Transcript
Rosemary Orchard (0:00)
Coming up on iOS today, we're going to talk about iPad multitasking and some shortcuts magic sprinkled in with Stephen Robles.
Stephen Robles (0:09)
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Rosemary Orchard (0:18)
This is iOS today. Episode 788 recorded January 27th for February 5th, 2026. IPad multitasking. Welcome to iOS today where we talk all things iPhone, iPad, HomePod, Apple TV and all of the other Apple random things on offer which keeps expanding with all of the new things like car key. Are we going to talk about cars next? I don't know. This is not the Accidental Tech Podcast, but it is a great podcast and this week my co host is Stephen Robles. Welcome back, Stephen.
Stephen Robles (0:51)
Thanks again for having me a second time.
Rosemary Orchard (0:53)
No problem. I'm very glad that we were able to get you back again so quickly from the previous episode because I believe, and I don't know why, I just get this feeling you use the iPad a little bit just, you know, every once in a while maybe.
Stephen Robles (1:09)
I use the iPad every day. It is my podcast editing machine. You know, I do a daily tech show plus a weekly show and I edit all of the audio versions on iPad exclusively and I've been doing it for years. I just love editing editing there with Apple Pencil. But since going from an 11 inch to a 13 inch, I have been doing more multitasking and finally embraced Stage Manager and the windowing mode of IPADOS 26, which I was not about for a long time. I was split screen at the most for a while now. But I do, I multitask. I've even gone so far now as when I'm building shortcuts, I will mirror my iPad into Vision Pro so I can make the screen even larger and then multitask on the iPad and Vision Pro while I can have some video or movie playing in the background. So yeah, I'm kind of all in now. I do it all.
Rosemary Orchard (2:02)
Alright, well my solution to this problem because I don't have a Vision Pro is I have an 11 inch iPad Pro and I've got an iPad mini and so I can watch something on the iPad mini which is standing on this actually really lovely moft case. Which is what? Their fancy origami case? Hey, snap. It's like we planned this. We did not plan the matching cases folks, I have to say. But yeah, it's when stage manager came out and then I got another iPad mini, I went, huh, wait, what? How, how do I multitask now? Because I'm very used to multitasking. And I get on pretty well with multitasking on the 11 inch iPad, I have to say. But the fact that I couldn't have stage manager on my iPad mini was breaking my brain. Now I have stage manager on the iPad iPad mini, and it's a little bit monkey's paw in that I got exactly what I asked for. And maybe I didn't ask for the right thing because of course the iPad mini screen is really tiny. But you have a 13 inch iPad, so you know, you must be doing better with multitasking on that. You know, what sort of things do you end up putting on your iPad screen at the same time? And how do you lay out your apps?