{"id":1146,"date":"2024-08-16T14:50:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:27:45","slug":"ipados-18s-new-tab-bar-is-more-powerful-than-it-first-appears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/16\/ipados-18s-new-tab-bar-is-more-powerful-than-it-first-appears\/","title":{"rendered":"iPadOS 18\u2019s new tab bar is more powerful than it first appears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ipados18-tab-bar.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>iPadOS 18 is a huge release for the iPad, but most of its changes aren\u2019t iPad-exclusive. New <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/07\/26\/ios-18-all-the-ways-you-can-customize-your-iphone\/\">customization tools<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/08\/07\/what-is-apple-intelligence-heres-how-ai-will-change-the-way-you-use-your-iphone\/\">Apple Intelligence<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipados\/ipados-18-preview\/\">various app updates<\/a> are coming to iPhone too. <\/p>\n<p>One iPad-only feature is a redesigned tab bar for apps. iPad apps have historically used a similar tab bar to what\u2019s found on the iPhone. Tabs would live at the bottom of the screen. But iPadOS 18 changes that with a new tab bar UI that floats at the top of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The new tab bar also comes with a secret weapon: you can customize it to add the menu options you care about most.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"ipad-pro,ipados-18\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"953930\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/08\/16\/ipados-18s-new-tab-bar-for-apps-is-more-powerful-than-it-first-appears\/#more-953930\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPadOS 18 is a huge release for the iPad, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipad-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}