Good times. I remember when this was part of the court case.
Sounds like what we need is for Tim Cook to try to use iOS 13 and lose access to one of his favorite apps by upgrading to Catalina, and then to get a crumb or something into his keyboard.
...or try using Google Docs in Safari on iOS 13 with a text editor in split view.
Two blinking cursors and no easy way to choose which window is active. To enter text in the Google Doc after using my text editor, I have to tap the URL bar twice, dismiss the suggestions, and then it's active.
Given that my iPad is my only computer, this release has been really rough. It's getting there, and I'm sure with time it will only get better.
Just wish it was more reliable and less buggy: I've used iPads constantly since the very first one, but this has had me looking at laptops and Microsoft's Surface...
I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure any fix for your workflow would break the workflow of many people. Both windows being active seems like the entire selling-point of splitscreen, right? (I don't have an iPad so I'm just guessing). The right solution is probably a Google Docs app that is able to be aware of other instances of itself.
I'd love for him to use a Mac with two monitors and wrestle with his dock constantly switching from one to the other with no way to lock the dock and keep sane window setups.
I’m not sure “the dock moves to the display where your mouse has hit the bottom of the screen” is quite the problem you’re making it out to be, compared with the founder of Microsoft calling their pride and joy a dumpster fire of usability.
I use a rMBP 2015 with two monitors (in addition to the laptop monitor) daily. One over HDMI and the second via Thunderbolt/DisplayPort to HDMI (so two cables into the rMBP).
I’ve never had this issue? What is your setup? I always thought it was funny that in a Mac you can’t set your default monitor, but I’ve never run into the issue you are describing.
I use a rMBP 2016 with one additional monitor over Thunderbolt to HDMI. I constantly have the same issue as OP.
Shouldn't you, though? Display arrangement lets you relocate the menu bar—imo that's as good a signal as any about which monitor should be the default.
Click on one monitor and then move mouse to another monitor and move mouse down to the edge (without clicking anywhere). Of all alien, obscure and mind bogingly bizzare ux behaviors this would be probably in my top 5.
I would hope that my dock would be on whichever screen my mouse is, so I don't have to drag my mouse across a large monitor to get way over there to get to the trash.
What you term "alien, obscure, and mind-bogglingly bizarre" is the only way I think should work.
Sounds like what we need is for Tim Cook to try to use iOS 13 and lose access to one of his favorite apps by upgrading to Catalina, and then to get a crumb or something into his keyboard.