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- Hello and welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I'm going to show you
the best iPad tips and tricks
to increase your productivity and enjoyment of the iPad.
Let's get started.
To start with,
let's put our most frequently used apps into the dock.
You can just drag the icon and then place it into the dock.
And you want all the apps that you frequently use in here
so that they are easily accessible.
And we're gonna use them a little bit later on
in this video.
The next trick I wanna show you
is how to rearrange your apps on the home screen.
And in order to do that
you can tap and hold the icon to make it wiggle.
And then with that second finger
you can add to the selection.
So you can select all the icons you want
and then you can drag them to a different screen.
And then you can let them go,
and that's how easy it is to move multiple icons
at the same time.
The third tip I wanna show you is using gestures,
it makes all the difference.
The first gesture is to drag up from the screen
to see your notifications.
But then you can also drag from the middle of the screen,
and this will bring up your search box.
So you can search any text, any note, apps,
anything you have on your iPad.
And then you can also drag down
from the top right corner like this
to bring up the control center.
And then dragging to the right
will bring up the widgets here.
You can also drag up from the bottom
and then swipe to the right
to invoke that multitasking feature of the iPad.
If you drag further up and then let go
you can see six apps here at a time,
and you can scroll between all the open apps.
You can bring up two apps side-by-side.
I really like having Procreate
and the photos app for example next to each other.
We can drag up from the bottom of the screen
to bring up the dock.
And this is why it was important to put your favorite apps
into the dock.
Because now what you can do
is bring it up and then move it to the side here.
So you can have two apps side-by-side.
You can also make this a little bit smaller.
But then not just that,
you can also make this window floating
by dragging down on it.
And now it's gonna float over the top
and you can move it around.
And then if you wanted to
you could bring up another app as well.
Maybe you like using Pinterest.
So we can bring this to side here as well.
And then rearrange it like this.
Or you could even use multi tasking
in this floating window as well.
So now let's bring up Zinnia
and place it over the top here.
So now this has replaced the previous app.
But then if you drag from the bottom here
you can see now we've got the multitasking window again.
And then to get rid of this window
you can just drag it to the side.
And then you can drag it to the side.
And then you have your original app back like this.
The number five tip I want to show you is called handoff.
And this is such a cool trick.
You can copy and paste text between your Apple devices.
You will need to be locked into the same iCloud account
on all your devices and have Bluetooth and wifi turned on.
Go to General and then select AirPlay and Handoff.
And make sure that this is turned on on all your devices.
And then the next trick I wanna show you
is called Air Drop.
So if we have an image
that we would like to transfer to any other Apple device
you select the share button and then Air Drop.
And then your device that you want to send it to,
and then the file will get transferred
to the other device.
Next up I wanna show you
how you can customize your control center option.
You can access control center from any app
by swiping over the battery icon here.
And so it's really handy
to have your most used functions here.
Go to settings and then go to control center.
And then you can select the controls
that you would like to have available
in your control center.
I really like having screen recording available.
So I'm going to show you next how that works.
So you can bring up control center
and then you tap on screen recording.
So it's counting down to three,
and now it's gonna start recording the screen.
And you can see here that it's recording the screen
because there's this little icon here.
And then once you're finished with your recording
you tap on it and you stop that screen recording.
And now the screen recording video
gets saved to your photos.
And then for number eight
let's talk about my all time favorite Apple device
which is the Apple Pencil.
You can use the Apple Pencil to take a screenshot
by swiping up from the bottom left corner.
And then you can save this to your photos.
If you have that second gen Apple Pencil
you can set up a double tap function.
Go to settings and then select Apple Pencil.
And then select that function that you would like to invoke
with your double tap.
I'm gonna show you how this works in notes.
Double tap, which invokes the eraser tool,
and then you can erase.
Double tap again and then you can write again.
But then you can also do this in other apps.
For example, my favorite Procreate app
supports this as well.
And double tapping on the Apple Pencil
will bring up the copy and paste menu.
You can decide which action you want to perform
on double tap.
And in order to do that you go to your actions preferences
and then gesture controls.
And you can see here,
copy and paste has got the Apple Pencil
double tap turned on.
Another cool you can do with the Apple Pencil
is bring up that notes app without unlocking the iPad.
Just tap on the screen
and then start taking notes like this.
Which brings me to number nine which is scribble.
You can turn this on and off
in the Apple Pencil settings as well.
And it allows you to write into text boxes
with your Apple Pencil, and have it convert it to text.
As you've already seen,
this works really well in the notes app.
Just make sure
that you have got your scribble pen activated.
And then if you don't want the scribble function
you choose any of the other pens.
And then you can take notes as you normally would.
I also really like using this feature
in my favorite journaling app which is Zinnia.
Sometimes I'm a little big lazy to write super slowly,
especially if I'm in a little bit of a rush.
So I can quickly take notes
without having to worry about writing slowly.
And then my journal still looks really nice.
All the tricks that I've shown you up until now
work on all iPad's that run iPad OS 14 or later.
But this trick is specific to the fourth generation iPad.
Yeah.
You can actually set up touch ID
to work with any of your fingers.
So you place your finger like this,
and then you scan them.
And you just alternate all your fingers in a row.
So you can use any of your fingers
to set up touch ID like this.
And then number 11.
It's not really a trick,
but it's just something I wanted to show you
because I like it so much.
You can actually customize your iPad
and make it look super cute.
I've created another video
where I'm showing you exactly how to do all of this.
But I just wanted to show you how nice it is
to have all that similar icons.
And have nice widget set up here.
And as a little bonus, I wanna show you an upcoming feature
in iPad OS 14 point three.
And that is that you don't
have to go through shortcuts anymore to launch their apps.
So you can just tap on the shortcut icon
and then it'll bring up the app instantly.
And I'm so happy about this.
Previously you had to go through the shortcuts app
and it was a bit of a jarring experience.
But this is not happening anymore.
You tap on the icon
and then it'll bring up the app instantly.
This is how it works, starting with iPad OS 14 point three.
I really hope you enjoy this video.
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Thank you so much for watching.
And I'll see you in my next video.