Table of contents for Issue 51 in iPad User Magazine

When you’ve just splashed out on a new iPad, the first thing you want to do is fill it with great apps so you can make the most of it. Of course, after buying one, your wallet may be feeling the hit, so we’ve chosen our favourite free apps from the App Store, helping you work, create and generally have fun with your iPad without reaching for the credit card. You also get Apple’s apps free with your iPad, including its own work and creativity apps. We’ve covered GarageBand and iMovie in many other issues of iPad User, but in this one we’re looking at the new features added in the latest version of Pages and Keynote, which add some very smart new tools. Plus, we’ll show you how to…

1 Do Not Disturb control To shut out notifications until the next day, tap Do Not Disturb’s button (the one with a crescent moon icon) in Control Centre. In iOS 12, though, you get more options for how long Do Not Disturb is active than in previous versions. 2 Turn on at a location At a coffee shop and want to be left alone with your flat white and a book? Open Control Centre, apply a long/firm press to Do Not Disturb’s button and tap ‘Switch off when you leave this location’. No need to remember to turn it off again! 3 Go further If the current time is within an event in Calendar, the contextual menu when you hold/press Do Not Disturb’s button will include an option to turn…

1 Move into/out of a folder To move a file into a folder, drag it onto the folder’s icon. To drag multiple files, hold a finger on one, start dragging, then tap others. To move a file out of a folder, drag it onto its parent folder’s name (top left) and wait for that to open. 4 Browse tags/favourites Tap a tag in the sidebar to see all items to which it’s applied. Favourites in the sidebar are folders you’ll want to revisit. You can add an item to that group by choosing Favourite in the options bar, or by dragging it there. 7 Extract from archives When you tap a Zip archive, you can then tap Preview Content to see what’s inside, and preview files if iOS can handle…

1 Open Notification Centre In iOS 12, when an app has at least two notifications to show, they’re grouped – you’ll see several are stacked on one spot. This reduces clutter so you can see at a glance which apps need attention. Tap a group to spread out its contents. 2 Expand and read Tap an individual notification to deal with it in the corresponding app. Swipe left on it for an option to dismiss it alone. Tap ‘Show less’ if you’re happy to deal with the group later on, or, tap the X and then Clear to dismiss the whole group. 3 Get more detail A long press (or firm, if your device has 3D Touch) on an item often reveals extra info. When done on a group, you…

1 Quick links If you long-press a link in Safari you’ll get a pop-up with some useful time savers. What appears depends on the kind of link it is: because this one’s an App Store link you get an Open In App Store option, among others. 2 See shortcuts Bring up Control Centre and long-press on an icon to quickly change its settings or access shortcuts. Here we’ve long-pressed Camera to get options for photo, video, selfies and QR code scanning. Try them all! 3 Manage apps Long-press any app on the Home screen until you see the little “x” appear. Tap it to delete the app, or drag the icon to move it. Keep holding the first app and tap others if you want to move multiple apps simultaneously.…

1 Turn on Guided Access Guided Access isn’t switched on by default, so you’ll have to set it up. Head to Settings > General > Accessibility > Guided Access. Slide the switch across to turn on the feature. There are a few extra settings here too. 2 Key settings You can set whether Touch/Face ID is enough to turn Guided Access off, what the passcode is (make it different to the one that unlocks your device), whether a time limit is in force, and whether you can change settings as you exit. 3 Open an app With Guided Access made available, open the app you want to lock your toddler into. Guided Access settings are remembered per app, even after you restart your device, so you can disable different areas…

1 Tone down interruptions Apply a long/firm press to any individual item in Notification Centre or on the Lock screen. Next, tap the ellipsis at the top right of the expanded view to see the new Instant Tuning options for adjusting an app’s notifications. 2 Start tuning Instant Tuning saves digging into Settings. Tap Deliver Quietly to have this app send alerts to Notification Centre; it won’t make a sound, show a numbered badge, or appear on the Lock screen. Or, you can turn off notifications altogether. 3 More refined choices If those two options don’t provide quite what you want – you may want to keep the numbered badge or turn off Lock screen previews, say – tap Settings to go directly to the app’s full range of notification…

1 Start with some text The first thing you’ll usually need is a document with some text for you to annotate or illustrate! In this tutorial we’ll use an article we’ve written, and which looks a bit blocky and intimidating without any pictures. 2 Choose your weapon With Apple Pencil, tap anywhere to start drawing. The first time you do, you’ll be asked whether to annotate or draw. If using your finger, tap the + button, then the tab with the picture icon, then Drawing to create a new drawing box. 3 See your canvas Your drawing tools are at the bottom: tap them to bring up pop-out menus to adjust stroke width and opacity, and tap the colour to tweak colours. You can also switch to Smart Annotation mode…

1 Get your table Smart Categories need tables of information to do their magic. Here we’ve gone for a pretty classic business table: a sales chart that says what our company sold, who sold it, when it sold, and for how much. 2 Add a category Tap on the Filter icon (third from the top-right corner; it looks like three lines in the shape of a funnel) and you’ll see the Categories, Sort and Filter tabs. We want Categories, so stay in that tab and tap ‘Add a Category’. 3 Choose your source Now we need to tell Numbers which column contains the category we want to turn into a Smart Category. As you can see, it’s automatically taken the column headings from the existing table. We’ll choose Department. 4…

Spent all your money on a shiny new iPad? Wallet looking forlorn and empty? Don’t panic! You can still get the best out of your device by installing amazing free apps. In this round-up, we list our iOS favourites. They’re top-notch options, whether you fancy a spot of stargazing, finger-painting, meditation, photo editing, or more besides. So give them all a whirl, given that they won’t cost you a penny! Most of them work on iPhone too, naturally. Prisma FROM prisma-ai.com Want to be an artist, but have the painterly skills of an amoeba? Try Prisma. Load a photo, select a filter, and your snap is transformed into anything from a Munch to a Picasso. Some styles sit behind in-app purchases – as does high-res output – but for free…