Which iPadOS 16 Features Will Work With Your iPad

**iPad OS 16: A Comprehensive Overview**

**Initial Excitement and Disappointment**

When Apple unveiled iPad OS 16 at WWDC and showcased Stage Manager during the closing moments, excitement surged among iPad users worldwide. Many, including myself, believed this marked a significant leap forward for iPads as productivity tools, positioning them on par with traditional computers. However, the buzz quickly turned to disappointment when Apple revealed that only M1-enabled iPads would support Stage Manager. This exclusion particularly affected 2020 iPad Pro owners, who had purchased their devices expecting future-proof technology just 18 months prior.

**Which iPads Will Get iPad OS 16?**

Apple's commitment to supporting older devices shines through with iPad OS 16, which will be available across a wide range of iPads. Starting from the 2015 iPad Pro models and beyond, including the 10.5-inch and 9.7-inch iPads, users can expect to receive this update. Additionally, iPad Air (3rd generation and newer) and iPad (5th generation and newer) owners will also benefit. Notably, even the 5th-generation iPad, released over five years ago, will get iPad OS 16, showcasing Apple's dedication to providing long-term software support.

**Features of iPad OS 16: A Unified Experience**

Regardless of the specific iPad model, users can look forward to a host of new features in iPad OS 16. The updated Weather app and widget bring enhanced functionality, while iMessage gains tools like message editing, deletion, and unsend capabilities within two minutes. Live Text and Background Remover, both standout features from iOS 16, make their debut on iPads as well. The HomeKit app receives a significant overhaul, offering improved smart home integration. Apple's Freeform, a collaborative whiteboard tool, is also in development, though it hasn't yet been released.

**Lidar Scanner: Enhancing Accessibility**

For iPads equipped with lidar scanners—specifically the 2020 and later iPad Pro models—the Magnifier app gains new capabilities. With door and people detection features, this upgrade aids individuals with accessibility needs by alerting them to doors within a six to eight-foot range. While not mainstream, this feature highlights Apple's commitment to inclusivity.

**M1 Chip: Pioneering New Capabilities**

iPad models featuring the M1 chip, such as the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro (from late 2020 onwards) and the iPad Air (5th generation), unlock additional functionalities. Memory swap technology allows apps to utilize virtual memory more efficiently, enhancing performance for demanding tasks. However, this feature is only active on iPads with 1TB storage.

**Stage Manager: Revolutionizing Productivity**

The pièce de résistance of iPad OS 16 is Stage Manager, available exclusively on M1-enabled devices. This feature introduces floating windows, resizable layouts, and a centered workspace for focused productivity. The "Center Window" mode positions applications in the screen's center without forcing fullscreen views, offering unparalleled multitasking flexibility.

**External Display Support: A Glimpse of the Future**

M1 iPads also benefit from true secondary monitor support when connected to an external display, eliminating the letterboxing issues present on older models. This innovation caters to power users seeking a desktop-like experience, marking a significant step forward in iPad versatility.

**Display Scaling and Reference Mode: Tailored Experiences**

Display scaling, particularly beneficial for the 12.9-inch M1 iPad Pro, allows users to optimize screen real estate without compromising on text legibility. Reference mode, confined to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with mini-LED display, offers unparalleled color accuracy, catering to professionals in video editing and creative fields.

**Conclusion: A Balanced Perspective**

While iPad OS 16 delivers substantial improvements across all supported devices, its feature tiers highlight Apple's strategic approach to hardware-software integration. The exclusion of older models from key features like Stage Manager raises questions about the necessity of an M1 chip for such functionalities. Nevertheless, the overall update underscores Apple's commitment to innovation and user experience, ensuring even older iPads receive modern software enhancements.

In closing, whether you're an enthusiast or a casual user, iPad OS 16 offers something for everyone, with its most groundbreaking features reserved for the latest hardware. As always, Apple's approach is a blend of forward-thinking and calculated strategy, aiming to maintain its position at the forefront of technology.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso when apple unveiled ipad os 16 at wwdc and then finally at the very end showed a stage manager all ipad users across the world probably thought to themselves finally the ipad is going to be a computer to not just myself but to the rest of the masses but it wasn't until after the keynote that apple let us know that only m1 enabled ipads were going to have this new stage manager feature and then that came with its own level of controversy people were upset especially those 20 20 ipad pro purchasers and users that just got there is probably like 18 months ago and thought to themselves hey i'm going to be so future proofed moving forward but even those 2020 ipad pros which are powerful enough in their own right won't be able to use stage manager because they don't have an m1 chip in them so in this video i wanted to talk about which ipads are going to be getting what version of ipad os 16 because ipad os 16 is going to be coming to a lot of ipads but which version will you be getting let's talk about it so we all know that apple is well known for supporting devices as far back as five to six years so this list i'm showing you right here shows you all the ipads that we'll be getting some version of ipad os 16 and you can see that it's a long list so any ipad pro from 2015 and higher you have the 10.5 inch and the 9.7 inch ipad you also have the ipad air 3rd gen and higher and then even the ipad 5th gen and higher the ipad 5th gen is over five to six years old now and it's still going to be getting ipad os 16 which in a vacuum is an amazing thing even these older ipad devices are gonna be getting the latest software not only from a user experience side but also from a privacy experience side and i've been using ipad os 16 and the developer beta program for about two months now so all the features that apple announced like the new weather application and the weather widget the new features that came to imessage like being able to delete and edit and redo and unsend messages within those two minute time spans being able to use that live text functionality inside of videos not just still images also that background remover which i think is one of the best features to come to ipad os 16 and ios 16 and then there's other smaller things like the new homekit application which i absolutely love and then also apple is going to still be releasing something called freeform which is kind of this collaborative whiteboard space which apple still hasn't even put out in the beta program yet so let's see when that does come out but those are all things that no matter which ipad you have as long as your ipad is supported on that list that i showed earlier you're going to be getting all these new features all these new applications which is great to see but with that this is the first time that apple is segregating ipad os 16 features and functions depending on which ipad you have so let's talk about those things before we get into that big headlining feature of stage manager let's first talk about those 2020 ipad pros so these two features or this one feature set is only going to be available if you have a lidar scanner enabled ipad so that includes the 2020 ipad pro on the both 12.9 and 11 variants and then everything above that so again the 2021 and one ipad pros so the lidar scanner was brought over to the ipad pros in 2020 to allow us to have some sort of better and more accurate version of augmented reality in vr so it's just a better way to detect your surroundings with that lighter scanner better than something just like a regular camera could do so with that inside of the magnifier app and if you guys aren't aware the magnifier is a separate application that's built directly into most ios and ipad os devices and it's exactly what it sounds like it's just another like window or viewfinder kind of like the camera app that allows you to zoom in and out to magnify two things but in the magnifier app we now have door and people detection right there so if you turn these on and you point your magnifier at a door it'll let you know like hey there's a door that's like six to eight feet away from you just so you're aware and this is all inside of the accessibility setting so again not for an everyday use or an everyday occurrence probably most people won't be needing this but for the people that do need this this is a nice addition that was brought over with lidar capable devices and i think this trickles down to the iphones that have a lidar scanner as well so again if you don't have an ipad that has a lidar scanner these features will not be available to you on your version of ipad os 16. then the next feature we're going to talk about actually only refers to m1 capable ipads so that is the m1 ipad pro 11 inch the m1 ipad pro 12.9 inch and now the m1 ipad air 5. and even this one unless you have the gigabyte version of the m1 ipad air if you if you have the 64 gigabyte version this does not apply to you so now we have the memory swap capability and for the most part you won't really see the efficiency gains from this unless you have the 16 gigabyte version you need a one terabyte ssd storage ipad pro in order for this to function so it's basically just a way for applications and third-party developers to use more ram when using those applications for better efficiency and better cpu and gpu performance so again a nice little addition but not a lot of people will be taking advantage of this memory virtual swap and then to keep on with the m1 specific features that is stage manager so again you need to have an m1 capable ipad so the 12.9 inch 11 inch or the air 5 those are the only m1 ipads that are currently out on the market and those are the only ones that we'll be able to use stage manager so with stage manager you do get the floating windows the resizable windows the overlapping windows something called center window which brings everything into focus it doesn't go full screen if you don't want it to but it goes right into the center of the screen allowing you to really focus on that application so stage manager allows you to do all this and with stage manager all this can be done directly on the ipad itself but if you do want to go to an external display we finally don't have the letterboxing and the mirroring of the ipad so now we have a true secondary monitor support for the m1 capable ipads if you have a 2020 ipad pro or an 8th gen ipad with ipad os 16 if you plug into an external display you're going to be getting that same letterboxing on the right and left-hand side and just mirroring your ipad display which is very very unfortunate especially for those people that just bought an ipad in 2020 where they thought hey they were going to future proof themselves so stage manager will only work on the m1 capable ipads same with secondary monitor support so those are all things to keep in mind and there's actually another feature that i do want to bring up i'm not 100 sure which one this is going to be segregated to i do believe it's for mini led ipads but it could be just for m1 ipads and that is scaling the display so being able to scale your display is been a godsend especially with the m1 ipad pro with the 12.9 inch one because it allows you to use more real estate even though the screen is exactly the same size so it makes everything a little bit smaller it makes it so more text fits inside of whatever you're viewing so scaling it down to a minimum is a great thing to see but i'm not 100 sure which one this falls under or if maybe every single ipad of 16 ipad will be getting that and then the very last feature that is coming to only one ipad one variant of the ipad is reference mode so reference mode is for people that are video editors you know creatives you know they use photoshop a lot and they need to be able to use the power of that mini led display which is a liquid retina xdr display which is only on the 12.9 inch ipad pro and the m1 12.9 inch ipad pro so if you have this ipad pro which i personally do but i have never used this feature and i will probably never use this feature it just gives you the most color accurate version of whatever you're working on and you can use your ipad as a reference screen whenever you're editing something so it's a cool little addition but for 99.9 of people it's a feature that's not going to matter even for somebody like myself who works with video every single day is never going to make use of reference mode because i edit on my ipad anyway so i don't need to reference whatever i'm viewing on a secondary monitor to be able to get an accurate color representation of whatever i'm editing but that is something that again is exclusive to one single version of the ipad which is kind of weird to see but that is pretty much the entire tiered process of ipad os 16. so ipad os 16 for the most part is going to be 95 the same across all of the ipads that you use it's only once you start getting into the 2020 ipads with lidar scanners then in the m1 ipads like the m1 ipad pro and ipad air 5. that gives you that secondary monitor support and that's the biggest one stage manager is by far the best feature that's coming out for the ipad and after you get past that learning curve it is a very very cool way to actually compute with your ipad right being able to use a secondary monitor in the way that the ipad wants you to use it is very very cool and i think it could be the future moving forward you just got to give people a chance to really learn it get used to it and see that there are ways to optimize your workflow even in this weird new floating window space that apple created just for the ipad but again it's only coming to m1 powered ipads which is a sad thing to see because in my opinion even though some of these other ipads like the a12x and the a12z with that chipset that only has four or six gigs of ram it should be enough to have these floating windows with stage manager but apple has decided to segregate it to only m1 enabled ipads because it has the virtual memory swap and it has at least eight gigs of ram but that's gonna do for this video leave some comments down below if which ipad you have are you upset by this fact do you think apple is kind of just making excuses with what stage manager can be run on to again get more money out of you because again that's what apple is at the end of the day they're a business that wants you to continually upgrade your ipad or your idevice for whatever the case may be so they can continue to make money but if you guys made it to the end of this video leave a little dolphin in the comments down below as well so i know you made it to the end and if you guys are as excited as we are for the new iphone release click on one of these videos right here which should be talking about some leaks and rumors of what we should expect to see in apple's september event but until next time i'm fernando and i'm out of here peaceso when apple unveiled ipad os 16 at wwdc and then finally at the very end showed a stage manager all ipad users across the world probably thought to themselves finally the ipad is going to be a computer to not just myself but to the rest of the masses but it wasn't until after the keynote that apple let us know that only m1 enabled ipads were going to have this new stage manager feature and then that came with its own level of controversy people were upset especially those 20 20 ipad pro purchasers and users that just got there is probably like 18 months ago and thought to themselves hey i'm going to be so future proofed moving forward but even those 2020 ipad pros which are powerful enough in their own right won't be able to use stage manager because they don't have an m1 chip in them so in this video i wanted to talk about which ipads are going to be getting what version of ipad os 16 because ipad os 16 is going to be coming to a lot of ipads but which version will you be getting let's talk about it so we all know that apple is well known for supporting devices as far back as five to six years so this list i'm showing you right here shows you all the ipads that we'll be getting some version of ipad os 16 and you can see that it's a long list so any ipad pro from 2015 and higher you have the 10.5 inch and the 9.7 inch ipad you also have the ipad air 3rd gen and higher and then even the ipad 5th gen and higher the ipad 5th gen is over five to six years old now and it's still going to be getting ipad os 16 which in a vacuum is an amazing thing even these older ipad devices are gonna be getting the latest software not only from a user experience side but also from a privacy experience side and i've been using ipad os 16 and the developer beta program for about two months now so all the features that apple announced like the new weather application and the weather widget the new features that came to imessage like being able to delete and edit and redo and unsend messages within those two minute time spans being able to use that live text functionality inside of videos not just still images also that background remover which i think is one of the best features to come to ipad os 16 and ios 16 and then there's other smaller things like the new homekit application which i absolutely love and then also apple is going to still be releasing something called freeform which is kind of this collaborative whiteboard space which apple still hasn't even put out in the beta program yet so let's see when that does come out but those are all things that no matter which ipad you have as long as your ipad is supported on that list that i showed earlier you're going to be getting all these new features all these new applications which is great to see but with that this is the first time that apple is segregating ipad os 16 features and functions depending on which ipad you have so let's talk about those things before we get into that big headlining feature of stage manager let's first talk about those 2020 ipad pros so these two features or this one feature set is only going to be available if you have a lidar scanner enabled ipad so that includes the 2020 ipad pro on the both 12.9 and 11 variants and then everything above that so again the 2021 and one ipad pros so the lidar scanner was brought over to the ipad pros in 2020 to allow us to have some sort of better and more accurate version of augmented reality in vr so it's just a better way to detect your surroundings with that lighter scanner better than something just like a regular camera could do so with that inside of the magnifier app and if you guys aren't aware the magnifier is a separate application that's built directly into most ios and ipad os devices and it's exactly what it sounds like it's just another like window or viewfinder kind of like the camera app that allows you to zoom in and out to magnify two things but in the magnifier app we now have door and people detection right there so if you turn these on and you point your magnifier at a door it'll let you know like hey there's a door that's like six to eight feet away from you just so you're aware and this is all inside of the accessibility setting so again not for an everyday use or an everyday occurrence probably most people won't be needing this but for the people that do need this this is a nice addition that was brought over with lidar capable devices and i think this trickles down to the iphones that have a lidar scanner as well so again if you don't have an ipad that has a lidar scanner these features will not be available to you on your version of ipad os 16. then the next feature we're going to talk about actually only refers to m1 capable ipads so that is the m1 ipad pro 11 inch the m1 ipad pro 12.9 inch and now the m1 ipad air 5. and even this one unless you have the gigabyte version of the m1 ipad air if you if you have the 64 gigabyte version this does not apply to you so now we have the memory swap capability and for the most part you won't really see the efficiency gains from this unless you have the 16 gigabyte version you need a one terabyte ssd storage ipad pro in order for this to function so it's basically just a way for applications and third-party developers to use more ram when using those applications for better efficiency and better cpu and gpu performance so again a nice little addition but not a lot of people will be taking advantage of this memory virtual swap and then to keep on with the m1 specific features that is stage manager so again you need to have an m1 capable ipad so the 12.9 inch 11 inch or the air 5 those are the only m1 ipads that are currently out on the market and those are the only ones that we'll be able to use stage manager so with stage manager you do get the floating windows the resizable windows the overlapping windows something called center window which brings everything into focus it doesn't go full screen if you don't want it to but it goes right into the center of the screen allowing you to really focus on that application so stage manager allows you to do all this and with stage manager all this can be done directly on the ipad itself but if you do want to go to an external display we finally don't have the letterboxing and the mirroring of the ipad so now we have a true secondary monitor support for the m1 capable ipads if you have a 2020 ipad pro or an 8th gen ipad with ipad os 16 if you plug into an external display you're going to be getting that same letterboxing on the right and left-hand side and just mirroring your ipad display which is very very unfortunate especially for those people that just bought an ipad in 2020 where they thought hey they were going to future proof themselves so stage manager will only work on the m1 capable ipads same with secondary monitor support so those are all things to keep in mind and there's actually another feature that i do want to bring up i'm not 100 sure which one this is going to be segregated to i do believe it's for mini led ipads but it could be just for m1 ipads and that is scaling the display so being able to scale your display is been a godsend especially with the m1 ipad pro with the 12.9 inch one because it allows you to use more real estate even though the screen is exactly the same size so it makes everything a little bit smaller it makes it so more text fits inside of whatever you're viewing so scaling it down to a minimum is a great thing to see but i'm not 100 sure which one this falls under or if maybe every single ipad of 16 ipad will be getting that and then the very last feature that is coming to only one ipad one variant of the ipad is reference mode so reference mode is for people that are video editors you know creatives you know they use photoshop a lot and they need to be able to use the power of that mini led display which is a liquid retina xdr display which is only on the 12.9 inch ipad pro and the m1 12.9 inch ipad pro so if you have this ipad pro which i personally do but i have never used this feature and i will probably never use this feature it just gives you the most color accurate version of whatever you're working on and you can use your ipad as a reference screen whenever you're editing something so it's a cool little addition but for 99.9 of people it's a feature that's not going to matter even for somebody like myself who works with video every single day is never going to make use of reference mode because i edit on my ipad anyway so i don't need to reference whatever i'm viewing on a secondary monitor to be able to get an accurate color representation of whatever i'm editing but that is something that again is exclusive to one single version of the ipad which is kind of weird to see but that is pretty much the entire tiered process of ipad os 16. so ipad os 16 for the most part is going to be 95 the same across all of the ipads that you use it's only once you start getting into the 2020 ipads with lidar scanners then in the m1 ipads like the m1 ipad pro and ipad air 5. that gives you that secondary monitor support and that's the biggest one stage manager is by far the best feature that's coming out for the ipad and after you get past that learning curve it is a very very cool way to actually compute with your ipad right being able to use a secondary monitor in the way that the ipad wants you to use it is very very cool and i think it could be the future moving forward you just got to give people a chance to really learn it get used to it and see that there are ways to optimize your workflow even in this weird new floating window space that apple created just for the ipad but again it's only coming to m1 powered ipads which is a sad thing to see because in my opinion even though some of these other ipads like the a12x and the a12z with that chipset that only has four or six gigs of ram it should be enough to have these floating windows with stage manager but apple has decided to segregate it to only m1 enabled ipads because it has the virtual memory swap and it has at least eight gigs of ram but that's gonna do for this video leave some comments down below if which ipad you have are you upset by this fact do you think apple is kind of just making excuses with what stage manager can be run on to again get more money out of you because again that's what apple is at the end of the day they're a business that wants you to continually upgrade your ipad or your idevice for whatever the case may be so they can continue to make money but if you guys made it to the end of this video leave a little dolphin in the comments down below as well so i know you made it to the end and if you guys are as excited as we are for the new iphone release click on one of these videos right here which should be talking about some leaks and rumors of what we should expect to see in apple's september event but until next time i'm fernando and i'm out of here peace\n"