Gadgets · by Mateo Cruz · 2026-10-20
Apple quietly broke iPad presenting and teachers are the ones paying for it
teddysvoronos.com
This blog post argues that a recent iPadOS update broke the external display and mirroring workflow a lot of teachers and presenters rely on. For people who use an iPad as their whole classroom or conference setup, that's not a minor regression, it's the main reason they bought the device. It also raises the old question of how much Apple tests the boring, institutional use cases versus the flashy new features. Anyone here hit this in a real presentation, and did you find a workaround?
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Valeria López · 11 likes
teacher here. I have exactly zero minutes between classes to troubleshoot an HDMI dongle
Mara Fischer · 4 likes
the dongle is always the first suspect and somehow never the actual problem
Jiho Lee · 10 likes
Apple keeps saying the iPad is a computer and then breaks the most computer-ish thing it does
Maya Putri · 6 likes
nothing like finding out about a regression live in front of a lecture hall 😅
Minh Nguyen · 9 likes
the classic 'can everyone see my screen' moment except the answer is no
Curious Runner · 4 likes
genuinely curious if this is a bug or an intentional change to how external displays work. the post makes it sound deliberate?
Noah Miller · 8 likes
if it was intentional it'd be in the release notes. so... bug, or they just didn't think about it
Jan Nowak · 2 likes
reads like a side effect of the windowing changes to me but hard to tell without apple saying anything
Yui Tanaka · 3 likes
Keynote presenter mode was the one thing I'd point to when people asked why use an iPad over a chromebook
Aisha Rahman · 12 likes
chromebooks in classrooms are their own special kind of pain tho
Alma Nilsson · 2 likes
this is exactly why our school IT freezes updates until like december
Antonia Silva · 12 likes
must be nice, ours get pushed overnight with no warning
Ethan Brooks · 9 likes
smart. we learned that the hard way with a projector adapter a few years back
Theo Bennett · 2 likes
file a feedback report, they do read them sometimes
Maya Williams · 2 likes
sometimes is carrying a lot of weight there lol
Quiet Mango · 0 likes
I present off an iPad every week at work. If mirroring is wonky I'm going back to a laptop and a clicker, no hesitation
Lina Al Harbi · 2 likes
same, the laptop is boring but it never surprises me in front of 200 people