iPad User Guide
- Welcome
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- iPad models compatible with iPadOS 17
- iPad mini (5th generation)
- iPad mini (6th generation)
- iPad (6th generation)
- iPad (7th generation)
- iPad (8th generation)
- iPad (9th generation)
- iPad (10th generation)
- iPad Air (3rd generation)
- iPad Air (4th generation)
- iPad Air (5th generation)
- iPad Pro 10.5-inch
- iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation)
- Setup basics
- Make your iPad your own
- Keep in touch with friends and family
- Customize your workspace
- Do more with Apple Pencil
- Customize iPad for your child
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- What’s new in iPadOS 17
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- Change or turn off sounds
- Create a custom Lock Screen
- Change the wallpaper
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Customize the text size and zoom setting
- Change the name of your iPad
- Change the date and time
- Change the language and region
- Use and customize Control Center
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Customize sharing options
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- Get started with FaceTime
- Create a FaceTime link
- Take a Live Photo
- Turn on Live Captions
- Use other apps during a call
- Make a Group FaceTime call
- View participants in a grid
- 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
- Block unwanted callers
- Report a call as spam
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- Intro to Home
- Upgrade to the new Home architecture
- Set up accessories
- Control accessories
- Control your home using Siri
- Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
- Set up HomePod
- Control your home remotely
- Create and use scenes
- Use automations
- Set up security cameras
- Use Face Recognition
- Configure a router
- Invite others to control accessories
- Add more homes
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- Set up Messages
- About iMessage
- Send and reply to messages
- Unsend and edit messages
- Keep track of messages
- Search
- Forward and share messages
- Group conversations
- Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
- Collaborate on projects
- Use iMessage apps
- Take and edit photos or videos
- Share photos, links, and more
- Send stickers
- Request, send, and receive payments
- Send and receive audio messages
- Share your location
- Animate messages
- Change notifications
- Block, filter, and report messages
- Delete messages and attachments
- Recover deleted messages
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- Get started with Notes
- Add or remove accounts
- Create and format notes
- Draw or write
- Add photos, videos, and more
- Scan text and documents
- Work with PDFs
- Add links
- Create Quick Notes
- Search notes
- Organize in folders
- Organize with tags
- Use Smart Folders
- Share and collaborate
- Export or print notes
- Lock notes
- Change Notes settings
- Use keyboard shortcuts
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- View photos and videos
- Play videos and slideshows
- Delete or hide photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Trim video length and adjust slow motion
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Cinematic videos
- Edit portraits
- Use photo albums
- Edit, share, and organize albums
- Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
- Make stickers from your photos
- Duplicate and copy photos and videos
- Merge duplicate photos
- Search for photos
- Identify people and pets
- Browse photos by location
- Share photos and videos
- Share long videos
- View photos and videos shared with you
- Watch memories
- Personalize your memories
- Manage memories and featured photos
- Import and export photos and videos
- Print photos
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- Browse the web
- Search for websites
- Customize your Safari settings
- Change the layout
- Use Safari profiles
- Use Siri to listen to a webpage
- Bookmark a website
- Bookmark a website as a favorite
- Save pages to a Reading List
- Find links shared with you
- Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
- Automatically fill in forms
- Get extensions
- Hide ads and distractions
- Clear your cache
- Shortcuts
- Tips
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- Power adapter and charge cable
- Use headphone audio-level features
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- Apple Pencil compatibility
- Pair and charge Apple Pencil (1st generation)
- Pair and charge Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
- Pair and charge Apple Pencil (USB-C)
- Enter text with Scribble
- Draw with Apple Pencil
- Take and mark up a screenshot with Apple Pencil
- Quickly write notes
- Preview tools and controls with Apple Pencil hover
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Bluetooth accessories
- Apple Watch with Fitness+
- Printers
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- Share your internet connection
- Make and receive phone calls
- Use iPad as a second display for Mac
- Use iPad as a webcam
- Use a keyboard and mouse or trackpad across your Mac and iPad
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPad and other devices
- Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPad
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Connect iPad and your computer with a cable
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Turn on accessibility features for setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Open features with Accessibility Shortcut
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- Overview
- Zoom in
- Enlarge text by hovering
- Change color and brightness
- Make text easier to read
- Reduce onscreen motion
- Customize per-app visual settings
- Hear what’s on the screen or typed
- Hear audio descriptions
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Use VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPad when VoiceOver is on
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
- Use a braille display
- Type braille on the screen
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver for images and videos
- Use VoiceOver in apps
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- Overview
- Use AssistiveTouch
- Use an eye-tracking device
- Adjust how iPad responds to your touch
- Auto-answer calls
- Change Face ID and attention settings
- Use Voice Control
- Adjust the top or Home button
- Use Apple TV Remote buttons
- Adjust pointer settings
- Adjust keyboard settings
- Adjust AirPods settings
- Adjust Apple Pencil settings
- Control a nearby Apple device
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- Use built-in privacy and security protections
- Keep your Apple ID secure
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- Use passkeys to sign in to apps and websites
- Sign in with Apple
- Share passwords
- Automatically fill in strong passwords
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- View your passwords and related information
- Share passkeys and passwords securely with AirDrop
- Make your passkeys and passwords available on all your devices
- Automatically fill in verification codes
- Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
- Two-factor authentication
- Use security keys
- 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
- Receive warnings about sensitive content
- Use Contact Key Verification
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- 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
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
- Copyright
Solve crossword puzzles in Apple News on iPad
In iPadOS 17 and later, Apple News+ subscribers can solve daily crossword and crossword mini puzzles. Nonsubscribers may be able to play a few puzzles for free.
Note: Puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions.
View the Puzzles feed
To view the Puzzles feed, do one of the following:
Tap Puzzles in the sidebar.
Tap Today, then tap the Puzzles group.
Follow the feed for a puzzle type
After opening the Puzzles feed, tap Crossword or Crossword Mini, tap , then tap Follow.
A Puzzles category appears in the sidebar with the puzzle types appearing below. To make them favorites, tap Edit, tap next to a puzzle type, then tap Done.
Choose a puzzle
Apple News+ subscribers can solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles. You can choose to solve new puzzles or puzzles from the archive. Each puzzle has a difficulty rating—easy, moderate, or challenging.
Go to one of the following areas to find a puzzle:
the Puzzles group in the Today feed
the Puzzles feed in the sidebar
the feed for a puzzle type (crossword or crossword mini)
Tap a puzzle to open it.
The Puzzles group in the Today feed may display a featured clue, and squares for the letters in the corresponding word. You can enter your answer right in the Today feed, and when you’re done, tap to open the puzzle.
Solve puzzles
You can navigate and solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles in multiple ways. For example, you can display puzzles in the traditional grid view, or instead choose to show clues and answers in a list. You can tap squares to select words, or choose clues from a list.
Grid view: Tap a square to show the clue below the puzzle, then use the keyboard to enter the answer. You move to other squares as you type. You can also tap < or > next to the clue to move to the previous or next clue.
List view: To show clues and answers in a list rather than the traditional grid, tap . Tap to return to grid view.
Note: You don’t have to solve puzzles all at once; you can return at any time. The timer pauses while you’re away.
Puzzle options
If you’re unsure of an answer you’ve entered, you can get a little help. Tap , where you find the following options:
Autocheck: Tap Autocheck to check the letters you’ve entered, and any letters you enter later. Any incorrect letters are marked with a slash.
Check Square, Check Word, Check Puzzle: Tap an option to see any incorrect letters, as indicated by slashes.
Reveal: Tap Reveal, then tap Square, Word, or Puzzle to display the correct answer.
Note: When you reveal the entire puzzle, it’s completely filled in and considered to be solved.
Clear Puzzle: If you’d like a fresh start, you can clear a puzzle’s answers and reset the timer.
Puzzle settings
Tap , then tap Settings to change these settings:
Show Timer: Tap Show Timer to show or hide the timer that appears above each puzzle. (You can also tap to show or hide it.)
Highlight Linked Clues: Some puzzles have clues that reference other clues. You can choose whether to highlight the words that correspond to these clues.
Always Autocheck: If you turn on Autocheck while solving a crossword or crossword mini, it stays on for all puzzles of that type until you turn it off.
Skip Filled Squares: By default, after entering a letter, the next empty square in the puzzle is selected. Turn this off to select the square to the right or the square below, whether or not it’s filled.
At End of Word: Choose Advance If Complete, Always Advance, or Don’t Advance.
You can also tap to learn more about the puzzle, and share it with Messages, Mail, and more.
View past puzzles
View puzzles from the archives: Open the Crossword or Crossword Mini feed, then swipe up to view the most recent puzzles in the archive.
View the complete puzzle archive: Open the Crossword or Crossword Mini feed, swipe up, then tap next to Archive. You can also tap , then choose Crossword Archive or Crossword Mini Archive.
To show sorting and filtering options for the archive, tap . You can sort both archives from newest to oldest or oldest to newest. You can filter the crossword archive by completeness and difficulty level. You can filter the crossword mini archive by completeness only.
Get Puzzles notifications
Swipe to the bottom of the sidebar, then tap Notifications & Email.
Turn on notifications for Puzzles.
Remove the Puzzles group from Today
In the Today feed, swipe up to Puzzles, then tap .
Tap Block from Today.
When you block Puzzles, the group no longer appears in your Today feed.