The iPad Pro External Monitor Experience Is BETTER Than You've Been Told!

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[mfaizalmohd]

one of the features that need to be address quickly is output audio management, where u can select which audio output u want it to be, either from hdmi output, bluetooth, or from the ipad speaker itself..

right now its only output the audio automatically to hdmi where no bluetooth audio is connected.. no option to go for ipad speaker itself..

p.s. my hdmi audio monitor kind a suck btw.. 😅

[putindead]

iPad ecosystem is all about unnecessary limitations: you can use a monitor, but not in a clamshell mode, you can resize windows, but only to fit into pre-designed positions, you have a laptop-processor, but you can't run laptop software. it's all about buying a company deciding for you how you should and how you should use the resource that you already paid for. Not sure why one should tolerate that.

[bondr]

I love Stage Manager. My M1 iPad Pro 11 has been my real estate business machine since last November. Waited years for this, and now I can use my iPad Pro as a desktop machine. Got my cake and eatin' it too. Whooo Friggiinngg I use a BT keyboard with an Apple Trackpad 2. Feels very natural and intuitive to use a touch device to control a touch device. Also have an Anker hub with a Samsung T7 SSD for external storage. Life is good and luvin' iPadOS. Thanks for another great video Chris.

[abdullahmohdnawi]

I had previously been tearing my hair out at how unusable Stage Manager was as a whole, but then magic happened. It all started to come together when I started using external display, and I tuned my workflow to accomodate this set up. Now I pretty much use Stage Manager on both my iPad and external display whenever I am in Productivity mode, and switch it off in my iPad when I am doing everything else. I am loving this new setup now!

[joshualeesherman]

I appreciate tech reviews that are positive and optimistic. I don’t mind if they mention short comings of the item being reviewed, but it’s still done with hope that it could be improved. Good job!

[danteyoutu]

I enjoy that you are always positive on these features and find how to make them work to make you more productive while the rest of YouTube experts only whine about new features because they aren’t exactly what they wanted

[PowerrangerInWhite]

This feature completely changed the way I use my ipad for school.
I am now able to just take simple notes when in class or ask Questions that actually help me better understand the topic.
With a secondary monitor and a good mech keyboard + mouse I now really enjoy to do a clean daily follow-up in Notion without having to boot up my desktop pc.

[jpetitcompere]

You are 💯 correct. Channels complain iPad doesn’t have pro features. The second it arrives they complain about it not even out of beta yet. This will be improved upon it’s just the beginning. I’m exited to do some music production with this set up and have my levels up on the second display too hopefully . Great video

[georgefolickman]

Stage Manager is great! Now I desperately need support for Continuity Camera or Studio Display camera to fix the iPad Pro camera placement. Surprised I don't see more people asking for this 🤔

[bobzzz]

One year later and that’s my setup! Mainly use scrivener and procreate, and am loving the external monitor. I upgraded my 2018 12.9” ipad pro for an M2 1 tb model last month. Didn’t want to spend on a new keyboard for the M4 :( but going from the 2018 to the M2 is plenty of an upgrade so far hehe. I was surprised to get 400 bucks back in credit for the 2018 pro from the applestore, so like 30% value back after six years of use!

[BackAtItAKen]

It’s definitely refreshing to hear a take on the positive improvements being made, even if they’re incremental. Thank you! 🤙🏼

[tucoerquilenne]

Definitely a step in the right direction for Stage Manager and other Apps that will take advantage of working with an external display with the iPad Pro lineup. By 2023 when the newer and rumored bigger iPad Pro's come out it should be well ironed out and run smoothly. I am excited to see how this develops. If this works out to be as good as I think it will I will get a iMac to go along with my iPad Pro.

[xXshegodXx]

Thanks for all the iPad content. I adore the iPad. It’s just a fun way to get work done. It makes the mundane, magical. 🤩 I appreciate, and enjoy your perspective on this amazing device. Peace, Love and Light!

[Izudra]

I have bad input lag on my extrrnal Monitor (APC Gaming 140hz) but only with my IPad. Pc stays clean and lag free

[micleeso]

A noteworthy feature not mentioned on the external display, when the focus is needed, a full screen of the app is possible. I see the app tiling as a design step within the workflow. This step is intended to select an app to the forefront or fullscreen. However I agree a free-form window sizing in external display mode needs to happen; otherwise, it’s a frustrating feature.

[j_official]

Don’t conflate issues. The people who are out there railing against stage manager aren’t doing so because of the experience on an external monitor on IPadOS 16.2 beta, but rather the experience on the iPad itself on iPadOS 16.1 final.  

Stage manager needs some work. 

First major order of business needs to be free-form windowing, let us resize and move windows wherever we want with no hidden grid.  

They also need to fix the unceremonious dumping back to springboard when you minimize an app that is the only one on a stage/pile.  

They need to add a keyboard shortcut to bring up the stage.  

If I set an app to full screen, there should be a keyboard shortcut to place it back into windowed mode in the same size and position on screen that it was in prior to being full-screened.

They need to allow apps/windows to overlay the springboard, without blurring it out (like we can on the Mac). So for example, this would allow a user to interact with Spotify while still seeing the contents of the widgets.  

They should also add a snap-to-grid feature to allow users to snap apps to various grids 2x2 (4 quadrants) 1x3 (1 height, 3 apps each having the same width), etc.  

Finally, they should consider allowing the use of slide over while stage manager is active. Say for example I have Safari open and I want to access Apple Music or Spotify, why not allow me to slide those apps over briefly for me to interact with them, then slide them out of the way? I can already do slide over when stage manager is not active… so why not also when it’s active?

[jmbosquesillo]

Great to hear some positives on the performance factor..

[DerVagabundli]

Great demonstration! My question is: why in the world can my Android phone handle 2 monitors independently whereas my 2020ipad pro can't? I mean other than the obvious apple just-buy-a-new-one-cashgrab and wanting me to buy an additional macbook.
This is so frustrating. Maybe it's just me being naive, wanting a machine advertised as "laptop replacement" to have basic computer functionality.

[calle]

The lack of windows title bar and the disney’s style bouncing window resize and move makes me wait for future upgrades.

[RemofRenaissance]

If they can bring a near desktop experience to Microsoft excel and a reporting suite like Power Bi or Tableau (I’m a data person) then I’m all in. Nice post / video 👍🏾