iPad User Magazine

Hello and welcome to a freshly minted and completely redesigned issue of iPad User. I would say it is “hot off the press”, but there is no press for a digital magazine! We’ve decided to make the entire mag easier to read on the iPad and given everything a little tweak that takes advantage of the possibilities that digital offers us. Now you’ll find pages designed to be read in portrait mode on an iPad, as well as links to websites and the App Store on tutorials and reviews. So, when you read a tutorial showing you how to use an app, you’ll find that if you tap on the app’s icon you get taken straight to the App Store, where you can install it. Thanks to the new design there…

There is little more thrilling for an Apple fan than getting to pick out a new Mac. You walk into the shop and tell the staff member which new essential work item you’re going to buy. Almost as thrilling is building your perfect machine in the online store. In recent years, that process has become a lot more confusing though. Products across the company’s range seem to have become more and more similar, and it’s not just across the Mac range. Some iPads are now so powerful it is hard to distinguish them from what we would traditionally think of as a laptop. So, for example, assuming you do not need the most powerful Mac and are mostly looking for portability, do you want a MacBook Air or an iPad Pro? Making…

Rumors have suggested that a bigger iPad is in the works for 2024, with iPadOS 17 being made to be compatible with this new model, alongside some new features. According to Twitter user @analyst941, which has accurately leaked Apple’s plans before, a 14.1-inch iPad model powered by an M3 chip is slated to run with iPadOS 17, which will also be able to run two 4K Monitors at a 60Hz refresh rate at once. Compared to the current iPad models that can only do this with one, it could be a big deal for those who use multiple monitors for video editing. There have been constant rumors of a bigger iPad coming, and with Stage Manager launching in a rough state with iPadOS 16 in 2022, it at least showed potential for how…

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id584362474 We love making music, but learning instruments isn’t quick or easy. That’s why we’re so fond of GarageBand’s magic instruments, and of Launchpad. Both apps enable you to experience and share the sheer joy of music without the whole sore-fingers frustration of traditional music-making. That’s not to say serious musicians can’t use them either. They can and many of them do. But as we’ll discover in this tutorial, when you have an app like Launchpad, you can create music in any genre pretty much immediately, and that opens up music making to many more people. If you can hear a tune in your head, or just stumble across a bit of a melody by happy accident, Launchpad can make it sound like you’re a proper musical pro. The Launchpad app is free…

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/apple-store/id375380948?platform=ipad You might not open the Apple Store app each day but there’s an argument for launching it more often. As well as letting you buy new Apple gear and keep track of your purchases, you can use it to create personalised items, organise returns and, by searching for ‘refurbished’, save money too. But it goes beyond that. Explore the app, and you can learn more about the devices linked to your Apple ID, discover new things to do with your gear and enjoy lots of free stuff – whether in-app or in a physical Apple Store. If you tap your profile image, you can also use the app to manage any Apple services you’ve signed up to and see what else is available. Don’t want to keep checking in? Then tap your…

£19.99/$18.49 (for iPad; universal licence £169.99/$164.99) FROM affinity.serif.com NEEDS iPadOS 15 or later https://apps.apple.com/app/affinity-publisher-2-for-ipad/id1606942224 A pro-grade DTP app on the iPad? It’s true. The release of the second version of the Affinity creative suite has seen Serif take a step it chose not to with the previous iteration, which saw the Affinity Designer vector illustration app and the Photo image-editing app move to touchscreen town, but not Affinity Publisher. Affinity Publisher 2, therefore, has something to prove. Happily, it largely manages to show that having a full creative suite on an iPad is a good idea, and Apple’s introduction of Stage Manager into iPadOS couldn’t have come at a better time. While it’s probably still best to work with the app using a mouse, keyboard and external monitor, Apple Pencil support means it’s possible to…