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I have no idea what stage manager is and I don’t wanna look it up. And I have an iPad. But it’s also running the older ios

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> I have no idea what stage manager is and I don’t wanna look it up.

It’s just yet another way to manage windows. It’s fully optional, I never even remember it exists. It was introduced in iPadOS 16 / macOS 13.

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/ipad1240f36f/

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchl534ba392/

Apple still "helpfully" enables Stage Managers dumb "click the desktop to see icons" by default even without Stage Manager enabled. Product Manager brain.

That is also optional and can be turned off in System Settings. Apple does a lot of things wrong, but complaining about features which work well and can de deactivated is just silly and removes weight from the valid arguments.

Don’t upgrade. Stay as long as you can.

Not an option if you need the latest XCode.

I mean, do you need the latest xcode? Apps build for older macos still work with new macos. Same with iphone.

I need it to build the recent Expo ( https://expo.dev/ ) versions, and to target newer iOS features. I tried to stick with Sequoia for as long as I could, but I had to upgrade to macOS 27 last month :(

Fortunately, I found that there is now a way to reduce the stupid corner radius ("defaults write -g NSConvolutionOverride1 -float 8") and to remove the floating sidebars ("defaults write -g NSSplitViewItemSidebarDefaultsToFloatingAppearance -bool false").

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