If you own an iPad and are waiting to take advantage of all the new features of iPadOS 16, we have good news for you. They do not come directly from Apple, but from Mark Gurman. Famous Bloomberg journalist provides The long-awaited—and delayed—update of the operating system is “scheduled for this year.” week of October 24”.

However, this has been confirmed by Apple, the update will come directly as: iPadOS 16.1. So let’s remember that iOS 16 has already been with us for weeks due to the change in the launch scheme, the Cupertino company will skip the iPadOS 16 version, that is, a version will be skipped in an unusual move. .

Why did Apple delay iPadOS 16?

For a long time, iOS and iPadOS were released simultaneously, but version 16 of the system changed things. While still waiting for the iPad update, the iPhone version arrived first. And as we know, Apple is a highly secretive company, with many details of its decisions left behind closed doors.

The main reason behind the release schema change will be the Stage Manager. The functioning of the new visual editor, which will also be available in macOS Ventura, still not very setso Apple would have to redouble their development efforts to improve it before bringing it to the stable version of the system.

According to MacRumos, the Cupertino company has improved Stage Manager in recent weeks for beta users of the new version of the operating system. It has expanded its availability to older iPad Pro models (albeit with some limitations), particularly those with A12X and A12Z chips released in 2018 and 2020 so that functionality would be closer to completion.

For now, we just have to wait to see if Gurman’s predictions come true and iPadOS 16.1 arrives the week of October 24 for all iPad Pro models, iPad Air third generation and later, iPad mini fifth generation and later, and iPad Fifth generation and iPad and later. Then. Presumably, we will also see the launch for these dates. From iOS 16.1 and macOS Ventura.

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