iPad Multitasking Explained: Stage Manager Guide!

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Intro 00:10
Enabling Stage Manager 00:16
Arranging Windows 00:44
iPhone Apps on the iPad 01:33
Multi-App 02:02
Windowing Limits 03:32
Display Scaling 04:18
iPadOS 17 Changes 05:25
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Multi-Window 10:14
Recent Strip 11:16
External Monitor Support 13:32
What Stage Manager Needs Next 14:35
Supported iPad's 17:25
Wrap Up 17:47

[@ChrisLawley]

What do you think of the Stage Manager changes? Also My NEW 2023 Wallpaper Pack is live: chrislawley.gumroad.com/l/202WallpaperPack

[@qntsu]

Unfortunately I don’t have access to stage manager since I own an iPad Air 4th Gen, and it’s only available on the later models the 5th gen and the pros. Would love the feature for when I do productivity so I can keep track of things and on top of that be more efficient.

[@ChrisLopez-tf6xy]

Hi

[@KatanaHYC]

I agree with the need to add more apps to each Stage.

[@man-bagdammit2297]

I can't think of a KZbinr who knows the iPad and iPadOS as well as Christopher Lawley. iPadOS software engineers would be very wise to listen to his ideas and suggestions, because there aren't too many people on this planet who have mastered the iPad like Chris has!

[@ibrkmr]

No doubt!

[@moazhmi]

Highly agree , quite informative videos and love the insights , my go to for anything mac related ❤

[@Allisllover]

as someone who is planning on moving from a chromebook to an ipad as my main computer this was the most comprehensive sm run through ive seen and ive seen a lot 😭 tysm!!!

[@christianl3592]

Why don’t you just get a MacBook Air?

[@Allisllover]

@@christianl3592I'm too used to having a touchscreen! Also as a medical intern/resident my computer needs won't change for at least the next 5 years. (Doctors are very underpayed in my country so I would rather not spend extra money on both a computer and an ipad when i know I realistically only need one)

[@AltoAlto-kp8md]

yeah just get a macbook lol

[@Jferraro24]

@@christianl3592 as someone in the same boat, the lack of touchscreen is a dealbreaker for me as I am constantly annotating documents and I like doing it by hand

[@alvar3zs]

I think they’re moving in the right direction with these changes..however, one thing I wish they would add is to be able to drag a window to the edge and have it snap to half the screen, or in the corners rather than having to manually adjust the window size every time

[@fkcombustion]

They don’t even have this feature on MacOS lmao

[@BlueShellToad]

@@fkcombustion You can snap to left or right by holding down Command, right clicking on the green button and selecting the snapping on the drop-down menu, but it’d be nice to at least have a toggle for automatic window snapping for most people who prefer that. I’m not someone who actually liked that being a thing when I was on Windows whenever I want my windows a certain size or shape on either side, so I actually prefer the way Mac OS does it, but I’m a rare exception rather than the norm.

[@fkcombustion]

@@BlueShellToad measured and realistic reply ❤️💯

[@barrypewtress5762]

What an awesome video. Thank you! I was really struggling with figuring this out. I’ll probably watch this many times until I master Stage Manager.

[@MelissaAtwell]

Wow, thank you for this comprehensive, deep dive into Stage Manager! This was *exactly* what I needed. Excellent work, as always!

[@jimtipton8888]

Great info Chris! I use my iPad Pro in a sales rep position. Initially I resisted stage manager, that is until I worked a convention. High paced environment where I need to switch between apps quickly and multitask. Switched on stage manager and it greatly improved my efficiency. Haven't turned it off since and that was back in February.

[@lantern214]

Ty! So many reddit pages and KZbin vids say the iPad is not a "main computer", but here you are showing its full potential. As a home inspector, this fits my needs, since the ipad is portable, light weight, and has the ability to adapt to w/e I need w/o having to own a MacBook, or PC. Keep up the great work; you earned a sub!

[@89ji76]

Long time MacBook user and just switched to iPad. This video is so helpful for rebuilding my workflow. Thank you!

[@heyjaywilson]

The number of keyboard shortcuts I'm learning from this is astounding. I didn't realize Globe could be used in keyboard shortcuts

[@filgaia1]

2nd. I also don't love Stage Manager on the iPad because every time I open a new app it opens a new stage. I wish it would just load the app into the current stage. It feels just a few steps short of greatness. That said it's AMAZING for using external monitors with my iPad Pro M1. Edit: just got to the part where you talked about the wish for the setting to allow you to do this -- YES!

[@nickthaskater]

If you shift click on an app it is supposed to add it to the current stage.

[@damiengrief]

This is my biggest issue with it as a new iPad user. Because I'll open apps one at a time and each of their windows end up in their own stage. Then I'll close all the windows in a Stage I'm in and it will take me to another stage of some random app I opened by itself an hour ago. I just want to go back to the home screen when I close all the windows in a stage.

[@VectorGaming4080]

As someone who owns a Windows desktop PC and needs a portable machine, I really want the iPad to be my main machine. This video was exactly what I needed to help convince me that the iPad can do everything for me. My Windows desktop PC is mainly used forbig 4K gaming that only and Nvidia GPU can provide. But, my 11 inch iPad Air will be my main computer for everything else and even some lighter games. Thanks so much for this.

[@TheOKWanderer]

Always love these videos, sir. Your video library has inspired me to use the 12.9 as my main "work" device. Thanks for all the info!

[@DerekZimmer]

Soooo much details! Thank you! One thing to know about iPad vs Mac is that the iPad has more hardware limitations like thermals. iPad also has to include touch functionality where Mac does not. This makes it more challenging to have iPad software mirror Mac software. So, I why some things are different between the two. I am also thrilled when iPad offers the same (or better) functionality as a Mac. At work I use iPad 85% of the time for ease of use, battery life, lighter, and smaller. I am excited to see a 14” iPad hopefully with better thermals. Keep up the absolutely great and useful videos!

[@mynameisben123]

MacOS like features that don’t work well with touch could require the Magic Keyboard

[@macfanguy]

❤ thank you! That hiding of the recent stages is gold.

[@darkshark2855]

Dude this channel is exactly what i've been looking for, i have so many apple products and have been using them in such a subpar way. NOT ANYMORE. thanks man

[@ChrisLawley]

That’s awesome to hear, thank you!! Hope you enjoy.

[@darkshark2855]

@@ChrisLawley You're welcome, you'll be a 1 mil in no time.

[@Gabriel-ci7db]

I have stage manager enabled on my iPad Pro 10.5 via jailbreak and I can tell you it runs just fine. There’s absolutely no valid reason older iPads can’t run stage manager (other than Apple’s greed).

[@chanvongnget]

I would love to see more of this in iOS 17. Specifically, I would like to see how we can use Microsoft Word and Excel on the iPad, as well as Photoshop and video editing. 😍

[@tekiro]

What stand does he have at the 13:32 mark. The a genius way to have the ipad placed for video calls and still multitask! Brilliant!

[@MarquisKurt]

Great video! While I'm still very much a Split View + Slide Over iPad user for both technical and personal preference reasons, I do feel that you bring up some valid criticisms for the current implementation of Stage Manager.

[@IRVremy]

Keep up the great work Chris, been following you for a while now. You are doing AWESOME work!

[@dplj4428]

8:43 gmail web and desktop has filters. Apple mail learns by senders, but i can’t recall how i set it up.

[@HatefYaminiOnline]

Superb! Instant subscriber. 🙏

[@BakesBread001]

Great video! Does iPad OS have a new app icon for files? I mean the one that resembles the Mac smile face. That would be cool.

[@joeysven]

Thanx Man! This is all I needed to know about Stage Manager! Helped me a lot! Thanx once again! 👍🏼

[@lucasramallo5044]

Wish they added this to every iPad

[@Gabriel-ci7db]

It’s possible via jailbreak. I’m running stage manager on my iPad Pro 10.5 and I can tell you it works just fine. Apple has no reason to withhold stage manager from older iPads. They are perfectly capable.

[@raghavsharma7187]

@@Gabriel-ci7db is it possible on ipad 10 with ipados 17.5.1?

[@Gabriel-ci7db]

@@raghavsharma7187 not possible as it requires a jailbreak and that device/version combination doesn’t have one currently.

[@jeffhale1189]

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the tutorial knowledge. I see myself now using Stage Manager. Blessings on your day!

[@mikehintondrivingschool4126]

Love this video. Helped me a lot understand stage manager. Now I’m using it all the time. Is there a guide for all the keyboard shortcuts?

[@damiengrief]

I just got a new iPad Pro and I love the idea of Stage Manager, but as someone who has never used it before, it has a steep learning curve. I want to have floating windows like Stage Manager allows but don't want to deal with multiple stages. It's really annoying when I have one app window open in a stage, close it, and it takes me to a random stage I didn't even know I had open because I didn't understand that opening a single app creates a new stage. When I close all windows in a stage, I want to go back to my home screen by default. Just let me customize that.

[@JJ-us3zj]

Chris what is the iPad stand you are using in this video, it looks great!

[@man-bagdammit2297]

Great video! You do a great job!

[@maciccarelli]

You’re the man, Chris. Great video!

[@wilvii3088]

Cool video, I can't wait to see what Apple comes out with next month for the iPads to try out these features. Also where can one go to purchase that R2D2 model in your video background?

[@JeffPom]

If someone doesn’t know… they will need to go to settings to turn off the “mirror display.” Settings - Display & Brightness 14:00

[@jhon2k1y]

great explanation

[@sploo1012]

Great video! Looking forward to iPadOS 17. Also looking forward an Obsidian primer from you. I think you said it was on the roadmap. 😊

[@dabooyse]

You’re still around? Don’t see you on Twitter so didn’t know you were still making videos. Very informative, thank you for this 😄

[@djconnolly7467]

Very thorough incomplete description. Is there a way to snap windows into non overlapping settings if we wanted to occur?

[@Akella1986]

You definitely have the best Ipad related channel in whole KZbin

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you!

[@jjrosaria]

How did you make your reminder have different sub categories? Like @1:04 under 'Video Projects' you have a list for Idea, Research, etc.

[@snazzy]

12:28 Hey, handsome guy! Thanks so much for putting this video out. Had no idea it was so powerful and that there were so many keyboard shortcuts. Gotta admit, it’s going to be a pretty steep learning curve, but I really want to do a better job at giving iPadOS a shot than I have in the past. Been using a 13” that I’ve always felt is too unwieldy, so I ordered an 11”, but after watching this, I think I probably need to get the 13” for more display real estate.

[@ChrisLawley]

Hey! Thank you so much! Love your videos. I definitely prefer the 12.9/13 size because of the real estate.

[@TheLovelyPatricia]

Hey! Found this from the Hulry newsletter.

[@OfficialArthusamakh]

Can you use stage manager to have youtube and safari open at the same time for instance, however in portrait mode with a horizontal cut, so that you have your youtube video on top and the other app in the bottom, both filling out the screen more efficiently?

[@natalialouwerse4933]

Hello! I want to ask how did you get the finder app? During the playback of the video I notice the icon of finder in the dock. Thanks !

[@sorinropotan371]

Appreciate the explanations, thank you! Would be interested if I can use an M1 iPad Pro connected to a monitor trough a hub with mouse, keyboard and usb camera and use Zoom on the monitor and one note on the iPad screen for note taking. I’d very much appreciate if you or someone from the community can try this setup and let me know. Thank you!

[@willjordan1560]

This is absolutely fantastic, Chris! Thanks!

[@ChrisLawley]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@deanduzit]

You do a great job! Hope somebody from apple is listening to these videos

[@LuLszic]

Been using my M1 iPad Pro Stage Manager on an External Monitor display now in iOS 17 beta 7 and it made me not to buy a Macbook in the future. My gaming computer is collecting dust cuz this iPad has all the games and apps I need and it’s easy to use even editing videos. Now theres something bugging me, is there a keyboard shortcut or an option to enable this on clicking the 3 dot option above to easily get off Fullscreen apps. Cuz right now after watching a video or this KZbin video in Fullscreen I have to drag my mouse down the right corner to resize the app and get off the Fullscreen KZbin app rather than just click the 3 dot above to click a unFullscreen toggle.

[@joey_garibaldi]

Great new setup!

[@tanatosan]

Thank you for mentioning about the "keyboard bar" that is so useless. Always thinking why this exists in the first place.

[@maikaimakena9424]

Chris is the MAN ❤

[@originalsaban]

Great video Chris! I was wondering what this widget app in the second 0:34 are you using for time tracking?

[@lukchem]

It would make a lot of sense if they gave stage manager to the iPad 10 with the 4 Windows-Limit and no option to extend the desktop to a second screen; then kept the Air how it is with 2 Screens a 4 Windows and then gave the iPad Pro support for infinite Windows. That would make both the iPad 10 and the Pro way better while keeping the typical upselling limitations so users have reasons to upgrade to more expensive models.

[@stammina]

I see the Finder app icon on your dock. How did you get this app? I can’t find it on iPadOS

[@genndiygromow4142]

6:60 - wish I'd get such accurate windows tile. Mine always always interlap each other, even with "more space" on. Guess not an option on 11" model

[@01bigtrev]

I always go back to stage manager and briefly play around with it and ultimately give up.

[@LuyandaMgobhozi]

Quality Upload!

[@technician006]

Finally! Proper multitasking in iPad OS!!!!

[@wanala4982]

Love how you cut the clip just before explaining how to add to control center

[@Riomncd]

How does a person turn off the show keyboard that blocks the UI? I didn’t even know that was possible. Please and thank you for the help 😅

[@JohnWallace74]

Thanks for this video on Stage Manager. I have loved Stage Manager since it was released in iPadOS 16. You have showed me how to turn on the high resolution display mode for more display space - thanks. My 13 inch iPad Pro M1 is my primary computing platform these days now with stage manager.

[@dplj4428]

15:59 yep, want that app pinning to a stage.

[@lukchem]

I hate that they removed the word suggestions with enabled stage manager. They do display the text bar thing but why the hell not the suggestions??

[@nobody-wr8xs]

Does stagemanager consume more battery?

[@Padygy]

Is there a way to move whole stages between iPad and the external display?

[@tawl23]

Hey Chris, I have a question. The bar at the bottom of your iPad looks as though it’s the bar a Mac has. How do you get that to happen?

[@Tigerandkelly]

Hey Chris. Found out ya channels by chance and cant believe there are heaps of info on the use of iPad pro! I just got my iPadpro 12" a couple weeks ago and am trying to make it my main device at home. I am just wondering if u have suggestions on external keyboard. I have the Logitech MX master 3 and am actually looking for an keyboard to use on the ipad. Apart from the magic keyboard for iPad Pro, have u used other brands and would recommend it? Currently im looking at the NuPhy air75 v2.

[@kidcal]

As per your recommendation for GLOBE key, I selected my hardware keyboard and selected the one I am using, but the modifier key menu doesn’t show up? Is my keyboard too old? I am using the Satechi extended bluetooth keyboard.

[@ChrisLawley]

It could be that. If you have another Bluetooth keyboard try that one and see if it shows up.

[@hristoborislavov6578]

So happy that I switched from iPad Pro 12.9 M1 to MacBook Air 15". Such a great laptop that you could actually use for work! I was trying to adapt the iPad for the last year and a half and tried to love it and watch every possible iPad video that suggests that it's amazing and close to laptop replacement but happy that I trow it away and now use my M2 MacBook Air.

[@Trizzx_DLC]

I don’t seem to find a stage manager icon and I already checked control center. I don’t see it at all and I made sure that I am on iPadOS 17 beta.

[@Capyrkeys]

If the background would just show my app library as a desktop it would be great. Also i would really love to just put files on my desktop.

[@AdelAlberk]

Excellent video as always But why dont u use a teleprompter Cause we can clearly see u reading ur script from the ipad

[@Crusader1089]

Its so annoying you need an M-chip ipad to take advantage of stage manager (properly). I feel like the 12x/z have enough power.

[@AntonioLopez-rn4to]

How short and wide can the Nebo app window be set simultaneously? I prefer handwriting as an input method and, currently on iPadOS 16, Nebo’s window height is too tall when expanded to its widest. Thank you.

[@ykwongtube]

any rendering process of imovie/fcp/dvr can be running in background or the external display while i still doing other task on foreground?

[@changdaniel]

this video is making me to try Stages now.. thank you.. and YES.. The keyboard bard needs to be improve, remove… so annoying

[@changdaniel]

Something that I noticed is when I hide the recent apps and the dock.. I would like them to show up when I mouse over

[@imgeffrey]

You can remove that keyboard bar. Go to Settings > General > Keyboards. Turn off both 'Shortcuts' and 'Predictive.' Voila, it's gone! No more blocked input fields or send buttons.

[@ChrisLawley]

Expect this turns off the predictive and shortcuts options for the software keyboard which I do use.

[@soyyo5260]

Great video and info. I learned quite a few shortcuts. Also, you mentioned that you can have more than 4 stages at a time. How do I set them up/find them? I’ve never been able to operate more than 4.

[@debragoss-seeger2978]

i turned on stage manager, but I can't find it on the pull down area - where could it be? Says green in the control center - but I can't find it

[@ToadstoolFilms]

I’m with you on getting rid of the typing bar… until I come to needing autocomplete (name, phone number, email, credit card etc). Is there a way of doing that without the typing bar?

[@ToadstoolFilms]

Not that you can get rid of the typing bar. But minimising it only to have to unminimise it can be a real pain when you’re doing it a lot.

[@originalsaban]

I got it off toggling off Shortcuts, Predictive and Slide on Floating Keyboard to Type, you can find them in General -> Keyboards, now it only appears when I’m using autocomplete

[@dplj4428]

I do not see Stage Manager on iPad Mini 6th generation control settings. I have iPadOS 17.4.1. Is it only for M1 and above iPads? Any rumors from m-series iPad mini?

[@philliplanos]

the fact that its 4 windows and not apps is crazy...glad someone with your platform said it. even if they gave is 6 apps and 8 windiws total per screen it eould solve a lot of issues. 6 apps per stage and look up and compose or any other eindows like that should really be a non issue. however the best would really be no limit

[@Josh-vk7qu]

When ipados17 came out to all users a few days ago, I was able to finally fit four screens in a stage in stage manager without overlapping like you did in the video (I don’t have the side or dock view) but now that they released the 17.0.2 update, it’s back to normal where the 4 apps in a stage overlap each other. Any idea what happened? Does your iPad overlap now too?

[@glenntoal6346]

Thoughts on stage manager for Mac?

[@Dan_Yerlll]

Stage manager is cluttered, confusing, and redundant. The pre existing multitasking is SO much better. Having full screen apps with either Slide Over or Split screen options is more than enough in my opinion, and is both less confusing and more intuitive than Stage Manager.

[@ChaosLv99]

Totally agree, stage manager feels a step back to an old way of doing computing: the OS becomes again a layer of friction between you and the apps you wanna use. Fortunately we can just leave it off and enjoy a modern and transparent OS.

[@justinkaplan5919]

Do apps that are not on your current stage run in the background?

[@YoutubeAccount-gk3gn]

You’re the best.

[@mypradasatthecleanerss]

What I can’t seem to understand is the order of multitasking windows. E.g. I swap from one app in one window to one window in another (each app being the first and second app shown in the app switcher shown using the tab key). However if I press F3 and see all the current windows, these two apps are in really unexpected places e.g at least 2 columns across. More frustrating than it sounds!

[@emilyysinghh8329]

question, i have updated my ipad completely, but i don’t see this feature. do you know what is wrong?

[@Gerbil_World]

14:53 “iPuuad” 👍🏻

[@brianmoran.]

How do you have the Finder icon?

[@raghavsharma7187]

in my ipad 10 with os 17.5.1 it is not showing me there any fixes? or they just sim0ly removed that feature from ipados17

[@brian_voll]

I’d like to switch back to the iPad as my main computer. I recently sold my M1 iPP for an M2 MacBook Air. If I ever give up my game development hobby, I think I’d switch back immediately. Photography being my other hobby, I much prefer editing photos on the iPad instead of the Mac. I feel like I have some pretty nice photos and would love to sell them at some point. Is there any ways you’d recommend going about doing that? I have a shortcut on my iPhone that will randomly choose one of my photos for a wallpaper, it then saves it onto iCloud for the iPad to also run a shortcut ~30 minutes later to grab that same file. It’s nice having matching wallpapers on the devices. Unfortunately, I can’t find a way to automate this on the Mac. I always get nice comments on my photos, would love to get them out to the world somehow - that’s not just instagram.

[@MitsukiLIVE]

Very insightful thank you!

[@Akella1986]

You finally got rid of fantastical and It’s really smart move 👍😁

[@ChrisLawley]

I switch over to Apples productivity apps for the summer during the beta period. I wouldn’t read in it.

[@Akella1986]

@@ChrisLawleyyou previously said you probably will not stay with Fantastical due to the rise of subscription pricing, so I thought you have finally made it)

[@ChrisLawley]

I forgot to cancel it and it auto renewed. It’s still the best calendar app on the iPad and iPhone. I just don’t use a calendar that much right now. I’ll probably play with the other calendar apps after the beta season is over.

[@Denisimo91]

How did you change files app picture ?

[@LokeshKaranam-jw5od]

How to get the finder app in iPad?

[@effyruan3652]

None of the shortcut key works on my iPad for some reason😢

[@TheRelaxingRide]

Stage Manager - clear as mud 😅

[@IT_Tech_PL]

Stage Manager is really great and useful. It's not like full desktop but closer to it. Thanks for video.