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Stage Manager on the 11-Inch M1 iPad is Actually Useful
Which surprised me and perhaps will surprise you
Skip this paragraph if you already know what Stage Manager is. If not, it’s an iPadOS 16 feature that allows resizable, overlapping, and moveable window groups for apps. Up to four windows can be in a group, and there can be four groups.
In the screenshot below, only one of the four groups has multiple windows; the rest are just recent apps.
Enabling Stage Manager
This is beyond weird. You toggle this on and off and change its options in Control Center. The options are to hide the Dock, which makes sense, or to hide the Recent Apps. You might ask what’s the sense of hiding the apps and window groups; the answer is that you can see these old-fashioned way by swiping up from the bottom of the screen or by using Command-TAB on a real keyboard. The options are to hide the Dock, which makes sense, or to hide the Recent Apps. That does help with the limited screen of the 11-inch iPad.
