The feature is simply too laborious to set up, and some of its interactions are an over-caffeinated mess. When Stage Manager is set up and running the way I want, it’s fantastic. But it’s not an unconditional, all-in sort of love. I love Stage Manager, Apple’s new mode for managing apps on your Mac’s desktop. Stage Manager integrates seamlessly with macOS’s other window management systems. Every individual monitor is treated as its own stage with its own recent apps list. The Mac’s version of Stage Manager has multi-monitor support from the start, and it works on all the Macs that run Ventura, not just a subset of newer models. The recent apps column will persist on the side of the screen by default, but it will get out of the way if you move an app window over it you can bring the apps back up by moving your cursor to the right edge of the screen. You can move, resize, and rearrange them any way you want, including shoving them all the way to the edges of the screen. Within a given stage, app windows work exactly as they do anywhere else on your Mac.

So imagine my surprise when Stage Manager on a Mac worked-and worked pretty well. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as many complaints about a new Apple feature as I have about Stage Manager on the iPad.

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