reverts back to the size that it wants to go to another game that I have down here is Call of Dy so this is not an apple arcade game but it is an App Store game so you can see that again it opens up down here if I want to full screen it here obviously I can do that but if I want to move it over to the display over here which is cool I can actually have two games running at the same time so again iPad is an extremely powerful device which is kind of crazy to think about let's move this back over to the app shelf so if I want to full screen this one make it bigger make it bigger it doesn't let me it goes back to that so it looks like most games if not every single game that you download from the App Store will default to like this size view so to each their own I do wish I could full screen game on that secondary display but as of right now the only way to go full screen is to play it directly on the iPad itself and just to let you guys know if you don't have a USBC or Thunderbolt enabled Monitor and let's say you have a VGA or an HDMI one then you'll be totally fine as long as you have the correct dongle so if you have an older display that just uses HDMI get yourself a little dongle like this one plug it into your iPad and then you'll be able to do the same exact thing with zero issues whatsoever because you should need to have an $800 or $1,000 display in order to enjoy extended monitor support so if you get yourself a 501 $150 display you'll still be more than fine and then one of the last things I did want to touch on which is kind of a interesting use case is the camera what happens to the camera app when using extended monitor support so I'm going to open the camera up down here you can see that it still works on the actual display itself so hello hello we're waving but let's say if I move this up to this secondary display it looks like it still works so it's still using the camera from the iPad but it's now displaying it on that secondary display as you guys can see which is pretty cool in my opinion so let's do one more test and it's going to be an actual Zoom SL gooogle meets meeting I'm curious to know exactly what happens in that situation and this will be a live test so the final thing I do want to test out is how a video conferencing call works on the iPad so you can see we have Google meet open right here it is using the webcam from the iPad even though I do have a webcam technically connected to the iPad via the monitor itself up there as you can see it's still defaulting to the actual iPad Webcam which I'm totally okay with so now if I press join you can see that the camera is still working so now as you can see I entered with my phone so we are video chatting but now let's see what happens if I move it to the upper display so if I move it to the top display will the camera still work and lo and behold it still works now over here it looks like I am in landscape mode for some reason probably just a bug that they have to fix but I can full screen this all the way and then there is it there it is it fixes into the correct horizontal way and now we're video chatting on the iPad on a secondary display which is extremely cool but those are all the little Nuance things that I wanted to walk everybody through I know this was a little bit of a long video but let's get out of this view finish up the video and let me know you guys' overall thoughts in the comments down below so that is pretty much going to do it for this video everybody like you saw extended monitor support is very very stable and if this is any indication of what the experience is going to be liked for the entire public with their iPads then this is definitely going to be a very welcome upgrade and new update and features set for your iPad and again in my opinion in my personal workflow the iPad is more than enough to get both your productivity task your creative tasks and all your leisure stuff done in the same exact device I would definitely recommend getting a nice spec when it comes to storage space and not going with the Baseline model if it's going to be your main computer but outside of that this thing is going to be powerful enough it's going to be able to handle everything that you need to depending on your specific workflow and I just want to reiterate that extended monitor support and Stage manager are not the same thing stage manager is coming to all iPad Pros with the new design so basically 2018 2020 the M1 and the M2 iPad Pro and then extended monitor support is only for the M series iPads so you can only use it on the iPad Air M1 the M1 iPad Pro and the M2 iPad Pro so keep that in mind when trying to make your iPad your main computer for instance if you have a 2020 a12z iPad Pro that will give you stage manager and a lot of the functionality that I mention but it just won't be able to extend to an external monitor the only thing that it's going to do is mirror your display just like the classic iPads but that is going to do it for this video If you guys did enjoy it leave a little dolphin in the comments down below and also leave a comment down below if you guys do have those M series iPads is the iPad now a computer to you is that enough for you to be able to do all of your work tasks I know there's probably some Nuance things and some use cases where the iPad still is not enough for some people I'm thinking like very intense Excel users a lot of people using some specific software for 3D renders and gaming and things like that but outside of that for somebody like myself who just use the Microsoft Suite use a slack use his iMessage use his email creates thumbnails an affinity photo edits videos on Luma fusion and likes to play the occasional 2K game in our Apple arcade then guys for me the iPad is officially a computer but that's going to do it everybody if you guys want to watch more iPad OS iOS or Mac OS videos click on one of these right here and until next time I'm Fernando and I'm out of here peaceso the other day I posted a tweet about the iPad finally being a computer now that Apple readded extended monitor support for certain iPads so in this video what I wanted to do is go over that extended monitor support I want to talk about all the good that comes with it because it does really change again what the iPad can be to certain people first we have the iPad Pro then iPad OS finally breaking away from IOS made it a completely different experience then we got the magic keyboard which turned into a twoin one a tablet and a laptop then we got cursor support then stage manager and now finally extended monitor support to finally kind of bring this all together to make the iPad an actual computer replacement and not just a supplemental device for a Macbook computer in your workflow so let's talk about everything you need to know about extended monitor support all the good and some of the bad that comes with that but without further Ado let's get into it okay everyone I want to get right into this video this is going to be a nice walkthrough and explainer video of all the Nuance differences all the new features all the UI differences that come with Stage manager so just to preface everything for stage manager and for specifically extended monitor support you will need an M series powered iPad so that includes the iPad Air M1 that includes the 11 and 12.9 in M1 iPad Pro as well as the M2 iPad Pro in both size variants if you have a 2018 or 2020 iPad Pro you will only be able to use stage manager on device and then when you do plug into an external monitor you will get the classic mirror display still be able to use stage manager it'll just be mirrored with the letter box as we've seen you know for the past 5 6 years with an iPad but let's get started guys so I am using a 27in 4k monitor Apple does recommend to go 4K and I wanted to plug this in real time just to show you guys what it looks like and what the situation is like so you can see that now it's charging you see I get external display that little icon down there that popped up you give it a second to populate the screen and ideally it should come up and there we go we now have the extended monitor running on the actual display we had the iPad running whatever is on the iPad itself and you can see that the only thing that gets brought over to the extended monitor is the actual dock itself everything else stays on the main display so I am using a combination of my mouse right here just to give you guys an idea of what's going on and then it also obviously works with the trackpad itself now in order to get this to work functionally you will need either the actual magic keyboard right here or you need to at least have a Bluetooth connection to a mouse or keyboard in order for this to happen if you are not connected via mouse or keyboard then it's just going to mirror the display even if you do have an M1 or M2 iPad Pro so another thing that I do want to bring up is that for the actual extended monitor right here this will only be in stage manager mode so you cannot have the classic split view so for instance for split view if you open up notes right here you can press the three dots to then go into split view and let's say I want to open up another Notes application then this is the classic split view that you see on the iPad itself this is not possible on the main display so if you go up here here and let's say I want to open up the notes application then it's going to open up the notes that I had on the bottom display and it's going to open them in stage manager view or floating window view on the actual extended monitor so first let's go into the settings and see exactly what kind of settings we're dealing with when it comes to the extended display so we go into display go into your displays down here you do have a couple options down here so you can actually do an arrangement so arrange it however you see fit just like any other one you have some options to go into your built-in Retina Display and then you have some options on the actual display itself depending on what display you're using so this one I have the ability to go HDR or SDR we can display zoom and then always display mode changes so again I do think that using a studio display will probably work the best when working in this extended monitor view but again that's $1600 I do recommend going with 4K because that's what Apple does recommend for scaling and sizing but I'm sure apple is going to be able to accommodate all different shapes and sizes of displays or at least hopefully they will and just know that they do work there just probably be some nuances depending on what display you're using but from a setting standpoint that's all you really get you get to basically change the arrangement and then change whether you have SDR or HDR depending on your display so now that we have that out of the way let's start opening up some apps on the actual extended display so if I click on Twitter you can see that it does take up a lot of the display but you can easily resize it you can change it to again this iPhone mode you can change it into iPad mode or you can even go all the way to full screen if you would like and take up the entire display which is very cool shout out my man Felipe from 9 to5 but you can see that Twitter is taking up the entire display and then I can still go down here and use my display on the actual ual iPad itself and then to make it smaller again all you do is you go into one of the corners and start to resize it now as you can see on the bottom right here the dock actually disappears The Dock does disappear whenever a single application is open but to pull it up you just kind of go to either the right or the left of the display itself pull down and then all of them open up again so if I want to open up Safari if you just click on Safari it's going to move Twitter to the actual app shelf but if you long press and drag it onto there then it will actually open them together so just to show you if I just tap on Safari it moves Twitter over here to the app shelf and then if I go back down here and if I want to grab a new Safari window I just go like this and then it opens it up together so some of the little nuances that you learn as you're using it and then you also have the ability to go to your app shelf grab Twitter and move it into your you know your floating window situation so you can have up to four different windows or applications open depending on what app you're using some apps support multiple instances of the same application obviously something like Safari allows you to just grab this right here move it over and now you have three safari windows open you can see that that's it works intuitively depending on what app you're using and it's very familiar and the more and more that you use it the more your efficiency will gain and the more your flow will pick up on exactly what Apple wants you to do on exactly the apple way of doing multitasking on the iPad and I would say that 99% of apps support this there's some applications which still do not support kind of going full screen which we'll touch on in a little bit you can see that it works extremely well right and every single application when you open it does have these three dots up here and it gives you a couple options so if I click on the three dots you can enter into full screen mode which we've shown you already ready and then from full screen mode you can't actually undo the full screen mode from there you have to go into the corner and resize it so that's one thing to take note of I wish Apple would kind of change that maybe add it into here but if you go back in here you can actually add another window so you can see it asks me what do I want to add do I want to add something from the app shelf that's was there earlier or do I want I grab something like Luma fusion and open it up with Safari so kind of works the same way as it did down here with the split screen but just another option you also have in the three dots you have the ability to minimize it so you literally minimize it and it goes into the app shelf so if I want to bring this back bring it back and then two more that I have is you can move it to the iPad you can see quickly moved it to the iPad or finally you can close it which actually completely deletes that instance of safari it doesn't get rid of all the safaris as you can see we still have a couple over here it just gets rid of that certain instance so now let's talk about some user interface kind of situations right so first off as you guys saw earlier if I do do my multitasking down here the reason it's opening up side by side is because I'm still not in stage manager mode so if I do want to go into Stage manager mode on the actual iPad display all I have to do is click on the stage manager button and then my floating windows also populate down here which allows you to actually now click and drag any window that you have down here I can actually drag it into the main display up top or that extended display which is something that could not be done when it was originally released with iPad OS 16.0 and 16.1 you can see that it does work in that fashion now which is beautiful to see and I can just continue to drag other windows over here which is great some other things to take note of is let's say if you're used to a Mac OS setup or a desktop setup and you have have something with a scroll wheel right so you have a mouse that uses a scroll wheel and use it all the time whenever you hover your mouse over a certain application so here you can see that this is the one that's visible to everybody so the scroll wheel works perfectly fine I'm scrolling up and down but let's say there's an app in the background technically Twitter is in the background I'm not going to click on Twitter but I'm going to scroll on Twitter so you can still scroll on Twitter and passively be able to view things which is great so it's very similar to a desktop experience which I love and then personally one thing that I actually have been using all the time and this is now what I do to edit my videos is so for Fusion which I use on a daily basis to edit these videos I'm now able to have a larger screen so if I grab this and full screen it I now can work with my entire screen I can move this around and customize how big my viewfinder is I can actually look at all the rows that I have on there you know I can look at all my settings go into whatever files I need so I absolutely love that and then if I want to move it to the iPad I can do that as well and you can see it moves to the iPad perfectly and the iPad does have also its own version of the app shelf it has a dock down here which is beautiful to see some other simple things that you know you would think are just by Design there but you always want to test out are can you actually copy and paste stuff and move it around from app to app so let's pull up the notes application right here we'll move it into here we'll start up a new note so let's see if my actual hot Keys work so I'm down here if I want to grab this maybe contrl C go over here can I actually paste it of course I can so if you want to click and drag you can even right click I can copy so I'm using my mouse for everything here you know press enter enter right click paste and then there is the entire Mac article that I was reading before and now I'm pasting it on for some notes that I'm taking for whatever for an essay or whatever the case may be so your hot keys and being able to use a mouse so like I now I highly recommend the ability to use a mouse this one's by Logitech this is Logitech anywhere S2 I'll link it down below if you guys want to check it out it's my favorite Mouse and I've had it for over three maybe even four years now at this point but again it's just cool how the iPad has come such a long way and you can see that you can resize it and it seems like apple has some predetermined sizes for these windows so there is a certain amount of customization where you can resize it to whatever you see fit but you can see that the things move around it as well so there's still a level of inertia very similar to how whenever you move applications on the home screen itself if you move one application on the home screen then everything kind of changes up because it's still staying in its own grid this kind of has the feeling of a more variable grid so you're still kind of following some sort of rule and you'll get used to it as you go along to know you know how big they get and you can see for instance on Twitter right this is a great example right now I consider this the iPhone view of Twitter and if I move it a little bit bigger you get that sidebar which is the view of an iPad application version of Twitter if I go full screen you can see that it still stays in that iPad view so all things to consider when kind of playing around but I do recommend kind of going in and playing around with them and in terms of limitations you get up to four different applications up on the screen at one time so for instance if I wanted to grab something like YouTube drag it into here it'll drag it into here but then it'll kick your farthest used app over to the app shelf so you can see that this Safari window was probably the fifth app that I used so it's going to kick it off to there and it'll continue to do that with every application that you open so let's say I want to open up maps move it over here it's going to kick another one over there so you can have up to four applications working at one time on the main screen and then each shelf can have four applications working as well and I can grab this move it back over here and then it's going to kick something else into that shelf then I can start switching shelves move this over here so I can have multiple instances so let's say there's like a group of four applications that I use together for let's say creative task another four applications for productivity to communicate with my team another four for leisure and I can just group those all together and have access to them ready to go so another quick thing that I do want to show off is exactly how multitasking works with all this so normally multitasking let's go onto the iPad screen now you know hold three fingers and go up you can see that multitasking still kind of works the same but the multitasking is a little bit broken in a good way in terms of like multitasking now refers to multitasking on the iPad and then multitasking on the secondary display so if I use those same three fingers and scroll up for multitasking you can see that now I'm multitasking not only with the application but also with the different instances of the shelves and to quit out of them is the same way you can quit out of each one individually so if you can see if I hover over each one they kind of get a little bit bigger so you're doing them one by one so you can see I got rid of notes I got rid of Twitter I'm getting rid of maps and now all those applications are gone and it's an empty screen on the extended monitor so that is what we're dealing with from a multitasking perspective it's very familiar very easy to use and it's again very intuitive okay so now let's talk about some smaller details that people have had questions about pretty actively on Twitter so if you guys do want to follow me on Twitter it'll be right here if you guys want to see some updates as this goes live but what I want to show off is can you have two audio sources playing at once which has been one big detriment about iOS and iPad OS for a while so so basically if I open up this video by 9 to5 Google it is playing let's skip the ad we'll let it start playing I'm going to resize it a little bit so there you can have the video you can see it's playing but then the second I actually open up let's say something from YouTube TV as you can see it pauses that video so can you have two audio sources going at once no you cannot so if you're somebody that likes to maybe edit your own video while having background musics you know instrumentals going in the background then sadly you won't be able to do that because again if I even grab let's say something like Luma Fusion so now I have three video apps going at the same time you can see that the YouTube TV app is still going but the second I press play here it's going to pause that YouTube video and then start moving Luma fusion and start actively playing that and then continuing on that same topic of audio source so not only can you not have two audio sources playing at once but also as you can see I am connected via USB c/ Thunderbolt right I'm connected directly into the monitor so basically when it comes to audio coming out of your iPad there's no way to default to using your iPad speakers whenever you are connected via either HDMI or USBC or whatever the case may be so you have to make sure either a that your monitor has built-in speakers because it's going to default to those speakers or B use some sort of Bluetooth speaker in order to get some actual audio coming out of your device so I have both so there is so my monitor does have you know very tiny speakers but they are speakers and then I also have my Marshall Bluetooth speaker behind there as you guys can see to actually get audio out or for the most part whenever I am editing a video I just use my airpods Pro and then I'm good to go but just so you guys know sadly as of right now and I hope Apple changes that if you do want to use your iPad speakers which are amazing speakers in their own right while using the extended monitor it's now impossible and then lastly what I do want to touch on is gaming everybody so you guys always want to know about gaming want to know what it's like so here we have apple arcade and just so you know you can still use your Xbox controller your PlayStation controller whatever the case may be so here I have NBA 2K it's you know it's an apple arcade game press continue on here obviously you can see that I am in stage manager mode right now on the iPad so first off if I want to full screen it down here obviously you can full screen it here but what I do want to show you is if I press this move it to the top display can you full screen it on the top display at least for NBA 2K you can't do it so maybe each game is a little bit different but you can see that if I'm try to make it any bigger it just reverts back to the size that it wants to go to another game that I have down here is Call of Dy so this is not an apple arcade game but it is an App Store game so you can see that again it opens up down here if I want to full screen it here obviously I can do that but if I want to move it over to the display over here which is cool I can actually have two games running at the same time so again iPad is an extremely powerful device which is kind of crazy to think about let's move this back over to the app shelf so if I want to full screen this one make it bigger make it bigger it doesn't let me it goes back to that so it looks like most games if not every single game that you download from the App Store will default to like this size view so to each their own I do wish I could full screen game on that secondary display but as of right now the only way to go full screen is to play it directly on the iPad itself and just to let you guys know if you don't have a USBC or Thunderbolt enabled Monitor and let's say you have a VGA or an HDMI one then you'll be totally fine as long as you have the correct dongle so if you have an older display that just uses HDMI get yourself a little dongle like this one plug it into your iPad and then you'll be able to do the same exact thing with zero issues whatsoever because you should need to have an $800 or $1,000 display in order to enjoy extended monitor support so if you get yourself a 501 $150 display you'll still be more than fine and then one of the last things I did want to touch on which is kind of a interesting use case is the camera what happens to the camera app when using extended monitor support so I'm going to open the camera up down here you can see that it still works on the actual display itself so hello hello we're waving but let's say if I move this up to this secondary display it looks like it still works so it's still using the camera from the iPad but it's now displaying it on that secondary display as you guys can see which is pretty cool in my opinion so let's do one more test and it's going to be an actual Zoom SL gooogle meets meeting I'm curious to know exactly what happens in that situation and this will be a live test so the final thing I do want to test out is how a video conferencing call works on the iPad so you can see we have Google meet open right here it is using the webcam from the iPad even though I do have a webcam technically connected to the iPad via the monitor itself up there as you can see it's still defaulting to the actual iPad Webcam which I'm totally okay with so now if I press join you can see that the camera is still working so now as you can see I entered with my phone so we are video chatting but now let's see what happens if I move it to the upper display so if I move it to the top display will the camera still work and lo and behold it still works now over here it looks like I am in landscape mode for some reason probably just a bug that they have to fix but I can full screen this all the way and then there is it there it is it fixes into the correct horizontal way and now we're video chatting on the iPad on a secondary display which is extremely cool but those are all the little Nuance things that I wanted to walk everybody through I know this was a little bit of a long video but let's get out of this view finish up the video and let me know you guys' overall thoughts in the comments down below so that is pretty much going to do it for this video everybody like you saw extended monitor support is very very stable and if this is any indication of what the experience is going to be liked for the entire public with their iPads then this is definitely going to be a very welcome upgrade and new update and features set for your iPad and again in my opinion in my personal workflow the iPad is more than enough to get both your productivity task your creative tasks and all your leisure stuff done in the same exact device I would definitely recommend getting a nice spec when it comes to storage space and not going with the Baseline model if it's going to be your main computer but outside of that this thing is going to be powerful enough it's going to be able to handle everything that you need to depending on your specific workflow and I just want to reiterate that extended monitor support and Stage manager are not the same thing stage manager is coming to all iPad Pros with the new design so basically 2018 2020 the M1 and the M2 iPad Pro and then extended monitor support is only for the M series iPads so you can only use it on the iPad Air M1 the M1 iPad Pro and the M2 iPad Pro so keep that in mind when trying to make your iPad your main computer for instance if you have a 2020 a12z iPad Pro that will give you stage manager and a lot of the functionality that I mention but it just won't be able to extend to an external monitor the only thing that it's going to do is mirror your display just like the classic iPads but that is going to do it for this video If you guys did enjoy it leave a little dolphin in the comments down below and also leave a comment down below if you guys do have those M series iPads is the iPad now a computer to you is that enough for you to be able to do all of your work tasks I know there's probably some Nuance things and some use cases where the iPad still is not enough for some people I'm thinking like very intense Excel users a lot of people using some specific software for 3D renders and gaming and things like that but outside of that for somebody like myself who just use the Microsoft Suite use a slack use his iMessage use his email creates thumbnails an affinity photo edits videos on Luma fusion and likes to play the occasional 2K game in our Apple arcade then guys for me the iPad is officially a computer but that's going to do it everybody if you guys want to watch more iPad OS iOS or Mac OS videos click on one of these right here and until next time I'm Fernando and I'm out of here peace\n"