what's up guys my name is Brandon and if you just got an ipad air 5th generation i have more than 18
awesome tips and tricks to share with you that are going to help you get the most out of your
brand new device these are going to range from some of the first settings you need to change
after unboxing your ipad to some advanced tricks that you didn't even know you could do on an ipad
and if you find this video useful at all i would appreciate it if you left a comment down below
just to let me know the first thing we need to talk about is center stage and this is the big
new feature that just came to the ipad air fifth generation it was an ipad pro exclusive before
this and if we go into the facetime application you can see how this works so i don't know why
it's zooming in so close on my face at this angle but if you go around in the frame you can see
that the camera will follow you and keep your face centered in frame hence the name center
stage however sometimes that could get annoying so if you go into your control center right here
you could actually turn this off so if you tap on the little video effects right here you have
a center stage toggle right there where you could turn that feature off if you don't like
it you also have portrait mode right there as well which will basically just put some bokeh
behind you so if we turn both on at the same time and then go right back into facetime you can see
it will zoom in on my face and also blur out everything around me another really awesome
feature you need to try out is universal control so this is a feature that just recently came out
and it allows you to control your mac and your ipad with the same cursor and keyboard so if
you have a magic keyboard for your ipad air this is going to be perfect and if you go into your
settings here and then go to general and then to airplane handoff you will see a toggle here
for cursor and keyboard and it says it's currently in beta and this is going to allow you to use the
cursor and keyboard to control your mac and vice versa so really awesome feature i've been loving
it definitely something to try on the ipad air 5. another thing you need to know about the ipad
air is that it has dynamic volume buttons which means that the volume up and volume down buttons
will depend on the orientation of the ipad so what would be the volume up button in portrait mode
will be the volume down button in landscape mode unless you flipped it of course in that case it
would be volume down again so this could take some getting used to and unlike the ipad pro we do not
have the option to have set volume controls now the next thing you need to do is set up touch id
if you did not do so during the initial setup for at least two fingers so we go into our settings
touch id and passcode enter in our passcode right here you can see i have two fingers but sometimes
you may even want more than that especially if you have multiple people controlling your ipad but
even if not if you find yourself using maybe three fingers three different fingers to unlock your
ipad you could add that in right there you could also rename these if you want as well if you want
to call it like index finger right or left index finger that way you know which one you're deleting
you could do that right there also i like to disable password autofill that way i don't have
to put in my touch id every single time i want it to autofill one of my passwords i find that
rather annoying but the other ones i like having enabled you also have these settings down here you
may want to look into if you don't want to allow access to everything while your ipad is locked
now if you have an apple pencil there's a lot of really cool things you could do with that we'll
talk about that in a moment but honestly you don't even need it these days anymore because ipad os
allows you to do things with your finger now that you used to have to have an apple pencil for like
for example if i swipe up from the bottom right you can see that opens up a quick note where i
could simply type in a quick note right there very easily and it will save to my notes and then if
we go into our settings and go to gestures and then to left corner swipe for example we could
change that between quick note screenshot or off you could do that with the right one as well but
now if you swipe up from the left you can see it will take a screenshot and i've also noticed a bug
where if it doesn't work you may just have to go in here and select something and reselect
screenshot and then it should work properly so now that we have our apple pencil i want
to show you guys how to create perfect shapes so if you go and swipe up from the bottom right to
create a new quick note and if you make a circle right here i'm in the eraser so let's double tap
right there to go back to our pencil if you take a circle and you tap and hold if you don't let up
when you draw a circle it will make a perfect one for you just like that so you have to be pretty
close to being perfect for it to be an actual perfect circle that was a really good one but
you can see there does it for all of your shapes as you can see right there so that is really cool
the best scenario i found for this is when you create a screenshot so if i go ahead and
make a screenshot right here if you want to like circle something let's go ahead and try that again
screenshot and if i wanted to circle like this circle right here let's make it in red instead
let's go ahead to red we go ahead and circle that and hold you can see there it will make it perfect
actually that time it did not let me go ahead and try that again there we go so it makes a perfect
circle as you can see right there you just have to tap and hold or you don't have to tap you just
have to hold on it right there and sometimes if you draw it really bad it will think it's a cloud
now another cool thing is that you can convert written text to typed text it's like for example
if i type in write like this or if i type in right like this you can see it converts it right away
to typed text if you tap on this little icon down here you could change that just the little a right
there if you type on that or if you press on that and then right it will convert that to type text
but if you actually draw something like let's just say i say hello hey just like so if i just type
that out if i tap on this if i tap and hold with my finger on this text right here you can see that
it highlights it yellow and from here we have copy as text and if you tap on that and then go up here
and let's just say we want to paste it somewhere let's just go down here let's go down here and
let's go ahead to paste and you can see it pastes and typed text what we just wrote as text so you
can kind of mix and match handwritten text and type text or you could just convert it at the same
time if you have it selected to use this pin right here now the next tip is more of a suggestion but
that is to get a folio or a magic keyboard if you plan on keeping your ipad air for a long a period
of time this makes a massive difference especially the magic keyboard i know it's expensive but it is
worth it if you use your ipad to work off of or if you just use it every single day and if you do get
a magic keyboard there's a cool new control center toggle for controlling the keyboard brightness so
you could add that in right there you can see the toggle you could turn the brightness of the
keyboard back lights up and down straight from the control center and if you don't have a magic
keyboard you could also connect a mouse keyboard or trackpad to your ipad and control it from that
so you can also connect things like usbc hubs hard drives ssds you can even hook up to some monitors
but keep in mind this is not a thunderbolt port it is a usbc port so you're not going to be able
to move things as quick as you can on an ipad pro with thunderbolt and you won't be able to hook up
to certain displays like crazy high resolution displays like you can with a thunderbolt port like
on the ipad pro now the next thing you guys need to do on your ipad air is to customize your home
screen with widgets and wallpapers so you guys can see this wallpaper i have here is an exclusive
to the ipad air 5th generation so the one that it comes with the wallpaper that your ipad comes with
is ugly i don't know why it did not come with the promotional wallpaper but if you go to your
wallpaper section choose new wallpaper stills then go all the way down to the bottom you can see here
we have four or five new wallpapers right here all color coordinating with the new ipad air colors
and then again on the home screen you can add widgets all you have to do is tap and
hold anywhere on the screen tap the little plus up in the top left and here's where you could add in
widgets on to the home screen you have multiple different sizes as well so like for news you can
see you have all these different sizes that you could add to your home screen so i add one right
here you can move it around you could stack them on top of each other to make smart stacks like
that and you could just do a lot with this and also if you tap and hold and then tap on the
little page dots down at the bottom you could rearrange your pages if you wanted to move one
page over you if you wanted that to be your first page that you see when you unlock your ipad you
could do that you could also hide pages completely or completely remove pages and that's because we
now have the app library on the ipad so if we go over here let's go ahead and put this back to the
first page that i see when i go to my springboard if you go all the way over you can see we do have
the app library right here where we could search for all of our applications that we have installed
and also when you download applications i like to have them not show up on the home screen and just
show up in the app library so if you go to your settings go to home screen and dock and then go
to newly downloaded apps and make sure to change that to app library only that way every time a
new app downloads it only goes to your app library and then from there you could add it to your home
screen if you would like by simply tapping on it and holding and then you should be able to add it
to your home screen from there you could also send certain applications back without deleting them so
we go to remove app but if we only want to remove it from the home screen and not completely delete
we could just simply do that like so something else you need to get used to with the ipad air 5
is multitasking so the multitasking in ipad os 15 is very layered there are multiple layers to
it it gets pretty complex so let's just go ahead and start with opening up safari and if we swipe
up from the bottom and pull up our dock and we drag over let's just say the music application
you can see it opens up in a split view menu right here and we can now go ahead and drag
over to change the width on the little pill right here we can change the width of each application
also up top you can see we have three dots on both sides for both applications if you tap on
that you get three different options right here so we have the option for full screen
split screen and slide over so if we go and tap on slide over you can see it basically just moves
this application out to its own little window that way we could have essentially three applications
open at the same time so like for example if i go ahead and open up tv if i put that right here
you can see we have three apps open at the same time i could also add another app on top of this
slide overview right here so let's just say we want to put let's just say calendar right here
over top of that you can see we have multiple apps now inside of this slide overview and we can go
ahead in and out of each one of those just like so we could slide this off the screen and you can see
right here we have the indicator to pull it back out as well if we wanted to be right back here
in the forefront we could also take this and move it into and kind of replace the music application
right here as well so we go ahead and drag this oops let's go ahead and drag this right here you
can see you get the little highlight right there it makes it makes it a little bit darker if we go
ahead and drop it you can see it replaces that and now that is the split view and you can also
open up applications and bring it into your whole multitasking scene if you get a notification you
can just drag on that notification and pull it down and it can open it up in a split view now
to go along with the multitasking you also need to take advantage of the gestures that are available
with the ipad air 5. so you get a lot of gestures if you have the magic keyboard but you still have
a lot of gestures even without that just from using your fingers so if you swipe out with all of
your fingers you can see it opens up multitasking and if you swipe like this real quick it will take
you to the home screen that's just using all of your fingers and if you type something right here
just type a bunch of random things and if we take our three fingers if you just use three fingers
and if you pinch in so if you pinch like this you can see right there it will copy so let's select
this first and copy and then if we swipe out if we pinch out it will paste so let's go ahead
and delete all this and you can see if we pinch out it will paste so there we go we paste paste
paste you can see it pastes multiple times you can do this on ios as well but it's much
easier it makes a lot more sense on the ipad you could also use those three fingers to swipe left
and right to undo and redo so we swipe left right there you can see it will undo undo again if we
swipe right it will redo so just some simple gestures that you could use i find this to be very
useful in the notes application other gestures you can use in applications or just on the home screen
is a four or five finger swipe either one works to quickly switch between applications you could
also pinch in to go to the home screen quickly and if you have a magic keyboard if you press command
and spacebar it pulls up the spotlight search just like on a mac to easily search for applications
another cool little trick is to make your keyboard small and floating so sometimes it's really hard
to type a lot of sentences on such a big keyboard on the ipad if you don't have a magic keyboard
so if you take two fingers right here and simply just pinch in on the keyboard you can see it makes
it small and it floats and it can move it all around your home screen to wherever you need it
and it makes typing so much easier on the ipad and just simply pinch out with two fingers and
it opens it back up to the default keyboard another thing you need to do is to customize
your control center and just take advantage of all the really awesome features that you could do
from the control center so if we go into our settings here and then down to control center
you have your options here to add controls or remove controls or move them around like so
some of the ones i really like are notes number one i'll tell you why here in a moment of course
dark mode is always nice to have right there low power mode is definitely one we should
add keyboard brightness we talked about that one earlier if you do have a magic keyboard definitely
add the keyboard brightness toggle screen recording and let's just say music recognition
now if we go back to our control center right here one of my favorite ones for the ipad specifically
is the notes control center toggle and the reason for that is if you have to press on that you get
the option to scan document right there so i scan documents on my ipad all the time so it's very
nice to have a quick easy way to scan documents straight from the control center so i use that
all the time highly recommend having the notes control center toggle also it's really nice to
have low power mode right there as well because we do have that on the ipad not just the iphone the
files app is going to be an application that you use a lot if you transfer files back and forth or
if you just work off of your ipad you're going to be a frequent visitor to the files application and
one of my favorite things to do in here is to make it very easy to get to some of my most popular
folders in icloud so for example if i go to my icloud drive here studio is one of the folders
i've been using a lot lately just to get pictures of the mac studio and i can actually add this to
my favorites tab over here so it's easy to get to a lot easier to get to than it was previously so
if i drag right here you can see i can simply add it to my favorites tab so let me go and try that
one more time you can see when it drops down right there you could add that to that you could also
move it around if you go to edit sidebar you can move it around like so and you probably saw when
i click those three dots right there you have the option to scan documents very quickly as well if
you needed to from the files app but you should definitely add folders that you use frequently
to the favorites tab over here on the left hand side and the files app it's going to be a lot more
useful than you think another cool tip especially if you have kids who are interested in coding and
making apps is to download the swift playgrounds application so this is a way where you could
code ios apps and games straight from the ipad you could publish them and everything straight
from the ipad it's really cool it's very intuitive and it's something you should definitely at least
look into if you're interested or know somebody interested in your family and coding or creating
ios apps it's awesome another cool feature is live text and visual lookup so this works on the ipad
air 5. if you take a photo of something you can copy the text just by simply tapping on it and
copying and pasting it just like so you also have visual lookups if you get this little eye up here
with the sparkle if you tap on that and you tap on lookup it will show you exactly what that landmark
is this one failed it didn't detect what it is but it usually does and it will tell you also dog
breeds different cat breeds different animals plants different things like that it's really
really useful and you should take advantage of that here on your ipad just make sure that both of
these are enabled in your syrian search settings right here show and look up and show in spotlight
another thing you need to take advantage of is focus modes so focus modes are extremely useful
for limiting your notifications so that is the number one cause of battery drain on both iphone
and ipad and i would highly recommend setting up a focus mode in here and customizing it to your
liking so if you tap on the plus right here it will allow you to create a custom focus mode and
let's just go ahead and do that actually let's go to custom and we can name it whatever we want add
whatever we want to it so i'm just going to name this test just for this example let's go ahead to
next and you could have people that are allowed to contact you so if you want certain people
to send you notifications if you want to receive notifications only from certain people
and same for calls from certain people you could allow them right there or you could just
allow none same with applications if you only want certain applications to send you notifications and
all the rest get muted you could do that just like so so i'm just going to go ahead and allow just a
couple of applications like messages and home for example let's just tap on done and let's go ahead
to allow and you can see your focus is ready right here and you could change this you could also
customize your home screen as you could hide all notification badges which i find to be extremely
useful one of the best features in focus modes in my opinion you could also have custom pages where
you get a completely different screen a different home screen when you go into certain focus modes
so i don't use that one but i could see the appeal of it and you just have a lot of settings in here
go ahead and take advantage of it i highly highly recommend it and then the final tip is how to turn
off and how to force restart your ipad air 5th generation so to turn it off all you have to do
is press on the power button and the volume button either volume button works volume up or volume
down at the same time press and hold both of those and you will see the slide to power off now if you
get stuck if you you know if your ipad freezes and you cannot turn it off all you have to do is
simply press volume up volume down and then hold on the power button you have to do it quick so one
two three and then hold on the power button keep holding even when you see the slide to power off
and then it will completely restart your device so just keep holding it keep holding it and then
it will eventually force restart and that is a hardware feature so it should work every single
time if not you're doing it wrong so that should help you out if you ever get frozen on anything on
your ipad air so there you have it those are some tips and tricks for the ipad air 5th generation i
hope you guys learned at least one new thing from this video that's my goal i know you're going to
know some of these but i hope you learned at least one new thing from this video if you did i would
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