Apple is taking one other crack at iPad multitasking, in response to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This yr’s iPadOS 19 launch, as a result of be unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Builders Convention on June 9, will apparently embody an “overhaul that may make the pill’s software program extra like macOS.”

The report is gentle on particulars about what’s really altering, except for a broad “deal with productiveness, multitasking, and app window administration.” However Apple will apparently proceed to cease wanting permitting customers of newer iPads to run macOS on their tablets, even supposing fashionable iPad Airs and Execs use the identical processors as Macs.

If that is supplying you with déjà vu, you are most likely desirous about iPadOS 16, the final time Apple tried making important upgrades to the iPad’s multitasking mannequin. Gurman’s reporting on the time even used comparable language, saying that iPads operating the brand new software program would work “more like a laptop and less like a phone.”

The results of these efforts was Stage Supervisor. It had steep {hardware} necessities and launched in fairly tough form, although Apple delayed the discharge of the replace by a month to keep polishing it. Stage Supervisor did permit for extra versatile multitasking, and on newer fashions, it enabled true multi-monitor assist for the primary time. However early variations had been buggy and irritating in ways in which nonetheless have not absolutely been addressed by subsequent updates (MacStories’ Federico Viticci retains the Web’s most comprehensive record of the issues with the software.)