Table of contents for Issue 59 in iPad User Magazine

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to switch to and schedule Dark Mode YOU’LL NEED iOS or iPadOS 13 In iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, you can benefit from a feature that was only previously available on the Mac: Dark Mode. Dark Mode turns the overall look of your device dark, so for example where the Settings app is usually dark text on a light background, in Dark Mode it’s the opposite. That delivers several benefits. If your iPhone has an OLED screen – introduced in the iPhone X – it saves battery life, because you’re lighting up fewer pixels (OLED screens turn off the pixels that are black; non-OLED screens don’t work that way). Dark Mode also works really well for creative apps such as photo…

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to find friends and devices in Find My YOU’LL NEED iOS 13, iPadOS, macOS Catalina One of the many useful changes Apple made in iOS 13, iPadOS and macOS Catalina is the long overdue merging of the Find  My Phone and Find My Friends apps. Now instead of having one app for each job, you have one app that finds your contacts as well as your Apple devices. It has a terrible name – Find My – but as we’ll see, it’s very easy and very effective. If your devices don’t run the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS and macOS, you’ll still be able to find them from your other devices, but if you want to find people or hardware from…

1 Additional tools Long press on a tool to access extra tools hidden, such as the Gradient tool 2 Cloud sync Your document will sync with the cloud so you can access it on your Mac or PC’s Photoshop app 3 Layers panel Drag a layer to re-order its place in the stack. Add a mask to make part of the layer transparent 4 Transform Tap here to transform the size, scale and perspective of the currently active layer IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to sync between the iOS and desktop versions of Photoshop YOU’LL NEED A subscription to Adobe Photoshop Working with Photoshop on the iPad isn’t quite the same as using the desktop version. The iPadOS incarnation lacks some of the tools found in…

Apple AirPods Pro ★★★★★ £249 apple.com/uk Finally, a proper successor to the AirPods! They cost lots more than standard AirPods, but they give you better sound, an even more secure in-ear fit, customised sound for your ear shape, a wireless-charging case, and noise cancellation. They sound fantastic – rich, detailed and with well-balanced bass. Call quality is excellent over their mics. Noise cancellation is really good, though behind the (more expensive) very best over-ear headphones. The fit is unmovable, even when exercising. The 4.5-hour battery life is average, but you get 24 hours from the case. D-Link DCS-8515LH ★★★★★ £112 dlink.com Formally known as the D-Link DCS-8515LH HD Pan & Tilt Wi-Fi Camera, this is a smart camera that can look around your room, beaming video to its app on…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to show several apps at once, move content between apps, and use gestures to get more from the onscreen keyboard YOU’LL NEED iPadOS The iPad’s full-screen multi-touch user interface makes many tasks simple. On the other hand, things you’d take for granted in macOS, such as navigating through text documents, select multiple items and multitasking between several apps, can be tricky. Often the answer is to use gestures, and iPadOS adds more. There’s not much on the screen to tell you these operations are possible, so it’s worth memorising them. To see all apps currently or recently in use as thumbnail screens, just pinch inwards with four fingers at any time. You’ll get the same view if you slide your finger…

1 In the dock These buttons can show or hide the Mac Dock on your iPad screen, enabling you to launch your favourite apps. 2 ç-å-ß The Sidebar buttons include equivalents for the Mac’s ç, å, and ß keys. The bottom button turns Sidecar off. 3 Moving the menu You can use the Arrangement tab in the Mac’s Display preferences to move the Mac’s menu bar onto your iPad. 4 Keep in touch This bottom toolbar mimics the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro, showing the main tools for individual apps. 5 Full-screen mode We’re running Photos in a Window on our Mac, but you can switch to fullscreen mode and use all your iPad’s screen space. IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN To use your iPad as…

1 On location The Locations list shows all the places that you can store files – including our USB memory stick. 2 Folder features Just tap the Folder icon to create and name a new folder, and then move files between folders. 3 View modes The Files app provides icon, list and grid views, and sorts files by name, date, kind or size. 4 Tap and hold You can tap and hold on a file or folder to view additional options (like using ≈-click on a Mac). 5 File selection Tap on a file or photo to view a preview, or tap Select to select several files. IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to connect a USB drive to your iPad, and use the new Files app…

IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to edit pics in Photos in iOS 13 and iPadOS YOU’LL NEED An iPhone running iOS 13 or an iPad with iPadOS Taking, editing and sharing photos is one of the most common groups of activities on the iPhone. So, it’s no surprise that Apple ups the ante in terms of the features of both the camera hardware and the software with every new iPhone and version of iOS. This time around, the Photos app gets new features designed to present your best photos from every day, month and year, while keeping screen grabs, selfies gone wrong, and other undesirable shots hidden until you particularly want to find them. Find and fix It’s the new editing improvements we’re interested in here,…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to install fonts from the App Store for use in all your iPadOS apps YOU’LL NEED iPadOS, the apps listed here Apple is keen to position the iPad as a serious all-purpose computer. That’s pretty credible except for a few limitations, one of which has been a bit of a head-scratcher: the inability to install fonts. Fonts installed in iPadOS are available to any app that uses standard text controls Internally, iOS has always handled fonts much like macOS, and similarly all the fonts included are available to any app that wants to use them. But there’s no Font Book, no Install option when you view or receive font files, and nowhere in Settings to add fonts. Install an installer Until…

IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to mute words, control notifications and filter the noise YOU’LL NEED Twitter app Twitter can be a wonderful thing, but it can sometimes be a very busy, noisy and intimidating thing. It’s easy to change that and turn the firehose of tweets into something cooler, calmer and more suited to your particular preferences. In this tutorial we’re going to look at the ways in which you can control Twitter’s content. For example, the mute features enable you to silence sporting events you don’t care about or viral things that stopped being funny days ago; notifications can be tweaked to ensure you don’t miss anything important but don’t get interrupted with irrelevances; and if you’d rather use Twitter as a private channel…