Welcome
- Make your iPad your own
- Streamline your workflow on iPad
What’s new in iPadOS 27
- Wake, unlock, and lock
- Connect to the internet
- Manage Wi-Fi settings
- Set up cellular service
- View or change cellular data settings
- Change the name of your iPad
- Change the default apps
- Change your default search engine on iPad
- 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
- Drag and drop
- Rotate your iPad screen
- Perform quick actions
- View and respond to notifications
- Manage storage on iPad
- Create a custom Lock Screen
- Change the wallpaper
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Keep the iPad display on longer
- Adjust iPad display and text settings
- Add or change keyboards
- Add emoji, Memoji, and stickers
- - Draw and handwrite with Markup
  - Add text, shapes, stickers, and more with Markup
- Fill out forms, sign documents, and create signatures
- Identify objects in your photos and videos
- Lift a subject from the photo background
- Take photos
- Take Live Photos
- Take a selfie
- Take a Portrait mode selfie
- Record a video
- Change advanced camera settings
- Use Live Text
- Scan a QR code
- Scan documents
- - Get apps
  - Use App Clips
  - Update apps
  - Install and manage fonts
  - Share and send apps
  - See your purchases and subscriptions
  - Change settings and restrictions
- - Buy books and audiobooks
  - Read books
  - Access books on other Apple devices
  - Listen to audiobooks
  - Organize books
  - Read PDFs
- - Create and edit events in Calendar
  - Reply to invitations
  - Change how you view events
  - Search for events
  - Change Calendar settings
  - Schedule or display events in a different time zone
  - Keep track of events
  - Use multiple calendars
  - Use the Holidays calendar
  - Share iCloud calendars
- - Use the basic calculator
  - Use the scientific calculator
  - Solve math with Math Notes
  - Work with graphs in Math Notes
  - Convert units or currency
  - See previous calculations
- - See the world clock
  - Set an alarm
  - Set timers
- - Get started with Contacts
  - Add and use contact information
  - Edit contacts
  - Share contacts on iPad
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Hide duplicate contacts
  - Sync contacts across devices
  - Import contacts
  - Export contacts
- - - Make FaceTime calls
    - Receive FaceTime calls
  - Create a FaceTime link
  - Take a Live Photo
  - Use FaceTime audio call tools
  - Use Live Captions and Live Translation
  - 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
  - Use video conferencing features
  - Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
  - Change the FaceTime video settings
  - Change the FaceTime audio settings
  - Change your appearance
  - Leave a call or switch to Messages
  - Screen and filter calls
  - Block a FaceTime call and report it as spam
- - Files basics
  - Find and view files and folders
  - Find your downloaded files on iPad
  - Organize files and folders
  - Send files from the Files app
  - Set up iCloud Drive
- - Get started with Find My
  - Adjust map settings
  - Turn off Find My
- - Get started with Freeform
  - Create a Freeform board
  - Organize your Freeform boards in folders
  - Search Freeform boards
  - Delete and recover boards and folders
  - Subscribe to Apple Creator Studio
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
  - Change Freeform settings
- - Get started with the Apple Games app
  - Set up your Game Center profile
  - Find and download games
  - Subscribe to Apple Arcade
  - 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
- - Get started with Health
  - View health records
  - - Track your medications
  - - Log your state of mind
    - Take a mental health assessment
  - - Use a Sleep Focus
    - View your sleep history
  - - Check your headphone audio levels
  - Back up your Health data
- - Get started with Home
  - Intro to Home
  - Set up accessories
  - Control accessories
  - View electricity usage and rates
  - Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance
  - Set up HomePod
  - Control your home remotely
  - Create and use scenes
  - Set up security cameras
  - Use Face Recognition
  - Configure a router
  - Add more homes
  - Use Apple Intelligence with Home cameras and notifications
- - Get music
  - Get ringtones
- - Write in your journal
  - Edit or delete an entry
  - Add formatting, photos, and more
  - Journal for your wellbeing
  - Build a journaling habit
  - Print and export entries
  - Protect your journal entries
- - Magnify or get information about things around you
  - Customize controls
- - Get started with Mail
  - - Set up a custom email domain
  - Check your email
  - Automatically clean up iCloud Mail
  - Set email notifications
  - Search for email
  - Organize your email in mailboxes
  - Use iCloud Mail rules to automatically apply actions to emails
  - - Flag or block emails
    - Filter emails
  - - Use Hide My Email
    - Use Mail Privacy Protection
  - Change Mail settings
  - Delete and recover emails
  - Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
  - Print emails
- - Set up Maps
  - Report an issue with Maps
- - Measure dimensions
  - View and save measurements
  - Measure a person’s height
- - Get started with Messages
  - - Add backgrounds
- - Get music
  - Customize Music
- - Get started with News
  - Use News widgets
  - See news stories chosen just for you
  - Read and share stories
  - Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
  - Listen to Apple News Today on iPad
  - Search for channels, topics, stories, or recipes
  - Save stories
  - Customize the tab bar
  - Subscribe to individual news channels
- - Get started with Notes
  - Create and format notes
  - Use Quick Notes
  - Enter formulas and equations
  - Add photos, video, and more
  - Record and transcribe audio
  - Scan text and documents
  - Work with PDFs
  - Add links
  - Search notes
  - Organize in folders
  - Use Smart Folders
  - Share and collaborate
  - Export or print notes
  - Lock 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
  - Remove a password
  - Recover a deleted password
  - Create a password for a website or app
  - Show passwords in large text
  - Use passkeys to sign in to websites and apps
  - Sign in with Apple
  - Share passwords
  - Automatically fill in strong 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
  - Make your passwords available on all your devices
  - Automatically fill in verification codes
  - Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
  - Use two-factor authentication
  - Use security keys
  - See your Mac FileVault recovery key
  - - Import passwords
    - Export passwords
- - Record and transcribe a call
  - Change your Phone settings
  - View and delete the call history
  - Answer or decline incoming calls
  - Set up Voicemail
  - Check voicemail
  - Select ringtones
  - Make calls using Wi-Fi
  - Screen and block calls
- - Take photos
  - Delete, share, or copy a photo
  - View and edit Photo Booth photos in the Photos app
- - Browse your photo library
  - - Find photos and videos by date
    - Find and name people and pets
    - Find recently saved photos and videos
    - Find receipts, QR codes, recently edited photos, and more
    - Locate photos and videos by media type
  - Get started with Photos
  - Apply star ratings
  - Back up and sync your photos and videos with iCloud
  - Delete or hide photos and videos
  - Add keywords
  - Search for photos and videos
  - Get wallpaper suggestions
  - - View your memories
    - Play memory movies
    - Make a slideshow
  - - Create and work with photo albums
  - - Share long videos
    - Create shared albums
    - Contribute to a shared album
    - Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library
    - Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
  - - Edit photos and videos
    - Crop, rotate, flip, or straighten photos and videos
    - Undo and revert photo edits
    - Trim video length, adjust speed, and edit audio
    - Edit Cinematic videos
    - Edit Live Photos
    - Edit Portrait mode photos
  - Save a video frame as a photo
  - Duplicate and copy photos and videos
  - Hide people, memories, or holidays
  - Merge duplicate photos
  - Print photos
- - Find podcasts
  - Play podcasts on iPad
  - View podcast transcripts
  - Select your favorite Podcasts categories and channels
  - Organize your podcast library
  - Download, save, remove, and share podcasts
  - Connect app subscriptions to Podcasts on iPad
  - Change download settings
- - Get started with Preview
  - - Open and view PDFs and images
    - Interact with text in an image
  - - Edit an image
    - Remove the background from an image
  - Reply to an email with a PDF attachment
  - Create an image
  - Share PDFs or images
  - Print PDFs or images
- - Create reminders
  - Make a grocery list
  - Add details
  - Complete items
  - Delete and recover reminders
  - Edit and organize a list
  - Search your lists
  - Organize multiple lists
  - Tag items
  - Use Smart Lists
  - Share and collaborate
  - Print a list
  - Work with templates
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Change Reminders settings
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
- - Browse the web
  - Search for websites
  - Customize your Safari settings
  - Change the layout
  - Create multiple Safari profiles
  - - View your tabs from another Apple device
  - Listen to a webpage
  - Mute audio in tabs
  - Open as Web App
  - Bookmark a website as a favorite
  - Save pages to a Reading List
  - Find links shared with you
  - Get extensions
  - - Hide distractions when browsing
    - Hide distractions when reading
    - Block pop-ups
  - Clear your cache and cookies
  - Enable cookies
  - - Browse the web privately
    - Sign in with passkeys in Safari
    - Use Hide My Email
    - Get HTTP website warnings
    - Digital certificates and encrypted websites
  - - Import browser data into Safari
    - Export Safari data to another browser
- Shortcuts
- - Check stocks
  - Manage watchlists
  - Read business news
  - Add earnings reports to your calendar
  - Use a Stocks widget
- - Translate words and phrases
  - Translate in-person conversations
  - Change your Translate settings
- TV
- - Get started with Voice Memos
  - Make a recording
  - Work with layered recordings
  - Export a recording to Files
  - Keep recordings up to date
  - Organize recordings
  - Search for or rename a recording
  - Share a recording
  - Duplicate a recording
- - Check the weather
  - Check the weather in other locations
  - View weather maps
  - Use Weather widgets
  - Learn the weather icons
- - Find info and get things done
- Change Siri settings
- Use Writing Tools to write, improve, and summarize content
- Turn on ChatGPT
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features
- Set up Family Sharing
- Add Family Sharing members
- Remove Family Sharing members
- Share subscriptions
- Share purchases
- Share locations with family and locate lost devices
- Set up Screen Time for yourself
- Set schedules and time allowances
- Block features or content with Screen Time
- Choose who you can communicate with at certain times
- Set up cards
- Make purchases with Apple Pay
- Power adapter and charge cable
- - Use AirPods
  - Use EarPods
- Use headphone audio-level features
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- Play audio from your iPad on a Bluetooth accessory from your iPad
- Apple Watch with Fitness+
- Printers
- Polishing cloth
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPad
- Allow phone calls and text messages on your iPad
- Use your iPad as a webcam for Apple TV 4K
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Connect iPad and your computer with a cable
- Transfer files between devices
- Get started with accessibility features
- Quickly turn accessibility features on or off
- Share your Accessibility settings with another device
- - Overview of cognitive accessibility features
- Control what you share
- Turn on Lock Screen features
- Block contacts
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use Advanced Data Protection
- Use Lockdown Mode
- Install Background Security Improvements
- Use Contact Key Verification
- Use Impersonation Risk Detection
- Force restart iPad
- Update iPadOS
- Back up iPad
- Reset iPad settings
- Erase iPad
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell, give away, or trade in your iPad
- 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

Use Live Text with your iPad camera

On supported models, use your iPad camera to copy, share, look up, and translate text that appears within the camera frame. Camera also provides quick actions to easily call phone numbers, visit websites, convert currencies, and more, based on the text that appears in the frame.

Open Camera on your iPad.
Position your iPad so the text appears within the camera frame.
After the yellow frame appears around detected text, tap .
Touch and hold the text, then use the grab points to select specific text and perform any of the actions below:
- Copy: Copy text to paste into another app such as Notes or Messages.
- Select All: Select all the text within the frame.
- Look Up: Show personalized web suggestions.
- Translate: Translate text.
- Search Web: Look up the selected text on the web.
- Share: Share text using AirDrop, Messages, Mail, or other available options.
  Tip: Depending on the content, you can tap a quick action at the bottom of the screen to do things like make a phone call, visit a website, start an email, convert currencies, and more.
Tap to return to Camera.

To turn off Live Text on your iPad camera, go to Settings > Camera, then turn off Show Detected Text.

Note: Live Text isn’t available in all regions or languages. See the iOS and iPadOS Feature Availability website.

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iPad User Guide

Use Live Text with your iPad camera