Today we’re sharing not one, not 10, but 50 of our favorite best kept secrets that will have your iPad truly working for you and making your life a whole lot easier. While the best MacBooks and Macs can make your work life a breeze and the best iPhones are great for staying connected while you’re out and about, there’s something about an iPad that can’t be beat. It’s not as cumbersome or heavy as a laptop, which makes it great for taking on holiday and its screen is bigger than that of a smartphone, which means it’s easier to operate Excel or Word.
But not every user is familiar with the true breadth and depth of what this genius device can do. From organizing your apps to making Siri sing, here are 50 of our favorite iPad tips and tricks. One of our favorite iPad tips and tricks, swipe up from the Dock and you’ll see your recent apps with large thumbnails to make them easier to identify.
Swipe down from the top right of the Home Screen to show Control Center, which has shortcuts for everyday tasks such as adjusting the brightness and volume, turning Bluetooth on and off, locking the screen orientation and so on. Does your iPad store data you don’t want to fall into the wrong hands, such as your top secret plans for world domination? Go into Settings > Touch ID & Passcode and scroll down to Erase Data. This enables you to automatically erase your iPad if there are ten failed passcode attempts. It seems like every app wants you to enable notifications, and some of them take advantage of your trust by blasting you with unwanted ads. This enables you to create shortcuts, so for example we’ve got a semicolon followed by “sorryno” to automate polite replies to product pitches.
The default iPad keyboard takes up a lot of room, especially in landscape mode. If your device isn’t AirPlay-enabled but has a rival system such as ChromeCast, look for an app such as Tubio, which streams to all kinds of things in pristine HD.
The screenshot is automatically added to your Photos library but a thumbnail appears on screen for a moment: tap on that and you can edit it before saving or sharing it. Touch and hold the icon for the second app and drag it upwards; it’ll now appear in its own panel.
If you find you keep triggering these by mistake you can turn them off in Settings > General > Multitasking. When you’re watching a film or having a FaceTime video call in full screen mode you’ll see a little icon of a screen with an arrow in it, so for example if you’re watching a music video in Apple Music it’s up by the close icon at the top left of the window.
Printing wirelessly is easy if you’ve got an AirPrint printer: assuming your printer and iPad are both on the same Wi-Fi network it’s just a matter of tapping the Share menu in your app and choosing Print. Some apps like to do things in the background, which can be useful: for example it’s handy to have your newspaper ready to read when you turn on your iPad in the morning, or to have the current weather forecast in your widget.
But background refresh could also mean apps using bandwidth and battery for no good reason, which isn’t ideal if you’re on a cellular connection. And you can customize it: if you tap on it, scroll right and choose More, you’ll see which features can be turned on or off. Your iPad Home Screen can include widgets to show calendar items, weather forecasts, news headlines and anything else you fancy. Press and hold on a blank bit of your first Home Screen and you can add the widgets you’d like your iPad to display.
If you change your mind just press and hold again, and you’ll see little circles with minus signs in each widget. It doesn’t take long to fill up even the most enormous iPad with photos, apps and videos.
Go into Settings > General > iPad Storage and you’ll see what’s taking up space. You can now make a number of changes, including offloading unused apps. This removes the app from your iPad but keeps its icon and data; when you need it, just tap on it to pick up where you left off. When you’re typing you can add punctuation and symbols without switching from the ABC keyboard. Mail offers a useful feature to tame unnecessary notifications: you can ask it to notify you only when a message comes from a Very Important Person, and to have an inbox folder that only shows messages from those VIPs. In Safari on your Mac, iPhone or iPad you can share open tabs with your other devices. Maps offers real-time public transport information, and when you search for an address you can choose public transport options including underground railways, buses, trains and ferries.
If you choose public transport in the Directions tab you’ll also see advisories of timetable changes and other issues that might affect your trip. In the US, you can also get directions for cyclists that warn of steep hills, stairs and other issues. Apple has been beefing up Maps’ capabilities over the years, and it can offer a lot of useful information about places: photos, contact details and TripAdvisor reviews of hotels, whether retailers accept Apple Pay and whether dentists are sadists.
It’s handy for online articles that might not stay available, such as things you’re reading as part of a subscription. You can also take a screenshot of an entire webpage, not just the bit you’re currently viewing: to do that, take a screenshot as normal (the home and power buttons, or the sleep/wake and volume up buttons) and then tap on the thumbnail to open it in editing mode.
At the top you’ll see an option to grab the entire page, which you can then save or share. No problem: just tap the correct object or area and the camera will refocus and re-meter. You can also switch Smart HDR mode on or off in Settings > Camera for high dynamic range shots: they’re good for dramatic shots such as foul weather on bright days. You don’t have to leave FaceTime’s picture-in-picture window in its default location.
In the camera app tap on the Pano option and you can use your iPad to create a huge panoramic image. You can also get similar adapters that enable you to connect USB devices such as flash drives or musical instruments.
If you’re typing a web address in Safari, press and hold the full stop key to see a selection of domain options including .com, .co.uk and so on. If you’ve enabled iCloud for Safari this is synced between your devices, so you might save an article from your work Mac to read on your iPad when you get home. Some sites do a great job of hiding useful content behind bad design or invasive ads. Tapping the AA icon in the Safari address bar switches in to reading mode, which strips out a lot of unnecessary clutter, and if you tap the icon again when you’re actually in reading mode you can adjust the font and color and size.
It’s important to stress that both of these things only affect what’s recorded on your iPad: the sites you visit and their advertising trackers will still know you were there and what you were looking at. The screen will now open the link in the right and retain the original page in the left.
On the Home Screen, slide down with two fingers to bring up the search box. This will include some Siri suggestions of commonly used options, such as “Send a message to Julie”.
Depending on where you live you can choose between multiple options, so for example in the UK we have a choice of male and female voices with US, Indian, Irish, South African, Australian or British accents. For example, animation can make some people feel ill, while other users may have motion difficulties or vision issues.
There are lots of options in Settings > Accessibility to make the iPad more usable, including changes to the way it displays text and its support for assistive devices. Apple’s voice recognition can understand punctuation, which can make your dictated texts and emails much easier to read.
The Best iPad Pro (2020) Tips and Tricks
Apple’s 2020 iPad Pro lineup has gone on sale today in major markets across the world. This time around, Apple has focused more on refining its iPad Pro lineup rather than doing something dramatically different. Apple is offering more value with its iPad Pro lineup this time rather than focusing on outright performance and other changes. The new tablets also come with a more powerful A12Z Bionic chip and still offer up to 10 hours of battery life.
The below tips and tricks will help you use your new iPad Pro — be it the 11-inch or the 12.9-inch model — to the fullest and discover some hidden and useful features of them. Simply double-tap the space bar to start the process of unlocking your iPad.
The good thing is that Face ID on the iPad Pro lineup works in both portrait and landscape orientation. This is the same fast charger that Apple started shipping with the iPhone 11 Pro last year as well. However, unlike the iPhones, the 2020 iPad Pro is not limited to a maximum charging speed of 18W. So, if you want to charge your iPad Pro quickly, you should invest in a good 30-45W USB-C charger. On the go and quickly want to charge your iPhone but don’t have access to a portable power bank or a charger? You can now directly connect external storage drives or SD card to your iPad Pro and access them using the native Files app.
That USB-C port on your 2020 iPad Pro can be used for a lot more things than just charging it or for connecting accessories. Thanks to the new LiDAR Scanner on the 2020 iPad Pro, the Measure app in iOS 13 has got a major performance boost. Make sure it’s a swipe and not a flick or you’ll end up closing the app or bringing up the Dock. To ease the pain, you can use a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Dock: Cmd + Option + D.
If you’re doing some research, you can quickly drag in paragraphs of text and images to a Notes document. Swipe right horizontally on the big Home bar at the bottom of the screen to quickly access the most recent app.
With the iPadOS 13.4 update, Apple has added native cursor and trackpad support to all iPads. The enhanced cursor support makes it extremely easy to select and edit text.
Best Apple iPad tips and tricks
These are the best iPad tips and tricks to help you master your Apple tablet and the iPadOS software. Swipe down from the battery icon at the top right of your iPad screen to access Control Centre.
Pressing and holding icons within the Control Centre will also offer more options and settings. Swipe down from the Home page on your iPad to access the search bar.
For other iPad models, double tap the Touch ID home button. If you’re reading a document in iBooks, tapping on the left side of your iPad’s screen will take you back to the previous page. If you want to stop your iPad’s display from rotating when you turn it, swipe down from the top right corner of the Home screen to pull up the Control Centre and then tap the icon with the circle and arrow around the lock. You can also open an app and tap on the three dots at the top of your display to enter Slide Over or Split View. To move the secondary Slide Over app to the other side of the screen: Drag from the top of the window (you’ll see a grey long line there). Have Safari running alongside Notes in the Split Screen view. Tap on the text you want to copy, then long press it, and drag it across to Notes. There’s a feature called Focus within iPadOS 15 that allows you to automatically filter notifications based on what you are doing.
Smart Stack shows you relevant information throughout the day, such as weather, your next calendar event or photos from your library. To add a Smart Stack to your Home screen: Touch and hold the Home Screen > Tap on “+” > Tap on Smart Stack > Add Widget > Done. If you want to know what kind of iPad you have or find out the generation: Open Settings > General > About. Today View will give you timely information from your favourite apps, at a glance. If you have lost your iPad and you have another Apple device: Open the Find My app (green circle with a blue dot on a white background) > Tap on Devices at the bottom > Tap on your iPad from the list > You can then choose a number of options, including playing a sound if you think you have lost your iPad nearby, or getting directions to its last known location. With iPadOS and macOS Catalina or later, it’s possible to use an iPad as a secondary display to your Mac. By default, there’s a small section of the iPad’s Dock reserved for recently used apps. The iPad keyboard makes it easy to get to the symbols and numbers you use frequently. Swipe down quickly on the corresponding key to get to your primary punctuation symbols and numbers.
In iPadOS, you can pinch to shrink the keyboard and move it wherever you like on your iPad’s display. Once the picture is taken, the iPad can then automatically realign it to make it a flat, editable document. For iPad Pro (2018) models and newer, you can use Memoji and Animoji in a FaceTime call.
If you want to change the homepage on Safari – set it to Google for example – then you’ll need to open Safari on your iPad > Go to the page you want to set as your homepage > Tap the rectangle with the arrow in the top right of your screen > Add to Homescreen > Rename the page if you want to > Tap Add in the top right. To do this, swipe down from the top right corner of the iPad’s Home screen and tap the Airplane.
You’ll then need to confirm pairing and your iPad and the App Pencil will be connected and ready to use. If you have the second generation model, simply attach it to your iPad via the magnetic strip.
If you have an Apple Pencil and an iPad that supports it: Wake the screen > double tap on the Lock Screen with the tip of the Apple Pencil and you’ll be able to open Notes and start creating a new note. If your iPad is running iPadOS 15 or later, then you can swipe from the bottom corner with your finger or the Apple Pencil to take a Quick Note.
If you’ve handwritten a note and you want to copy the text into another app, like Mail or Safari, it’s easy. Simply double tap on a handwritten word and drag the points to cover everthing you want to copy. Once everything is selected, tap once to get the option bar and press “Copy as text”. If you are using the Apple Pencil (2nd gen) with the iPad Pro (2018) models or newer, you can change what the double tap feature does.
Cmd + Shift + 4: Takes a screenshot and then automatically opens it in mark up mode.
27 iPad tips and tricks to transform your workflow
Now, compared to the wow factor of macOS Big Sur, you may think your iPad doesn’t look much different after installing this latest major update – iOS 14.2. That’s partly because it’s the desktop OS, this time, that’s borrowed ideas – and quite a lot of code – to catch up with the tablet, rather than the other way around. But you’ll soon find plenty that’s new, and this article lays out 27 brilliant tips to help you make the most of the new update – use the quick links on the right to jump to your preferred section. Freed from the iPhone, iPadOS is finding its way towards the power and flexibility of an all-purpose computer without losing the simplicity and immediacy of multitouch.
And this season brings to the fore the accessory Macs can’t match: the Pencil. Now that every current model supports either the first or second-generation accessory, pen input (while still optional) can take its place at the centre of the iPad experience. Universal widgets may sound like a rust-belt normcore band, but they’re the new big noise on the iPadOS 14 Home screen. On the first Home screen, swiping right squishes up the icons to reveal Today View, where you’ll start to see the differences: widgets appear in a new format, and no longer show titles. To change widgets, press one and hold – ignoring the pop-up menu – until the Home screen goes into ‘jiggly mode’.
To add widgets not updated for iPadOS 14, scroll to the bottom of Today View (still jiggling) and tap Customise. Tap the three dots (…) icon on a shortcut to open a revamped editor view, with more actions, automation triggers and scheduling options. Similarly, Search, accessed as before by swiping down on the Home screen, now appears in a bubble rather than taking over the display.
Protecting your personal data while simultaneously using it to power real-time services is all in a day’s work for iPadOS 14 While iMacs and MacBooks have a green LED to show their built-in cameras are active, iPads don’t. But iPadOS 14 displays a green dot when any app is accessing the camera, or orange when the mic alone is in use.
Safari’s new Privacy Report doesn’t directly reflect ITP, but lists attempts by websites to share data with tracking services. But data you’re using in web apps that you ‘install’ using the Add to Home Screen option in Safari’s Share menu shouldn’t get deleted. Sites that support Sign in with Apple, which lets you set up an account without sharing personal data, can offer to ‘upgrade’ you to it from an existing login.
For the first time in iPadOS (and iOS), you can set a third-party app as your default browser or email client instead of Safari or Mail. Safari’s Privacy Report shows which tracking sites the page tried to communicate with, for marketing or analytics.
In Safari itself and on most web pages, you can now use Scribble to write with your Pencil into text entry fields.
As in iOS and macOS Big Sur, the Messages app fortuitously gains a bunch of new features amid a virtual communication bonanza. Separately, you can reply to a specific user in the group by typing their name, then tapping to turn it blue. Probably of wider interest is the ability to pin conversations to the top of your list, keeping your partner’s texts more prominent than the plumber’s.
After finding a location from the search box, tap it to open a place card that may include third-party guides with themes such as ‘famous hotels’ or ‘best walks’. Look Around, Apple’s new equivalent of Google Street View, is impressively smooth and clear, although only a few cities have been photographed so far. Apple is also adding support for electric vehicle charging and cycling routes, but these have yet to reach the UK.
Many of the enhancements to Apple’s augmented reality API, ARKit, take advantage of hardware innovations exclusive to the 2020 iPad Pro models.
This also works with direct Apple Pencil alternatives like the Logitech Crayon, but may not with other third-strokes, not just the end result. Forming letters idiosyncratically can trip it up, though: if you draw a clear A, but heavily it’s relying on autocorrect to recognise words. While lending many of its ideas to the Mac, the iPad continues to gain features of its own that make it feel less unlike a desktop computer. Many of iPadOS 14’s default apps, including Photos, gain sidebars to organise your content at a glance (Image credit: Adam Banks/Apple)
Like the earlier introduction of the Files app, this acknowledges a need resisted in early versions of iOS for fear of complicating things.
The Files app itself showcases new desktop-style pull-down menus, reminiscent of macOS Big Sur.
VoiceOver Recognition now detects interface components in third-party apps and websites to help you navigate successfully, and can read out text recognised within images. A new feature, General > Accessibility > Sound Recognition, offers a list of everyday noises, from ‘Fire’ and ‘Water Running’ to ‘Dog’ and ‘Baby Crying’, that can be detected through your iPad’s microphones and trigger a notification.
Headphone accommodations are among several notable additions for AirPod users, allowing you to adjust frequencies to suit your hearing. Voice Memos gains folders and a nondestructive Enhance Recording option to cut background noise and echo. It made much more sense on the four-inch screens of contemporary iPhones, but as those have grown, it has felt like overkill for a while in iOS too. Now all Apple mobile devices get a new compact interface for calls, appearing as a banner over the top of whatever you’re doing.
Developers of other Voice over IP (VoIP) apps can also respect this option, turned on by default in Settings > FaceTime > Incoming Calls. The picker is neat, but neither this nor the full onscreen keyboard has iOS 14’s ability to search for emoji by keyword.
The Best iPad Tips and Tricks: How to Conquer iPadOS
But with Apple splitting the two devices’ operating systems into iOS and iPadOS, there are now some iPad-specific functions tablet owners should know. Read on to learn the secrets that will make Apple’s biggest touch screen even more worthwhile in your daily life. For more, dig into our iPhone tips story, as well as the fundamentals of how to navigate an iPad without a home button and how to change the look and feel of the icons and text. Another way of sharing access across devices is to see the tabs you have open in the Safari browser on, say, your iPhone, also appear on iPad or Mac. On the iPad (or iPhone) go to Settings> [your name] > iCloud and ensure Safari is switched on. Menu options include Undock (so the keyboard “floats”), Floating (so you get a mini iPhone-sized keyboard you can put anywhere on the screen), and Split (pictured above).To undo, long-press again and select Merge or pinch outward with two fingers.
Those are the symbols, punctuation, or numbers you get if you hit the shift key on either side of the space bar. For a side-by-side Split View, do the same thing as above, but then hold the top of the Slide Over window and drag it down slightly right (or left, depending on where you want it). The glorious thing about the multitasking option is the ability to drag and drop text or other info between apps. For example, the Photos app next to Mail, Messages, or Notes lets you drag and drop your memorable digital imagery for sharing or saving in a whole new context.
Dragging a photo from a PCMag story to the Notes app in Split View. You’re not limited to drag and drop within a Split View or Slide Over app—but they make it easier.
But beyond the apps created by Apple, you’ll find support for it in Google Docs, Chrome, Annotable, Twitter, Evernote, AirMail, Bear, and more. If you don’t have a home button, press Power and Volume up simultaneously.
If you have an Apple Pencil(Opens in a new window) stylus, swipe up from the bottom corner. You can annotate an image after you take it (which is a lot easier with the Apple Pencil, of course). iOS and iPadOS also allow full-screen recording now, for videos of what’s happening on screen. Got a kid who wants to play with a single app on your phone, but always ends up somehow sending your boss an email?
Take an unpaired Bluetooth-capable pointing device, pair it to the iPad via Settings > Bluetooth, and begin moving the cursor. On the Mac (with macOS Catalina or higher), this feature is known as SideCar, and you can do it over USB or even wirelessly, as long as both devices are logged into the same Apple ID. Coming to iPadOS 15 will be the ability to place widgets on any page you want in any spot, just like with iPhone. You’ll see it trying to find friends first, but click the Devices icon at the bottom to locate your Apple equipment.
Options like playing a sound on the iPad may help you track it if it’s nearby. The nuclear option is to hit Erase This Device so nothing on it falls into the wrong hands, even if the iPad itself won’t be coming back to you.
A feature unique to the iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation) or iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) is the ability of the front-facing 12-megapixel Ultra Wide camera with 122-degree field of view to keep you centered in the frame during FaceTime video calls. The 2nd generation Apple Pencil(Opens in a new window) is one of those rare products to earn five out of five stars from PCMag. Double tapping the 2nd gen Apple Pencil on an iPad will switch you back to the last tool you used. This also sets what you get when you click the Notes icon in the Control Center without unlocking first, so it also works on iPhone.
Your sketchy, stretchy imperfect shape will quickly be replaced by a perfect rendition. Shape recognition supports the following shapes: line, curve, square, rectangle, circle, oval, heart, triangle, star, cloud, pentagon, thought bubble, outlined arrow, continuous line with 90-degree turns, line with an arrow at end, and a curve with an arrow at the end.
Layer them or angle them so a square looks like a diamond, and write words inside them as you see fit. You’ll now get a new Share icon at the top that allows you to save the PDF to a place like Files, Dropbox; or the Notes app; or email it, AirDrop it, or send it via Messages, Slack, Signal, etc.
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20 Best iPad Pro Tricks and Tips to Improve Your Work Efficiency
The Apple iPad Pro can make you more productive only if you know how to use it; otherwise, it’s like any other tablet but bigger and heavier. Of course, you can go to Settings > General > Shut Down to power off the iPad Pro, but the quicker way is by pressing some buttons.
Once it’s completely off, press and hold the power button until you see the Apple logo on the screen. If it doesn’t pair, you may remove and attach the Apple Pencil to the iPad Pro again.
Also, if you’re using an Apple Pencil skin or an iPad Pro case , make sure it’s not thick to block connection. When comparing the iPad Pro with a laptop, the tablet’s biggest edge is its portability and the incomparable tool, Apple Pencil.
When you don’t have access to a physical keyboard, or you find it challenging to use the onscreen keyboard, for example, when you’re holding the iPad Pro with one hand and typing with another, you would find the Apple Pencil extremely convenient. With the app Quick Note (introduced with iPadOS15) installed, you can swipe from the lower right corner of the screen towards the center, and you can literally jot down whatever’s on your mind anytime on the popup window. The Apple Pencil is undeniably useful, particularly when drawing circles, squares, arrows, or other shapes. Just draw it with the pen and hold it down for a second, and the shape will automatically be transformed into a perfect one.
Isn’t that faster than clicking the bar then the menu and finding the shape among a sea of lines and circles? For instance, you can connect the iPad Pro to your Mac or PC to factory reset the device with iTunes if you forgot the passcode.
Also, connect a digital camera or an SD card reader to import photos, a physical keyboard, and an external storage device to store data separately from the tablet. Turn your iPad Pro off or keep pressing the volume button to mute it?
Just swipe down from the top right, locate Control Centre, then tap Do Not Disturb, the moon icon. And when you have two apps opened using Split View or Slide Over, drag and drop is incredibly easy. Simply press and hold a photo or file, and it will start following your finger. The default iPad Pro keyboard is in full size, making it easier to type with two hands.
Use two fingers to press and hold on the keyboard icon and pinch inward to make it smaller and float. The iPad Pro is powerful, but a physical keyboard is indispensable if you want to use it to replace your laptop.
Fortunately, the Magic Keyboard does have an integrated trackpad for controlling an on-screen pointer. The trackpad on Magic Keyboard allows you to tap, swipe, pinch, or spread one or more fingers to perform useful actions. To quickly bring out the Notification Center, swipe left from the right edge with two fingers. You can find plenty of other cool gestures under the Apple menu > System Preferences > Trackpad.
Tapping to click sounds easy, but sometimes it’s hard to locate the cursor among hundreds of words if you have big or clumsy hands, especially in a small window. For example, when you need to scan documents and add your signature to send them over, you don’t have to leave your desk. Some accessories help you get more from your iPad Pro, such as the Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard.
Some people use a case to protect their tablet and a bag to carry their iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard for daily commute. When you arrive at the office, you take them out, put the bag aside, and open your Magic Keyboard. Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro doesn’t have a physical Escape key which can be found on most computer keyboards and used for functions like canceling the current process, closing a pop-up window, etc.
People get so used to this key with their computers that it’s hard not to notice it’s missing on the Magic Keyboard.
11 iPad Pro Tips and Tricks You should Know About
Reason being they do not really know how to maximize usage of their iPad because it takes a lot of time to navigate. It cracks me up real big because when you are not in the ‘know-how,’ things become clumsy and you may just get fed up. Since the modifications made in the iPad pro model in 2018, notice that the home button has been eliminated. On the bottom of your iPad pro interface, you would see a home bar button, a swift swipe to the left or right would enable you view your recently opened apps which allows for easy switch. I have seen people use the volume button to mute their iPad pro during an incoming call in meetings and conferences. You can always use the ‘do not disturb’ button by locating the control centre where it is housed by swiping down from the top right.
Sneak peek: do you know that your iPad pro accessories like a magnetically detachable keyboard can increase your efficiency? Also, some apple accessories like the Trifold Smart case to protect your iPad pro to prevent from scratch from harsh handling.
Since the home button is no longer present in the new iPad model that means there would also be a modification in the way you take screenshots. You would not always have the time to leave your desk to scan, print or send a document. You can take notes or make drawings or illustrations using your apple pencil. Although it is an entirely new feature, it is highly commendable and it just heightened my love for iPad pro model over any other.
To perform this task, keep Bluetooth and wi-fi on and also, be sure to connect both devices to the same iCloud account. So, it is left to you to decide weather to add a time limit for usage or set aside your device.
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