Today’s Final Cut Pro for iPad update extends background task support to project exports (different from video exports).

This is useful for those of us that archive our projects to external storage once we’re done with a video.

The MacBook Neo isn’t an iPad replacement, but it might be the best iPad accessory Apple has ever made.

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Swift Playground for iPad Updated with iOS 26 SDK and Liquid Glass Swift Playground for iPad finally gets the iOS 26 SDK, seven months after release. Here’s what changed, what’s still broken, and why the app still feels like it’s on life support.

The Swift Playground app for iPad now supports the iOS 26 SDK.

Only a short seven months after its release 🫤.

Better than nothing, I guess.

But only slightly.

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Apple Announces M4 iPad Air Apple has announced the M4 iPad Air, featuring the more powerful and efficient M4 chip with a 38 TOPS Neural Engine, Apple’s C1X modem for faster 5G.

The new iPad Air is official with a faster and more efficient M4 chip, and a bump to 12GB of RAM, up 50% over the previous model!

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Nice! I remember it didn’t review well and I thought everyone wrote it off. I did for a while 🤣

My friends, I come to you with a deep and shameful confession.

I’ve actually been using Image Playground.

And not the ChatGPT style.

Turns out for creating a simple background for a social post or blog post image, it can do the job.

The iPad's Identity Crisis in Apple's 2026 Lineup Apple's own 2026 products, a cheap MacBook, the iPhone Fold, and a touchscreen MacBook Pro, might be iPad's biggest threat yet.

By the end of 2026, the iPad will have faced a cheaper laptop, a folding phone with an iPad-sized inner screen, and a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen. All from Apple.

Here’s what I think this means for iPad.

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Blender for iPad on Hold Due to Lack of Funding The Blender Foundation has paused development of its iPadOS app due to lack of funding. Android tablets will take priority in 2026, with iPad development expected to resume later.

Bad news for iPad users: the Blender for iPad project is on hold due to lack of funding, but work on an Android tablet version is expected to begin this year

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Apple’s iPad Leads as Tablet Market Grows 10% in 2025 The global tablet market grew 9.8% in 2025 to 162 million units, led by Apple's iPad. But memory shortages and rising prices could slow growth in 2026.

It turns out the tablet market actually grew 10% in 2025, and unsurprisingly, the iPad continues to dominate the competition.

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For all you golf fans, the Apple Sports app has been updated for you

Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.

The forthcoming update to Xcode is adding better support for agentic coding tools.

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How to Manage Notifications on iPad and iPhone with Scheduled Summaries Learn how to use Scheduled Summaries on iPad and iPhone to reduce notification noise and stay focused without missing important alerts.

Notification overload on your iPad or iPhone?

Scheduled Summaries let you batch less important alerts so you can stay focused without missing what matters.

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Video Editing Gets Even Better on iPad with Final Cut Pro 3 YouTube video by SlatePad

Happy Friday!

I took the new features in Final Cut Pro for iPad for a spin, and decided to make a video about it. There were a couple of things I missed from the initial announcement that will absolutely help boost your productivity!

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Final Cut Pro for iPad 3.0 Adds Background Exporting Final Cut Pro for iPad 3.0 finally supports background video exporting, enabled by iPadOS 26’s new Background Tasks API.

It’s been a long time coming 🎉 You can finally export videos in the background with Final Cut Pro on iPad!

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How Multitasking Works on iPad (Split View, Slide Over & Windowed Apps) YouTube video by SlatePad

For my first video of 2026, I’ve updated my iPad multitasking guide for all of the changes we’ve seen in the past year!

How Multitasking Works on iPad (Split View, Slide Over & Windowed Apps)
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With Apple Creative Studio launching this week, hopefully we can finally be done with this ridiculousness. Background exports, Apple 🙏

Apple Watch sleep score of 100/100

I win! I win!

I get why people complain about the Office 365 apps on iPad.

OneNote doesn’t support any of the unique features of the Apple Pencil Pro. Hell, it doesn’t even support Apple Pencil Hover!

Breaking Down Apple Creator Studio for iPad Users Apple Creator Studio brings Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, and AI-powered tools to iPad. Here’s what’s new, what’s included, and which iPads are supported.

With Apple Creator Studio, iPad creatives not only get access to more AI tools, but we **finally** get Pixelmator Pro!

Here’s what’s coming for iPad users.

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That’s a wrap on Metroid Prime 4, the only game from last year I was engaged enough to finish.

Biggest complaint: Can we be done with the silent protagonists, Nintendo?

The iPad Had a Surprisingly Good 2025 – iPad Year in Review 2025 turned out to be a strong year for the iPad, with meaningful hardware updates and a major shift in multitasking and windowing in iPadOS 26.

Coming into 2025, I expected another quiet year for the iPad.

Boy was I wrong.

From major iPadOS 26 multitasking changes to long-overdue apps finally arriving (Instagram!), 2025 ended up being a surprisingly strong year for Apple’s tablet.

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Tomb Raider Is Coming to iPad, iPhone, and Android in Early 2026 Feral Interactive has announced that the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot is coming to iPad, iPhone, and Android in early 2026, with support for touch controls, gamepads, and possibly mouse and keyboard.

The 2013 Tomb Raider reboot is still my favorite in the series. Might be time for a replay when it hits iPad next year 👀

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CapCut Pad Launches for iPad, But Not Available in the U.S. CapCut Pad brings a desktop-style video editing experience to iPad with multi-track timelines, AI tools, and 4K exports, but it isn’t available in the U.S. App Store

CapCut has released a new iPad-optimized video editor called CapCut Pad, bringing multi-track timelines, AI tools, and 4K exports to iPad.

Unfortunately, it is not currently available in the US app store.

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Introducing CapCut Pad -- A New Editing Experience Designed for iPad Creators /PRNewswire/ -- CapCut is committed to making high-quality video creation accessible anywhere inspiration strikes. Today, CapCut is excited to introduce CapCut...

This looks interesting for CapCut users on iPad 👀

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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10 YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu

This video is the rare YouTube recommendation that’s actually good. It touches on one of the reasons I lean so heavily towards things like the iPad and Vision Pro…

Desktop UX hasn’t meaningfully evolved since Windows XP or the original Mac OS X.

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Trying out the Logitech Muse in Notes on visionOS 26.2!

And no, I’m not drunk, that’s just how I write 🤣

iPadOS 26.2 Features: What’s New in Apple’s Latest iPad Update iPadOS 26.2 brings updated multitasking, podcast improvements, accessibility tweaks, and refinements to Liquid Glass.

iPadOS 26.2 is finally ready, bringing drag-and-drop-based multitasking back to iPad!

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Apple’s Your Tree on Battersea Campaign Highlights iPad Creativity Apple’s Your Tree on Battersea campaign showcases iPad creativity by projecting user-designed artwork onto London’s iconic Battersea Power Station.

Apple’s Your Tree on Battersea campaign is a nice reminder of what the iPad does best: creativity.

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Some games just *have* to be played on a handheld

DaVinci Resolve 20.3 Brings Background Rendering to iPad Another app beats Final Cut Pro to the background exporting party.

DaVinci Resolve 20.3 for iPad adds background rendering for M4 and M5 iPad users.