Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2020 i Essential Apple User Magazine

1: Copying Android Home Screen Widgets, App Library and App Clips are all very nice, but let’s not pretend they’re new. Android users have enjoyed similar features for years. Steve Jobs famously said, ‘We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas,” and it seems his successors are of a similar mind. 2: App Icon Problem There’s a curious hiccup in the early builds of iOS/iPadOS 14. If you add a Home Screen Widget to the Home screen and delete the app icon for the app in question, there’s no easy way of getting it back. For example, if you add a Calendar widget to the Home screen and remove the Calendar icon, but later want it back, you can’t restore it from the App Store because the app is…

Setting Up and Using Workout With the Workout app, you can go for an outdoor or indoor run, walk or cycle, work out on a stair stepper, a rower or an elliptical cross-trainer. You can set a calorie figure, a distance or a time. 1 Open the Workout app. You’re offered a list of potential workouts you might wish to try, including Swim, Elliptical (aka a cross trainer), Outdoor Walk, Outdoor Run, Outdoor Cycle, Indoor Walk, Indoor Run, Indoor Cycle, Rower, Stair Stepper, High-Intensity Interval Training, Other. Choose the one you want to use. 2 Here we’re going for an outdoor run so make sure you have your tracksuit and training shoes at the ready. As instructed you should take your iPhone on a 20 minute run to calibrate the…

For iPad Performance Improvements Apple has made under-the-hood enhancements and optimisations to make iPadOS run faster on your iPad. Face ID unlocks your iPad 30% faster, apps are smaller in download size and now launch up to twice as fast as before. A Better Siri Siri’s voice has been given a makeover. Using advanced, neural text-to-speech technology, Apple has made it more natural and less robotic, especially when making long speeches. This makes it far easier on the ears. Rearrange apps. 1 When you tap and hold an app in iPadOS, you get a pop-up menu. The options offered depend on which app you tapped, but you can always use this menu to make the apps wobble; just tap the ‘Rearrange Apps’ option. 2 After selecting ‘Rearrange Apps’, the app…

The next versions of the iPhone’s and iPad’s operating systems, iOS and iPadOS respectively, are looking good. Unveiled in a keynote at the online-only Worldwide Developers’ Conference 2020, they’re make significant strides on improving the way we use our iPhones and iPads. Unsurprisingly, they have a lot of features in common, which is probably why they’ve both been given the version number ’14’, even though this is only the second version of iPadOS since it split from iOS as a separate operating system for Apple’s tablets. But what do iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 have in store when they launch in September 2020, and what concerns do we have about the new systems?…

Last autumn, Apple released its Series 5 Apple Watch; the most innovative update since the watch’s launch in 2015. The display is now significantly larger than before, despite the casing only measuring 2mm bigger. It’s been pushed to the edges of the screen, cutting down on the boarder and giving an active surface that’s over 30% larger than before, but it’s the health benefits of the new Apple Watch we’re interested in here. The Series 5 watch has gained a range of new heart rate features. The watch can automatically detect if your heart rate is too high or low and also if your heart’s rhythm is irregular, which could be a result of atrial fibrillation: a potentially serious condition. The watch sends you a notification and if you’ve not…

1 To get you started this tutorial will teach you how to input your basic data into this app. Open the Health app and tap the Health Data link at the bottom where you will see this screen. 2 Scroll up the Health Data page to see a link labelled ‘Watch the Overview Video’. If you are new to the Health app, we suggest you do so, as this instructional video is a good starting point for the app. 3 For this guide we are only entering data that we can get without the help of a medical professional. Let’s start by tapping the silhouette icon link on the top right corner, to get to this screen. 4 To enter your details into the Health app, tap the Edit button…

Great Gadgets You can get some amazing gear to help with your iPhone photography. From carry bags to tripods, clip-on lenses to photo printers, there’s all sorts of amazing accessories to buy and use. Here we round up some of the best gadgets and gizmos that help you get more from your snapping. Manfrotto Pixi Evo www.manfrotto.co.uk £51.95, $49.99, 49,90 € Is this the perfect mini tripod for compact cameras and DSLRs? It boasts a standard tripod camera mounting, but not a phone caddy, so if you want to use it with your iPhone, you need an attachment such as Manfrotto’s own TwistGrip. Pixi Evo has a rotating wheel and aluminium ball head, so you can angle your camera and you can fold the legs together to turn it into…

For iPhone & iPad Bluetooth keyboard shortcuts (iPad Only) 1 If you have a Bluetooth keyboard connected to your iPad, you can use keyboard shortcuts as you do on a Mac. To find out which keyboard shortcuts are currently available, hold the Shift and CMD keys until the window appears. 2 The keyboard shortcuts you’re offered depends on the app you’re currently using. For example, in the Files app, you can create a new document with CMD-N, a new folder with Shift-CMD-N, open with CMD-O and more. 3 On the main iPad screen, you can use CMD-H to go back to the first page of the Home screen. The app switcher is especially useful; as on a Mac, you can tap CMD-Tab and switch between open apps. 4 On the…

1: Home Screen Widgets Widgets give you information at a glance. They’re already a boon on the iPhone’s Today screen. iOS 14 takes things further, allowing you to add Home Screen Widgets for your apps anywhere. They’re to come in different sizes too, both on the Today screen and on the Home screen. This lets you choose what level of information you wish to display. On-screen widgets can be moved around the available screen area, just like app icons, and you can add and remove them as you wish. Best of all, you can add a Smart Stack of widgets and scroll through them to select the widget you need. Widgets aren’t exactly a new concept, but on the Home screen, they take things to a new level. Imagine having…

Staying Active The Activity app is bundled with your Apple Watch and is a real boon if you’re watching your health. Here’s a guide to configuring and using it and also shutting it up if it’s getting on your nerves. 1 On first launching the app you’re asked to put in a few details about your age, sex, weight and other such information. Do so as this data is used to determine the appropriate targets the Activity app sets. You can manually adjust the targets later if you wish. Keep them up to date too. If Activity helps you keep an eye on your fitness you might find you lose weight. 2 Activity is accessible from both complications and Glances. The further around the circle the lines for Move, Exercise…

For iPhone Performance improvements Apple has made under-the-hood enhancements and optimisations to make iOS run faster on your iPhone. Face ID unlocks your phone 30% faster, app downloads are 50% smaller and all updates are 60% quicker. Rearrange apps When you tap and hold an app, instead of giving all the icons an ‘X’ that you can use to delete them, you get a menu. You can use this menu to get straight to a function of the app, or tap ‘Rearrange Apps’ to make them wobble as before. A better Siri Siri’s voice has been given a makeover. Using advanced neural text-to-speech technology, Apple has made it more natural and less robotic, especially when making long speeches. This makes it far easier on the ears. Wi-Fi & Bluetooth options…

For Mac App Tiling. App Tiling is a new way of using your apps in split-screen mode. Click and hold the green gumdrop for a menu that lets you go full screen, or tile a screenshot on the left- or right-hand side of the desktop. Choose a tiling option. Now click on another app that can be viewed in split-screen. It automatically tiles itself to the other side of the screen, giving you a split-screen perspective without having to drag app windows on to the desktop bar. Continuity markup and sketching You can draw on a document, or even make a drawing from scratch, on your iPad or iPhone and have the updates appear in real-time on your Mac. This is especially useful if you have an Apple Pencil. Connect…