what's going on Mchanga here so apple introduced the ipad pro as a laptop replacement or
alternative it truly became a legitimate option for a lot of people if you're just getting your
new ipad or if you want to learn how to get the most out of your investment i hope you'll find
some value in this video we're gonna cover a lot of the basics like primary functions of the ipad
including multitasking plus some hidden things you might not know if there's anything i mention
or show that you have questions about i'm happy to answer them down in the comments section so let's
dive in hopefully you've already set up your ipad with your apple id and you can jump right to the
home screen with me the ipad doc makes it super easy to manage your apps and place those high
priority applications shortcuts and folders within quick reach from anywhere in the os with just a
swipe up from the bottom of the screen if you're using a mouse or trackpad you can scroll down to
the bottom of the screen to reveal the dock i'm using the ipad pro 12.9 inch so apple allows up to
15 apps to be placed in a dock at once if you're using a smaller ipad you can have up to 13. the
vertical line here is a divider and to the right of it are your three most recent apps that you've
used or currently have open but haven't placed in the dock if you don't want those apps shown there
go to settings home screen and dock you'll see the option to turn off suggested and recent apps
in dock i'll leave mine turned on though with the introduction of ipad os 14 widgets became a thing
swipe right to bring up the widgets section you can use your finger or the apple pencil to do this
long press anywhere in this section this gives you the option to edit the area if you want to
keep your widgets on the home screen click to turn it on by default it's turned off so the
widgets can just be dismissed while in this edit mode you'll see a plus sign at the top left corner
this is how you add more widgets you can drag and drop the widgets or click the add widget button
if you add widgets that are the same size you can stack them if you want to rearrange the
order of how the stack wedges are shown long press the stack to edit it you'll also see the
smart rotate button here this function decides what information is most important in the stack
and displays it once you exit edit mode you can scroll through the stacked widgets long press a
widget to access the settings if it has any not every widget will a big part of multitasking as
apple defines it is using gestures in ipad os to enter the app switcher quick press and swipe up
from the bottom of the screen if you're already in an app you'll see this line or swipe indicator to
make it a bit easier to see where to swipe from while in this view you can scroll through your
recent and open apps with an app on the screen you can swipe right or left on the indicator to
cycle through your open apps we'll go into more detail about multitasking later in this video
to access the control center swipe down from the top right edge of the screen this is where you'll
find some quick controls related to different settings you can toggle them on or off with the
tap or long press them to bring up more actions if there are any available by default there are
only a few here but you can go into settings then control center to add more you'll quickly
realize gestures make up a lot of the navigation in ipad os swiping down from just about anywhere
on the home screen will bring up the search if you're connected to a hardware keyboard like
the magic keyboard i'm using here you can press command spacebar anywhere in ipad os to bring
up the search function a lot of people use it to search for apps but it can search for much more
than that you can search movies tv shows music restaurants ask questions perform calculations
and access your shortcuts right in the search bar if you want a more in-depth tutorial about
shortcuts let me know down in the comments section so let's circle back to multitasking on the ipad
this is one of the most important features to learn and use if you want to be as productive as
possible while working on an ipad split view is something you've probably used on your computer
of course by a different name putting your apps in split view can be accomplished in a few ways first
with an app already open quick swipe from the bottom of the screen to access the dock from the
dock you can drag and drop the app of your choice to either side of the open app now you're in split
view a second way to do this is by typing the name of an app into search and grabbing it from there
and again placing it to the left or the right of the open app while you're in split view you'll
see the app divider between the two apps you use this to adjust the size of both apps if you swipe
the divider all the way to one side of the screen this closes the second app there is another useful
feature of multitasking called slide over instead of entering split view with two apps you can bring
an app from the dock and keep it in the windowed mode this condensed window allows you to get
information from the app but also move it around and out of the way of your open full screen app
at the top of the windowed app you'll see the indicator and this allows you to move it around
on the screen you can swipe it all the way to the right to hide it then swipe in from the right to
bring it back on screen if you've opened several apps using slide over you'll be able to cycle
through them using the swipe indicator here at the bottom this behaves similar to switching between
apps using the large indicator you can swipe up on the indicator to view all of your open
windowed apps at once this is like a secondary app switcher view you can easily go from slide
over to split view by grabbing the top indicator and dragging down you can also use slide over
while in split view once you have your two apps in split view swipe up from the bottom to bring
up the dock then drag the third app on top of the app divider now you have three apps open on the
screen to take multitasking even further some apps can take advantage of multiple windows this allows
you to have multiple instances of the same app open a quick way to determine if an app has this
multi-window capability is to long press it you'll see the show all windows option in the pop-up menu
if it's supported this feature allows you to have different documents or information viewable in
the same app while in this app expose view you can tap the plus sign in the top right to add
new windows or instances of that app if you want to close any of the windows just swipe up on it
if you close one by accident or you just want to reopen it click the reopen close
window button to bring it back if you have an app open on screen then tap the app icon in the dock
you will automatically enter the multi-window mode pairing multiple instances of apps with split view
means you can have the same app open in two different windows side by side this allows you
to type in one document while viewing or copying things from another without using a different app
you'll be able to see all your split view pairs in the main multitasking view or app switcher
there is no limit that i know of on how many of these coupled up app instances you can create so
feel free to make them until your heart is content you might think you can only place apps and their
windows into split view but there's more to it than that you can grab files notes notifications
photos and tons more then just drag them left or right of your open app speaking of files the
native files application is really useful and it has more to offer than what you might initially
think in the files app on the left you'll see favorites if you want quick access to certain
folders either you created or the system created you can drag those over to the favorites section
tags are another way to label and organize your files you can long press the file or folder click
tags then you either choose one of the default tags or add a new tag once an item is tagged you
can click the corresponding tag on the left to view all the files or folders with that specific
tag also in the files app you'll find locations this defines where files are stored icloud drive
is cloud storage and on my ipad is local storage but if you use third-party storage options like
onedrive and dropbox you can access those here too just click the three dots at the top
tap edit sidebar and you'll get the option to turn on the other apps you want to access within files
the on my ipad option is where you want to store those files or projects that you want to keep
locally and not in the cloud if i'm actively working on something i'll keep it strictly on
my ipad until it's complete once it's finished i'll move it over to cloud storage so i don't
unnecessarily fill up my local storage like i mentioned before you can open this app up
into split view and that'll make it easy to drag and drop files between cloud and local storage
you don't have to use split view though just long press a file or folder and drag it over to the
storage option you want to use on the left you can also tag your files this way it's simple on
a computer but pretty powerful on a tablet you can even drag and drop content from other apps
directly into files i use this feature a lot on my laptop so it's nice to have it here at the top of
the files app you'll see recents or recents and shared documents if you've shared any files from
your ipad both folders are pretty self-explanatory recents shows all your recently added files and
shared documents show all the files you've shared from this app if we go back into the
three dots here at the top we get three options first there's scanned documents this is a quick
and easy way to scan a document you want to save on your ipad when you click it the camera opens
it will automatically detect the physical document you'll see the blue box then you can either scan
another document or just save it the second option is connect to server if you have a network drive
plex server or different smb server setup you can use this to connect and access files in the shared
network folder i use this feature to connect to my office server so i can move files and folders
between my ipad and that desktop if you need to consolidate some documents into a zip file
it's easy click select in the upper right corner select your files click more in the
lower right corner then tap compress the new zip file will automatically be named archive.zip
but you can long press it and rename it if you like if you want to unzip the file
once you long press it you'll see the option to uncompress in the pop-up menu unlike in the
past the ipad supports external storage like hard drives ssds and sd cards it's pretty much
plug and play for ipads that have a usbc port like this ipad pro but if your ipad has the lightning
connector there are several different adapters or dongles you can use to connect an external drive
once your drive is connected you'll be able to see it listed under locations on the left side
it's not always obvious what you can and cannot do within certain applications and that includes
apple's own productivity apps let's take a look at a few the notes app might seem basic but it
has some nice functionality that can help increase your productivity you can quickly start a new list
by clicking on the check mark icon this format is important because you can simply click the
bubble next to items to mark them as complete while in your note tap the three dots at the
top to access additional options you can share the note with other people and give them either
viewing only privileges or the ability to make changes to the note if you have several notes
you want to share you can share the entire folder long pressing a note will give you a pop-up menu
to quick actions like pin note and lock note locking a note is protecting it with a password
at this point you've probably noticed the option to scan documents into the notes app once scanned
you can long press the document to display it as small or large when you're using this software
keyboard on the 12.9 inch ipad pro it's full size on the smaller ipads it's slightly more compact
to access the special characters on the numbers row all you have to do is swipe down on the key
using the magic keyboard or any other physical keyboard you have to press an additional key like
shift to access the symbols if you want to get a smaller one-hand keyboard you can pinch the
keyboard to condense it this allows you to use a keyboard similar to the one on the iphone and
you can even swipe to type pinching out expands it again there are a ton of keyboard settings you can
adjust in the settings app if you want to spend a little time with it if you use the reminders app
you can create lists for any task you're either working on or intend to work on you'll notice
several rows of icons you can use to label your list as well as color options but you can also use
emojis as icons if you want to share your list with someone else click the three dots at the
top of your open list and you'll see the option to share it once you've shared the list you can
assign specific reminders to anyone you've shared with if you assign any of the tasks to yourself or
someone else shares a list with you you'll see a smart list automatically populate to the left
with the label assigned to me in the details of a reminder you can turn on the option to get a
notification from the reminder app when you're messaging a specific person this is a super easy
way to remember to complete certain tasks you can even drag and drop one list onto another to create
a group this is especially helpful if the tasks in both lists are related even in apps you use every
day there's always something new to learn when you're using safari you might have a bunch of tabs
open you can long press a tab to access a quick menu there's an option to arrange tabs by title or
by website this is useful for helping tidy things up a bit if you have several safari windows open
tap and hold or long press the windows icon and click merge all windows from the pop-up menu this
consolidates all the open windows into active tabs in safari taking screenshots is extremely common
and the available markup tools built into safari allow you to jot down notes on web pages highlight
any text and images plus more i especially like the ability to select either screen which only
saves what you see on the screen or you can tap full screen this full screen option will capture
the entire page of content and allow you to scroll within the screenshot to view it it'll be saved as
a pdf to whatever location you choose this is nice for referencing blog posts and articles or a quick
way to share it as an actual document instead of a photo when you're watching a video on the ipad
you may have noticed this icon up in the corner if you click on it the video will enter picture in
picture mode this allows you to continue watching your video or movie while doing other things on
the ipad you can move the window around and resize it by pinching it in and out if you want to hide
it just swipe it over into the edge of the screen now i know not everyone will purchase the apple
pencil but it's a great tool for the ipad going back to the notes app you can add lines or grid
by accessing the three dots at the top again it helps give the impression of writing on paper you
can open the email app of your choice hit compose and then the body of the email start writing ipad
os will automatically convert your handwriting to text using a feature called scribble if you make
a mistake while writing you can scribble through it to erase it from the lock screen if you tap on
the screen with the apple pencil you can jot down some quick notes that'll be saved in the notes app
a lesser known feature is if you swipe in from the bottom corner with the apple pencil it'll
take a screenshot whenever you're using the apple pencil to write or draw you see some tools like
pencil eraser and highlighter if you click the plus sign you can add some additional options
for me the ability to create a signature that i can use to sign documents digitally is awesome if
you're using a second generation apple pencil like this one you can double tap in the area near where
your finger rest to switch between tools you can change this in apple pencil settings but i like to
keep this double tap feature on switch between current tool and eraser i'm using the magic
keyboard but this will work with any physical keyboard attached to the ipad while you're in
an app or just on the home screen if you hold down the command key a list of keyboard shortcuts will
pop up just in case you're not familiar with them my keyboard doesn't have an escape key
so i use a modifier key go into settings general click keyboard then hardware keyboard
you'll see the modifier keys here's where you can change the actions performed by each of the keys
i assigned escape to the option key with mouse and trackpad support we have a cursor so you don't
have to use your finger or the apple pencil for all the navigation all the multitasking options
i talked about earlier in this video can be done using either a mouse or trackpad including split
view and slide over i probably mentioned this 100 times by now but i almost always have the magic
keyboard attached to my ipad pro so i primarily use that built-in trackpad using the trackpad
means access to a number of gestures that simulate using your fingers on the screen you can of course
connect the third-party mouse and it'll work just fine for those that really love working on the
ipad and want to explore using it as a true laptop replacement you can connect to an external display
this isn't something i use very often because of the 4x3 aspect ratio of the ipad and i just prefer
to have use of the full screen on my monitor there are select apps that can take advantage
of the full display but you'll only figure that out by trial and error if you have a keyboard
and mouse paired to the ipad you can close it like you would a traditional laptop and still have the
screen displayed on the monitor well that's going to wrap it up for this video and i would love
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