Indice dei contenuti per Issue 81 in iPad User Magazine

TUTORIALS Better Safari IT WILL TAKE › 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN › How to transform Safari to improve your browsing experience YOU’LL NEED › iPadOS 15 or later Safari is one of the most important apps on your iPad, because it’s your way into the worldwide web. And if you want the fully fledged web experience without being locked into the walled gardens and restricted features of some website-specific apps, it can also be your online ally. The latest version of Safari is the best yet, with plenty of features that will help you browse better, protect your privacy and eliminate all kinds of irritations. But the arrival of this Safari was also rather controversial. As with iPhone, Safari’s Tab Bar was moved to the bottom of the display.…

IT WILL TAKE › 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN › How to use Universal Control YOU’LL NEED › iPadOS 15.4 Universal Control is an unusual new feature in the world of iPadOS and macOS, in that it is almost invisible when activated. But if you own a Mac and an iPad with the latest OS versions, you are in for a treat. The idea is simple - you can use a single Mac’s trackpad, keyboard and mouse between a Mac and an iPad and work seamlessly, and even copy content, between them. There’s also a related feature called Sidecar that we mention here that enables you to use an iPad as a second screen for a Mac. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to set up Universal Control and…

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) got underway on 6 June, and this year there were tons of new features and hardware reveals in the opening keynote. The event kicked off with Tim Cook discussing the new Apple Developer Center opposite Apple Park and the company’s initiatives to help developers around the world and from under-represented groups. The first software updates concerned iOS, with plenty of details shared around iOS 16 and iPadOS 16. These included personalisation features for the Lock Screen (iOS-only), as well as updates to the Wallet and Home apps, and a lot more. Sharing and collaboration were major themes. SharePlay now works in more apps and you can transfer photos into a shared iCloud folder that can be automatically updated. Child accounts in Family Sharing will become…

› $109.95 (about £105) › FROMnuphy.com › FEATURES 2.4G wireless connection, AirFeet, PBT keycaps The NuPhy Air60 wireless mechanical keyboard is 60% the size of a standard keyboard. This makes it as portable as you can currently get while still achieving a tactile response from the keys. Weighing just 450g, it’s well built with an aluminium case and ‘AirFeet’, so you can place it on top of laptops without touching their keys. It comes with USB-A and USB-C cables and works in wired mode, over Bluetooth 5 and also 2.4GHz wireless via an included USB-A dongle. Charging over USB offers up to 48 hours of operation – or a little less if you use the RGB backlighting, which has 20 different modes. Up to four devices can be paired and…

iOS and iPadOS 16 share many new features but some are specific to iPad or iPhone. For example, the Lock Screen on iPhone gets a new look that we’d have liked to see on iPad too, but this feature won’t appear on iPadOS. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, declared that “iOS 16 is a big release with updates that will change the way you experience iPhone.” There’s certainly packed a lot in there, with Messages and Mail getting an overhaul too. Significantly, Apple is introducing a ‘buy now, pay later’ option called Apple Pay Later, allowing payments to be spread over six weeks. It will be available anywhere that accepts Apple Pay. Consumers will also be able to track orders directly in the Wallet app. Elsewhere,…

› £8.99 › FROMprocreate.art › NEEDS iPadOS 14.4 or later You can now import 3D models and paint on them Procreate is a graphics app dedicated to the iPad that caters to artists of all levels, its deceptively straightforward interface actually boasting an incredible depth of features. Priced at a reasonable £8.99 one–off purchase, with no subscriptions or in–app purchases, it also represents excellent value. Procreate is designed for artists. Supporting up to 16k by 8k canvases on the latest iPad Pros, it still allows very large creations even on less powerful iPads. Under the hood it’s powered by the Valkyrie 64–bit painting engine that offers buttery smooth performance, and supports keyboard shortcuts and the Apple Pencil. There are hundreds of brushes and textures available, each with over 100 customization…