Shocking news: The new iPad mini doesn’t have Stage Manager multitasking
No iPad mini model has ever supported Stage Manager, Apple’s multitasking feature in iPadOS, and that includes the latest iPad mini 7. But you already knew that.
Apple blogs are surprised that the new iPad mini is incompatible with Stage Manager, Apple’s multitasking feature. Writing for MacRumors, Joe Rossignol has “confirmed that the new iPad mini is not compatible with the Stage Manager feature.”
I can also confirm that Stage Manager has never worked on any iPad mini. Stage Manager only makes sense when you have enough screen space, and it’s not surprising that the feature has never worked on Apple’s smallest tablet.
Unsurprisingly, almost all compatible iPads have screens measuring eleven inches or high r. The 10.9-inch iPad Air is the smallest iPad that supports Stage Manager. By comparison, the latest iPad mini has an 8.3-inch display, so you do the math.
Shocking news: iPad mini 7 lacks Stage Manager
Stage Manager allows you to manage multiple overlapping windows in a single view on your iPad, switch between open and recent apps, resize app windows to different sizes, view all your open apps simultaneously, and more.
Stage Manager on iPad requires Apple silicon, the M1 or later, to ensure smooth performance. It’s memory-intensive and relies on a fast memory swap feature, which lets it run more apps than the RAM allows. Each app in iPadOS can ask for up to 16 GB of memory, and Stage Manager enables you to run up to eight apps at once.
Peruse our tutorial to learn how to set up, configure and use Stage Manager on your iPad. Stage Manager is also available on Apple silicon Macs with macOS Ventura or later. While Stage Manager is yet another way to multitask on your iPad and Mac, the feature hasn’t been well-received because it’s uncharacteristically clunky and doesn’t seem to increase productivity.
Apple seems to have disbanded a group responsible for Stage Manager development; there are no Stage Manager-specific tweaks in iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma. iPadOS 17 makes Stage Manager a bit less painful to use by allowing you to position app windows more precisely (but still not 100% freely, like on macOS) and that’s about it.
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