today Apple officially announced the new update to iPadOS 17, which brings several interesting news to iPad Apple wants you to personalize your iPad more than ever with its new update, iPadOS 17. A feeling of deja vu has crossed our minds, however, as the new iPad OS draws heavily on what has already been offered on iOS. “Finally” would we like to say, since it took a year for Apple to offer the same features as on iOS.
The Lock Screen and the home screen will thus be very close to iOS. On the one hand, we have the home screen, which will be able to accommodate a large number of new widgets, whether developed by Apple or a third party. Management and launch of music, management of Reminders,
At the lock screen, again, the iPad is very close to the iPhone. The time can be changed as you want and, with a small difference with iOS, it will be possible to change the size. Personal photos or themes developed by Apple can be chosen for even more personalized wallpapers and use a depth effect.
In this regard, Apple will add a new version of the Astronomy theme, with the possibility of putting all the planets of the solar system. Finally, a Live Photo will be activated when the iPad screen is turned on
Improved PDF support
Always with a view to bringing the iPad closer to the iPhone, many updates of the latter will soon land on the tablet. Health in particular, will automatically update according to the data that lands on the iPhone from the Apple Watch.
In order to constantly improve the work possible from an iPad, support for PDFs will be improved. It will now be possible to modify them in real-time, whether it is a document received or that you have scanned yourself from your iPad. The Apple Pencil will even allow you to sign said document.
The Notes application will finally benefit from better integration of PDF documents. When we scroll and we arrive at a PDF, it will be in full screen. Several PDFs can be added to a note, and collaboration will obviously be part of it. A note shared with a colleague in which a personalized PDF has been integrated will be updated in real-time on our colleague’s iPad
improvements to Stage Manager
Stage Manager is a feature introduced last year with iPadOS 16, which allows iPad users to open multiple app windows at the same time, an attempt to make it much more like macOS. It also allows the iPad to work with an external monitor just like a computer. With iPadOS 17, Stage Manager offers even more flexibility to manage the location and size of the windows, so the user can control his workspace even better. It also supports the use of built-in cameras on external monitors.
Health app
Absolute debut for the Health app, which until now was available exclusively on the iPhone. With iPadOS 17, iPad users will be able to control their health data without the need for a phone. The app has been redesigned to take advantage of the iPad’s largest display and keep track of all health data already stored on the iPhone via iCloud. In addition, new features from iOS 17 have also been introduced, such as the new Journal app
The first beta of iPadOS 17 will be released to developers today. Apple says the public beta will be available this summer, while the official release is scheduled for this fall.