iPadOS windows
source: furbo.org ↗Craig Hockenberry:
If you’re using iPadOS 26 and noticing that the saving/syncing/exchange of data is not happening, there’s a stupid trick you need to do to get things working:
Tap on the home screen to hide the windows (they slide off to the sides of the display). That makes all the apps on screen inactive and triggers the work that they need to do.
Of course, that’s a completely unintuitive action, hard to remember, and generally a pain in the butt. Especially when you’re on an iPad Pro with a lot of screen real estate and have several apps working together nicely.
Note that this “hide to sync” issue is also a problem when you’re running iOS/iPadOS apps on your Mac: you have to hide a window to make it inactive.
Given that true windowing is brand new to iPad this year, I have to imagine this issue will be addressed in the near future. It’s interesting to learn of these edge cases you run into when the way in which iPadOS operates fundamentally changes.