How Stage Manager Works on a Mac
Stage Manager on a Mac is a window organization tool that allows you to see all of your windows at once without losing focus on the app you’re currently using. It works by opening all of your active windows and placing them on the side of the screen, and featuring the app you’re working on at the moment in a place of prominence. Clicking any other app from your dock, or a window on the left, brings that window or app into center stage, while the previous app is shuffled off to the wings. Here’s how to use Stage Manager on a Mac:
How Stage Manager Works on an iPad
Stage Manager on an iPad works a lot like Stage Manager on Mac. It brings your currently active app to center stage, with other apps visible in small windows to the left of the screen. With Stage Manager active on your iPad, you can resize the main app window, drag the window around, and even overlap multiple windows on the screen at the same time. If you connect your iPad to an external display, Stage Manager allows you to have up to eight apps on the screen at once, and you can group different apps together for easier management. The interface is very similar to Stage Manager on Mac and brings a desktop-like experience to the iPad. Here’s how to turn on and use Stage Manager on iPad:
What Is Apple Stage Manager?
Apple Stage Manager is a multitasking feature that makes it easier to see all of your active windows and switch between them. macOS has other multitasking features, like Mission Control, that are designed to help you swap between active windows, but Stage Manager actually places your most recent windows on the screen right next to your active window. Drag your finger to resize the app. To move the app window around, press and hold the top center of the window and drag. Lift your finger to stop moving the window. Stage Manager organizes your app windows in addition to just displaying them. If you have multiple windows open of the same app, like multiple instances of Safari, they appear in a stack instead of separately. You can also group multiple windows together in ways that make sense to your own workflow by dragging window thumbnails into the center of the screen and then clicking on one. Stage Manager is also available on iPad, and it has all the same features as the desktop version. If you plug your iPad into an external display, it works much the same as the desktop version, allowing you to view multiple apps on-screen at once, overlap app windows, and group windows together for easier multitasking.
