https://wccftech.com/ipados-16-code-confirms-internal-mode-that-allows-apple-to-run-stage-manager-on-older-ipads/

Apple announced its latest iPadOS 16 update at its WWDC 2022 event with a boatload of new forward-facing additions. The highlight of the update is the new Stage Manager multitasking feature which will only be available on iPad models with an M1 chip. However, Apple's move to limit the feature to only high-end iPad models is not taken too well by users who own older iPad models. It has now been discovered in the iPadOS 16 code that Apple has an internal mode to enable Stage Manager on older iPad models. Check out more details below.

iPadOS 16 will not bring Stage Manager on older iPad models and it has caused an uproar among users with an older iPad. 9to5mac discovered that iPadOS 16 features an internal mode that could allow Apple to offer Stage Manager on older iPad models.