External Monitors

Due to limitations of internal hardware, the new Stage Manager feature introduced with iPadOS 16.1 is only available for these models of iPad:

• iPad Air (5th generation)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (all generations)
• iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation and later)

Feature availability is usually limited by system hardware - CPU and available RAM being critical to some advanced functionality.

iPad models supporting Stage Manager have an M2, M1 or A12X CPU (upon which the M-series CPUs are reportedly based) - with at least 8GB RAM.

iPad models that do not support Stage Manager can only mirror to a connected monitor.

iPadOS supports connection of a single monitor. Connection of dual monitors is not [at least yet] supported by iPad and iPadOS.