I'm trying to get paper out of my life i want to travel more
lightly and recently i've learned a bunch of incredibly useful tips
to get the most out of your iPad Mini and apple pencil, not just if you're a pilot.
These tips are going to change your iPad world all right let's start with the fastest way to undo or
redo anything say you're writing a frequency down but you get the last digit wrong instead
of searching for the undo button just get three fingers swipe to the left and it's undone do it
again do it again do it again if you undo one too many just get three fingers they don't have to be
the same three fingers swipe the other way and you get redo next up if you want to use
two apps at the same time like your electronic flight bag and a calculator you can do it in one
simple swipe to open two apps at the same time just go to your app bar down at the bottom tap
on the app that you want and drag it on top so you can still see what's happening in your other
app but you can also do complicated maths six next up if your ipad's locked but you want to
take a note quickly with your apple pencil you don't need to hold your finger over open it up
find your notes app you don't need to do all that you can do it in one simple apple pencil
gesture to set up quick note just go into your settings choose apple pencil scroll down to the
bottom choose right corner swipe and then turn that on to quick note now even if your ipad is
locked you can just swipe up from the bottom right and you can start writing straight away next up if
you're using your apple pencil to take a lot of notes but you're not sure how much battery life
you've actually got left on this thing there is a way to tell without having to constantly
connect it to your ipad every time this is how you add the battery widget to your home screen click
and hold on any widget that you've already got tap on edit home screen and click on this little
plus in the top left hand corner there now you can see a list of widgets that are available to
you click on batteries choose the style of widget that you want click on add and now you've got a
constant display of exactly how much charge your apple pencil currently has oh 100 nice
not sure if i was going to include this one i might put in here anyway and you let me know
what you think the next tip is a really easy way to subscribe to my youtube channel using just your
apple pencil you simply scroll down below the video you're currently watching click on the
subscribe okay okay i know i'm sorry i thought it might be worth a shot if you use your ipad
for more than one thing like for me i primarily use this for flying but i've also got some games
on here i've got youtube and that kind of thing you can set up focus modes to differentiate your
different styles of use to access focus modes just swipe down from the top right click on focus
and go new focus you can set up a custom focus mode you can give it a name and then what i do
for example for my flying focus is i only receive calls from my favorites so just in case there's
an emergency everyone else now gets muted if you want to go really extreme you can just click on
allow none which turns all your notifications off and you can even set your home screen to
hide notifications as well and then it's just a simple case of flicking between whichever focus
you currently want to use your ipad for next up if you do want to use your ipad just like you're
using old school paper and pencil like circling things on maps annotating charts some electronic
flight bags will actually let you do that all efbs work in different ways this is garmin pilot for
example i just go to menu go to annotate chart and now for example i can draw runway directions on or
i can highlight areas or i can mark where this is a really good place to get a coffee from tap tap
i'm writing something tap tap now i'm rubbing it out tap tap writing yeah you can toggle between
your main pencil and the eraser just with a double tap now this doesn't work in all apps
but here in garmin pilot it certainly does so say i type in a frequency but i want to undo it
tap tap changes to the eraser i can rub it out tap tap i can run a new frequency
going back to using your ipad for two different things at the same time if you are doing some work
but you want something playing in the background for example if you're on a long leg and you're
flying and you've got your map up but maybe you want to watch a youtube video in flight which
i do not endorse but just in case you did want to do that this is how you do picture-in-picture pick
your favorite youtube channel just any random one that i've selected here click on the video
that you want to watch go into full screen mode and click on this little icon up here at the top
that gives you a picture in picture which you can drag anywhere on the screen and that stays on
top even if you go back into another app you can also resize it if you want and move it around to
different areas of the screen so it's not blocking what you want to look at and to close it just tap
on it again click the close button and you're back to where you were the next tip is a way to make
better use of the screen real estate whilst you're entering data you know the keyboard that pops up
you can actually make that smaller when you're entering data and the keypad pops up from the
bottom if you want to shrink it down just pinch it now you can see the top and the bottom of the
screen you can move the keypad wherever you want so it's not getting in the way and it's just like
typing on an iphone please give this video a like if you found these tips useful and do click on
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