The Apple iPad has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Standing as the crowned king of tablets today, it has seen many changes over the years. However, for a long time, it was limited by iOS — a mobile operating system that struggled to keep up with the computing prowess of the iPad as years passed. Enter its replacement, iPadOS.
Apple introduced iPadOS as a fork of iOS for iPads, back in 2019. All iPads since then run on iPadOS, instead of iOS. But what exactly is iPadOS, and how does it differ from iOS?
