The News: Last year Webex introduced picture-in-picture functionality to Webex Meetings on iPad and iPhone. Webex is now adding more collaborative features to the Webex Meetings on iPad app, with support for Multiple Windows and Stage Manager, making multitasking for hybrid workers seamless. Read more from Webex.
Webex Announces Webex Meetings on iPad Support for Multiple Windows and Stage Manager
Analyst Take: With hybrid work a reality in today’s workplace, investing in technologies designed to help employees multitask, and accomplish tasks more efficiently and seamlessly no matter where work happens is the name of the game. That’s where Webex Meetings on iPad can play a significant role.
Webex Meetings for iPad already supports picture-in-picture mode minimizing video streams from meetings to a small window for improved multitasking. Webex recently announced the addition of two new features to Webex Meetings for iPad — Multiple Windows and Stage Manager, designed to make multitasking seamless.
Webex Meetings on iPad Supports Multiple Windows
Webex Meetings on iPad now supports Multiple Windows, which lets meeting participants focus on shared documents or a presentation while continuing to be part of a meeting, and sharing feedback in the chat. By popping out shared content and in-meeting chat into a second window, both can be resized for the best view for the attendee. Multiple windows make it easier to focus on what’s important in the meeting while continuing to engage with team members simultaneously. This is pretty sweet, allowing users the ability to prioritize and accomplish tasks, while also collaborating live.
Webex Meetings on Ipad: Stage Manager Support
Webex Meetings on iPad has also added Stage Manager support for those with a compatible iPad running iPadOS 16 or newer. With Stage Manager, attendees are able to show multiple apps in adjustable windows and will also support the use of external monitors. iPad users will be able to have up to eight apps open and running at the same time when connected to an external display. Stage Manager enables attendees to shift any open Webex Meetings on iPad between displays, resize open windows, and treat Webex Meetings just like any Stage Manager-compatible app. This is news I’m thinking people are going to be excited about.
Wrapping up, as we all spend more time in virtual meetings these days, I probably don’t need to tell you that the need to be able to multitask is critical. That’s why I’m excited to see Webex adding support for Multiple Windows and Stage Manager in Webex Meetings for iPad, and I think this will be welcome news for Webex users across the board.
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Shelly Kramer is a Principal Analyst and Founding Partner at Futurum Research. A serial entrepreneur with a technology centric focus, she has worked alongside some of the world’s largest brands to embrace disruption and spur innovation, understand and address the realities of the connected customer, and help navigate the process of digital transformation. She brings 20 years' experience as a brand strategist to her work at Futurum, and has deep experience helping global companies with marketing challenges, GTM strategies, messaging development, and driving strategy and digital transformation for B2B brands across multiple verticals. Shelly's coverage areas include Collaboration/CX/SaaS, platforms, ESG, and Cybersecurity, as well as topics and trends related to the Future of Work, the transformation of the workplace and how people and technology are driving that transformation. A transplanted New Yorker, she has learned to love life in the Midwest, and has firsthand experience that some of the most innovative minds and most successful companies in the world also happen to live in “flyover country.”
