Get tips on iPad (2024)

iPad User Guide

• Welcome
• • • 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 Air 11-inch (M2)
    • iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
    • 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 11-inch (M4)
    • 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)
    • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4)
  • 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
• What’s new in iPadOS 17
• • Turn on and set up iPad
  • Wake, unlock, and lock
  • Set up cellular service
  • Connect to the internet
  • • Sign in with Apple ID
    • Use iCloud
    • Subscribe to iCloud+
  • Find settings
  • Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
  • Learn the meaning of the status icons
  • • Charge the battery
    • Show the battery percentage
    • Check battery usage
    • Use Low Power Mode to save battery life
  • Read and bookmark the user guide
• • Adjust the volume
  • • Learn basic gestures
    • Learn advanced gestures
  • • Open apps
    • Find your apps in App Library
    • Switch between apps
    • Zoom an app to fill the screen
    • Quit and reopen an app
  • Drag and drop
  • • Open two items in Split View
    • Switch an app window to Slide Over
    • View an app’s windows and workspaces
    • Multitask with Picture in Picture
    • Move, resize, and organize windows
  • Access features from the Lock Screen
  • Perform quick actions
  • Search on iPad
  • Get information about your iPad
  • View or change cellular data settings
  • Travel with iPad
• • 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
  • • Organize your apps in folders
    • Add, edit, and remove widgets
    • Move apps and widgets on the Home Screen
    • Remove or delete apps
  • Use and customize Control Center
  • Change or lock the screen orientation
  • • View and respond to notifications
    • Change notification settings
    • Set up a focus
    • Allow or silence notifications for a Focus
    • Turn a Focus on or off
  • Customize sharing options
• • • Type with the onscreen keyboard
    • Dictate text
    • Move the onscreen keyboard
    • Select and edit text
    • Use predictive text
    • Use text replacements
  • Add or change keyboards
  • Add emoji and stickers
  • Take a screenshot
  • Take a screen recording
  • • Write and draw in documents
    • Add text, shapes, signatures, and more
  • Fill out forms and sign documents
  • Use Live Text to interact with content in a photo or video
  • Use Visual Look Up to identify objects in your photos and videos
  • Lift a subject from the photo background
• • • Get apps
    • • Subscribe to Apple Arcade
      • Get games
      • Play with friends in Game Center
      • Connect a game controller
    • Use App Clips
    • Update apps
    • View or cancel subscriptions
    • Manage purchases, settings, and restrictions
    • Install and manage fonts
  • • Buy books and audiobooks
    • Read books
    • Annotate books
    • Access books on other Apple devices
    • Listen to audiobooks
    • Set reading goals
    • Organize books
    • Read PDFs
  • • Create and edit events in Calendar
    • Send invitations
    • Reply to invitations
    • Change how you view events
    • Search for events
    • Change calendar and event settings
    • Schedule or display events in a different time zone
    • Keep track of events
    • Use multiple calendars
    • Use the Holidays calendar
    • Share iCloud calendars
  • • Take photos
    • Take Live Photos
    • Take a selfie
    • Take a Portrait mode selfie
    • Take videos
    • Change advanced camera settings
    • Adjust HDR camera settings
    • View, share, and print photos
    • Use Live Text
    • Scan a QR code
    • Scan documents
  • • See the world clock
    • Set an alarm
    • Use the stopwatch
    • Use multiple timers
  • • Add and use contact information
    • Edit contacts
    • Add your contact info
    • Send Contacts on iPad
    • Use other contact accounts
    • Hide duplicate contacts
    • Export contacts
  • • Get started with FaceTime
    • • Make FaceTime calls
      • Receive FaceTime calls
    • 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
  • • Connect external devices or servers
    • Modify files, folders, and downloads
    • Search for files and folders
    • Organize files and folders
    • Send files
    • Set up iCloud Drive
    • Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
    • Use an external storage device, a file server, or a cloud storage service
  • • • Share your location
      • Add or remove a friend
      • Locate a friend
      • Get notified when friends change their location
      • Notify a friend when your location changes
      • Turn off Find My
    • • Add your iPad
      • Get notified if you leave a device behind
      • Locate a device
      • Mark a device as lost
      • Erase a device
      • Remove a device
    • • Add an AirTag
      • Share an AirTag or other item in Find My on iPad
      • Add a third-party item
      • Get notified if you leave an item behind
      • Locate an item
      • Mark an item as lost
      • Remove an item
    • Adjust map settings
  • • Get started with Freeform
    • Create a Freeform board
    • Draw or handwrite
    • Add text
    • Add shapes
    • Add files
    • Apply consistent styles
    • Position items on a board
    • Search Freeform boards
    • Share and collaborate
    • Delete and recover boards
  • • Get started with Health
    • Fill out your Health Details
    • • Intro to Health data
      • View your health data
      • Share your health data
      • View health data shared by others
    • • Download health records
      • View health records
    • • Log menstrual cycle information
      • View menstrual cycle predictions and history
    • • Track your medications
      • Learn more about your medications
    • • Log your state of mind
      • Take a mental health assessment
    • • Customize your Sleep Focus
      • Turn Sleep Focus on or off
      • View your sleep history
    • • Check your headphone audio levels
      • Use audiogram data
    • Back up your Health data
  • • 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
  • • Get music, movies, and TV shows
    • Get ringtones
    • Manage purchases and settings
  • • Magnify nearby objects
    • Change settings
    • • Detect people around you
      • Detect doors around you
      • Receive image descriptions of your surroundings
      • Read aloud text and labels around you
      • Set up shortcuts for Detection Mode
  • • • Add and remove email accounts
      • Set up a custom email domain
    • Check your email
    • • Send email
      • Unsend email with Undo send
      • Reply to and forward emails
      • Save an email draft
    • • Add email attachments
      • Download email attachments
      • Annotate email attachments
    • Set email notifications
    • Search for email
    • Organize your email in mailboxes
    • • Flag or block emails
      • Filter emails
    • • Use Hide My Email
      • Use Mail Privacy Protection
    • Change email settings
    • Delete and recover emails
    • Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
    • Print emails
    • Use keyboard shortcuts
  • • View maps
    • • Get travel directions
      • Select other route options
      • Find stops along your route
      • View a route overview or a list of turns
      • Change settings for spoken directions
      • Get driving directions
      • Report traffic incidents
      • Get cycling directions
      • Get walking directions
      • Get transit directions
      • Delete recent directions
    • Get traffic and weather info
    • Predict travel time and ETA
    • Download offline maps
    • • Search for places
      • Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
      • Get information about places
      • Mark places
      • Share places
      • Rate places
      • Save favorite places
      • Explore new places with Guides
      • Organize places in My Guides
      • Clear location history
    • Look around places
    • Take Flyover tours
    • Find your Maps settings
  • • Measure dimensions
    • View and save measurements
    • Measure a person’s height
  • • 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
    • Send and save GIFs
    • Turn read receipts on or off
    • Change notifications
    • Block, filter, and report messages
    • Delete messages and attachments
    • Recover deleted messages
  • • Get music
    • View albums, playlists, and more
    • Play music
    • Show song credits and lyrics
    • Queue up your music
    • Listen to broadcast radio
    • • Subscribe to Apple Music
      • Listen to lossless music
      • Listen to Dolby Atmos music
      • Apple Music Sing
      • Find new music
      • Add music and listen offline
      • Get personalized recommendations
      • Listen to radio
      • Search for music
      • Create playlists
      • See what your friends are listening to
      • Use Siri to play music
    • Change the way music sounds
  • • Get started with News
    • Use News widgets
    • See news stories chosen just for you
    • Read stories
    • Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
    • • Subscribe to Apple News+
      • Browse and read Apple News+ stories and issues
      • Use Offline Mode to read downloaded stories
      • Manually download Apple News+ issues
      • • Solve puzzles in Apple News
        • Solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles on iPad
        • Solve Quartiles puzzles
    • Search for news stories
    • Save stories in News for later
    • Subscribe to individual news channels
  • • 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
  • • Take photos
    • Delete, share, or copy a photo
    • View and edit Photo Booth photos in the Photos app
  • • 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
    • • Use iCloud Photos
      • Create shared albums
      • Add and remove people in a shared album
      • Add and delete photos and videos in a shared album
      • Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library
      • Add content to an iCloud Shared Photo Library
      • Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
    • Import and export photos and videos
    • Print photos
  • • Find podcasts
    • Listen to podcasts
    • Follow your favorite podcasts
    • Use the Podcasts widget
    • Organize your podcast library
    • Download, save, and share podcasts
    • Subscribe to podcasts
    • Listen to subscriber-only content
    • Change download settings
  • • Add or remove accounts
    • Make a grocery list
    • Add items to a list
    • Edit and manage a list
    • Search and organize lists
    • Work with templates
    • Organize with tags
    • Use Smart Lists
    • Share and collaborate
    • Print reminders
    • Use the Reminders widget
    • Change Reminders settings
    • Use keyboard shortcuts
  • • Browse the web
    • Search for websites
    • Customize your Safari settings
    • Change the layout
    • Use Safari profiles
    • • Open and close tabs
      • Organize your tabs with Tab Groups
      • View your tabs from another device
      • Share Tab Groups
    • 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 and cookies
    • • Browse the web privately
      • Use passkeys in Safari
      • Use Hide My Email
  • Shortcuts
  • • Check stocks
    • Manage multiple watchlists
    • Read business news
    • Add earnings reports to your calendar
    • Use a Stocks widget
  • Tips
  • • Translate text, voice, and conversations
    • Translate text in apps
    • Translate with the camera view
  • • Subscribe to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass, or an Apple TV channel
    • Add your TV provider
    • Get shows, movies, and more
    • • Watch sports
      • Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
      • Watch Major League Soccer with MLS Season Pass
      • Watch multiple live sports streams
    • Control playback
    • Manage your library
    • Change the settings
  • • Make a recording
    • Play it back
    • Edit or delete a recording
    • 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
    • Manage weather notifications
    • Use Weather widgets
    • Learn the weather icons
• • Use Siri
  • Find out what Siri can do
  • Tell Siri about yourself
  • Have Siri announce calls and notifications
  • Add Siri Shortcuts
  • About Siri Suggestions
  • Change Siri settings
• • 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 Apple Cash Family and Apple Card Family
  • Set up parental controls
  • Set up a child’s device
• • Get started with Screen Time
  • Protect your vision health with Screen Distance
  • Set up Screen Time
  • Set communication and safety limits and block inappropriate content
  • Set up Screen Time for a family member
• • Set up Apple Pay
  • Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
  • Track your orders
  • Use Apple Cash
  • Use Apple Card
  • Use Savings
  • Manage payment cards and activity
• • Power adapter and charge cable
  • • Use AirPods
    • Use EarPods
  • Use headphone audio-level features
  • • Apple Pencil compatibility
    • Pair and charge Apple Pencil (1st generation)
    • Pair and charge Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
    • Pair and charge Apple Pencil (USB-C)
    • Pair and charge Apple Pencil Pro
    • Enter text with Scribble
    • Draw with Apple Pencil
    • Take and mark up a screenshot with Apple Pencil
    • Quickly write notes
  • • Wirelessly stream videos and photos to Apple TV or a smart TV
    • Connect to a display with a cable
  • HomePod and other wireless speakers
  • • iPad keyboards
    • Switch between keyboards
    • Enter characters with diacritical marks
    • Dictate text
    • Use shortcuts
    • Choose an alternative keyboard layout
    • Change typing assistance options
  • • Connect Magic Trackpad
    • Trackpad gestures
    • Change trackpad settings
  • • Connect a mouse
    • Mouse actions and gestures
    • Change mouse settings
  • External storage devices
  • Bluetooth accessories
  • Apple Watch with Fitness+
  • Printers
  • Polishing cloth
• • 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
  • • Transfer files between devices
    • Transfer files with email, messages, or AirDrop
    • Transfer files or sync content with the Finder or iTunes
    • Automatically keep files up to date with iCloud
    • Use an external storage device, a file server, or a cloud storage service
• • Get started with accessibility features
  • Turn on accessibility features for setup
  • Change Siri accessibility settings
  • Open features with Accessibility Shortcut
  • • 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
    • • 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
      • Keep the screen off
      • 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
  • • 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
    • Control iPad with an external keyboard
    • Adjust AirPods settings
    • Adjust double tap and squeeze settings for Apple Pencil
    • • Intro to Switch Control
      • Set up and turn on Switch Control
      • Select items, perform actions, and more
      • Control several devices with one switch
  • • Overview
    • Use hearing devices
    • Use Live Listen
    • Use sound recognition
    • Set up and use RTT
    • Flash the indicator light for notifications
    • Adjust audio settings
    • Play background sounds
    • Display subtitles and captions
    • Show transcriptions for Intercom messages
    • Get live captions of spoken audio
  • • Overview
    • Type to speak
    • Record a Personal Voice
  • • Overview
    • Lock iPad to one app with Guided Access
• • Use built-in privacy and security protections
  • • Set a passcode
    • Set up Face ID
    • Set up Touch ID
    • Control access to information on the Lock Screen
  • Keep your Apple ID secure
  • • 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
  • • Control app tracking permissions
    • Control the location information you share
    • Control access to information in apps
    • Control how Apple delivers advertising to you
    • Control access to hardware features
  • 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
• • Turn iPad on or off
  • Force restart iPad
  • Update iPadOS
  • Back up iPad
  • Reset iPad settings
  • Restore all content from a backup
  • Restore purchased and deleted items
  • Sell, give away, or trade in your iPad
  • Erase 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
  • ENERGY STAR compliance statement
• Copyright

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