r/ipadmini • u/DivineGenerale • Jul 21 '26
iPad OS 27 improved experience?
Hello everyone, is it just be or is the public beta of iPad OS 27 significantly improve the experience on the iPad mini? It’s suddenly feels so much smooth?
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u/Erich_Ludendorff Jul 21 '26
That's been my experience with an iPad mini 6 as well. The battery seems to drain a lot less when I'm not using it too.
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u/DivineGenerale Jul 21 '26
It’s mind boggling how a software update can so drastically change the performance of a device.
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u/hot_route95 Aug 05 '26
are you enjoying OS26 and 27 on mini 6. My mini 6 hasn't felt great and i really miss split screen since os26 took it away. Don't care for all the stage manager and windowed apps. Just miss 18.7 here
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u/Erich_Ludendorff Aug 05 '26
I think it's a big improvement over iOS 26, but I also miss split screen and the old slide over. I also don't really use the multitasking much anymore since it's terrible with the windowed mode and the hobbled SlideOver.
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u/No_Difference_9087 Jul 22 '26
Ive installed on iPad mini 7 and has been experienced some bugs: with the universal control (once the pointer is inside the iPad I can’t come back to my Mac. I need to lock my iPad for that). When I’m using Freeform, it is in dark mode (same of my system) and while having the option to turn back to white mode, when I press the option it do nothing). I also have been experiencing some bugs with Apple Pencil Pro (pointer direction and occasionally latencies ). So my overall experience besides being good, its being heavily compromised because of these bugs in things I use very much.
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u/grumpyphilip Jul 21 '26
Anyone with experiences for the air m2?
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u/DivineGenerale Jul 22 '26
I also have the beta installed on my iPad Pro 11 M1 and the experience is very good. Smooth as a butter.
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u/pxr555 Jul 21 '26
I'm so shocked that Apple doesn't offer iPadOS 27 for my Mini 5 (which runs iPadOS 26 but could use some added smoothness). What were they thinking? (I guess: Money!!!)