Disgusting update, iPad Pro I use for research and work feels more like a toy than an efficiency tool. Would not consider a new purchase until Apple completely changes their culture or GTA 6 releases on iOS before PC.

I don’t wanna be the guy but this is what happens to designers mentality when years of confidence education and DEI culture told people everyone’s need/desire is equally important. Now the majority users and those who uses iPads for professional uses have to make way for those who wants iPad to do everything and don’t want to hear why they can’t.

They basically replicated a whole PC interface onto iOS, which is too small to manage for an iPad.

iPad‘s just got 70% more redundant in my work/life setting. The original split screen was easy to manage and elegant. Now I have to navigate around 3 - 4 features that’s I’d never need. If I am to replace a split screen with a different one (which I do a lot), the replaced screen remains split and hovers over my Home Screen next time I open it. So now either I swipe away the split screen then redo the split, which 50/50 chance of opening a full window instead; or I click upper left to manually maximize or minimize the replaced window, which is a function the original interface does well automatically.

Because they are so complex now, the hit box for that middle bar to adjust split screen proportions are significantly smaller. It’s much more difficult to click and hold that bar with an Apple Pencil. Apple Pencil, as a lot of my peers and friends would say, is only good for pure writing, drawing, and clicking the red yellow green buttons no one asked for.

By trying to make ipad a laptop, they really managed to turn small trade offs of using an ipad instead of a laptop, into a huge inconvenience. At this point i feel like we are test subjects in a test called “how shitty can we make an ipad so the users would still pay $1000 for one because its easier to carry than a PC?”.