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Introducing iPad and iPadOS 14 What's New in iPadOS What's New in iPadOS 14 The new iPad operating system brings a wealth of new features and design changes. What’s new and what can it do for you? We take an in-depth look at the new iPadOS 14. It was a strange keynote. Thanks to the coronavirus lockdown, there were no crowds filling Apple’s Steve Jobs Theatre as Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and the rest of the Apple crew introduced new operating systems for the iPad, iPhone, Mac and more. Instead, we had an online-only Worldwide Developers’ Conference presentation. The absence of crowds clapping, cheering and shouting ‘Woooo!’ every time a new feature was announced didn’t detract from the excellence of the new software. iPadOS 14 really is feature-packed and has a…

Get Started Updating to iPadOS iPadOS and Apps Stay Current Apple regularly releases updates to its operating systems and iPadOS is no exception. If you haven’t yet updated to iPadOS 14, follow this guide. If you have, keep this tutorial handy for when Apple updates the operating system. System Requirements. If you want to update to iPadOS 14, your iPad must be one of the following. To find out which iPad you have, go to https://apple.co/35mb9oe. 12.9-inch iPad Pro 11-inch iPad Pro 10.5-inch iPad Pro 9.7-inch iPad Pro iPad Air (3rd generation) iPad Air 2 iPad (7th generation) (6th generation) (5th generation) iPad mini (5th generation) iPad mini 4 Auto Updates. To download and install updates automatically, open Settings and go to General > Software Update > Customise Automatic Updates. On…

Get Started Internet Access Internet Access Start Surfing The Internet is a major part of your iPad experience and might well be one of the main reasons you chose to buy a tablet computer. Here’s how to get online with your iPad, using either a Wi-Fi network or a data connection. 1 To turn on Wi-Fi, go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn Wi-Fi on (or you can use the Control Centre; see Control Centre tutorial), after which, the iPad searches for all networks in range of your device. 2 If you’re at home, pick your home network from the list and enter the security details to be allowed access. Take care to enter your password correctly, making sure, for example, that you don’t confuse the letter ‘O’ and a zero.…

Get Started The Keyboard The Keyboard On-screen Typing When you tap your finger on any part of the iPads’ screen where you can enter text, such as an email or a note, the iPad’s on-screen keyboard appears. Here’s a guide on how to use this keyboard and all its features. The Keyboard in Focus 1 Tap on any box or screen where text can be entered, and the virtual keyboard appears as shown. This is true for emails, messages, search fields and indeed any area of the screen where you can enter text. 2 The keyboard’s top bar icons differ according to the app you’re using. These icons give access to the Undo, Redo, and Paste options, and open the formatting window. 3 As you type, suggestions for the word you’re…

Get Started Using Folders On the Home Screen To keep your Home page in a tidy and usable state, you can group apps into folders, maybe all your games in a Gaming folder, for example. It’s a good way to organise your applications and makes navigating your iPad much easier. 1 To create a folder of apps, on the Home screen tap and hold an app until a pop-up appears. Choose Edit Home Screen and the icons wobble and a small X icon appears in their top left corner. Drag one app onto another and they’re grouped into a folder. Tap outside the folder box to return to the Home screen. Drag the other apps you wish to store there onto the new folder. 2 Tap Done (top right corner)…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Built-in iPadOS Apps. One of the best things about your Apple tablet is the apps that come bundled with iPadOS 14. There’s Mail for sending and receiving emails, Safari for surfing the web and Calendar, Reminders and Notes for organising your life. For photographers, there’s Photos and Camera and for music lovers, there’s Music. We show you all this and lots more. Special Features 102 Compose Your Photos The iPad has some great cameras. Here’s some tips on how to get the most from them. 124 The MetaVRse Interview What’s the story with the iPad’s LiDAR scanner? We talk to VR experts MetaVRse. 150 Apple Pencil You can get even more from your iPad with Apple’s amazing stylus. We show you how. Learn more…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Safari Safari App Surf the Web Safari is the iPad’s bundled web browser. With it, you can surf the worldwide web, save your favourite pages as bookmarks, do your Internet shopping and more. In iPadOS 14, it’s faster too and boasts some great new features. Safari in Focus 1 These chevrons let you move forwards and backwards through your browsing history; use the left chevron to go back to the previous page and the right one to go forward again. If one or both chevrons are greyed, you can’t navigate in that direction at the moment. 2 Tap this to open your Bookmarks sidebar, from where you can open a bookmarked page, or one you’ve added to your reading list. You can also access a list of sites…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Notes Notes App Organise Your Life Notes is great. Not only can it store your scribblings, it can also be used to create checklists, add videos and pics, share notes with others and even collaborate on a note; and now, you can even add tables to a note. Notes in Focus 1 Tap this chevron to open the folders sidebar and choose a new folder. Swipe the sidebars left to close them. The currently open folder is the iCloud folder, which is synced across your Apple devices. 2 The three-dots icon here gives you a menu from where you can manage your notes, view them as a thumbnail gallery or see all the attachments you have stored in them. 3 Tap the tick icon to start a new…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Clock Clock App World Time and More The Clock app does a lot more than tell the time. You can set alarms, check the time in cities all over the world and even use it as a stopwatch and countdown timer. It’s a versatile and often overlooked iPad app. Setting Alarms 1 Tap Alarm at the bottom of the screen to create and edit alarms. To set a new alarm, use the ‘+’ icon (top right). This opens an Add Alarm window. Use the keypad and the AM/PM switch to pick a time for the alarm to sound. Tap Save then choose which days the alarm plays, the sound, whether it can be snoozed and what it’s called. When set, an alarm clock icon appears at the top…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Photos Photos App Manage Your Snaps The Photos app is a great photo manager and image editor. You can use it to store and manage your pictures, edit them to get the most out of your snaps and share albums with friends and family. It has a great new sidebar too. Photos in Focus 1 This sidebar is new for iPadOS 14. Show it by swiping in from the side of the screen or tapping the chevron in the top-left corner. To hide it, swipe it away or tap the screen away from the sidebar. 2 Customise the sidebar by tapping the Edit link. Use the three-lines icons to drag items up and down the list. 3 View your photos according to the year, month or day they…

Built-in iPadOS Apps The MetaVRse Interview Where Next for the LiDAR Scanner? The iPad Pro’s LiDAR scanner is for more than just the Measure app. According to Alan Smithson, founder and CEO of MetaVRse, the virtual and augmented reality features it unlocks could be the future of learning. We caught up with him for a chat. “…the future of learning is spatial. Technologies such as spatial computing, computer vision, 3D scanning, photogrammetry, virtual, augmented and mixed reality are being bunched together now commonly know in enterprise as extended reality (XR)…” Q: Tell us about MetaVRse. A: The future of learning is spatial. Technologies such as spatial computing, computer vision, 3D scanning, photogrammetry, virtual, augmented and mixed reality are being bunched together now commonly know in enterprise as extended reality (XR). When…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Books Books App For All Your eBooks With the Books app, you can turn your iPad into a powerful and feature-rich eBook reader. You can purchase and download books, read them on your iPad and add PDFs, so you can read your documents in the app too. Books in Focus 1 Tap the chevron here to close the currently open book and go back to your book collection. 2 This icon gives you access to the book’s contents and also any bookmarks and notes you made whilst reading it. 3 The title of the book you’re currently reading. 4 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you enlarge or reduce the font size, change the font, adjust the screen brightness, change the colour of the page, set…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Find My Find My Friends & Gadgets Find My is a merger of two apps; Find My Friends and Find My iPhone. With it, you can find lost or stolen Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads and Macs; and wipe them clean if you’ve given up on getting them back. You can also locate your friends or family members on the map and allow them to find you too. Just the thing if you’re all on a day out and at risk of losing each other. The People Tab 1 The Find My app is divided into three sections, represented by icons at the foot of the screen; People, Devices, and Me. Unsurprisingly, the People tab is for finding your friends. If it isn’t already selected, tap it. 2…

Built-in iPadOS Apps The Apple Pencil The Apple Pencil in the New iPadOS 14 The Apple Pencil transforms the iPad from a finger-based tool to a professional artist’s canvas. With it, you can sketch, draw, paint and write on the iPad, just like it was a physical piece of paper and it gets a boost in iPadOS 14! Let’s take a look at Apple Pencil and Scribble. If you own a first-generation Apple Pencil (the one with the silver band at the end), start by removing the cap at the top of the pencil to reveal a Lightning connector plug; make sure your iPad is switched on and unlocked, then plug the end of the Apple Pencil into the Lightning socket at the bottom of your iPad. An alert appears on the iPad’s…

Go Further iCloud Drive iCloud Drive Cloud Feature iCloud is Apple’s cloud computing service. You can sync information and files across your Apple devices using iCloud and even access some of them on the Internet. You can also use it to back up your iPad too. Here’s how. An Introduction to iCloud 1 You receive an iCloud account, with a complimentary 5GB of online storage space, with your Apple ID. Open the Settings app; at the top of the sidebar, you should see your name. If you don’t, you need to sign in with your Apple ID; tap the Sign in to your iPad link to do so. 2 To use a photo with your Apple ID and iCloud account, tap the grey circle at the top of the right hand…

Go Further Do Not Disturb Do Not Disturb For Peace and Quiet It’s easy to switch the Do Not Disturb feature on and off from them ain Settings screen or the Control Centre but there’s more to it than meets the eye. Here’s a guide to both its basic and advanced features. 1 Go to Settings > Do Not Disturb. Flick the switch at the top of the Do Not Disturb options screen to activate Do Not Disturb mode. This blocks incoming FaceTime calls and silences incoming alerts and notifications, for when you need peace and quiet. 2 Under the Phone options, you can set it to allow calls from some people to get through. This can be set as everyone, no one or specific groups from your Contacts app. This…

Go Further Screen Time Screen Time Monitor Your Usage Screen Time lets you monitor what you’ve been doing on your iPad and for how long. You can also use it to set parental controls; to limit how much time your children are spending on their own iPads and what they’re up to. Screen Time in Focus 1 To open the Screen Time settings, go to Settings > Screen Time. You can also swipe right from the Lock screen or Home screen to get to the Widgets screen and tap the Screen Time widget at the foot. 2 Here, you see a summary of how you’ve been using your iPad recently. Tap See All Activity for a far more comprehensive breakdown. 3 Tap here to schedule downtime for your iPad. During this…

Go Further Games Controllers Games Controllers In a new feature for iPadOS 14, you can now pair a wider range of controllers with your Apple tablet. The iPad is at last becoming a serious games machine. Apple introduced controller support with iPadOS 13.4, which launched along with the Apple Arcade gaming subscription service. iPadOS 14 takes things a step further. The range of joypads has been increased, with support for Microsoft’s Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 and Adaptive Controller being added. New controller features added for iPadOS 14 include custom button mapping, force feedback and speciality features like motion sensors, lights and battery level. Mouse and trackpad support is no longer a throwaway feature tucked away in the Accessibility options. The new operating systems bring support for the mouse…

Introducing iPad and iPadOS 14 iPadOS in Numbers iPadOS in Numbers What’s iPadOS 14 all about? What’s new, what’s exciting and what’s fun? Let’s take a look at the new iPad operating system in numbers. 9th July, 2020 The date on which the first public beta of iPadOS 14 was released by Apple. fifteen The number of iPad models that can run iPadOS 14. It runs on any iPad that could run the very first release of iPadOS. Forty iPadOS 14 is available in 40 different languages. 5 iPadOS 14 is written in five different programming languages; C, C++, Objective-C, Swift and Assembly. VP9 With iPadOS 14, the iPad natively supports Google’s VP9 video encoding format. smaller The iPad’s user interface is far more streamlined with iPadOS 14. Incoming telephone…

First Steps with iPadOS 14 First Steps with iPadOS 14. If you’re new to the iPad, this is the place to start. We show you how to set up your iPad out of the box, including getting an Apple ID and registering your face or finger with Face ID or Touch ID. Getting onto the Internet with your iPad is explained, as is configuring the Mail app to send and receive emails. With our help, you’ll soon be up and running with your iPad. Learn more…

Get Started Apple ID Your Apple ID How to Set it Up If you didn’t register for an Apple ID during the initial setup of your iPad, you can set one up whenever you please, directly from the Settings app. If you want a new one, sign out with your old one and follow this guide. Either way, you’ll soon be up and running with an all-important Apple ID. 1 Open Settings from the Home screen and scroll to the top of the left hand column. Tap ‘Sign in to your iPad’ right at the top of the list, then in the pop-up window, tap ‘Don’t have an Apple ID or forgot it?’ 2 Tap ‘Create Apple ID’ in the next window and then, when instructed, enter your first name, last…

Get Started Setting Up Email Setting Up Email Configure it Your iPad can send and receive email but first you must set up your email accounts. This is how to do it whether you’re using an iCloud account, a free web account or one from the company that provides your Internet service. Set Up iCloud Mail 1 Tap the Settings icon located on the Home screen of your iPad and scroll down on the left side panel and select the Mail option. From here, tap the Accounts option and then tap the Add Account link to start adding a new account on your iPad. 2 Your Apple ID’s iCloud email is likely already signed in; when you first set up. If you want to add another iCloud email account, tap the…

Get Started Control Centre Control Centre Access Made Easy The Control Centre is a great way to access commonly used iPad features, such as the audio controls or Screen Mirroring and you can customise it to suit your own needs. Here’s a guide to the iPad’s Control Centre. Control Centre in Focus 1 In this box, you can turn (clockwise, from top left) Airplane Mode, AirDrop, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off. Tap and hold the main box for a bigger version. Turning off Bluetooth or Wi-Fi is temporary, they’re only switched off until the next day. 2 This box shows what you are currently listening to. Tap and hold for more options, including volume control and an option to play your sounds through external speakers. 3 To open the Control…

Folders and Bluetooth AirDrop & Bluetooth Stream and Transfer AirDrop is great for transferring files from your iPad to another Apple device and Bluetooth is used for wirelessly streaming sound and other data, maybe to speakers or headphones. Here’s how to use these two features. Transfer Files with AirDrop. 1 You can send files to other Apple devices using AirDrop, but Wi-Fi and Bluetooth must be switched on. Open the file, tap the Share icon. People to whom you can AirDrop are shown at the top of the window; look for the AirDrop icon. Tap the person to whom you want to send the file. 2 Use Settings > General > AirDrop to determine whether receiving via AirDrop is on or off, share only with people in your Contacts app,…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Mail Mail App For Your Emails The iPad is great for keeping in touch via email. Its bundled Mail app can send, receive and forward emails, send an email to a group, add attachments and more. Here’s how to use this popular iPad application. Mail in Focus 1 The column on the left of the screen currently shows your Inbox. Tap here to go back and choose another mailbox, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk, and your VIP emails. 2 Tap the Edit link and a circle appears beside every email in your inbox. Tap a circle to check it and then tap Mark, Move, or Delete, at the foot of the column, to action all the emails you selected with Edit. 3 Tap the Rubbish bin icon to…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Reminders Reminders App Never Forget Again The Reminders app has gained a few new features in iPadOS 14. When sharing a list, you can assign reminders to specific individuals, you can edit multiple reminders at once and you can use Emoji and symbols too. Reminders in Focus 1 Use the improved search field to search the app for people, locations and notes, individual lists and reminders. 2 Tap this link to edit your lists. Delete them with the minus sign, reorder by dragging their three-line icons up and down and tap the ‘i’ icon to rename a list, change its colour or choose a new icon. You can rearrange or hide smart lists too. 3 This is the Reminders app’s front page, showing smart lists as well as…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Calendar Calendar App Plan Your Dates Calendar is great for organising your life. You can add events, appointments, schedule alerts, invite contacts to events and sync Calendar with other calendar apps. It’s an extremely versatile and helpful digital tool. Calendar in Focus 1 Tap here to open and close a sidebar showing a list of all the calendars you have set up in the Calendar app. 2 Invitations you’ve been sent by other people are stored in your inbox. From there you can accept or decline the invitation. Tap here to open this inbox. 3 Tap here for a sidebar showing today’s entries in your Calendar app. When exploring your calendars, it’s a useful way to look at today’s events without moving from the currently selected page. 4…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Camera Camera App Take Better Pictures The Camera app is one of the most used apps on the iPad. You can take pictures using the rear-mounted iSight or front-facing FaceTime or TrueDepth cameras, as well as record videos and lots more. Camera in Focus 1 The FaceTime or TrueDepth (front) and iSight (rear) cameras. The front camera is for selfies and video chats and the iSight camera is for general photography. 2 This grid overlay helps you to compose your photo or video. It can be turned off in Settings if you find it distracting. 3 The zoom slider. Move the slider to zoom in or out. You can of course use the regular pinch/spread gestures anywhere on the screen too. 4 This square shows where the screen…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Maps Maps App Navigate Your World Maps is a superb navigational tool that turns your iPad into a GPS system. Making great use of the iPad’s location awareness, it gives you an accurate map of your location, shows directions to where you want to go and more. Maps in Focus 1 You can search for nearby facilities and features using the Search field. Here we searched for Fast Food and found 30 outlets. 2 Tap the X icon to close the search results, showing more of the map. 3 If you move the map around, tapping this button lets you repeat the search for the area you’re now looking at. 4 Tap the ‘i’ for the Maps Settings pop-up window, where you can switch between a normal, Transport…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Music Music App Enjoy Your Sounds The Music app is your gateway to the Apple Music service, from which you can stream from a library of over 60 million songs for a set monthly fee. You can listen to music bought from iTunes and ripped from your CDs too. Music in Focus 1 To access the Music app’s sidebar in portrait mode, swipe in from the side of the screen or tap the Music link (top left). In landscape mode, it’s always there. 2 Tap the Edit link and you can hide, show and reorder options in the Library section of the sidebar. 3 Tap here for your account details. You can redeem an iTunes card, manage your Apple Music subscription and more. 4 Tap here for the…

Built-in iPadOS Apps News News App Stories and Features If you regularly trawl the web for news and features on subjects that interest you, the News app should be a welcome addition. It gathers stories from numerous sources into one place making them easier for you to find. News in Focus 1 Open this sidebar by tapping the icon in the top left corner of the screen. Close it by tapping the news stories on the right. 2 Tap here to edit your sidebar, moving and deleting entries. 3 Tap here to search for news items and features. This is useful if there’s something in the news you want to read about and want to find a variety of sources that are talking about it. 4 Today takes you to today’s…

Built-in iPadOS Apps iTunes Store iTunes Store App For Digital Media You can buy and download media for your iPad at the iTunes Store. You can also buy or rent movies and TV shows and sample short snippets of songs before buying them. Here’s how to purchase your digital media. iTunes Store in Focus 1 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you filter the music offered on this page according to its genre. Available genres include Blues, Rock, Jazz, Metal and more. Scroll the Genres list all the way to the bottom for the Tones option, which lets you filter available ringtones by their genre. 2 The title of the current page. At the moment, as you can see, we’re on the Music page of the iTunes Store, where…

The Apple Pencil Scribble! iPadOS 14 introduces a great new Apple Pencil feature that lets you use handwriting wherever you can enter text. A common complaint about the Apple Pencil was that it can be annoying to put the Pencil down to type. Switching between the stylus and the keyboard was irritating, especially if you only needed to type a few words; like a search query or a URL. Scribble does away with all that by letting you use your handwriting pretty much everywhere you can enter text. It’s then automatically converted to typed words. All handwriting recognition takes place on the device, so there are no privacy concerns and it works whether you’re online or offline. English, traditional and simplified Chinese, and mixed Chinese and English characters are catered…

Go Further Files App Using the Files App Data Management The Files app is where you can access documents stored on your iCloud Drive and synced across all your Apple devices. The Files app can read external drives, zip and unzip files and you can share files and folders. Files App in Focus 1 To get this sidebar, tap the Files link in the top-left corner. To close it, tap the screen off the sidebar. In landscape mode, the sidebar is always visible. 2 The three-dots icon gives you a pop-up menu that lets you scan documents using your iPad’s camera, connect to an external server or edit what’s available in your sidebar. 3 The Files app has an excellent search facility, which lets you enter multiple search terms, just like…

Go Further The Siri Assistant The Siri Assistant Your iPad’s PA Siri has had a great overhaul in iPadOS 14. It no longer takes up the whole screen, making it much easier to access while using another app. It’s smarter too, giving direct answers rather than sending you to the web. 1 To talk to Siri, hold down the Home button (or the top button for Face ID iPads) for a few seconds. You hear a beep and Siri appears on the screen. You can also activate Siri by saying, “Hey, Siri”. 2 Begin speaking and the coloured effect at the bottom-right pulses to let you know Siri can hear you. If it doesn’t, tap it and talk to Siri again. Your question is answered in a notification-like window. Tap it…

Go Further Voice Control Voice Control An Accessibility Feature Apple has always been keen to make its products more accessible to those with impairments. The iPad has an exciting feature that lets you control it with your voice, simply by speaking to it. It’s amazing how much you can do and how instinctive the Voice Control commands become. 1 First of all, from the Home screen, go to Settings > Accessibility > Voice Control. There’s a range of options on offer to configure the Voice Control feature but first, we must switch it on. Tap the switch at the top of the screen. 2 The iPad downloads the filters needed for Voice Control. Tap Learn More when its done and you’re shown instructions, including a list of commands you can…

Go Further Dark Mode Change Your Look If you prefer a darker screen on your iPad, with white text on a black background, Dark Mode is for you. It’s easy to set up and employ. You can: use it on a permanent basis, have it change automatically depending on the time of day, or schedule it to turn on and off at preset times. 1 Go to Settings > Display & Brightness. At the top of the screen, you can choose between Light and Dark modes. Tap the one you want to use throughout your iPad. This changes the screen on a permanent basis (or at least until you change it again in the Settings app). 2 If you want to change between Light and Dark modes automatically according to…

The iPad Family Introducing iPad and iPadOS 14 In the Autumn of 2020, Apple lifted the lid on two brand new iPads; the fourth generation of the popular iPad Air and the eighth generation of the regular iPad. The new tablets joined Apple’s iPad Pro and iPad mini, two models that weren’t updated but are still going strong. iPad’s range of smart tablets now looks impressively strong, with the new Air benefitting from technology developed for the Pro and the iPad is a great alternative for those on a budget. If you want a smaller tablet, take a look at the iPad mini and for high-needs users, the iPad Pro still rules supreme. On the following pages, let’s take a look at Apple’s iPad family, starting with the two new…

Apple One Apple One The New Subscription Service Apple’s range of streaming services are now available in one combined plan. Apple One What You Can Get Apple has some great subscription services, such as Apple TV+ for streaming original TV shows and movies, Apple Music for audio streaming and Apple Arcade for gamers. None of them are expensive but from Autumn 2020, you can save money by subscribing to Apple One instead. Apple One is available in three packages; Individual includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and 50GB of iCloud storage for £14.95/$14.95/14,95 € per month. Family includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and 200GB of iCloud storage for £19.95/$19.95/19,95 € per month, and can be shared among up to six family members. Premier, where available, includes Apple Music,…

Introducing iPad and iPadOS 14 Buttons & Ports iPad Hardware Buttons and Ports Most iPads have Home buttons at the foot of the screen, with fingerprint readers for unlocking. The latest high-end iPads have no Home button but they do have Face ID. Here’s a guide to what’s where on both. iPads with a Home Button iPads with No Home Button Charging Your iPad. To charge, you need the Lightning or USB-C cable supplied with your iPad. Connect the larger end of this cable (the USB plug) to a computer or the mains adapter that came with your iPad. Make sure it’s the right way up in the socket. The smaller end (the Lightning or USB-C plug) goes into the slot in the base of your iPad (see below) and can…

Get Started Set Up Set Up Your iPad For the First Time All you need to set up your iPad out of the box is a Wi-Fi connection to the Internet. Follow this guide and the instructions shown on your iPad’s screen, and you’re soon up and running. First, press and hold the top button to switch it on, then follow these straightforward steps. 1 Power Up Your Device When you first power up your new device you’re greeted with this welcome screen. To move on, press the Home button, as instructed. You can toggle the iPad’s VoiceOver function by triple clicking the Home button. The word ‘Hello’ in several different languages is displayed. Tap the ‘i’ icon in the bottom right for regulatory information. 2 Choose Your Language You’re now…

Get Started Face ID Face ID or Touch ID Unlock Your iPad iPads have a great way of verifying who you are, to unlock your tablet, make purchases and more. If your iPad has a Home button, you use your fingerprint. If it doesn’t, you simply hold it up to your face, which is then scanned by Face ID. Here’s a guide to setting up whichever feature you have on your iPad. Setting Up Face ID 1 Open the Settings app and scroll down the list of apps and features until you get to the one called Face ID & Passcode. Tap it to open these settings. 2 If you’ve set up a passcode on your iPad, whether four-digit, six-digit or alphanumeric, you must enter it now to get to the…

Get Started The Touchscreen The Touchscreen Clever Gestures Your iPad’s touchscreen knows when you have more than one finger touching the screen at once. This makes all sorts of useful gestures possible, such as rotating, pinching, spreading and more. Here’s how they work. Touch To activate items such as applications, to use the on-screen keyboard, or to press on-screen buttons, touch them with your finger. The touchscreen is sensitive to the tiny electrical charge in our bodies, so you don’t need to press hard. Double-tap Tap quickly twice on a web page, map, a photograph or other screen to zoom. Double-tap a section of a web page in the browser to zoom fit it to the width of the screen. Double-tapping a piece of on-screen text can highlight a single word…

Get Started Sidebar Widgets Sidebar Widgets Custom Homescreen The iPad’s Home screen sidebar has been overhauled for iPadOS 14. Widgets now carry more information and they’re available in three sizes; small, medium and large. The sidebar can be extensively customised too. Starting Out 1 You can set the Widgets sidebar to sit permanently on the Home screen or be shown and hidden as you please. Go to Settings > Home Screen & Dock, and use the switch marked ‘Keep Today View on Home Screen to set it. 2 With the switch on, the sidebar is always visible on the Home screen. If the switch is off or the iPad is in Portrait Mode, the sidebar can be opened and closed by swiping the screen right to show the sidebar and left…

Get Started Gadgets Gallery Gadgets Gallery So you’ve got a new iPad, 8th Generation or iPad Air, 4th generation. What now? Here’s some of the great peripherals and cases you can buy. Magic Keyboard Website: www.apple.com Price: From £299, $299, 330,45 € Apple’s own Magic Keyboard for iPad Air 4th gen, iPad Pro 12.9?inch (3rd and 4th gen andiPad Pro 11?inch (1st and 2nd gen has a built-in trackpad. You can turn your iPad into a notebook for working on the move. Apple Pencil Website: www.apple.com Price: £129, $129, 131,55 € The Apple Pencil, 2nd gen is compatible with the new iPad Air as well as some iPad Pro models. It’s great for artists and note-takers, and in iPadOS 14, you can write in almost any text field and have your…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Home Home App Control Your Gadgets The Internet of Things involves controlling your household appliances and electronic gadgets remotely, over the Internet. HomeKit-compatible devices can be controlled directly from the Home application. Here’s how. Home in Focus 1 Tap the home icon in the top left for a pop-up allowing you to access your Home Settings and Room Settings. Home Settings cover the whole of the house, while Room Settings let you set up specific rooms. 2 The Plus icon pop-up allows you to add a HomeKit-compatible accessory or add a scene; a group of accessory instructions activated with a single tap. 3 This is the current name of your home. To change it, tap the Home icon (1), Home Settings and then tap the Name field to…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Messages Messages App Texts on Your iPad Messages has gained some great new features in iPadOS 14. You can pin your favourite conversations to the top of the list, customise group conversations with a photo, emoji or memoji and lots more. Messages in Focus 1 Tap Edit for a three-option pop-up. Select Messages lets you mark conversations to mark as read/unread or delete in one go, Edit Pins is for pinning and unpinning conversations and Edit Name and Photo lets you change these things. 2 Tap here to open a new, blank message, which you can then write and send in the usual way. To message someone you’ve already chatted with, you can tap their name in the left hand sidebar instead. 3 This is the person you’re…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Contacts Contacts App Your Digital Details You can use your iPad as a great digital address book, to keep names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more all in one place. You can sync your Contacts app with other electronic devices too. Contacts in Focus 1 Search your contacts by typing a name or part name here. Suggestions are offered. You can also search for other things on a contact card, like your notes. 2 Tap here to cancel a search and list all your contacts once more. 3 The name and picture of your currently open contact. If you don’t have a picture added, the person’s initials are shown here in a grey circle. 4 Tap Edit to add, remove or change information on the contact card.…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Compose Your Photos Compose Your Photos Even if you’re using the best camera in the world, your photos look poor if they’re badly composed. Here, our digital photography expert Mark Frost shares with us some of his composition secrets. These terrific tips work with any camera, not just the iPad. The difference between a good shot of your favourite view or subject and a truly awesome one is simply down to how you compose the shot and the elements within it. A tree here, a lake there, it all adds up to elevate a photo to a piece of photographic art. The first and most important thing to remember is to take your time. Look at the scene in the viewfinder or on your monitor and try to…

Built-in iPadOS Apps Measure Measure App Virtual Dimensions Augmented reality’s usefulness is highlighted by Apple’s Measure app. It does exactly what its name suggests; acting as a virtual tape measure to work out dimensions of items or the distance between them. Let’s see what it can do. Measure in Focus 1 The back arrow undoes the last command but doesn’t clear all the points of a multi-point measurement. 2 Measure is designed to calculate the distance between fixed points such as the height of this church or width of the window. 3 The Clear button gets rid of all the current measurements so you can move on to the next one. 4 You will need to direct Measure to the object you’d like to measure by hovering over it. 5 The…

Built-in iPadOS Apps TV TV App Television On the Go The TV app is a convenient way to watch your favourite television on your iPad. You can use it to stream on-demand shows and watch live TV; and if you subscribe to Apple’s TV+ service, you can watch that too. 1 On the TV app, tap the icon, in the top right corner of the screen, to sign into your Apple account. Enter your Apple ID and Password in the fields provided and then tap the Sign In link below them. If you haven’t yet got an Apple ID, set one up now. 2 When signed in, tap the top right icon to obtain this window, from where you can manage: your account (tap your name), services to which you’ve subscribed,…

Built-in iPadOS Apps FaceTime FaceTime App Audio and Video Calls FaceTime is for audio and video calling over the Internet. With it you can chat with anyone who has a Mac, iPhone or iPad; and as it’s an Internet service, it’s free. Incoming calls no longer take up the whole screen too. FaceTime in Focus 1 This is your own video feed, as sent from your iPad. You can drag this window into a different corner of the screen if you wish. 2 The is the video feed window for the person you are chatting to, sent from their own iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Mac. 3 Tap here to take a Live Photo of the person you’re chatting to. See our guide to the Camera app for information on Live…

Built-in iPadOS Apps App Store The App Store A World of Apps The App Store is where you buy new apps for your iPad. Games, productivity software, entertainment applications and more. You name it, you can find it on the App Store. Some apps are free, others you pay for. App Store in Focus 1 The App Store’s Today screen gives you the pick of new releases, chosen each day by Apple’s editors. Scroll up for the previous days’ selection of chosen apps, featured and trending apps and more. 2 Tap here to get to your account details, to redeem a card, send an app as a gift, update apps, check on the apps you’ve previously purchased, or sign out of the App Store. 3 These are the apps, and a…

Built-in iPadOS Apps The Apple Pencil More Scribbling! Let's take a look at what else you can do with the Scribble feature. Draw Shapes. If you draw a regular shape using your Apple Pencil, it’s automatically converted into a geometrically sound graphic. As soon as you lift the pencil, the shape is automatically reshaped, like the hexagon lampshade drawn here. The new, geometric shape retains the size and angle of the one you drew. Write in Text Fields You can also use the Apple Pencil to write in text fields such as the URL bar in Safari or a search field in any app. You just write whatever it is you need to write into the text field using Apple Pencil and your own handwriting, then it’s automatically converted into text.…

Go Further iPad Multitasking iPad Multitasking Improve Productivity With the latest version of the iPadOS operating system installed, your iPad can multitask; that is, run two apps side by side and have them visible on the screen at the same time. It can even open the same app twice. Although your iPad must be recent enough to use multitasking. Slide Over 1 When using an app, you might find you need access to a different app, maybe to look up or transfer some information. Swipe up from the foot of the screen to access the dock, then drag another app to the side of the screen, as shown. 2 Let go of the new app, and it’s shown on a card-like window. With the grey line at the top of this…

Go Further Wallpaper & Sounds Wallpaper & Sounds Customise Your iPad You can change your iPad’s background wallpaper to a different one, or even use one of your own photos. You can also customise its sounds, with different audio cues for different events. Here’s how to do all this and more. Changing Your Wallpaper 1 Go to Settings > Wallpaper and tap Choose a New Wallpaper. You can choose from Dynamic wallpapers or Stills, or a pic from the Photos app. Dynamic wallpapers are lightly animated, but Stills are completely static. 2 Tap the pictures found underneath the Dynamic or Stills options to navigate your way through your Photo app’s images. Choose a photograph by tapping on it; it’s automatically scaled and sized to fit your screen. 3 The Circular icon…

Go Further Notifications Notification Centre Alerts for Your iPad Some apps can send you notifications. The Messages app alerts you when a new message arrives, the Mail app lets you know when an email is here and Calendar brings forthcoming events to your attention. 1 Whether you’re on the Home screen or using an app, you can access Notification Centre at any time, simply by swiping your finger down from the top of the screen. You can also swipe the Notification Centre screen to the left to open the Camera app. 2 The most recent notifications you have received are shown on top of the Notification Centre. Notifications can be automatically grouped by app, topic and more. Tap on a stack to open it up so you can see the individual…

Dark Mode/Sidecar Sidecar An iPad/Mac Feature If you own both a Mac and an iPad – and they’re recent enough to include the feature – you can use your tablet as a second screen for your computer. It’s called Sidecar and it’s great when your on the move. Sidecar If you have a Mac running macOS Catalina and an iPad running iPadOS, you can use your tablet as a second screen for your Mac, expanding your desktop space. This is especially good news if you also use an Apple Pencil. You can draw on your iPad, using it as a high-resolution input device for your Mac. To use Sidecar on your Mac and iPad, first of all, on your Mac, open System Preferences. Click on the Sidecar preference pane, and…

Go Further Taking a Call Cross-device Feature If you have an iPhone and an iPad, you can make and receive calls on your Apple tablet, as long as your phone is nearby. Your Apple devices just need to meet the system requirements and be on the same wireless network. Setting Up Continuity Calls on Your iPad To take iPhone calls on your iPad instead of your iPhone (known as Continuity Calls), you must make sure of the following; Both devices must be signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID. Sign both devices in to FaceTime with the same Apple ID. Both devices must have Wi-Fi turned on The iPad and iPhone must be connected to the same wireless network. Now you must turn on the Continuity Calls feature.…

Taking a Call/iPad Search iPad Search Find Anything The iPad’s Search feature is more powerful and reliable than before. It has a new, compact design too; which means you can search from anywhere on the iPad, without having to leave the app you’re currently using. 1 To activate a search on your iPad from the Home screen, swipe down on the Home screen (not from the top) with one finger. If you have a Bluetooth keyboard, you can activate a search from anywhere, even within apps, by pressing CMD + Space Bar. 2 Tap the search field at the top of the search window. Type your search terms on the keyboard or tap the microphone on the right and speak your search terms. Auto-complete responses appear as you type/speak. Tap…