visually appealing, but with several doubts

Anything that involves changes to the basic workflow with the Mac and a new approach to managing windows and the visual space taken up by applications gets my attention. Such was the case with Apple announcing the visual organizer macOS 13 and iPadOS 16, a new way to handle switching between apps so we can focus on one taskeliminating the distractions of windows stacked in the background.

Some initial concerns: only allow five recent apps in the side carousel

, something that may be insufficient for many users. The rest of the apps will just be hidden and this carousel will show the five we’ve used recently. This limitation may make sense on 13 or 14 inch screens, but not on a screen like… a 28 inch monitor. With aspect ratio 3:2, to add insult to injury. A lot of space wasted by a rule that is too static, which does not adapt to the context of the panel used.

On a visual level, yes, this function is magnificent. It only shows one app and hides everything else. We only see the application and the wallpaper. It even removes desktop icons from our perspective. Of course: sometimes it can be counterproductive, like when we want to manipulate these files by dragging them to another application in use, like Pixelmator to add new layers with these images, or Safari to download a file .

It’s a welcome addition, although it’s unclear if it will be widely used and continued, or if it will remain an option for a smaller percentage of users. After testing the beta of macOS 13 for a few hours, I may be leaning more towards the latter, which is not necessarily negative: we cannot expect that all the functions released by Apple will suit us. , there are many types of Mac users.

In infinite loop

This is one of this week’s episodes of Infinite Loop, the daily podcast of Appleswill, broadcast from Monday to Friday at 7:00 a.m. (Spanish peninsula time), in which we talk about Apple and its competition seen through the prism of the Cupertino company. This is a ten-minute podcast, presented by Javier Lacort and edited by Santi Araujo.

And these are the other episodes of this week, you can listen to them in full from this page.

#615: From iPad to MacBook and vice versa

What the iPad could learn from the Mac and vice versa. A last-minute list, perhaps a plea, shortly before WWDC 2022.

#616: iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13

Back to the three most important operating systems left by WWDC 2022 and their main novelties.

#617: Much more sport with watchOS 9

An overview of the new features of watchOS 9, focused above all on sport and health, with particular attention to the new metrics and information screens that can be used during training.

#618: CarPlay is a Trojan Horse

The new CarPlay, which will not arrive until the end of 2023, is as useful and visual as it is dangerous for manufacturers who decide to accept its integration, since it can be a massive source of data for Apple to help it in its development projects. go further in the mobility sector.