While it's Liquid Glass, Apple's new transparent design language, that's hogging the headlines, iPad fans have been given another reason to get excited. A new 'windowing architecture' might not sound the most titillating development on earth, but if it finally nails multitasking on iPad, it could be a game-changing. And early responses to the beta release of iPadOS 26 suggest that might just be the case.
As per the Apple Newsroom, iPadOS 26 includes a new windowing system that "lets users fluidly resize app windows, place them exactly where they want, and open even more windows at once." It's something iPad users have been crying out for since the original tablet launched over a decade ago – and it just made the idea of the iPad as a Mac replacement a little less fanciful.
