Table of contents for Issue 40 in iPad User Magazine

The release of a new version of iOS is always an exciting time – there’s so much to discover, and so much more you can do with every update! iOS 11 is a massive release for the iPad, bringing whole new ways to work with apps and files, but also packed with interface tweaks and little extra features that you’ll come to love. This issue, we’ve got a big feature that walks you through 76 tips that will help you get to grips with the changes, big and small, that iOS 11 brings to your iPad. Even if you’ve already been exploring the update, there’ll definitely be something new to you in there! The improvements in iOS 11 aren’t just about new features added by Apple, though: they also allow…

 Arthur C Clarke famously wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. He probably wasn’t thinking about home planning apps, but Magicplan is indeed magical: instead of faffing around with measuring tape for hours, you can accurately measure an entire building with nothing more than your iPad’s camera. Once you’ve done that, you can then add architectural features, experiment with different items of furniture and their location, and even work out the total cost of painting, tiling and other key tasks. It’s great for home improvements, for tradespeople to price jobs, for estate agents, for garden design and even for Airbnb hosts who can supplement their carefully chosen photos with a proper floorplan. Magicplan is as happy measuring an entire block of apartments as it is a simple…

 It’s easy to take technology for granted, but if you’d shown the iOS versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote to Apple fans of even a decade ago you’d have blown their minds. All that power… in a tablet? With each new version of the iWork apps they get even smarter, and the most recent update introduced some really useful tools for working with shapes. The new tools open up all kinds of creative possibilities for adding pizazz to designs If you aren’t already familiar with the shape library in Pages, Keynote and Numbers, it’s a palette you can bring up by tapping on the plus icon in the toolbar and then on the third icon. You’ll now see a range of predefined shapes organised into useful categories such as places,…