What's new in iPadOS this year?

This year, iPadOS has introduced several exciting new features and improvements:

1. Apple Pencil Pro Enhancements:

   • Squeeze Gesture: A quick way to switch tools or show the picker when needed, right where the pencil is hovering.
   • Feedback Generators: Updates to feedback generators work great with Apple Pencil Pro, elevating the experience of drawing and writing.
   • UI Touch and UI Hover Gesture Recognizer: These provide barrel roll angle, helping to make your app's drawing tools even more expressive.
   • Undo Slider: For all apps with undo support, squeezing Apple Pencil Pro presents an undo slider, the quickest way to work through undo history.
   • PK Tool Picker: Now lets you define the available tools and use the tool picker with PK canvas view, your own drawing canvas, or a combination of both.

2. Multilingual Keyboard:

   • Multi-Script Typing: Allows typing in more than one language without needing to manually switch languages, supporting a unique multi-script typing experience.

3. New Calculator App:

   • Multi-App Mode: Includes secondary apps such as notepads, spreadsheets, assistive apps, coding apps, and the new calculator app for iPad.
   • Customization for Classrooms: Built-in configuration for assessment mode and MDM, such as the ability to turn off scientific mode or math notes.

4. Updated Tab and Sidebar:

   • Visual Updates: Tab bars have been refreshed with a new compact look that reduces empty space, bringing app content to the forefront.
   • Combined Sidebar Experience: Existing sidebar apps can adopt new UI Tab bar controller APIs to get a combined tab and sidebar experience.

For more detailed information, you can check out the session "What’s new in UIKit" (18:58).