Table of contents for Issue 89 in iPad User Magazine

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id584362474 We love making music, but learning instruments isn’t quick or easy. That’s why we’re so fond of GarageBand’s magic instruments, and of Launchpad. Both apps enable you to experience and share the sheer joy of music without the whole sore-fingers frustration of traditional music-making. That’s not to say serious musicians can’t use them either. They can and many of them do. But as we’ll discover in this tutorial, when you have an app like Launchpad, you can create music in any genre pretty much immediately, and that opens up music making to many more people. If you can hear a tune in your head, or just stumble across a bit of a melody by happy accident, Launchpad can make it sound like you’re a proper musical pro. The Launchpad…

“There are loads of options beyond just the Apple Pencil”. Apple’s top of the range iPads are some of the best devices out there for note-taking, drawing, and editing photos on the go thanks to their touchscreens and pressure-sensitive features. If you really want to make your iPad the ultimate productivity tool, however, you’re going to need one of the best styluses. There are loads of options beyond just the Apple Pencil as well, especially while we wait for more information on the Apple Pencil 3. The other options don’t cost quite as much, but share plenty of the features that make the Apple Pencils so good. But which is the best for you? We’ll take a look at which are the best iPad styluses you can buy, and what…

There is little more thrilling for an Apple fan than getting to pick out a new Mac. You walk into the shop and tell the staff member which new essential work item you’re going to buy. Almost as thrilling is building your perfect machine in the online store. In recent years, that process has become a lot more confusing though. Products across the company’s range seem to have become more and more similar, and it’s not just across the Mac range. Some iPads are now so powerful it is hard to distinguish them from what we would traditionally think of as a laptop. So, for example, assuming you do not need the most powerful Mac and are mostly looking for portability, do you want a MacBook Air or an iPad…

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/apple-store/id375380948?platform=ipad You might not open the Apple Store app each day but there’s an argument for launching it more often. As well as letting you buy new Apple gear and keep track of your purchases, you can use it to create personalised items, organise returns and, by searching for ‘refurbished’, save money too. But it goes beyond that. Explore the app, and you can learn more about the devices linked to your Apple ID, discover new things to do with your gear and enjoy lots of free stuff – whether in-app or in a physical Apple Store. If you tap your profile image, you can also use the app to manage any Apple services you’ve signed up to and see what else is available. Don’t want to keep checking in?…

Rumors have suggested that a bigger iPad is in the works for 2024, with iPadOS 17 being made to be compatible with this new model, alongside some new features. According to Twitter user @analyst941, which has accurately leaked Apple’s plans before, a 14.1-inch iPad model powered by an M3 chip is slated to run with iPadOS 17, which will also be able to run two 4K Monitors at a 60Hz refresh rate at once. Compared to the current iPad models that can only do this with one, it could be a big deal for those who use multiple monitors for video editing. There have been constant rumors of a bigger iPad coming, and with Stage Manager launching in a rough state with iPadOS 16 in 2022, it at least showed…