We’ve been saying it for years: The iPad is a phenomenally powerful and flexible piece of hardware that’s being held back by iPadOS. In 2019, Apple officially split iOS and iPadOS, signaling that the tablet’s software would start to grow in its own direction, and we’ve been waiting for that decision to bear fruit ever since. With iPadOS 16, we’re getting the first real big step in that direction.
There are dozens of new features big and small, but these are the four