Adam Kos If you have someone you know with a high-end Android phone, ask them to show you how multitasking works on it. Or else, you'd better hope the subject never comes up. Otherwise, you'll have no choice but to hold back a tear and admit that Apple simply coughs on him. Android is completely different in this and light years ahead.
For "normal" smartphones, this might be a feature that the masses won't really use. We're talking about iPhones with a 6,1" display here, where using multiple windows can actually be a bit inconvenient. But 6,7" iPhones would already be able to really use the potential of full-fledged multitasking, i.e. when working with several windows and several running applications at once.
It's still the same since iOS 4
Android has been offering multitasking since 2016 when Android Nougat was released. But it's about full-fledged multitasking, not just switching applications. So you can have multiple applications on the display in multiple windows, which can be said to work very well especially on Samsung devices. Apple's form of multitasking is essentially just app switching and nothing else.
Multitasking by Samsung
The scary part is basically that Apple introduced this with iOS 4, when since then it has only changed the form, which is due to bezel-less iPhones and is therefore not centered around the desktop button. We now know what iOS 17 will look like, and we know we're not going anywhere on this. We may have live activities here, but it is not multitasking in the true sense of the word.
It could be interest you
Jiří Filip What about the iPad?
Interestingly, the iPad is noticeably better. At least it has Stage Manager here, although the question is whether we would want something similar on iPhones. However, with regard to multitasking, it tries to know more, because we also have functions such as Split View, Slide Over and Center Window.
- Split View: In Split View, you see two applications side by side. You can resize apps by dragging the slider that appears between them.
- Slide Over: In Slide Over, one app appears in a smaller floating window that you can drag to the left or right side of the screen.
- Middle window: In some apps, you can open a middle window to help you focus on a specific thing, like an email or a note.
So Stage Manager may not make sense on iPhones, but we would certainly appreciate the three functions mentioned above. At the same time, the system can do them, because iOS and iPadOS are practically the same. Then it's not a question of performance, because Androids handle multitasking even worse than the current flagships. It's basically just that Apple wants to separate the meaning of using its products.
Gallery
Do you want to work more than have fun? Get an iPad. Do you really want to work fully? Get a Mac. The iPhone is still just a phone that ignores many trends, which unfortunately also include advanced work with windows, that is, open applications, between which we still have to switch tediously and unintuitively use drag and drop gestures, which many users don't even know their iPhone can do . There is probably no point in talking about the fact that there is something like Samsung DeX. Apple still needs customers to buy iPads and Macs as well, not for the iPhone to replace all of these devices. He could certainly do it if only Apple wanted to.
In fact, multitasking makes sense on iPads, on iPhones it would only be a technical option without general practical use...
That's exactly how I perceive it too
Agreement. I'm not interested in something like that on the iPhone because I don't need it there. The activities described in the article are not logical and common activities on a mobile phone. There are other devices for that if someone needs to do them more often. That's like buying a gold spoon with fancy engraving and deciding to match a fork and knife with it, because why wouldn't that work. Yes, but normal people just use a fork and knife for some activities, and replacing it with a spoon is rather awkward, not to mention rude and unsociable.
Complete agreement. The idea that I draw two windows and some "work" on that side of the display is absurd. Since then I have a tablet with at least a somewhat adequate screen. And when I see the screen shots from Samsung, it only confirms me.
And is it even worth solving on an iPhone?
He doesn't until he presents the apple, then the sheep will bleat with joy.
WOW, if even Mr. Kos says this (respect!), that's a lot to say! I appreciate people who have Apple, but they are not "iSheep" and can see and perceive the shortcomings and admit them, not like here in the discussion that it is useless and not admit it. Of course, multitasking is also needed on the iPhone, and I strongly hope that Apple will work on it and increase the RAM in the PRO models (unfortunately not yet this year) to at least 8 or better 12GB of RAM, that would be GREAT!
Before I opened the article, I had no idea that it would be about windows and work. I really don't need this on a small display. However, what can totally derail me is that when I switch between those applications (I don't really mind), for example to copy and paste something or simply reply to a message and then switch to the first application - then the application starts again and not where i left off And it's not just Facebook or Instagram where I lose a post I've read or a video I've watched. It happens almost everywhere. For example, I copy data from a document on OneDrive to my email and after a long pause, everything "resets" and I have to write/search again. Apple should solve this!!!
The iPhone's biggest pain is not multitasking, but calling or some functions associated with it. In my case it's call history, because of my work I sometimes need it. For an individual contact I have none, sometimes the last call. Worse, the history itself is very short and unsearchable. Just a disaster, a modern mobile phone should have been able to do this a long time ago... And what about call recording? I would probably like that too much. Will iOS 17 at least change that history? If it did, I'd actually be satisfied, because my fears about switching from Android were mostly unrealized.
I currently have a Samsung S20+ and it is practically unusable on such a small display. Even if you display two applications side by side and somehow by some miracle the application displays it correctly, after opening the keyboard the advantage is gone anyway. And the only reason why I would like to have two applications next to each other is because I work in one and take data in the other.