Extending desktop to monitor

At present when you connect an iPad Pro to an external monitor, then the screen gets mirrored and that’s about it. You probably already know this. Screen Mirroring is the only option available in this setup at this time.

Later this year, with iPadOS 16.x, external monitors can be used as an extended display via the Stage Manager Feature. The iPad requirements for this is that the iPad must have the M1 or M2 chip in it and of course have the appropriate future iOS versin installed when it is released.

Axel F.

The part where, Apple like usual, drops the ball on communication, is that there were plenty of demos ahead of iOS 16 where they showed this extended desktop functionality. But once IOS 16 was released, there was no obvious mention of this feature being held back for further development. Obviously I understand if a feature is buggy, or otherwise not ready for release, it will be delayed - but there needed to have been more of an easily discoverable way to determine this feature was withheld.

I spent an entire afternoon scratching my head, wondering what was faulty with my setup, when my screen was only mirroring and not extending after update.

Well we’ve waited this long, bought the requisite overpriced M-equipped iPad and accessories…. Hopefully the end result will be worth it.

DAMcD wrote:

Is there another future update that I will need?

Yes.