I like it so much, in fact, I just bought a Bluetooth Magic Keyboard to go with my MacBook.
Typing is aa million times better than both my butterfly MacBook Pro and the Smart Keyboard, and I really hated to give it up. That means your widescreen display will have black bars on the sides like when you watch an old TV show on a newer TV.Īs soon as I put my fingers on the Magic Keyboard’s keys, I was in love. When you hook up your iPad to an external monitor, which is as easy as finding the right USB-C cable or dongle, you’ll see exactly what’s on your iPad in the same aspect ratio. But I can’t imagine why anyone would want to. The iPad Pro boasts support for a second monitor, which I regularly use on my Mac. And worst of all, spell check was way more aggressive than it is on the Mac, so words often changed to things I didn’t mean to write. Some fields needed an extra click to switch to the keyboard. Selecting text with the trackpad isn’t nearly as intuitive as it is on the Mac, and depending on the app I used, I often had to reach out to touch the screen just to make sure the selection I needed was properly highlighted. Most of it gets thrown out the window on the iPad. Whether using touch or trackpad, text on the iPad Pro is frustrating to work with.Īs a writer, I work with text a lot, and I have a lot of shortcuts and muscle memory built into my workflow. I understand that the iPad is different than the Mac so floating windows don’t make sense, but iPad multitasking still feels Apple would address these confusions in iPadOS 14, but that doesn’t seem to be that case. Split View apps need to be opened from the Dock, a Slide Over window is impossible to close without touching the screen, and resizing is basically a guessing game. But while multitasking with my Mac is effortless and seamless, on the iPad’s is kind of a confusing mess, especially when using the trackpad. One of the main reasons why Apple split iPadOS from iOS is its multitasking advantages. Switching between apps is great on the iPad, but multitasking is a confusing mess. The contextual awareness took too long with some fields, wasn’t always recognized by text fields, and made me long for the classic arrow on my Mac. Even beyond aesthetics, the cursor just felt more laborious than it should. IDGįrom the size to the slight parallax effect when the cursor hovers over an icon, the whole system feels surprisingly amateurish and cheap. The iPad Pro didn’t just gain a trackpad, it also gained a “reimagined cursor experience” that Apple says is “the biggest thing to happen to the cursor since point and click.” Its circular design definitely unique, but I found it to be more frustrating than fun.