iPad User Guide
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Welcome
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Supported models
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What’s new in iPadOS 14
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Wake and unlock
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Adjust the volume
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Change or turn off sounds
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Access features from the Lock Screen
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Open apps on the Home Screen
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Take a screenshot or screen recording
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Change or lock the screen orientation
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Change the wallpaper
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Zoom an app to fill the screen
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Drag and drop
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Search with iPad
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Use AirDrop to send items
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Perform quick actions
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Use and customize Control Center
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Add widgets to the Home Screen
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Charge and monitor the battery
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Learn the meaning of the status icons
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Travel with iPad
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View maps
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Use Siri, Maps, and the Maps widget to get directions
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Choose your preferred type of travel
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Get driving directions
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Get cycling directions
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Find places to stop
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Get walking directions
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Get transit directions
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See an overview of your route or its directions in a list
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Change audio settings for turn-by-turn directions
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Select other route options
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Get directions between places other than your current location
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Delete recently viewed directions
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Use Maps on your Mac to get directions
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Help improve Maps
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View photos and videos
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Delete and hide photos and videos
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Edit photos and videos
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Edit Live Photos
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Edit Portrait mode photos
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Organize photos in albums
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Search in Photos
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Share photos and videos
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View Memories
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Find people in Photos
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Browse photos by location
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Use iCloud Photos
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Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
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Use My Photo Stream
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Import photos and videos
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Print photos
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Shortcuts
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Stocks
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Tips
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Accessories included with iPad
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Set up AirPods
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Charge AirPods
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Start and stop audio playback
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Change the AirPods volume
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Make and answer calls with AirPods
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Switch AirPods between devices
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Use Siri with AirPods
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Listen and respond to messages
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Share audio with AirPods and Beats products
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Change noise control modes
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Control spatial audio
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Restart AirPods
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Change the name of your AirPods and other settings
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Use other Bluetooth headphones
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Use EarPods
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Check headphone and environmental sound levels
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HomePod and other wireless speakers
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Apple Watch with Fitness+
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Cases and covers
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Printers
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Share your internet connection
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Make and receive phone calls
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Use iPad as a second display for Mac
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Hand off tasks between iPad and Mac
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Cut, copy, and paste between iPad and other devices
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Connect iPad and your computer using USB
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Sync iPad with your computer
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Transfer files between iPad and your computer
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Get started with accessibility features
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Turn on and practice VoiceOver
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Change your VoiceOver settings
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Learn VoiceOver gestures
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Operate iPad using VoiceOver gestures
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Control VoiceOver using the rotor
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Use the onscreen keyboard
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Write with your finger
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Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
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Use a braille display
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Type onscreen braille
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Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
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Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
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Use VoiceOver in apps
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Zoom
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Magnifier
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People detection
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Display & Text Size
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Motion
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Spoken Content
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Audio Descriptions
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Important safety information
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Important handling information
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Get information about your iPad
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View or change cellular settings
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Find more resources for software and service
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FCC compliance statement
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ISED Canada compliance statement
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Apple and the environment
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Class 1 Laser information
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Disposal and recycling information
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ENERGY STAR compliance statement
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Copyright
Send animated effects in Messages on iPad
In the Messages app , you can animate a single message with a bubble effect or fill the entire message screen with a full-screen effect (for example, balloons or confetti). You can even send a personal message with invisible ink that remains blurred until the recipient swipes to reveal it.
You need iMessage to send and receive message effects. See About iMessage and SMS/MMS.
Create and send a handwritten message
Use your finger to write a message. The recipient sees the message animate, just as ink flows on paper.
In a conversation, rotate iPad to landscape orientation, then tap the text field.
Tap
on the keyboard.
Write a message with your finger or tap
to choose a saved message, then tap Done.
Tap
to send your message or
to cancel.
After you create and send a handwritten message, the message is saved. To see your saved messages, tap . Tap the message to use it again. To delete the saved message, touch and hold it until the messages jiggle, then tap
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Use a bubble effect
Use bubble effects to animate the message bubble.
In a new or existing conversation, type a message or insert a photo or Memoji.
Touch and hold
, then tap the gray dots to preview different bubble effects.
Tip: Want to send a personal message? When you use invisible ink, the message remains blurred until the recipient swipes to reveal it.
Tap
to send the message or
to cancel.
Tip: Want to send a personal message? When you use invisible ink, the message remains blurred until the recipient swipes to reveal it.
Use a full-screen effect
Use full-screen effects to animate the message screen.
In a new or existing conversation, type a message or insert a photo or Memoji.
Touch and hold
, then tap Screen.
Swipe left to preview different screen effects.
Tap
to send the message or
to cancel.
Messages automatically uses the following screen effects for specific text strings:
Balloons for “Happy birthday”
Confetti for “Congratulations”
Fireworks for “Happy New Year”