iPadOS 16 and iOS 16,coming this fall, add a slew of great new features and tweaks.

It’s a laundry list of the fixes and improvements that nerds have dreamed about for years.

But the biggest of all these changes is that the iPad finally gets the Weather app.

An iPad and an external display, keyboard, and mouse showing iPadOS16 extended to the display.

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Kiddingalthough only a little.

No, the big news here is Stage Manager and what Apple calls “Full External Display Support.”

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The iPad is an incredible machine.

An iPad with iPadOS 16 displaying the multiple windows feature.

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It’s not a totally freeform environment like the Mac.

And things get even wilder when you hook up an external display.

Not everyone likes it, though.

“I honestly have no clue why they didn’t just use the Dock.

Now we have two docks.

But for everyone, this is a significant update.

“I think Mac sales won’t be much affected by the new iPadOS features this year.

There are still some workflows that are better solved on Macs.

If you like how things work on your iPad right now, then you might keep on truckin'.

Nothing has been removed in this regard.

It’s pretty wild stuff.