Questions About My iPhone Layout in MIDI Designer on macOS

Question

I am finishing up my PodXT layout on my phone (the most up to date Apple device I had in a while). I now have a Mac mini M2 and was going to port it to iPad / MacOS. It seems there is a bug importing iPhone layouts that duplicates the layout on each half of the page. They are inextricably linked together, the left and right half. Here are pics. I had captured video 375k and 373k, respectively, but can't upload. Here are screen captures from them.

Images

iOS MidiDesigner Pro doing as it should

Everything on every page on MacOS is doubled.

Comments

One possibly non-obvious thing to point out here: you can view different pages on each side on iPad. OR you might have another bank with different pages for the right side, for instance. JK's answer -- below -- is spot on, but this more basic point might not be obvious.

Answer 1

I guess you could call it a bug, but it due to fundamental differences between the two platforms.

iPhone uses a single page horizontal format.

iPad uses a two page more vertical format.

When you take a iPhone layout and open it on the iPad (or Mac), you see two pages instead of one, and the horizontal page is smushed into the more vertical space.

I recommend developing on the platform intended for use.  There are too many differences between the iPhone and iPad/Mac environments for layouts to move without lots of manual reformatting.  All the work you did on the iPhone is still there, you need to do some reformatting to fit the iPad / Mac format, mostly splitting the controls from one wide iPhone page to two vertical iPad/Mac pages.

Dan is cogitating on the future of the iPad/Mac vs iPhone dichotomy, but we need to wait until his thinking is ready to discuss.

Answer 2

I guess you could call it a bug, but it due to fundamental differences between the two platforms.

iPhone uses a single page horizontal format.

iPad uses a two page more vertical format.

When you take a iPhone layout and open it on the iPad (or Mac), you see two pages instead of one, and the horizontal page is smushed into the more vertical space.

I recommend developing on the platform intended for use.  There are too many differences between the iPhone and iPad/Mac environments for layouts to move without lots of manual reformatting.  All the work you did on the iPhone is still there, you need to do some reformatting to fit the iPad / Mac format, mostly splitting the controls from one wide iPhone page to two vertical iPad/Mac pages.

Dan is cogitating on the future of the iPad/Mac vs iPhone dichotomy, but we need to wait until his thinking is ready to discuss.