iPad User Magazine

Have you ever lost your iPad? That might sound like a pretty difficult thing to do, but it can happen more often than you think. I remember reading a review of the original iPad back in 2010, in which the reviewer confessed that he’d lost the iPad he was reviewing amongst the various piles of magazines and papers in his flat! Of course, these days he could just go onto the Find My app on his iPhone, or log into the service via iCloud on a Mac or PC and get the iPad to play a sound, so he could locate it. Find My can be a life-saver. It also shows the location of your iPad on a map, for those moments when you really have mislaid it, or worse,…

There are plenty of free App Store offerings that take advantage of the iPad’s bigger screen. You can stream TV shows and movies with a freebie app, for example, or watch videos at your convenience on the YouTube app. Or, if you’re more of a reader, why not enjoy ebooks on the Kindle app, read web comics on WEBTOON and much more. Here are just a few ways you can get even more out of your iPad at work or play. Kindle > FROM App Store > NEEDS iPadOS 14 or later While there’s no substitute for a dedicated Kindle with an e-ink screen, downloading the Kindle app to use on your iPad is pretty handy. The app is great to use with ebooks that have pictures or diagrams, or if you side-load…

When Apple launched Find My iPhone, 12 years ago it was a revolutionary idea, if fairly limited in terms of features. The idea was that using an app on an iOS device, or by logging into iCloud on a computer, you could identify the exact location of an iPhone, iPod, or iPad that was connected to your account. You could then have the device play a sound, lock it with a passcode, or erase all contents and settings on the device if it had been lost or stolen. A year later, Find My iPhone was joined by Find My Friends, which enabled you to share your location with friends or family members, either temporarily or permanently. Skip forward a decade and the Find My app is now on Mac, iOS and…

IT WILL TAKE> 30 minutes YOU WILL LEARN> How to use Affinity Publisher 2 YOU’LL NEED> Affinity Publisher 2 30 day trial When Affinity Publisher arrived on the Mac in 2019, we were impressed. Not only was this desktop publishing app available for a one-off fee (no subscription needed!), it also gave Adobe InDesign a run for its money. The main downside was that, unlike Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, there was no iPad version. But that, we’re happy to report, is no longer the case. Today, you can download Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad from the App Store and trial it for 30 days. After that, you can purchase it for £17.99/$19.99 (although you may find it’s on special offer). Packed with layout tools such as text wrap and guides, it also offers…

IT WILL TAKE> 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN> How to collaborate while working on iPad YOU’LL NEED> iPadOS 16.2 Upgrade to iPadOS 16.2 or later and you will discover a new app has been added: Freeform. It’s billed as a way of bringing your ideas to life by handing you a blank canvas and letting you populate it with words, images, notes and sketches. Since it uses iCloud, the boards will sync with your other devices (Freeform is available on iPhone and Mac too). What’s more, you can share your boards with others and get stuck into a joint brainstorming session in real time. It’s a very versatile, collaborative tool. As you become familiar you should also delve into the Settings app. There you can experiment with the alignment guides and ensure your Apple Pencil…

IT WILL TAKE> 10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN> How to make the on-screen keyboard even more useful YOU’LL NEED> iPadOS 16 Genius tip! If you find it hard to see lower case letters on the keyboard, go into Settings > Accessibility > Keyboards and disable Show Lowercase Keys. It’s easy to take for granted now, but when the iPhone was launched many people were unsure about the prospect of tapping on glass. “Typing is done by pecking on the screen with thumbs or fingers, something hardly anyone outside of Apple has experienced yet,” the New York Times reported, while also describing the virtual keyboard as “the biggest worry” about Apple’s yet-to-be-launched smartphone. “There has never been a massively successful consumer device based solely on a touchscreen,” warned one network CEO; unlike the iPhone, his company disappeared…