TIL the red traffic light button *kills* apps in iPadOS 26?? 🤨
At this point, it's pretty ingrained in people's minds that the red button doesn't actually kill apps on macOS (it only closes the window). It has worked like that for the past 24 years.
Why in the world would Apple add macOS's emblematic traffic lights to iPadOS only to assign the most crucial of them a totally different function?
https://mas.to/@kaylee/115077904131684831
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