Apple’s latest iPadOS update is finally catching up to how people actually use tablets, turning the iPad into a far more capable multitasking machine instead of a single‑app slab. With iPadOS 26.2, ...

iPadOS 26 introduces a new windowing system for iPad. Now that multitasking is more powerful than ever, there are plenty of features and capabilities that iPad users will need to be aware of once ...

Apple released iPadOS 26.1 beta 2 to developers today, and it comes with a major returning feature: Slide Over multitasking is back on the iPad. Here’s how it works. Revamp of Slide Over works ...

Over the years, Apple has gradually enhanced the iPad to make it feel more like a Mac. One way it's pulled off this trick is ...

PadOS 26 was the biggest shift the iPad has ever seen. Here’s where the iPad finally stands as a computer in 2025.

If Apple announces multitasking for its iPhone and iPad tomorrow, it will be a limited version that the company controls, allowing some applications to run in the background but denying others, ...

Apple is planning more multitasking and windowing features for its tablets. Apple is planning more multitasking and windowing features for its tablets. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and ...

I somewhat called it! In the run-up to WWDC 2025, I asked Apple to please introduce true multitasking to iOS (and by extension, iPadOS). We didn’t get it in iOS, but Apple did unveil an entirely new ...

Rumors point to iPadOS 19 blurring the line between the iPad and Mac. With Apple reportedly focusing on “productivity, multitasking and app window management,” we put together a very specific iPadOS ...

Apple today previewed the next generation of its iPhone software, which will add over 100 new features, including the long-awaited multitasking, to the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. CEO Steve Jobs took ...

Well, this is wild. A developer has managed to get iPadOS 26 booting on an iPhone 17 Pro Max, giving us an early, unofficial (and probably very unintended) look at Apple’s new desktop-style ...

I think I speak for everyone at Cult of Mac when I say that the last hour has been incredibly exciting. I didn’t expect much from a small, post-iPad event about iPhone OS 4.0: multitasking and iAds, ...