iPad User Guide

Everything you need to know about iPad

Table of Contents

The set up screen that appears after you first turn on your iPad.

Get started

Set up a few basic features before you start using your new iPad.

Setup basics

Add a personal touch

Your iPad can reflect your style, interests, and display preferences. Customize the Lock Screen, add widgets to the Home Screen, adjust text size, and more.

Make your iPad your own

iPad with two different apps open on the screen

Multitask with iPad

Learn how to work with multiple apps and windows.

Streamline your workflow on iPad

A Freeform board with drawings of plants and the drawing tools at the bottom.

Boost your creativity

Discover new ways to express yourself with Apple Pencil.

Do more with Apple Pencil

To explore the iPad User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field.

Welcome
- Connect to the internet
- Manage Wi-Fi settings
- Set up cellular service
- View or change cellular data settings
- Change the default apps
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Get information about your iPad
- - Learn basic gestures
  - Learn gestures to navigate iPad
- Adjust the volume and silence
- Turn the iPad flashlight on or off
- Rotate your iPad screen
- Perform quick actions
- Manage storage on iPad
- Add or change keyboards
- Add emoji, Memoji, and stickers
- - Add text, shapes, stickers, and more with Markup
- Fill out forms, sign documents, and create signatures
- Identify objects in your photos and videos
- Take photos
- Take a selfie
- Change advanced camera settings
- Use Live Text
- Scan a QR code
- - Get apps
  - Update apps
  - Share and send apps
  - See your purchases and subscriptions
- - Read books
  - Listen to audiobooks
  - Read PDFs
- - Create and edit events in Calendar
  - Reply to invitations
  - Search for events
  - Change Calendar settings
  - Schedule or display events in a different time zone
  - Share iCloud calendars
- - Use the basic calculator
  - Convert units or currency
  - See previous calculations
- - Get started with Contacts
  - Sync contacts across devices
  - Export contacts
- - - Make FaceTime calls
  - Create a FaceTime link
  - Take a Live Photo
  - Use FaceTime audio call tools
  - Use other apps during a call
  - Make a Group FaceTime call
  - Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
  - Share your screen in a FaceTime call
  - Collaborate on a document in a FaceTime call
  - Change the FaceTime video settings
  - Change the FaceTime audio settings
  - Screen and filter calls
- - Files basics
  - Find your downloaded files on iPad
  - Organize files and folders
  - Send files from the Files app
- - Get started with Freeform
  - Search Freeform boards
  - Delete and recover boards and folders
- - Get started with the Apple Games app
  - Find and download games
  - Connect with friends in the Apple Games app
  - Play with friends in the Apple Games app
  - Manage your game library
  - Connect a game controller
  - Report a problem with a game
- - View health records
  - - Track your medications
  - - Log your state of mind
  - - View your sleep history
  - - Check your headphone audio levels
  - Back up your Health data
- - Intro to Home
  - Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance
  - Set up HomePod
  - Control your home remotely
  - Create and use scenes
  - Set up security cameras
  - Use Face Recognition
  - Use Apple Intelligence with Home cameras and notifications
- - Get music
- - Edit or delete an entry
  - Build a journaling habit
  - Print and export entries
- - Organize your email in mailboxes
  - Use iCloud Mail rules to automatically apply actions to emails
  - - Filter emails
  - - Use Hide My Email
  - Change Mail settings
  - Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
- - Report an issue with Maps
- - Measure dimensions
  - View and save measurements
- - - Add backgrounds
- - Get music
  - Customize Music
- - Get started with News
  - Use News widgets
  - See news stories chosen just for you
  - Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
  - Save stories
- - Use Quick Notes
  - Add photos, video, and more
  - Add links
  - Export or print notes
  - Delete and recover notes
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Change the Notes view
- - Use passwords on iPad
  - Find your password for a website or app
  - Change the password for a website or app
  - Show passwords in large text
  - Share passwords
  - See websites excluded from AutoFill
  - Change weak or compromised passwords
  - View your passwords and related information
  - View password history
  - Find your Wi-Fi password
  - Automatically fill in verification codes
  - Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
  - Use security keys
  - See your Mac FileVault recovery key
  - - Import passwords
- - View and delete the call history
  - Check voicemail
  - Select ringtones
  - Make calls using Wi-Fi
  - Screen and block calls
- - Take photos
  - Delete, share, or copy a photo
- - Get started with Photos
  - Apply star ratings
  - Back up and sync your photos and videos with iCloud
  - Add keywords
  - Search for photos and videos
  - - Play memory movies
  - - Create and work with photo albums
  - - Share long videos
    - Create shared albums
    - Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
  - - Edit photos and videos
    - Crop, rotate, flip, or straighten photos and videos
    - Edit Cinematic videos
    - Edit Live Photos
    - Edit Portrait mode photos
  - Save a video frame as a photo
  - Merge duplicate photos
- - Find podcasts
  - Play podcasts on iPad
  - Select your favorite Podcasts categories and channels
  - Download, save, remove, and share podcasts
  - Connect app subscriptions to Podcasts on iPad
- - Get started with Preview
  - Create an image
  - Share PDFs or images
  - Print PDFs or images
- - Make a grocery list
  - Delete and recover reminders
  - Edit and organize a list
  - Organize multiple lists
  - Tag items
  - Share and collaborate
  - Work with templates
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
- - Browse the web
  - Search for websites
  - Change the layout
  - Create multiple Safari profiles
  - - View your tabs from another Apple device
  - Mute audio in tabs
  - Bookmark a website as a favorite
  - - Block pop-ups
  - Clear your cache and cookies
  - Enable cookies
  - - Browse the web privately
    - Sign in with passkeys in Safari
    - Digital certificates and encrypted websites
  - - Import browser data into Safari
- - Check stocks
  - Manage watchlists
- - Change your Translate settings
- TV
- - Use Weather widgets
  - Learn the weather icons
- - Find info and get things done
- Use Writing Tools to write, improve, and summarize content
- Turn on ChatGPT
- Share locations with family and locate lost devices
- Set up Screen Time for yourself
- Choose who you can communicate with at certain times
- Set up cards
- Power adapter and charge cable
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- Apple Watch with Fitness+
- Printers
- Polishing cloth
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Copy and paste between devices
- Allow phone calls and text messages on your iPad
- Use your iPad as a webcam for Apple TV 4K
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Connect iPad and your computer with a cable
- Transfer files between devices
- Quickly turn accessibility features on or off
- - Overview of cognitive accessibility features
- Control what you share
- Turn on Lock Screen features
- Block contacts
- Use a private network address
- Use Advanced Data Protection
- Use Lockdown Mode
- Use Impersonation Risk Detection
- Force restart iPad
- Reset iPad settings
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Install or remove configuration profiles
- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Apple and the environment
- Class 1 Laser information
- Disposal and recycling information
- Unauthorized modification of iPadOS
Copyright and trademarks

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