Jason Snell at Six Colors:
Apple decided to just throw out that entire system and build a new one that’s unabashedly inspired by the Mac. In iPadOS 26, you can resize windows arbitrarily, put them anywhere, and manage them using the familiar stoplight buttons in the top left corner.
Nobody, not even power users like me, wants to see the simplicity of the basic iPad experience degraded in any way. I think they’ve done a pretty good job of adding pro features without breaking it for everyone else. We’ll see how it goes over the summer and into the fall.
No clipboard manager, but a big Files (dare I say Finder) update, too. I installed the developer beta on an older M1 iPad Pro. I’m dying to plug it into the thunderbolt hub.