Over the past year, the iPad has gone from nice-to-have tablet to legitimate MacBook replacement with the release of iPadOS 13, the introduction of mouse support and the surprise release of the Magic Keyboard.
Now that I’ve been using the iPadOS 14 developer beta for the past two weeks I’d like to look at if the new release goes further to make the iPad an even better laptop and what the future could hold for Apple’s lineup.
So, what’s changed in iPadOS 14?
To be honest, it’s a bit of disappointing for iPad users. Unlike iOS 14, we can’t move widgets out of the Today View and put them anywhere on the home screen. We don’t get the handy app library and automatic home screen organisation that’s coming to the iPhone. There are no new features for the mouse or trackpad. And long-awaited features such as screen scalability on external display didn’t make it into this release. Instead, we still have black bars on either side of the display, and the iPad is still limited to only mirroring what’s on the display instead of extended the desktop like on the Mac.
