As ambitious as the Stage Manager feature for iPadOS 16 is, Apple may still have some work left to do on it.
The company is set to release iPadOS 16 to the public later this month, but users continue to post complaints as to issues related to stage manager.
In the latest iPadOS 16 beta seeded earlier this week, developer Steve Troughton-Smith and MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci highlighted various user interface issues they continue to face from time to time while using Stage Manager, including the dock disappearing when rotating the iPad, content failing to scale properly when a window is resized, keyboard input failing to register in certain apps, and more.
Apple recently expanded Stage Manager to include older iPad Pro models with A12X and A12Z chips released in 2018 and 2020, albeit without external display support, which limits the feature to four apps on the built-in display on these models. Apple also delayed external display support for iPad models with the M1 chip until later this year.
The Stage Manager feature allows users to have up to four apps open in overlapping windows on an iPad display. A modified version of Stage Manager is also available on macOS Ventura for keeping windows front and center.
Apple has yet to confirm a specific day when iPadOS 16 will be released. The software update will be labeled iPadOS 16.1, and it will likely be released alongside iOS 16.1 for the iPhone, as the updates share the same build number.
If you’ve had a chance to test Stage Manager on your end, please let us know about your experience in the comments.
Via MacRumors, @stroughtonsmith, and @viticci