Search
Clearly one of Apple’s design objectives for iOS and iPadOS this year is to prevent core UI features from taking over the entire screen. The incoming call interface and Siri have both been minimized, and on iPadOS, Apple is doing the same thing with Search, which will now much more closely resemble Spotlight on macOS — although Apple notably didn’t use the word “Spotlight” in the presentation.
Instead of a search bar that pulls down from the top of the screen, the iPadOS search is going to appear as an overlay, so you’ll still be able to see what’s going on behind it, and the Universal Search has been rebuilt from the ground up to more effectively surface information across the entire iPadOS, whether it’s apps, contacts, documents, or information stored directly in apps. Apple promises that navigating to a website from the new Search interface should be as easy as launching an app.