Indice dei contenuti per Issue 72 in iPad User Magazine

Apple has finally sent me a review sample of the new iPad Pro to have a play with, the latest one with the M1 chip. I’ll bring you my full review next issue, but let me just say that I’m loving how snappy and fast it feels, and how great the screen looks, not to mention how well everything works with the Apple Pencil. Of course, the new iPad Pro is running iPadOS 14, and Apple has just announced details of its next iPadOS 15, which we reveal this issue. So my new iPad is already starting to feel a little out of date! The pace of Apple’s advancements never ceases to amaze me. As soon as you’ve got comfortable with the latest software, they’re updating it and adding more…

> Apple sees privacy as a human right, and has gone to great lengths to let you keep your personal data under your own control on your iPad, particularly through its app tracking transparency feature. In iPadOS 15 Apple is adding Mail Privacy Protection, which hides your IP address so senders can’t find your location, or know if and when you opened their email. The same IP hiding technology is also implemented in Safari, plus there’s a new section in Settings called App Privacy Report. Here you can see how often apps try to access your location, contacts, camera and more. And you can see all the third party domains the app is contacting.…

1 Edit the sidebar Tap Files to launch it. Tap the sidebar icon in the top left to view it, then tap More and choose Edit Sidebar. Use the toggle switches to add or remove items from Locations, or tap ‘–‘ to remove items from Favourites or Tags. 2 Change the sidebar order You don’t have to keep the default order in the sidebar. To change the order of items in the sidebar, tap and hold on the item you want to move, then drag it up or down and drop it in its new location. Tap Done when you’re finished. 3 Add a folder to Favourites To add a folder to the Favourites section of the sidebar, navigate to the folder you want to add then tap and hold…

1 View a memory In the sidebar, tap For You, then tap See All next to Memories. Swipe up to scroll through memories and tap the one you want to view. Tap the play button at the bottom right of the main image to see the slideshow of the Memory. 2 Choose music style Locate the Memory you want to edit and tap it. When it starts playing, either wait for it to end or tap Pause. Choose a style of music from the list – dreamy, sentimental, uplifting, etc – and press play to preview it. 3 Edit the music If you don’t like any of the music available in the list of styles, tap Edit. Tap Music, then either tap on a Mood to choose a different track…

1 Pin a conversation If you struggle to find important messages, you can now pin favourite conversations to the top of the list. Find the conversation you want to pin, swipe right over it and tap the pin. To unpin it, tap and hold on it and choose Unpin. 2 Specific message reply If you’re in a group conversation, instead of sending a reply to the group, you can reply to a specific message. Tap and hold the message you want to respond to and tap Reply. Your reply will appear under that message. 3 Mention someone Messages has gained the ability to ‘mention’ conversation participants. Start typing the name of the person. When their name turns grey, tap it and tap the contact preview. The name will now turn…

Last year was one of the most stressful in recent memory, and so far this year hasn’t been much better! So it’s understandable if you’re looking for ways to increase your happiness. Thankfully, there are lots of apps on hand to help you take back control and feel more positive. There are apps that help you improve your sleep and wake up with peace of mind; there are apps that declutter your brain and enable you to overcome troubling thoughts, and there are apps that let you take stock of all the positive things in your life that you can overlook. Combined, they can help you lead a happier life in 2021 and beyond. Headspace Free (IAPs) NEEDS iPadOS 12 or later An App Store Editor’s Choice, Headspace is something…

At its recent World Wide Developers Conference, Apple announced details of its upcoming iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad operating systems, now up to version 15 on iOS and iPadOS. Of course, it was iOS 15 that took centre stage at the event, but the same features are coming to iPadOS 15, as well as a few unique add-ons just for iPad, that we’re sure you’re going to love. “We’re excited to make the iPad experience even better with iPadOS 15,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “With more intuitive multitasking, a new Home Screen design with integrated widgets and the App Library, systemwide note taking with Quick Note, Translate designed for iPad, SharePlay, a redesigned Safari experience, new tools to stay focused, and more, users can…

The launch of iPadOS 14 in 2020 wasn’t the seismic shift we saw the previous year when the iPad got its own operating system for the first time. However, there are plenty of new features, tweaks, and improvements in this version. Today View widgets have evolved and now feature many of the same options as the Home Screen widgets introduced in iOS 14. So, you can now add Stacks and choose between large, medium and small widgets, for example. Lots of apps look different now too, thanks to the addition of sidebars and pull-down menus. App Clips make an appearance in iPadOS with this version, and you can now use an Apple Pencil to write in any text box and have your handwriting converted to text. And in the Notes…

1 The sidebar icon at the top left of the screen is the easiest way to toggle the sidebar on and off. You can also swipe from the left of the screen. When you do that, it slides over what’s on screen rather than pushing everything to the right. 2 Tap Edit in the sidebar and scroll down to the list of albums. Tap the ‘–‘ to delete and album or tap and hold on an album, then drag it up or down the list to reposition it. Drop it where you want its new position to be. 3 Scroll to the bottom of the sidebar and tap ‘+New Album’. Give it a title. You will be prompted to add photos to the album. You can add photos at any…

If you connect a keyboard to your iPad you can access even more new features in iPadOS 14. For example, if you press ç+[spacebar], you’ll pull up the new Universal Search window. Search for an app in there and, when you find it, you can just drag it on to the screen to open it in Split View or Slide Over. Tapping the globe key on a Magic Keyboard or Smart Keyboard allows you to insert and emoji quickly in any text box. And, on a Magic Keyboard with a trackpad, you can double tap instead of tapping and dragging to drag items around the screen. These are in addition to the keyboard shortcuts that already exist in iPadOS and which you can see by pressing and holding the ç…

One of the things that really differentiates using an iPad from using an iPhone is keyboard shortcuts. If you connect an external keyboard to your iPad, then it makes the experience much more like using a Mac. For example, to search for something, instead of swiping down on the Home Screen and typing a search query on the on-screen keyboard then tapping a result, you can press ç+[spacebar], the same as Spotlight on the Mac, type the query, then press ® on the keyboard. In iPadOS 14, you can now even handwrite the search query with an Apple Pencil. 1 Add a Smart Stack to the Today View Tap and hold on any free space on the Home Screen. Tap ‘+’ in the top-left corner. The widgets drawer will appear,…

The Camera and Photos apps don’t get the big upgrade in iPadOS 14 that they did in the previous version. However, there are some very handy additions and improvements. The most immediately noticeable enhancement is in Photos, which has been redesigned to take advantage of the new sidebar that has been introduced across iPadOS 14. Photos also now allows you to filter photos in collections by favourites, edited, photos, and videos. And you can add captions to both photos and video. In the Camera app, you can now take a mirrored selfie that looks exactly as the image in the camera does on screen when you press the shutter. 1 Take a mirrored selfie Talking of taking a selfie that looks like the mirror image you see on the screen……

The built-in apps in iPadOS 14 are full of improvements and new features. Reminders has been overhauled, we’ve already shown you some great new additions in Mail, and Safari has been greatly improved, too. Shortcuts is now installed by default and much more powerful. And both Siri and Voice Control are much improved. 1 Assign a reminder In addition to sharing lists in Reminders, you can now assign individual reminders to people you share the list with. Tap a reminder in a shared list, then the people icon and choose a contact to assign the reminder to. 2 Enhance Voice Memos Voice Memos is a great app for recording everything from short voice notes to podcasts or narration for videos. Until now, your options for editing them within the Voice…