Inhaltsverzeichnis für Issue 63 in iPad User Magazine

Hello and welcome to my first issue as editor of iPad User magazine! I’d like to thank my colleague Matthew Bolton for launching the magazine and doing such a great job of carving out a niche for it in the world. Now Matthew is off to a position in the online world I’ve stepped in to fill his boots. And what boots to fill! Hopefully the collection of iPad articles, and tutorial I’ve assembled for you this issue will do him justice. It’s a good moment to reflect, as this issue also sees the 10th anniversary of the release of the first iPad. As Alex Summersby says in this month’s feature on page 4, people initially dismissed the iPad as nothing more than a big iPhone. And yes, that’s exactly…

We know Apple makes great ads. Some iPad commercials over the years have just sold the sizzle, but at key points Apple’s ads masterfully encapsulate the key selling points… • Introducing iPad (2010): “What is iPad? iPad is thin. iPad is beautiful. iPad goes anywhere and lasts all day. There’s no right way or wrong way. It’s crazy powerful. It’s magical. You already know how to use it. It’s 200,000 apps and counting. All the world’s websites in your hands, video, photos, more books than you could read in a lifetime. It’s already a revolution, and it’s only just begun.” • iPad 2 (2011): “Now, we can watch a newspaper, listen to a magazine, curl up with a movie, and see a phone call. Now, we can take a classroom anywhere, hold…

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to add more icons to your Home Screen and more useful widgets YOU’LL NEED An iPad running iPadOS For what feels like an eternity the iPad has relied on presenting an interface that looks just like an expanded  iPhone screen. To be fair this does not take advantage of the extra screen real estate and has felt like a wasted opportunity, but things have now changed. In iPadOS the main Home screen can be made to look more like a traditional computer interface while retaining the simplicity and obviousness of the iOS visuals. You get the opportunity to set up widgets to see information at a glance and to organise all of your favourite tools in any way you like. The…

Some apps, such as WhatsApp, work with CallKit, so you can use Siri to call via that app. Tell Siri “call [name] with WhatsApp audio” and Siri will initiate an audio call with that app. If Siri doesn’t pronounce a contact’s name correctly, correct it by saying “that’s not how you say that name”. Siri will then ask you for a sample, and will provide you with three options in an effort to match the sample. Repeat if the options aren’t close enough. You can also create a shortcut (with the Shortcuts app) to call/message a contact with a third-party app like Skype.…

Hope floats, and so does the iPad Pro when it’s docked with the Magic Keyboard. We’ve long wondered what was so “magical” about Apple’s Magic Keyboard branding, as the company’s used the name for desktop and laptop keyboards, and here, when the iPad Pro just floats in midair, it looks pretty cool. Even just detaching the iPad Pro is as easy as just lifting it away. Sadly, the Magic Keyboard makes the iPad Pro substantially thicker, from 0.2 to 0.6 inches. That’s as thick as the MacBook Pro. The Magic Keyboard’s keys illuminate, but only automatically, when its sensors detect a lack of light. A backlighting option button would have been nice. Other buttons we wish Apple had added include media controls for volume, play and pause, fast forward and…

THE FIRST MILLION More than 1m iPads sold in less than a month from release. iPhone took around three months to sell its first million. MARKET PEAK At the start of 2012, iPad accounted for nearly 60% of global tablet shipments. 3 MILLION IN 3 DAYS In November 2012, at the launch of iPad mini and fourth-gen iPad, 3m sold in three days – double the previous first-weekend record. APPLE PENCIL CHARGING To charge, the original Apple Pencil plugged into iPad’s Lighting port end-on, sticking out awkwardly and perilously. WHO WANTS TO READ? Digital newspapers and magazines never quite took off on iPad. The Newsstand app was quietly killed off in 2015 in iOS 9. “BENDGATE” Buyers complained some costly 2018 iPad Pro units are warped out of the box.…

The original 2010 iPad ran iPhone OS 3.2, renamed iOS later that year with the release of iOS 4. Over time, as the entire family of iOS devices evolved, iOS on iPad gradually gained features not available on iPhone, such as picture–in–picture and multitasking options, such as Slide Over and Split View, added in iOS 9 in 2015, then drag and drop between apps, introduced in iOS 11 in 2017 along with an overhauled Dock. Optimised for iPad Now, to formalise the divergence, iOS on iPad has been renamed iPadOS. While it’s built on the same foundation as iOS, it offers apps optimised for iPad’s larger display, multitasking features, and new capabilities such as support for USB flash drives and other external storage. The first difference you’ll notice is the…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to use your iPad to help you sleep YOU’LL NEED An iPad with iPadOS When it comes to your health and fitness, sleep is as important as exercise. The average adult needs between seven and nine hours of sleep every night. A lack of sleep can lead to poor decision making, high blood pressure, low mood, and weight gain, among other issues. Enough of the scaremongering, your iPad can help you get a good night’s rest! Over the years, Apple has built several tools into the iPad, such as Do Not Disturb that can be used to help you sleep. You may also be tempted to use a sleep-tracking app, but did you know Apple has that feature built straight into…

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to find your way around with an iPad and plan routes YOU’LL NEED iPadOS and the Maps app You may believe that Maps has been added to the iPad just because it is so prevalent and useful on the iPhone, but that is  far from the case in iPadOS. The number of new features added in the latest version of the OS is impressive and some of them could completely change the way you navigate and search for new locations. Add to this the fact that you can legally use an iPad as a navigation device in a car by following all of the common sense road rules and the combination is without doubt a winner. We will show you how…

Want to play piano? The iPad’s a piano. Write a letter? It’s a typewriter The original iPad was essentially a handheld 9.7–inch XGA (1024x768 pixel) screen with built–in storage (16GB, 32GB, or 64GB) but little else — not even a camera, at first. It was a mere 13mm thick, weighed just 680g, and had an impressive 10 hours of battery life. It wasn’t the first tablet computer, but it was revolutionary in one key respect: it didn’t require a keyboard or a stylus. Instead, you used your fingers. In this way, as Steve Jobs put it at the time, it created “an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive, and fun way than ever before”. Intuitive and…

The original iPad started strongly, selling 300,000 on the opening weekend, 3.27m in the first quarter, then 32m in Apple’s fiscal year 2011. Because it’s a consumer device, iPad sales always spike in the US winter holiday quarter, and on the release of iPad Air and iPad mini 2 in November 2013 reached an all–time high of more than 26m in the quarter. Apple stopped reporting sales numbers at the end of 2018, but a total of more than 400m iPads have been sold since launch. Proportionally, iPad accounted for 26% of Apple’s total global revenue in Q3 2012, but since this high point other segments have grown more strongly than iPad; in Q4 2019 it was under 11%. Thanks to a refresh in 2018–19 though, the second quarter of…

Far from being for entertainment alone, iPad has transformed many workplaces and entire industries. It’s widely used for inventory control and point–of–sale; in restaurants your server is likely to take your order on one; it’s everywhere in IT, marketing, and the construction industry. It’s revolutionised two areas in particular. In healthcare, iPad provides portable access to scans, test results, and patient records; high–resolution imaging for diagnosis, visualisation, and communication with patients; and increasingly, interface with wireless health monitoring devices, including Apple Watch. In education, it’s had a big impact on teaching and learning. For students it increases engagement and delivers verified improvements in academic attainment. In the face of concerted competition from Google apps and cheap Chromebooks, iPad apps and teacher resources streamline teacher tasks and enable a learning–centred ‘flipped…

If you have trouble falling asleep, try changing the temperature of your lounge and bedroom lights. Use warmer colours like yellow, orange and red. Cooler colours like blue and green can trick the body into thinking it’s daytime, and suppress production of the melatonin hormone. As the sun goes down, melatonin production increases, and your body recognises that it is time to sleep. In addtition, there are plenty of meditation and sleep-aid apps that produce relaxing sounds; listening to natural sounds is a proven way to relax the mind and body.…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to create groups, set nicknames and add relationships YOU’LL NEED An iPad running iPadOS, a Mac with macOS Catalina Apple’s built-in Contacts application is home to all the phone numbers, email IDs and addresses you save. Did you know that it can do so much more though? If you frequently broadcast a message to a group of people, why not create a group so that you don’t have to manually add them each time you send a text? Or how about linking contacts by their relationship, so that you can call your plumber, boss or sibling without having to search for their name? To take advantage of these awesome features, you will need to sync your contacts with iCloud. While some…

People say that video games rot the brain, but many app games can actually help you improve your concentration and other mental skills. In fact, there’s an entire industry of ‘brain training’ apps that use games and tests to exercise the mind and improve your mental abilities. Memory function is often a key aspect, so here we’ve concentrated on ones that have a good selection of memory games. Most of these apps do require a monthly subscription to get the most out of them, but they generally have a basic free version too, so you could download a few to see which ones work best for you before splashing out. Eidetic – Spaced Repetition Free (IAPs) NEEDS iOS 8 or later Rather than conventional memory tests that ask you to…