What is going on everyone? It is Mike. And welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV. It doesn't matter if you already own or you're
thinking about purchasing Apple's magic trick too because
I have 25 tips and tricks to get the most out of your
experience on the iPad. That
That is right Today's video is going to make you a trackpad
expert. I'm ready. Are you ready? Let's get started.
Today's it is gonna be structured in several different
sections and I have timestamps pinned to each one of those
sections in the first comment as well in the video
description. First up it is the basics.
Now we're gonna talk about how to pair your trackpad. Now if
you already use your trackpad with another Mac you want to
make sure that you unpack it from that Mac first. Now grab
your trackpad let's go and powered on. And once you have
it powered on you're going to go and open up settings you're
going to put on a Bluetooth and in the bottom section where it
says other devices you should see your magic trackpad show
there after a few seconds. Go and click on that and voila
your trackpad is paired your iPad super simple right. Now
there's a few different interactions that you need to
go and be where I'm here at the beginning. Let's just go and
swipe up from the bottom here and now we're at our home
screen.
If you want to go and move the cursor around you're going to
go and use one finger. You know just go and move it left to
right now as you see here if you go ahead and say go and
select an app you're going to see that app kind of illuminate
or what I would call raising up away from the different apps
are on the same plane. So you know that what that's the app
that you're selecting let's open up safari. Now if you want
to scroll one finger does nothing here but if you take
two fingers and drag up or drag down or push up or push down
depending how you think about it go and scroll up and down on
the web pages using two fingers. Now if you want to get
from this app that you're currently in which is going to
be safari to another app
That you already have opened you're going to go ahead and
drag to the left while using three fingers.
And that's just like swiping across any of the apps that you
have open by using the three fingers left or right. Now
additionally here is a pro tip for you. You can actually use
the battery widget to see the battery life of your trackpad
and any other accessory that you have turned on at the
moment. Just by adding the battery widget to your home
screen and I'm going to do that I'm going to go ahead and go
where it says more widgets I'm going to find batteries. To
click on the plus button. And here we see that the battery
widget is added.
Now let's talk customization. You get a few different
customizations you can go ahead and do so let's go and open up
settings.
And now that we're in settings we're going to go down to where
as general in from General we're going to go to trackpad.
Now first thing here is you can change the trackpad speed by
adjusting the slider right so depending on how fast or how
slow you want the trackpad cursor to move around you can
do so now. Personally speaking I find this third tick mark to
be just pretty comfortable for me. But you can go ahead move
down you know have even slower or you can have a kind of
middle of the road here when it's the rabbits zooming around
and it's very easy to get lost in my experience but I'm going
to go and put it back to where I want.
Now the next thing here is any natural scrolling just like on
your Mac. You can go ahead and push down push up if you want
to have natural scrolling turned on. I like it. It's just
a personal preference type to click I have enabled and to
finger click. Now show you what that means here in just a
moment here about tapped click is going to be going bringing
up the contextual menu in two fingers secondary click is if
you want to go and had. A preview pane to it. So let's go
and bring it back here. Now. Additionally if we go back here
in the settings. And there's a couple more settings that we
can go ahead and tweak if we go down to where it says
accessibility and go down to where it says pointer control
pointer control here's this first action going to be if in
the appearance section this can be increased contrast.
I really like this I sounds like I'm dating myself but here
if you turn on increased contrast anything that you're
using your mouse and the image on the background in the app
changes color it'll go ahead and invert the colors of the
mouse click right here you see the mouse is going to be dark
dark gray and then here it changes to white makes it easy
for me to see it. I mean you can see personal preference.
Next we have automatically high pointer cursor so you can go in
and choose to make the hide the pointer anywhere between two
seconds in 15 seconds. I find two seconds is gonna be the
sweet spot.
You can also go and change the color of the cursor. And in
addition changing the color you can go in and change the size
of the outline. In addition to the color now I like just plain
old white. Now here also have the pointer animations with the
pointer animations. What this is in to go and do it's going
allow the pointer to go and adapt and animate it to end the
on screen elements that are on screen at that point in time. I
have a turn now. Now I do like the way that this is it does
allow me I guess create a readability of what is going on
on the output screen at that moment in time you may choose
to turn that off.
Now additionally you can have this trackpad inertia that's
where if you were moving the trackpad it will go ahead and
stop automatically opposed to kind of drifting off for a few
seconds or a few milliseconds. I have this turned off I don't
like it but again this is personal preference. Next
Next up we are going to talk about gestures. Now the first
gesture we're gonna go and learn is just bringing up the
app switcher so we can use three fingers swipe on the
trackpad go up let go. And now we see you bring up the apps
which are now we want to check out the different apps here. We
can go and scroll through the different apps using two
fingers. It's really just a rolling memory of the most
recent apps that you've used. Now next we're going to go and
learn how to go to the home screen from an open app now
much like opening up the apps which we're really going to
place three fingers down on the trackpad swipe up but then
actually continually pushing through until that goes nuts as
mechanicals I make it seem.
Let's just go and try that again. Three fingers down and
just one push up that I'm just going to Kwan disappears back
to the iPad screen and you are at the home screen now. There
are two different ways to go ahead and learn how to do this.
So one if you are in an app and use one finger to swipe down.
All right you're going to bring up the. But if you keep on
going back from that you see how that
goes. Then there's the apps which are and keep them going
back. And then there's the home screen. Now the third and final
way it's a little finicky my experience but what you're
gonna go and do is going to be three fingers pension in and
that goes in there again. It's a little bit finicky depending
on your placement on the trackpad or your fingers being
placed on the trackpad. In my experience it's like hey you're
almost close doesn't really feel natural in my opinion but
that isn't gonna be available for you. Now the next one is
gonna be navigating safari. Now let's go and open up safari
here and we have this web page open now only you can navigate
safari by pressing its back button pressing the forward
button but you can do the same thing here just by swiping two
fingers and going left to right now along those same lines.
You've the ability to go and pinch to zoom in. Any app
really it's going to be almost any app that has some type of
imagery or text. Like here I can go and use two fingers pull
out push in. This is going to work in Safari. It's going to
work inside maps. Any app to support pinch zoom you can do
it to two fingers in or out on the trackpad very simply and
let's see what you can go and do is to reveal a dock. You can
use one finger to swipe down like this one finger just like
you were going to go out and go to the home screen but you're
going to go and just stop right about there.
Now next up we're going to learn all the different
functions that are available by clicking around in your
trackpad. So first we're going to talk about showing the
notifications to go and put the notifications. You could do one
of two different ways. If you're on the home screen you
can go ahead and use one finger to push up. And that pushes
down the notification shade or if you are in an app where you
see the time date in his left hand corner you can just click
on that. And that's gonna do the same exact function. Now if
you want to go out and bring up control center you're going to
go out and take that mouse cursor go up to the top right
hand corner and then you see a control center and be there.
And that's gonna work no matter where you're at in. I paid
less. Now here's a favorite mine is can be slide or.
Now I have my first app open and let's just say I want to go
ahead and open up files apps on and I'll go and pull on you
know drag up the files app and I'm going to find something
else here to go and open I'm going to go out and do Safari.
So it's good to know as long as the trackpad cursor is in the
site over app you can use three fingers to slide left or right
that will go ahead and cycle through those apps. Now if you
want to go in and view all the open apps you could take three
fingers push up and you get all the open apps and if you want
to close one of those apps you're going to go ahead and
just use two fingers to swipe up and it disappears.
Same thing's gonna be for if you want to go and you work in
side by side list what's going on and use notions still and
we're gonna go ahead and take safari we're gonna go ahead and
drag it over here. Now that we have that open and that app
open in a split view and you go and drag it works just like how
it would be with your finger and if you see here the mouse
cursor is of the track that cursor when you're not on a
text element is it looks like you know the tip of your
finger. Not there. Hopefully it's your finger it looks like.
Now one additional tip with slide over is going to be his
hiding and viewing all the open windows that are open inside
or.
All right. Now I want to get close at this app I'm sure to
take one finger and bring that over. You're off to the far
right hand side or the left hand side depending on where
you have it open. And now if I want to go in revealed some
dates you know take one finger and then it comes out to one
finger pushes it in one finger pushes it out and if you have
multiple apps open you can go ahead and cycle through those
using three fingers
right now what I talked about a few minutes ago here is giving
that contextual long press let's go and open up over. This
is the app that I use forward to create a lot of graphics
here. Now I'm looking at any of my projects if I hold one
finger down here. It brings up the preview pane as long with
whatever the contextual options are. Now if I want to go and do
two fingers which I certainly could maybe I don't wanna see
the preview should go and do. Hold on two fingers and I see
the same options minus the preview pane. Now where this
you know it doesn't really matter here but maybe less if
you're in messages and if you want to go ahead and do a quick
reply to someone you can go and hold down
And you can just say OK. Thank you. And there goes. Same thing
if you do two fingers without that you get these quick text
options which are really I think game changers. If you do
two fingers down you get the option to and call. So this is
all great stuff using the trackpad on your iPod. Now
let's go and talk about text editing. Now here we're going
to open up clips. We're going to go and open up some text
here. Going to go back to drafts
Here. So you see how this cursor actually changes
depending on where I'm at. So here it's going to be the track
that cursor and if I put it on a line where there's tax or
where near text that he changes to the IBM. Now if I want to go
ahead and select I'm going to go ahead and push down rape for
the sentence and drag through to wherever I wanted to go. And
let's just say I don't want to go all the way to binge why I
stop and keyboard. I got to go and let go there now and if I
go ahead and hold all the way through sort of stuff that I've
had. And now I go and push down with two fingers. This is going
to give you my contextual options Cut Copy Paste whatever
the case is now one finger doesn't do anything here.
So I go. To the keyboard again. One finger you actually get
activates attacks and if I go on a go and move that around so
that you can do it do that with your using the trackpad as well
So you can go out and first you can double tap select word you
go in triple taps like sentences you can go ahead and
to finger tap to get the contextual options or you can
single finger drag to and move that text around on the screen.
Now in reality that wasn't too bad. Now was it. That's because
these gestures really you know should take in no time to go
ahead and master and if you're been using a Mac you should be
super familiar with them because a lot of them are the
same from the Mac. Now those are my 25 favorite tips and
tricks for Apple's magic trackpad too and I think my
favorite one right now is going to be navigate back and forth
using Safari with two fingers you know swiping left or right.
I think that's a huge time saver a post picking at my
finger pulling on the iPad and dragging left or right because
my hand is already on the track pad. Now I would love to know
what your favorite Tipper trick is in the comments below and if
you know of a gesture that I missed please go and comment
below so everyone can see it and we can kind of make use of
this as community.
Now I have a ton of other content coming for the iPhone
and iPod this week it can be very busy including my review
of the magic keyboard as well as my first impressions of the
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