Fine! Have Your Windows in iPadOS, but Remember This House Was Built on Apps! (opens in new tab)

Anil Dash recently made an observation on Mastodon that included a screenshot of an iPadOS 26 setup screen with a prompt showing three options: Full Screen Apps, Windowed Apps, and Stage Manager. While each option had a description, Stage Manager curiously was the only one that ended with “more…” As someone who has written quite a bit about Stage Manager’s lacking lexicon, that “more” was like catnip. I had to see what exactly the “more” linked to. After all, it had been over three years and ...