Table of contents for Issue 45 in iPad User Magazine

One of the best things about using an iPad as your ‘main’ computer is that it’s much more reliable than a lot of laptops that cost the same. But it’s still a big pile of software, and software goes rogue. Sometimes it stops working the way it should, and sometimes an update changes the way it works, leading to confusion. This issue, we’ve got a guide to troubleshooting problems with your iPad on iOS 11, that will help you fix any foibles you’re having with your tablet. After that, it’s onto doing more with the iPad, and I think the tips in our keyboard tutorial are the best ways that anyone can speed up their tasks, because pretty much everything involves some kind of writing. When you know how to…

IT WILL TAKE 25 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to caption, edit and add effects in the Clips app YOU’LL NEED Apple Clips (requires iOS 11.1 or later) Apple Clips isn’t your everyday video-editing app. It’s designed with social media in mind – which is obvious from the way it works with square video clips and images that look best on mobile screens as well as in web browsers. Although it can be used on the go – snap a clip, make some adjustments and share it on social media – there are lots of clever and powerful tools hidden away behind the scenes to help you deliver striking video clips complete with a veritable smorgasbord of filters and effects. You can also import clips from your iPad library –…

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How Copied can help you organise and reuse snippets YOU’LL NEED Copied (free), iOS 10 or later Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of things: that really good quote you read somewhere, or a clever tip, or a recommendation, or information you need for work. With Copied, you can capture all those things, find them again later, and use them in whatever app you fancy. Copied takes and stores for later reference whatever you send to the clipboard, drag from another app, capture with its Today widget or send via the iOS share sheet. It can’t monitor in the background – iOS won’t let it – but you can solve that limitation by using it in Slide Over mode whenever you want…

FEATURES 9.7-inch, 2048x1536-pixel Retina display, A10 Fusion chip with M10 coprocessor, 32GB or 128GB storage, Wi-Fi only or Wi-Fi + mobile connectivity Last year, Apple introduced its most affordable 9.7-inch iPad to date – the £339 fifth generation. It had no bells or whistles – its case even copied 2013’s iPad Air, rat than the thinner look of the 10.5-inch and inch iPad Pro. But that didn’t matter, bec it had a great price, was reliable, had a nic Retina display, and was as fast as you nee For a family tablet, full of games and app make good use of a large screen, it was id A year later, this replacement model works with Apple’s Pencil stylus, and fea a faster processor. That’s it, bar £20 being sliced off…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to play and record world instruments in GarageBand YOU’LL NEED An iOS 11 device, GarageBand 2.3 or later In recent years, GarageBand’s capabilities have expanded beyond the guitars, drums and synths that are most familiar to western ears. This hasn’t just been by way of new keyboard presets either – Apple has added new touch-controlled world instruments, which offer tactile musical insight into traditional eastern fare. In this tutorial, we’ll be continuing to make a ringtone (see last issue), and using two instruments – the erhu and guzheng – to add melody and atmospherics to the eight-bar loop we filled with beats previously. Because these are touch instruments and smart instruments alike, they offer plenty of flexibility. If you want to…

IT WILL TAKE 25 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to type faster with iOS’s built-in keyboard shortcuts YOU’LL NEED An iOS 11 device (some features work on older versions) You might think that to get any serious typing done on an iPad or iPhone, you need to use an external keyboard. While it’s true that you can do that – over Bluetooth, using a Smart Keyboard, or using Apple’s Lightning to USB adapter – if you learn the little tips and tricks Apple has baked into the on-screen keyboard, everything from a tweet to the next great novel is well within the reach of your fingertips. Let’s get typing! We’ll start with something fundamental. Most people will only really use one keyboard for typing, but you can set up several.…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to control what data is entered, and how to use conditional formatting tools YOU’LL NEED Numbers 4.0 or later (requires iOS 11.0 Numbers is an increasingly useful tool on your iPad, capable of creating both simple and complex spreadsheets as well as basic flat-form databases. And as your knowledge of number-crunching grows, so too does Numbers’ capabilities. In this tutorial, we’re examining how to do more with cells than simply record data or formulas. If you want to introduce limits to how data is input into specific cells – perhaps you’re creating a spreadsheet for someone else to use, for example – then Numbers makes it possible to control what’s entered into each cell in several different ways. We examine two…

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to make cinemagraphs with your iPad’s camera YOU’LL NEED Draw Motion (free), iOS 11 You might not be aware of the term ‘cinemagraph’, but you’ve probably seen some: they’re images in which only a little section of the picture moves. The term was coined by New York photographer Jamie Beck and web designer Kevin Burg in 2011 and you’ll find lots of examples on their website cinemagraphs.com , but there are plenty of amateur cinemagraphers out there. The images are usually shared as animated GIFs, and they’ve been described as ‘animated GIFs for adults’ – instead of the often wacky, cartoonish, exaggerated animation of many animated GIF memes, cinemagraphs are much more subtle. For example, Beck and Burg’s…