[giobox]

And in the case of the iPad, try to sell you them individually for each family member...

It's 2023, and you still can't have multiple user accounts on any model of iPad, "Pro" or otherwise. This is a feature you can just take for-granted on virtually any other "computer" too.

[wlesieutre]

You can if you're a school!

https://support.apple.com/en-hk/guide/deployment-education/e...

The feature has existed for years, Apple just won't let you use it because they'd rather sell separate devices to every family member.

For all the talk about environmentalism and their elaborate phone recycling robots, they're not too concerned about the "reduce" part of "reduce, reuse, recycle." Never mind that it's the most important one that you're supposed to do before the others.

EDIT - I'm aware a local users system without a network login system would require a slightly different implementation from schools, but a small 2.8 trillion dollar company like Apple could figure it out if they wanted to

[Gigachad]

I've heard that the multi user feature for schools is pretty skin deep and that it basically just acts as an auth for apps which store all data remotely. Not at all something you could just drop on regular consumers.

[behnamoh]

The thing is: I can't even do media consumptions and web browsing on iPad. Browsing the web without uBlock and a few other extensions is a battle I'm not willing to fight. And so many video codecs not supported on iPad makes it unusable for media consumption. And have you tried opening your videos in other apps? Guess what? The file gets copied to the other app, meaning that now you have two versions of the same movie/whatever.

The iPadOS is so broken in basic ways that I can't even.

[doublepg23]

For web browsing I recommend installing Firefox Focus and then using that as a content blocker.

[mmh0000]

You can even! Just gotta put a little leg work in.

AdGuard and Hush for ad blocking, both free.

VLC for video, has built in ftp server which makes loading your pirated videos on super easy.

foobar2000 for music. Hands down the best music player, also has ftp support for easily loading all your favorite pirated music.

Bitwarden for password/totp management.

Joplin for notes (free). GoodNotes for pdf/sketchnotes (not free but worth it imho)

[mattl]

There are decent Adblock apps for iPad.