Questions tagged [ipados]

iPadOS is the operating system running on the Apple iPad. Use this tag only for questions specific to iPad OS. Use the [ios] tag in most cases. Use the related tags [objective-c] and [swift] for issues specific to those programming languages.

iPadOS is the iOS-based operating system for iPad devices, created and developed by Apple. It was introduced on June 3, 2019.

Latest version: 13.2.3 released on November 18, 2019.

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Can a UIViewController opt-out, access or influence multitasking modes on iPad?

iOS 9 introduced multitasking to the iPad. These modes consist of: Slide over Split view Picture in picture In these questions, I'm not considering picture in picture (PiP) as that is a niche case which only applies to video playback from a…
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iPadOS: Can I request another app to open in split screen?

I have written two Apps, let's call them A and B. When the user does a special action inside a fullscreen-displayed app A I want app B to automatically open in split screen next to app A. In this WWDC session, I learned that this is now possible…
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How can I hide the new url bar on iPad Safari WebApp fullscreen mode, appearing since iPadOS 13?

iPadOS 13 now shows a white/grey bar when a WebApp is installed via 'Add to Home Screen' on Safari, even when apple-touch-fullscreen meta tag is added. The bar includes a menu to resize font and request desktop site, but has affected the available…
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Copy custom item to clipboard with SwiftUI on iPad/MacCatalyst

I have a custom struct which is represented with a view. When you click on this view the view gets selected. Now I want the struct to be copied to the clipboard by pressing "cmd + c" or by going to "Edit > Copy" at the Mac menubar if the item is…
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DriverKit driver doesn't appear in Settings when installed with iPad app

I'm working on a DriverKit driver. I have it running on macOS, including a very simple client app written in SwiftUI. Everything is working fine there. I've added iPadOS as a destination for the app as demonstrated in the WWDC video on DriverKit for…
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How to send data as input with IOConnectCallStructMethod

I'm trying to use IOConnectCallStructMethod so send data in the input field to talk to my driver in DriverKit (iPadOS) In this particular method I send an input and I expect getting an output. But ignore the output for now. In my case…
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Custom SwiftUI Video Player with controls hidden except Fullscreen

Essentially I'm trying to find a way to implement a Custom Video player in a SwiftUI iPad application that has all controls hidden except the Fullscreen button. As far as I understand just hiding specific controls is not possible but I'm wondering…
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Keyboard will not appear in iPad PWA

There is a bug in iPadOS 15.x where the keyboard will stop appearing in any PWA on the device. The bug can be produced by launching a PWA and removing it from history (double tap home and flick it away) and relaunching it. At that point the keyboard…
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UICalendarView vs SwiftUI DatePicker wrong size in NavigationSplitView sidebar

Because i need to add badges to certain dates, i need to use a UICalendarView representable, however when using this in the NavigationSplitView sidebar, the width of the UICalendarView is incorrect... in contrast the graphical DatePicker which…
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Is it possible to render video from HDMI on iPadOS?

It's very general question. I just want to understand if it's technically possible and why? Also to get some idea of what's the good starting point to investigate this topic. So question is: Is it technically possible Connect another device with…
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How to limit window width for split-screen and slide-over modes on iPadOS?

I'm looking for the ways to control the size of windows on iPad when the window is in one of the following modes: split-screen slide-over Mostly interesting for me is how to limit or strictly set the width for window in slide-over mode. I need to…
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Broken .searchable() modifier in SwiftUI with Xcode

I noticed that when I create a simple searchable list in my old iPadOS/iOS App with the latest Xcode 14 Beta (at least beta no 4 and 5), the text deletes itself. I'm not sure if this happened with old versions of Xcode and iPadOS Betas (just noticed…
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How to communicate between USBDriverKit driver and Client app?

We are experimenting with DriverKit on macOS while DriverKit is still in beta on iPadOS. We want to build a Driver for iPad that will allow to communicate our iPad App with USB device. What we did: Configured and implemented a driver that uses…
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Creating two sidebars in iPadOS application using SwiftUI

I have created one sidebar with NavigationView, which by default appends to the left of the landscape view of application. However I wanted to have another on the right side. NavigationView { List { Label("Pencil", systemImage: "pencil") …
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Removing top and bottom lines on a list on iPad

I have an app for iPad that uses a navigation list, and another list to display items. The items list always displays a top and bottom lines, even when no items are there. I have tried .listStyle(.plain) and .listRowSeparator(.hidden) but nothing…
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