iOS 788: iPad Multitasking - Pro Tips for Stage Manager, Slide Over, & More
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Can the iPad finally become your main productivity machine? Rosemary Orchard and Stephen Robles get honest about the quirks, hacks, and must-know shortcuts that make iPad multitasking actually work for power users.
- iPad multitasking upgrades: Stage Manager, windowing, and device setups
- Productivity workflows: Magic Keyboard, trackpad, and app layout tips
- Stage Manager quirks vs. Mac window management workarounds
- Split View and Slide Over return to iPad multitasking with iPadOS 26
- Shortcuts automations for Stage Manager, external displays, and Ferrite
- Pushcut battery notifications: Automatically track device charge across iPad and Mac
- Travel routers for creators, hotel wi-fi hacks, and networking tricks
- Feedback: Creator Studio value, pricing, and one-time purchase alternatives
- Shortcuts Corner: Programmatically opening reminders lists in new windows
Host: Rosemary Orchard
Guest: Stephen Robles
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| 0:44.3 | This is iOS Today, episode 788 recorded January 27th for February 5th, 2026. iPad Multitasking. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to iOS Today, where we talk all things iPhone, iPad, HomePod, Apple TV, and all of the other Apple brand and things on offer, which keeps |
| 0:57.6 | expanding with all of the new things like Carkey. Are we going to talk about Cars Next? I don't know. |
| 1:02.5 | This is not the accidental tech podcast, but it is a great podcast. And this week, my co-host is |
| 1:08.9 | Stephen Rovellis. Welcome back, Stephen. |
| 1:12.8 | Thanks again for having me a second time. |
| 1:19.4 | No problem. I'm very glad that we were able to get you back again so quickly from the previous episode. |
| 1:29.1 | Because I believe, and I don't know why, I just get this feeling, you use the iPad a little bit, just, you know, every once in a while, maybe. |
| 1:36.0 | I use the iPad every day. It is my podcast editing machine. You know, I do a daily tech show, |
| 1:40.5 | plus a weekly show, and I edit all of the audio versions on iPad exclusively, and I've been doing it for years. I just love editing there with Apple Pencil, |
| 1:44.8 | but since going from an 11-inch to a 13-inch, |
| 1:48.3 | I have been doing more multitasking |
| 1:50.2 | and finally embraced Stage Manager |
| 1:52.8 | and the wind-doing mode of iPadOS 26, |
| 1:55.2 | which I was not about for a long time. |
| 1:57.8 | I was split-screen at the most for a while now, but I do. I multitask. I've even |
| 2:03.7 | gone so far now as when I'm building shortcuts, I will mirror my iPad into Vision Pro so I can |
| 2:10.5 | make the screen even larger and then multitask on the iPad and Vision Pro while I can have some video or movie playing in the |
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