Indice dei contenuti per Issue 56 in iPad User Magazine

Another string to the iCloud bow is Cloud Drive – an all-purpose file repository within your iCloud storage. Every relevant app has its own folder there to store documents, and you can add folders of your own. Your iCloud Drive appears in macOS, when ticked in System Preferences > iCloud, as a sidebar item in Finder windows, under Favourites. In iOS, when turned on in iCloud after opening Settings and tapping your name, it’s accessed through the Files app. You’ll see the same folder structure everywhere, with the same files synced. As with photos, ‘synced’ by default means the files are stored on Apple’s servers and copies are automatically downloaded to each device’s own storage. Storage options But there may not be room on your devices for copies of all…

With built-in GPS, your iPhone always knows where it is, to the nearest three metres or so. iPad and Apple Watch models with Cellular also have GPS. Macs and iPod touch don’t, but can guess their position surprisingly accurately based on nearby Wi-Fi. iCloud’s Find My… can use this location data to show you where all your devices are. For this to work, Find My… must be enabled on each device. In macOS, go to System Prefs > iCloud and tick Find My Mac. In iOS, open Settings, tap your name, tap iCloud then Find My iPad/ iPhone. Switch on Find My iPad and opt to Send Last Location, so that whenever your battery is low, the device will automatically send its location to iCloud, which remembers it for 24…

> Did we mention that if you delete a photo or file from iCloud on one device, it’s deleted everywhere? It’s easy to forget this, especially when your storage is getting full. Fortunately, iCloud doesn’t instantly erase files that you delete, but keeps them for 30 days. Photos you’ve trashed can be found in the Recently Deleted album; choose Recover to bring them back. Files deleted from iCloud Drive or within apps can be recovered via iCloud.com: go to iCloud Drive and click Recently Deleted (bottom right), or go to Settings and click Restore Files.…

In a Page Layout doc, the TOC exists as a feature that readers can access IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to generate and insert a table of contents in a Pages document YOU’LL NEED iOS 12, Pages A table of contents (TOC) itemises the parts of a document so the reader can jump to the page they want. It could just be a list of chapters, or might include several levels, from sections to individual subheadings. Pages for Mac can generate a TOC automatically, and the iWork update in March brought this to the iPad. The TOC is based on paragraph styles: apply the same style to each chapter title, heading and so on, and they’re collated. You can then choose which to include; the list…

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to make Calendar fit your life YOU’LL NEED iOS 12 (some features work on older versions) Calendar is one of the most important apps on any of our devices. Whether it’s our deadlines or dates, sporting  events or school holidays, Calendar makes sure we always know where we’re supposed to be and what we’re supposed to do when we get there. Like us, you’ve probably set up calendars for different things – maybe a work one and a personal one, or one for family things or social occasions – and you’re no doubt adept at dragging dates to reschedule them or adding notes to events. But Calendar has even more tricks up its sleeve. It enables you to share entire calendars…

1 Create a trip The first thing you’ll need to do is create a new trip. In addition to the name and dates – which can be as vague as ‘March to June’, if that’s helpful – you can add the emails of anyone you want to share the trip with. 2 See your trips Once you’ve added the basic information of your trip you’ll be taken to the home screen, which lists the trip(s) you’ve created. Tap on the one you just made to start adding some more detail to your plan. 3 Add details As you can see, the trip has multiple sections for organising your plans, your documents, your photos and your notes. If you’re sharing with other Lambus users, you can also have a trip-specific chat…

First they called it iTools. Then it was MobileMe. Apple’s online sync, storage and services platform has a long and, let’s say interesting history. It was MobileMe of which Steve Jobs famously asked a room full of engineers: “Can anyone tell me what this is supposed to do?” And after waiting patiently for them to explain, shot back: ‘So why the **** doesn’t it do that?’ Well, now it’s iCloud. And it does that. As well as a bunch of other things. So many things, in fact, that you might overlook a few. In this article, we’ll outline the most important features and show you how to get them working. We’ll clear up a few misconceptions, and unearth a few elements that ended up in places you might not guess.…

1 View Files in iOS The Files app is part of iOS. Tap Recents at the bottom to see recently used items, or tap Browse, then iCloud Drive to see the folder structure. You can tap the top right icon to switch between list and icon views. 2 Check iCloud space from iOS There’s no file size info within the Files app. To see how much iCloud storage is being used by Drive, open Settings, tap your name, tap iCloud, then Manage Storage. Tap iCloud Drive for more info. 3 Download optimised files Documents in Files show a cloud symbol when stored in iCloud but not on your device. For offline access, long-press the file, tap Move and pick On My iPad (or tap Duplicate, then move the copy).…

The iCloud concept started off as a way to sync settings between devices, and that’s still one of its most useful abilities. The less you notice it, the more useful it’s probably being. On a Mac, check what iCloud is managing in System Preferences > iCloud. In iOS, open Settings and tap your name, then iCloud. Your Contacts, Calendars and Reminders will all appear the same everywhere if you turn on their switches on all your devices. For Safari, iCloud syncs your bookmarks and enables Safari Tabs, which shows web pages currently open on other devices. In iOS, scroll to the bottom of the Tabs view (bottom right icon on iPhone, top right on iPad) or in macOS, click the Tabs icon at the top right. It’s also meant to…

IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to find and use hidden features in iOS YOU’LL NEED An iOS 12 device (some features work on older versions) 12 No matter how frequently you use your iPad or iPhone, it’s likely that you’ve developed habitual ways of interacting with it. And while there’s nothing wrong with strengthening muscle memory or instinctively doing what comes naturally, if you never move beyond your comfort zone, you risk missing out on slicker, faster and more productive ways of working. Many of these features are things you may never have thought of, while others are possibly things you wish you could do with your iPad, but never thought possible, because the interface has concealed them just well enough that you don’t stumble on…

1 Identify headings The table of contents reflects how a document is broken up by headings. This Word Processing document has three levels of subheading (plain, green and blue). The TOC will be based on their paragraph styles. 2 Apply paragraph styles Apply paragraph styles to headings using the paintbrush icon. Note that you can tap the style name to show a list of styles, then tap Edit to drag styles up and down: make sure they’re in correct order of importance. 3 Format appearance You can adjust the appearance of each level of heading by selecting one heading, changing its font settings, then tapping the Update button that appears on its paragraph style. The rest change to match. 4 Generate TOC Tap the Table of Contents icon, second from…

1 Share one of your calendars privately Sharing calendars with other people is simple. In the Calendar app, tap Calendars and then on the ‘i’ icon for the calendar that you want to share. Tap Add Person and enter their email. 2 Share one of your calendars publicly Shared calendars are private by default. If you scroll down and enable Public Calendar you can generate a link that you can use to share or publish a read-only version of that calendar. 3 Change the defaults You can set default alert times for birthdays, events and all-day events in the Settings app > Calendar > Default Alert Times. For events, you can choose minutes or days; for others it can be days or weeks. 4 Enable or disable Time To Leave…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to customise filter properties to create watercolour style artefacts YOU’LL NEED BeCasso, and some nice photos! Many apps enable you to stylise your photos to create eye-catching looks. However this can make your filtered photos look very similar to those produced by others. The beauty of BeCasso is that it uses artistic filter presets to turn pictures into paintings, but you can then modify a range of properties to create unique looks. BeCasso’s filters simulate a wide range of artistic styles – such as illustration or impressionism. You can also mimic work produced by famous artists such as Van Gogh or Munch. In our walkthrough we’ll demonstrate how to simulate the look of a watercolour painting. By using sliders you can…

Taking photos is easy; finding them later is hard. iCloud solves it by keeping all the photos you take on any of your Apple devices and syncing them to the others. So you can show off the pictures you’ve taken with your iPhone on your iPad, Mac or Apple TV. Albums you create appear everywhere with the same photos in them. You can share photos around your family, too. When iCloud Photos (previously iCloud Photo Library) is activated on a device, every item added to All Photos – primarily by shooting stills or video in the Camera app – is copied to iCloud. This happens immediately if the device is online, or next time it connects. The copies sync to all your other devices with iCloud Photos on. Equally, when…

iCloud.com can be accessed with any web browser; it works in Linux, on Chromebooks and in Windows As well as using iCloud services and browsing your iCloud Drive files on your Macs and iOS devices, you can access iCloud in two ways that work with non-Apple products: via iCloud.com and in the iCloud app for Windows. The latter is available for Windows 7 and higher from Apple at bit.ly/mficfw or from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10. It adds iCloud Drive as a folder to Windows Explorer; syncs your iCloud Photos (see page 6); brings your Mail accounts, Contacts and Reminders (as Tasks) into Microsoft Outlook; and syncs your Safari bookmarks to Internet Explorer, Firefox or Google Chrome. You can also check your iCloud storage and change settings. iCloud.com can be…

1 Instantly scroll to the top This one’s great for web pages and social media feeds, and works in apps like Tweetbot. If you’ve scrolled down a page, just tap the top-centre of the screen or column and watch as the view scrolls quickly back to the very top. 2 Earbuds’ shutter release Here’s a good reason to take your Apple headphones out of the box and plug them in. To take a photo, press the inline remote’s centre button. This helps reduce shake – in low light, say – caused by reaching to tap the shutter button. 3 Tap the current tab This one works differently between apps. In Photos’ Album view, tapping the Album tab takes you to the bottom; in Facebook’s timeline, tapping the Timeline tab refreshes…

IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes YOU WILL LEARN how Lambus can organise everything for your trips YOU’LL NEED Lambus and a plan for where you want to go Travelling, especially travelling that involves multiple destinations and/or multiple people, can mean a lot of admin  work. There are itineraries to consider, booking confirmations to produce, e-tickets to get scanned, AirBnB PINs and all kinds of other bits and bobs that tend to disappear just when you need them most. Wouldn’t it be great if you could plan ahead, store everything in an app, share it with your fellow travellers and take the ‘aaaagh’ out of travel? That’s what Lambus does. Get on the Lambus Lambus is an iPad and iPhone app that enables you to create a plan for your travels.…

1 Choose a style In BeCasso, tap to choose a picture from your Photos app that will suit an artistic makeover (such as our scenic swan). In the Stylize page tap Artistic. In Effects toggle open Watercolor. Choose Watercolor 2. 2 Simplify the effect To fine-tune the Watercolor 2 look, tap on Tools. This gives you access to sliders that change a wide range of art effect properties in the entire photo. Tap Details then drag the slider left to simplify the image. 3 Add spatter Tap Spatter. Drag the slider right to add spatters of watercolour paint. This creates a more effective artistic look, especially in clean and colourful areas such as the sky. Pinch to zoom in on this spatter texture. 4 Added wetness Tap Wetness. Drag the…

Neos SmartCam ★★★★★ £19 neos.co.uk It’s no surprise that this is at the basic end of the smart security camera spectrum given its price, but its works incredibly well. It records 1080p video through a 110° lens, with motion and noise detection, and it arms and disarms itself automatically based on location, though you can override that. The app is easy to use and supports multiple cameras. Recordings are 12 seconds long, triggered on detection, and are saved for 14 days in the cloud for free; you can also record to microSD card. The quality of footage is solid, and there’s reasonable night vision, plus two-way communication. Logitech Slim Folio Pro ★★★★★ £109 logitech.com These cases for the current iPad Pro range (one for each size) offer excellent protection for…