I really, really hate Stage Manager on the iPad, but I want to use an external display to allow me to have 3 or 4 apps open at a time and all showing. I.e. not just mirroring my old style multitasking display on the external monitor.
So…do that? With stage manager on external displays, I don’t think the awfulness will be so prevalent. I’m with you, but I think I’m missing a facet of the issue here.
On days that I know I will only join meetings and reply to mails, I just take my iPad to the office. Combined with a BT keyboard and mouse, plugged into the big screens (USB-C), it’s just like a full PC.
You can move windowed apps around, arrange them just fine, especially if you extend instead of mirror the iPad screen. But that only works with mouse and keyboard, not with touch only.
@Bummler It's true, after re-install, the photo lib permission is no longer there, but still, left to the photo trigger, there's the gallery button with full access:
Within the past few years Apple released a new API to access photos. In the past a developer could ask for full access and you could give it full access OR you could select a few images to give it access to. In both cases the photos you give access to can be read from the app.
The new API allows the app to ask you for a photo without needing to first request permissions. The photo picker that pops up is NOT controlled by the app and it doesn’t have access to it. The app ONLY gets back the image you pick (if you pick one).
A lot of apps that want you to provide a photo only care about that 1 photo and have no desire to have full access to your photos so this new API is great addition and it avoids annoying permission dialogs. There are, of course, legit reasons to want full access but now users have finer grained controls on what they share with apps as full access can revel a LOT of private data about you.