iPadOS

“iPadOS is the only relevant tablet OS.”

“Having a full windowing system just adds a bunch of overhead, weird edges cases when apps have multiple windows open, and slows me way down.”

“iPadOS 27 broke many keyboard use cases for me, including very simple things like using tab to move to the next field on a form in Safari.”

“a lot of these points come down to user preference rather than an ability or inability to do something”

“was supposed to be a quality improvement snd bugfix release, but it's mostly been a cascade of bugs and UI failures”

“It's a shame that iPhoneOS, iPadOS and Omarchy are designed to be single-user devices.”

“restrictions for eg on iPadOS software that really push you to a Mac for any "proper" compute”

“iOS 27 does not require Apple Intelligence to function or anything like that because my 4th gen iPad Air can’t run Apple Intelligence but can run iPadOS 27 just fine.”

“I enjoy both the current macOS and iPadOS windowing systems.”

“upgraded everything day one, so far so good”

“The other OSes are lashed to this sinking ship, quality-wise, because they all come out together.”

“Can't even be happy about the bug fixes because my biggest one, Spotlight not getting keyboard focus when you use it, is still present.”

“I have not been a huge fan of iPadOS or iOS, the former making me often wish for a macOS experience”

“the lack of proper full screen support in the browser with mouse capture ruins it”

“And the iPadOS, the cheaper MacBook as well.”

“Gnome is much more iPadOS like”

“runs it fine including multi window mode. That by itself makes it the most significant upgrade in at least the last 10 years”

“MacOS/iOS/iPadOS 26 and Liquid Glass do not bother me one bit.”

“Still waiting for iOS and iPadOS security updates to 18 as per the tradition of supporting the past 2 generations of OSes”

“They just copy things from iOS straight into iPadOS and macOS and let others (end users) deal with the fallout.”

“it does pretty much everything today that us techies have been whining about”

“In a head-to-head comparison with real desktops like macOS or Windows, iPadOS can be generously described as a no-show.”

“macOS software doesn't need explicit understanding of profile switching, neither should iPadOS software.”

“iPad OS is already capable of complex work and has been capable of multitasking since it was iPhone OS v1.”

“Until iPad OS actually becomes capable for complex work and multitasking, I can't see what the benefit”

“iPadOS may not fully be to the point of being an OS UI that really utilizes the benefits of a tablet sized device, but it does have elements that are unique to it”

“It supports a mouse and keyboard really really well now”

“once you remove the keyboard and mouse, the split-screen and Slide Over interactions designed specifically for touch suddenly disappear”

“For some reason the full-screen keyboard didn't load, all I could get was a miniature thing that floated on the left part of the screen”

“The way all of the backup/sync/restore is so dialed in on MacOS/iOS/iPadOS at this point is pretty hard to beat.”

“They could have made little things LIKE A DAMN FILE SYSTEM and all the items above symmetrical with MacOS ages ago.”

“None of these are deal-breakers alone, but together they make iPadOS feel hostile to repetitive, text-heavy, or workflow-driven tasks.”

“I had a relatively smooth experience on my 6 year old tablet which now runs painfully slowly.”

“The iPad nowadays not having one, proper, sane default for window management is a nightmare”

“macOS, iPadOS and watchOS are all still the best at what they do.”

“battery life dropped 90%, calculator requires 32 GB of ram, offline maps stranded them in the woods”

“The sales prove there is enough happy people, even with the complaints regarding some of its limitations.”

“with real windows and it finally being able to run apps in the background for an extended period of time”

“I am very confident that using 1 app on my iPhone/iPad will not leak data to another in any case that I am likely to care about”

“Recent releases of MacOS and iOS and iPadOS have given rise to Windowsesque complexity and ugliness.”