Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 76 i iPad User Magazine

After all the excitement of the redesigned iPad mini which we reviewed last issue, we’ve got our teeth into the new basic iPad this issue. This is the latest version of Apple’s cheapest, and best value for money, iPad. While there is nothing particularly amazing, or any standout features, on the new iPad, it’s a solid update. You can see what we thought on page 20. One word of warning though - if you’re going to get an Apple Pencil to go with your new iPad, make sure you buy the correct one. Even though this iPad has just come out, it still uses the original Apple Pencil, and won’t work with the Apple Pencil 2, which is for the more expensive iPads in Apple’s range. Also this issue, we’ve…

The latest iPadOS 15 introduces a new way to get organised on your favourite tablet, bringing iOS features to the iPad for the first time. Our favourite new feature is widgets, which have made it across from the iPhone. These can sit anywhere on your Home Screen to provide instant access to whatever you like: Calendar events, the weather forecast, your Apple Music playlist, your favourite photos and so on. To add a widget, simply long-press an empty bit of the Home Screen and tap the ‘+’ icon at the top left to see the available options. As you’ll see, there are lots – including Smart Stacks, which change over the course of the day. Smart Stacks will even predict what other widgets you might like and show them at…

IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to organise your highlights YOU’LL NEED Readwise Readwise performs a specialist task, but it could be highly valuable. By highlighting sections of books or articles, you can learn so much more about your reading material. To do this, however, you need to view the highlights you have made and this is where Readwise comes in. It automates the process and is capable of letting you access all of your highlights from the most popular services. Simply having them all in one place makes it the ideal assistant for research, education or entertainment. Take your time to understand it and you may use it forever. HOW TO Organise your highlights with tags 1 Add tags to content Tap the tag icon to…

With iPadOS 15, Apple has paid a lot of attention to productivity. In particular, it’s beefed up the Notes app to make it easier to record, find and share things, and there’s a new feature called Quick Note that enables you to add a note from anywhere without having to leave the app you’re in. The main Notes app’s biggest change is in its use of tags. Now you can tag a note by typing the hash (#) symbol before it and Notes will automatically add that tag to the sidebar, underneath the Folders list – so if you tag phone-related things #iPhone, you can tap on that tag to see all those posts instantly. The search works with multiple tags, so you can drill down very precisely very quickly.…

IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to edit a home video in iMovie on your iPad YOU’LL NEED iMovie, iPadOS 15 or later Home movies needn’t be dull collections of random, unedited clips to bore friends and family. With iMovie’s range of editing options, you can create really professional-looking films to amaze and entertain. Whether it’s a holiday movie or a video of a special occasion, you can make it well worth watching. While the iPad iMovie app lacks a few of the subtler editing options of its Mac counterpart, it still packs in some powerful features to help you edit your home movie to a very high standard. And, if needed, you can always AirDrop an iPad iMovie project to a Mac to do a little…

The ninth-gen device now sports Apple’s A13 Bionic chip From £319 FROM Apple, apple.com/uk NEEDS 10.2-inch Retina display (2160x1620 pixels), A13 Bionic chip, 64/256GB, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, Lightning port While it’s not been given the radical makeover afforded the new iPad mini (see last issue) and last year’s iPad Air, Apple’s most affordable iPad still represents incredible value. That’s because this ninth-generation device now sports Apple’s A13 Bionic chip, instead of last year’s A12 version, plus it now comes with twice as much storage, with the £319 entry-level model packing 64GB of storage compared to last year’s 32GB, and the step-up £459 model getting 256GB. Wi-Fi+Cellular models are also available at £439 (64GB) and £579 (256GB). Like the iPad Pro and the iPad mini, the entry-level iPad also benefits…

What’s new in FaceTime > FaceTime’s new SharePlay enables you to share movies, music or your screen in a video chat with friends or family. You can all be watching or listening to the same thing at the same time, sharing the experience and adding your own commentary. Smart Volume will automatically adjust the audio levels so you can be heard during even the loudest scenes or sections, and you can connect via your iPad while watching on Apple TV or listening on your HomePod. It’s very clever and a lot of fun. There’s more. You can now invite people who aren’t Apple users to use FaceTime in a web browser; Portrait Mode gives you the same good looks you’re used to from your iPhone’s portrait shooting; and Spatial Audio…

IT WILL TAKE 3 minutes YOU WILL LEARN All the new keyboard shortcuts YOU’LL NEED iPadOS 15, an iPad, a bluetooth keyboard You can already navigate your iPad using a mouse and connect a keyboard, so let’s make even more out of  it by using global keyboard shortucts. These make life even easier, saving lots of time by letting you press a combo of keys to get things done across the operating system. To view all the global keyboard shortcuts just hit the globe key on your keyboard. You can speedily activate Slide Over and Split Screen, for instance, without lifting your hand from the keyboard. It makes hooking up a keyboard to an iPad even more essential, particularly given that you can use shortcuts within apps as well. For…

Our iPhones are many things these days: instant messengers, games consoles, digital cameras. We can also add Dictaphones to the list thanks to the quality mics and great range of recording apps. But which recording app should you get? There are plenty of apps tailored to various recording needs. Some are perfect for quick, painless recording. Others specialize in super–accurate transcription. And some integrate their recording chops into broader organizational tools. Here are six of the best for you to try. Each one is ideally suited to recording audio on the go. Otter: Transcribe Voice Notes Free (IAPs) NEEDS iPadOS 11 or later When you’re recording audio, you don’t want to spend hours transcribing it by hand. Instead, just use Otter. This app uses clever AI to accurately record everything…