Apple has finally delivered what the iPad has long been missing: true Mac-style multitasking - and I'm fully on board.

As part of making the iPad as powerful as the Mac, Apple has migrated Preview to iPadOS. Here's how it stands in iPadOS 26 versus macOS Tahoe.

While Stage Manager is still available in iPadOS 26, Apple is ditching the Split View and Slide Over options in favor of a new window-based multitasking system. In an interview with ArsTechnica, Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi explained why it took so long to bring proper multitasking to the iPad and how the company finally pulled it off.