hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I wanted to share with you five simple
iPad tips and tricks that you might not know and these will apply not only to
the iPad pro that I have here but any iPad that runs iPad OS so your iPad air
2 and newer and so the first tip has to do with taking a screenshot there's kind
of an interesting way to do that but if you're not familiar with taking one
already if you have a normal iPad you can simply press the power sleep/wake
button and the home button at the same time just click them and it will take a
screenshot if you have an iPad pro like I have here what you want to do is press
volume up and the power sleep/wake button at the same time and it will snap
a screenshot however if you have an Apple pencil there's a better way so
maybe you want to take a screenshot of a website we just dragged in from the
corner and it will take a screenshot so you just need to drag in from the corner
here and it will take a screenshot we can do that again let me delete this
I'll show you again drag in from the corner and it takes a screenshot then
you can extend it to full-page so maybe you want the full page of a screenshot
maybe you want to mark this up with an Apple pencil circle this here you can do
that and then you can simply save it hit done and then save PDF files so you have
that ability and it's really nice you can just do that with the Apple pencil
now the second tip has to do with the keyboard I get this question a lot and
people ask me how can I use the quick path keyboard or sort of where you swipe
around with your finger to type on the keyboard but on an iPad so if you're not
using any of the accessories with a keyboard or a trackpad what you want to
do is go to say notes or something that uses the keyboard and all you need to do
is pinch pinch and it shrinks the keyboard now you have a smaller keyboard
where you can just move it around with this little line down here and then we
can say hi how are you today and you can just swipe around to get that written
out so it's really nice you can extend it like this or press and hold on the
keyboard in the bottom right until it says floating and then we tap on
floating and we've got a floating keyboard so it's really simple but it's
nice that we have that ability now in addition to that you can also move the
cursor around and you probably already know this if you've had an iPad
while but you can move the cursor around using two fingers so you'll see the
cursor up here I'll just move it back and forth using two fingers it becomes a
trackpad so it's really nice it's a nice way to select text kind of move the
cursor exactly where you want and then select what you want so it's a really
simple way to do that now there's something else we can do in text that we
can use our iPhone with to go back and forth between the iPad so this is
something I actually do quite a lot so on my iPhone
maybe I'm editing a text document in fact this is the same note that I have
on the iPad that I just created maybe I want to copy this text but I need it on
the iPad and I don't have it there all we need to do is select the text maybe
copy the whole thing hit copy and as long as you're using iCloud on the same
account go back to the iPad and tap paste and it will copy from the iPhone
over to the iPad you can do this in Reverse you can do this between an iPad
and a Mac as long as they're on the same iCloud account Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are
turned on it will just simply drop over to the next device it's really simple to
use and that goes along with the next thing now something else that we can do
between devices is as long as we're in the same iCloud account again and that
copy and paste works what you can do is something called handoff and this is
something I use all the time so maybe I'm reading something on my iPhone and
it's a smaller screen and I want to continue reading it on my larger iPad
maybe I'll go into this website which is my own website and I want to open it on
the iPad well as soon as I open it you may have noticed this icon appear in the
dock on the iPad I simply go to the iPad tap on the dock here and it opens up
right where I was before now this works in multiple apps so this could work in
notes it can work in anything you're working on on your iPhone it goes back
and forth a lot of people aren't familiar with that but it's something
that I use all of the time now something else that's really interesting that is
actually new to me when I was researching for this video I hadn't seen
before is something that you can do with Siri or you could type it in as well but
we can play radio stations on the iPhone and iPad now for example if you're in
your car and maybe you're traveling to and from work
and you want to continue listening to whatever you were listening to in the
car on the radio you can continue to listen to that through the iPad or the
iPhone it's pretty simple you just need to ask Siri now you will need to know
the call letters and the channel or station numbers so that you can tell it
what to play but as long as you have that you're good to go
so for example I'm in the Charlotte North Carolina area I just did a simple
search for radio stations and I'm just picking one randomly so let's go ahead
and try this play wkq see 104.7 radio and now we'll play and you'll see it
says from i heart radio i don't have i heart radio installed so it will play
either way if i hit open i heart radio
it will play either way so as long as you ask Siri to play it and it's
available you'll be able to continue listening to your radio station on your
iPad or your iPhone now if you have an iPad that you're using with a keyboard
such as this magic keyboard or maybe you're just using any keyboard of your
choice there's a shortcut that I use all of the time on not only the iPad but
also a Mac as well so it's spotlight search and it allows you to do a lot
more than you think so if you hold command and hit space it brings up
search and maybe you want to open an app you don't know where it is on your iPad
all you need to do is maybe type type app store hit return it'll bring you to
the App Store maybe we'll type Safari it will bring you to Safari and you don't
really need to type the whole thing you can type just SAF hit enter and you're
in so I use this for all sorts of things all the time and you can even use it for
things like math so four plus four and it gives you the answer right there so
it's a really simple way to use your iPad it's a very fast way to navigate
around and if you're used to using it on the Mac it translates very well here and
maybe you're looking for other keyboard shortcuts just hold command and it will
give you the keyboard shortcuts for the screen you're on so hopefully those iPad
tips and tricks were helpful and new to you if they were I'd love to hear from
you in the comments below and of course if you'd like to get your hands on this
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this is Aaron I'll see you next time