Table of contents for Issue 94 in iPad User Magazine

Now that iPadOS 17 has been released, Apple’s Health app is available on the iPad. It’s taken us a while to get here, since iPhone users have had access to the Health app since 2014! The Health app is one of those apps that initially looks like it doesn’t do that much, but dig beneath the surface and you’ll discover that it is incredibly powerful. For instance, you can use it to log your medications and remind you to take them. You can also use it to track your sleep patterns, record your step counts and tracks your activity levels. Of course, it can gather data from your iPad for these readings, but it works better if you have a tracking device on you, like an Apple Watch. You can…

PDFs are brilliant things: they work on everything, they ensure that documents look the same on every kind of device and have become a worldwide standard for sharing documents – especially work ones. PDF owes a lot of its success to Apple, because Apple has been a big supporter of it for decades. But, all that aside, PDFs can famously be painful to edit, annotate or complete – or at least, they were until recently. Markup on your Mac, iPhone and iPad made it easy to annotate or sign PDFs, and Apple has now added even more PDF improvements. To use Markup just go to a photo in Photos, select Edit, then tap the Markup button (it looks like a pen nib in a circle). Now you can draw on…

› £299 › FROM denon.com › FEATURES 10mm drivers, supports AAC, aptX Lossless; 8-hour battery, wireless charging case Denon mostly tends to operate in the higher regions of the hi-fi market, but it recently released two sets of relatively affordable earbuds as part of its new ‘PerL’ range – which stands for ‘Personalised Listening’. The standard PerL earbuds cost £189, which pits them right against Apple’s AirPods, while the high-end PerL Pro that we review here cost £299. The two models look very similar, with large, circular earpieces that look – and feel – rather chunky compared to the more streamlined AirPods. The main difference between the two models is that the PerL supports Apple’s AAC and aptX for Android, while the PerL Pro also adds support for aptX Lossless, and…

The Apple TV app is one of iTunes’ three children. iTunes was Apple’s long-standing, do-everything entertainment app, but what started off as an iPod companion app turned into something much bigger – and in the end, much more bloated. So Apple took iTunes and split it into three more focused apps: Music, Podcasts and TV. The Apple TV app works much like iTunes did but it’s faster, simpler and easier to navigate, plus it has Apple’s Apple TV+ streaming service built in. There’s lots to like about the Apple TV app, including good options for subtitling and audio on Apple TV+ and purchased content, the ability to stream via AirPlay to other devices including the Apple TV 4K, and the option to rent as well as buy movies. However, as…

Since iOS 16, iPhone users have been able to create multiple Lock Screens featuring a host of widgets drawn from a wide number of first– and third-party apps. You can also take your pick from a selection of suggested wallpapers, alter the way the time is displayed, see helpful information at a glance, and play around with a variety of color schemes. In other words, it allows for greater personalization. With iPadOS 17 this same functionality is now available on iPad, and there’s plenty to get stuck into. Want a Live Photo as your Lock Screen and see it animate? Well, now you can! Fancy a Lock Screen that reflects the weather in your area? No problem, you got it! You can even select an emoji and replicate it across…

› £79/$79 › FROM www.apple.com › FEATURES USB-C Connector, Bluetooth, Magnetically attaches › NEEDS iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd-6th gen), iPad Pro 11-inch (1st-4th gen), iPad Air (4th/5th gen), iPad (10th gen), iPad min (6th gen) Apple Pencil 3 has finally arrived! Except it hasn’t. Apple has instead released a new £79/$79 Apple Pencil that’s compatible only with iPads that have a USB-C port and lacks pressure sensitivity. Apple says the new release brings “more value and choice to the line-up”, although I’d add ‘confusion’ and ‘obfuscation’ to that list, too. The Apple Pencil line-up was already broken. The original Apple Pencil (1st generation) supported older iPads going back to 2015, but also some newer models too. The Apple Pencil (2nd generation) only supported newer iPad models. The exact configuration of…

The Health app has been a staple of iOS since 2014 and, as of iPadOS 17, it’s now available on iPad too. The app works in much the same way on both devices, bringing a host of health-related data from various sources together in one place. The big difference is that you now have the option of viewing your health data and metrics in an app that’s been optimised for at-a-glance viewing on the iPad’s larger screen. In either case, there are some major benefits to using the Health app. The main one is that it gives you a better picture of your overall well-being, both physically and mentally, allowing you to spot problems and seek help and advice from professionals if need be. You can also motivate yourself to…

› Free (IAPs, $3.99/month, $24.99/year) › FROM binaryformations.com › NEEDS Needs macOS 11.1 or later, iOS/iPadOS 14.0 or later Under My Roof is a household property database that’s free to download, but limited to indexing ten items. You can remove this limitation with a yearly or monthly subscription, and if you cancel you can still access inventory you’ve already added to the app. It’s available for the Mac, iPad and iPhone, with your details syncing over iCloud and a single subscription covering the app on all platforms. Index your household possessions, recording information such as make, model, price, condition, quantity, location and more. You can add a photograph of the item in question, and usefully, you can also include pictures of the purchase receipt and/or warranty information, and attach documents such…