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The new multitasking function “Stage Manager” of iPadOS 16 is limited to models with M1 chip, but not only theoretically M1 chip is required, but also the function is actually tried on iPad without M1 chip. The fact that it was revealed.
Discovered in an interview with Federighi
David Ferrand, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, asked Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, “Have you actually tried Stage Manager on an iPad without an M1 chip?” , The following answers were obtained.
We started some of the prototyping on those systems (iPads without the M1 chip), but early on it became clear that we couldn’t provide the experience we were trying to design. We want to bring new features to as many devices as possible, but we must not just provide new features, but lay the best foundation for them for the future. To do that, it needs to be based on the M1 chip.
Federighi explains in more detail why stage managers need an M1 chip in an interview with TechCrunch. He said that up to eight apps are required to be able to respond instantly while still having sufficient memory capacity, a capability not found on iPads without the M1 chip.
Source: Forbes via MacRumors
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