iPad Pro 2022: iPad OS 16 news and rumors

• 2021 was the year of Macbooks, let's hope 2022 will be the year of tablets
• iPad Pro is limited only by the operating system
• If they don't update iPad OS, they risk producing Pro paperweights
• In 2022 we will see Native apps like Final Cut on iPad with Apple M1 chip

Today we start with a wish, a small dream in the drawer that perhaps will finally see the light of day in 2022.

Since the time of the first iPad, the young scion in me, has always dreamed of a device all-in-one that would combine the simplicity of the iPad with the functional complexity of the Macbook, creating the perfect machine, a Ultron-Mac-Pad, with the user experience of the iPad and the professional applications of Mac OS.

In 2021, with theIntroducing the chip M1 in the iPad Pro, Apple played a good joke on us, I remember the online reviews where EVERYONE said “the real review will come out after the presentation of iPad OS 15".

It was theThe greatest disappointment in recent years that presentation, everyone expected an OS Ex-machina that he could finally bring the iPad closer to the Mac and instead... absolute nothing.

But, knowing Apple, nothing has been done at random. One step at a time, as Microsoft has done with its beautiful ones - although limited in terms of performance - Surface Pro, our dear Apple will come out of the cylinder a device that can meet the needs of users who, like me, are in the middle between iPad and Mac.

2020, and 2021 to follow, were ultimately the MacBook years. Apple introduced the new Apple M1 chips, M1 Pro Ed M1 Max who have literally revolutionized the PC market with the fantastic - Albeit very ugly in my opinion - 14" and 16" MacBook Pro.

But then, why am I an iPad Still not convincing?

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Doubts and main issues

Let's face it, theiPad Pro Today, it's a perfect car.

Very powerful, versatile and that has nothing to envy compared to the new MacBook Pro. It shares the same processors - and that's all to say - and The 12.9" version even has it XDR Liquid Retina display which allows him to enter, with a straight leg, into the workflow of audiovisual professionals.

But what is the Bottleneck? The operating system.

To date, iPad Pro's biggest problem - which is not there on the basic iPad, Air or Mini because they are not designed, precisely, for professional needs - is the fact of not having truly professional applications.

While, for example, Adobe is investing in the development of its iPad apps, The purely functional difference that persists with the desktop versions is evident.

And this is really a shame, the iPad Pro considering that it is equipped with an M1 and starts with 8GB of RAM, has all the prerequisites for running applications worthy of its hardware.

An example? Nomad Sculpt.

It is an application for organic 3D modeling that has nothing to envy with ZBrush and that, already going from iPad Air At Pro, show your muscles seriously.

I've modeled this entirely on it:

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And do you know where I had to render the animal? Sul MacBook Air which mounts nothing less than the M1 Chip and 8GB of Ram, the same as the iPad Pro on which I modeled.

So do we confirm the OS limitation? Yes.

Not to mention the obnoxious problem with peripherals, oh my God. The iPad Pro, to date, still cannot, connected via HDMI to an external monitor, adapt the size of the interface to the screen -.-. It looks square... terrible.

Another big limitation? The Files app that makes even the slightest movement of files from one folder to another cumbersome.

In short, the limitations, whether or not Apple wanted to differentiate tablets and PCs, are obvious and annoying.

So, what can we expect on the iPad and OS side in 2022?

Speculations about the future of the iPad Pro in 2022

Considering that, to date, not even a year has passed since the launch of the iPad Pro M1, in this 2022 I expect, also considering the rumors on iPad OS 16, Software-side news rather than hardware.

• Native apps for M1, here we need an in-depth analysis, see you in the next paragraph
• UI redesign, Apple plans to “bring” the realities of iPad and Macbook closer together, creating a visual continuity of the user interface with a redesign of the icons, as already done with Mac OS Monterey
• New widgets, it seems that Apple wants to update the appearance of the lockscreen and what better way than by developing ad hoc widgets?

But enough words, let's see what these native apps have to tell us.

Native app for M1, I would finally say

According to online news, this year's main focus could be on Transposing native Mac apps to iPad Pro with M1, in particular of:

• Final Cut Pro
• Logic Pro
• XCode

As mentioned before, one of the biggest shortcomings of the iPad Pro is precisely the absence of applications worthy of the Pro suffix.

With this news, if it turns out to be true, we will finally be able to see the arrival not only of Apple's proprietary apps but, consequently, also of all the rest of our beloved professional productivity applications.

In the end, if you think about it, the iPhone and iPad applications are already available in the Apple store of the new Macbooks with M1.

But then What is stopping Apple and companies from bringing Mac apps back to the iPad? The user-experience.

Obviously, considering the tablet's touchscreen support, The entire interface needs to be rethought for combined use between fingers and mouse.

In short, from UX Designer, I can say that it's no small thing.

The UX must be totally rethought by creating interfaces that are as simple in design as they are complex in functionality.

But come on, we are confident.

Finally, if everything goes as it should go, we can really exploit the brute force of these technological trinkets.

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Sooner or later the review of'iPad Pro 11, but that's another story.