Stage manager
when stage manager (with an external monitor) will be available on iPad 12,9 4th gen?
iPad Pro, iPadOS 16
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Due to limitations of internal hardware, the new Stage Manager feature introduced with iPadOS 16.1 is only available for these models of iPad:
- iPad Air (5th generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (all generations)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation and later)
Feature availability is usually limited by system hardware - CPU and available RAM being critical to some advanced functionality.
iPad models supporting Stage Manager have an M2, M1 or A12X CPU (upon which the M-series CPUs are reportedly based) - with at least 8GB RAM. For example, the iPad Air4 and similar models are limited in having only 4GB (or less) RAM.
Whether or not a functionally limited version of Stage Manager, compatible with models of iPad that do not meet the current hardware requirements, will ever be released is unknown.