At Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the tech giant revealed a new version of iOS called iPadOS.
The new operating system brings several new and exciting features, on top of all of the new iOS 13 improvements, including a drag and drop keyboard, widgets and more.
Right away, the home screen has a tighter grid of apps and lets you pin widgets to the screen.
When you have apps open in 'Slide over' Apple has added multitasking for just the apps in Slide over so it's easier to run two apps at once.
Another cool improvement lets users open two apps at once. That means that you could have two Microsoft Word documents open at the same time if you wanted to copy information from one to another very quickly.
These changes have been a long time coming, and they help make the iPad a more capable laptop replacement since it makes it easier to multitask on Apple's tablet.
The files app is getting a few considerable improvements like letting users plug in thumb drives, SD Cards and more. The app is also getting a column view and file previews to the app, so it's more like Finder on a Mac.
Safari on iPad is now a desktop-class experience, with a download manager, 30 new keyboard shortcuts and it won't load websites in the mobile version anymore.
Dragging around the text cursor is now a lot easier, and the magnifying glass no longer appears on the screen. On top of that, you can bring three fingers together above text to copy it and then spread those three fingers apart somewhere else to paste.
Swiping to the left with three fingers is the new undo motion on iPadOS.
Not everyone uses their fingers on the iPad, so Apple has improved the Apple Pencil too. While it used to have a 20-millisecond latency, Apple's dropped that down to 9-milliseconds in iPadOS.
During a live demonstration of the new OS, they showed off a way to shrink the keyboard down, so it's a similar size to what it is on an iPhone. When it's shrunk, you can even drag it around the screen and use it where ever is the most convenient for you.
Apple didn't announce what iPads will be getting the new update.
More to come...
