In the last WWDC Apple focused its attention almost one hundred percent on iPadOS. It was logical. It was something new, something disruptive and disruptive towards what we were used to. However, Apple is running out of bullets in the chamber to wow its viewers without being novel features or new products. Maybe it's the turn of re-sale iOS and maximize the resources of your iDevices for the use of their operating systems. One option may be to give a real breakthrough and re-enable iPhone multitasking in iOS 14, 10 years after its first appearance in iOS 4.
Multitasking from iOS 4 to iOS 14, will we see changes soon?
One of the most relevant changes in the world of Apple was the arrival of iOS 4. It was the first time we knew the name of iOS to refer to the operating system of the smartphones of the big apple. This name changed to known as iPhone OS. However, the name was not all that new included in the update. For the first time I know introduced real multitasking. A precarious multitasker, horrible and infunctional compared to what we have now, but at the time it was something that marked a before and after. Like the arrival of FaceTime or the possibility of customizing the wallpaper with your own images.
10 years later there are many critics of the multitasking of the iPhone. With nearly seven-inch screens, iPhones only allow change applications while maintaining their activity in background. That's all. Nothing more. That is why a large part of users ask Apple for a change to enhance a tool that it should be more useful. If we compare it with the iPad, although it has a larger screen, there are many more functions: Split View, screen on screen, etc.
Many concepts are already turning towards an iOS 14 with new features related to background activity. However, there is no rumor or indication that Apple is working on bringing these original iPad features to iPhones. And it can be a mistake: not taking advantage of the brutal capabilities of the new iPhones and limiting them to a historical convention that iPhones don't have to be able to do more than one thing on the screen at a time. Perhaps it is time to reformulate, to make a change and to allow to exploit an operating system and a function that will be 10 years old on June 7.
