A brand new Apple patent has steered {that a} future iPad or model of iPadOS may embrace the power to rework the pill right into a macOS-like person expertise when it is hooked up to an exterior keyboard.
The patent, first reported by Patently Apple, is wide-ranging in its potential implementation. Apple usually patents dozens of concepts, and solely only a few ever see the sunshine of day. Nonetheless, this patent describes a base system, akin to a keyboard that features keys and a trackpad, that might be coupled with a computing system, akin to an iPad, to ship what looks as if a macOS comparable expertise with an Apple Pencil.
Including credence that the patent depicts an iPad and keyboard combo, different pictures within the submitting reveal how the computing system will be detected from the keyboard and used standalone, just like how customers can presently detach the iPad from the Magic Keyboard.
Alternatively, the patent might be envisioning a future MacBook and iPad combo, the place each units merge into one. Indifferent from a keyboard, the combo serves as an iPad with the Apple Pencil; then, when hooked up to a keyboard, it transforms right into a Mac with touchscreen capabilities. Apple has lengthy mentioned a contact display Mac isn’t one thing it goals or desires to make, so maybe a combo of the iPad and MacBook is the way forward for Apple’s laptop line.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, in his April 17 version of his Energy On e-newsletter floated a seemingly an identical concept to the one offered in Apple’s patent filed earlier this week. Gurman speculated within the e-newsletter that the way forward for the iPad ought to encompass three modes: a touch-screen mode, an Apple Pencil optimized expertise, and a “Professional” mode that activates when a keyboard or exterior show is hooked up/related. Whereas purely speculative and wishful pondering, Gurman has reported that Apple is planning a revamped multitasking expertise for iPadOS 16.
iPadOS 16 is about to be previewed in a single month at Apple’s Worldwide Builders Convention that is happening from June 6 via June 10. There, Apple will preview not solely iPadOS 16 but additionally iOS 16, which is rumored to incorporate new well being options, improved notifications, and extra. For a full rundown of the whole lot we count on from iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, you should definitely see our roundup.
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