Indholdsfortegnelse for Issue 3 i iOS 15 For iPhone & iPad The Complete Manual

Inserting your Nano-SIM card 1 To activate your iPhone, you must first insert the Nano-SIM card provided by your mobile phone network provider. An eSim card is non-removal as detailed below. 2 Use a SIM eject tool like the one pictured here, or maybe a straightened paper clip, and insert it into the small hole next to the SIM slot. The tray then pops out as shown. 3 Place the SIM card in the tray (there’s only one way it can go in) and slide the tray back in the slot. Push it in firmly so it snaps into place. Your iPhone should recognise it. eSIM explained. The dual sim functionality introduced with the 2018 iPhone models, enables users to access two sim cards in one iPhone. Unlike the standard…

Home Screen Widgets 1 A Widget is a small piece of an app which displays information drawn from the app in question, making it easily accessible. We’ve had them for years on the Today screen (to the left of the home screen) but their abilities have now been greatly extended. 2 To add a Widget to the Home screen, tap and hold an empty space until the app icons start wobbling. Tap the + icon in the top-left corner and you get a pop-up window, from where you can select a Widget. Tap the Widget you want to add and see a preview and description. 3 Swipe backwards and forwards through these previews and choose at what size you want the Widget to be shown. Widgets come in three sizes,…

Dialling a number from the keypad 1 Tap the Phone app icon and then select the keypad link from the five options at the bottom of the screen. Enter the phone number by tapping the on-screen digits; the number is shown as you enter it at the top of the screen. 2 If this number is important and is likely to be used often, tap the Add Number link found under the phone number at the top of the screen to add it to your contacts list. If not, tap the green button to make the call. 3 The call automatically connects when your contact answers the phone at their end. To end the call, tap the End Call button, the red one; you’re returned to the keypad screen and…

Control Centre in Focus 1 In this box, you can turn on and off (clockwise, from top left) Airplane Mode, Mobile Data, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. If you have 3D Touch, deep press the main box for more options. 2 This box shows what you’re currently listening to. Here we’re listening to the radio, so we can play/pause and skip forward or backward ten seconds. Deep press for more options, including volume control and external speakers. 3 Tap here to lock the screen in its current orientation, so it doesn’t switch between landscape and portrait mode when you turn the iPhone. Tap it again to switch off the screen orientation lock. 4 Tap here to access the Screen Mirroring menu, which shows a list of devices to which you can mirror…

Safari in Focus 1 A web page can contain words, pictures, videos, icons and more. Tap a link on a web page, such as the pictures here and icons atop the page, to go to a new page. You can also scroll the screen up and down by dragging it with one finger. 2 TheURL, tabs and tools are now down here, instead of at the top of the browser. This window settles into the bottom of the screen when not in use; tap it to return to seeing the larger window again. Swipe the window left and right to cycle through your open tabs. Tap it to type a new URL or get to the Start page, and deep press it for more options which appear in a floating…

Making a Memoji 1 Open the Messages app. Tap the Memoji icon in the app drawer and scroll all the way to the right until you see the Plus icon. Tap it to start your Memoji. Note: if the Memoji icon isn’t there, your iPhone is likely too old and cannot use Memojis. 2 Under a blank face you see a slider. Using this slider, the colour options and diagrams, build your Memoji any way you wish. Choose a hairstyle and colour, add glasses if you wear them, and more. You can make as many Memojis as you like so have fun and get creative. 3 When you’re finished, tap Done. Your Memoji is added to your Animoji collection, from where it can be used in the usual way, just…

Contacts in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to your list of contacts, arranged in alphabetical order. 2 The name and picture of your currently open contact. If you don’t yet have a picture here, the person’s initials are shown on a grey background. 3 Tap Edit to add, remove or change information on the contact card. You can add things like birthdays and social media addresses as well phone numbers, street addresses and more. 4 These icons let you communicate with your contact directly from the Contacts app. Tap to send a message, make a call, make a video call or send an email. A greyed icon means the feature is unavailable. 5 Phone numbers for the contact. You can add numbers for home, work, mobile and…

Photos in Focus 1 This is the name of the Photos album you have open (or in this case, where the pics were taken, as we’re looking at all the photos and not a single album), and the dates between which the photos contained in that album were all taken. 2 Tap here to select photos. You can pick out as many as you like, and dragging your finger will select multiple photos more easily. 3 Tap the three-dots icon for a pop-up that lets you zoom in and out, set the thumbnails, filter pictures, show them on a map and more. 4 These are your pictures. Tap the Select link, then tap photos to select and unselect them. Tap and hold a picture for a pop-up that lets you…

1 First of all, set up your Health Profile. It should appear automatically the first time you open the app, but if it doesn’t, tap the icon in the top right corner of the Summary screen and add your information and details. Tap Done when finished. 2 The main Summary screen, accessed by tapping the Summary icon at the bottom, starts with your Favourites. To configure, tap the Edit link and choose the items you want to use. Note the Existing and All tabs. 3 In the Browse tab, tap Activity and then Activity again for your Activity data, which is taken from your Apple Watch. It shows how you’re getting on filling your rings today, and how your activity level compares over the last week, month and year. 4…

Fitnenss App in Focus 1 This is the main page of the Activity app and it shows you a summary of your recent activities. It also shows you today’s date. 2 The Activity section features information drawn from your Apple Watch. It starts afresh each day, so what you see are today’s figures. 3 Here you can see how many calories you’ve used up today, how many minutes you’ve spent exercising and how many times you’ve stood up and moved around for at least two minutes. 4 This is the same information discussed in ‘3’, but represented as part-completed rings. You can set up your Apple Watch to display these rings on the watch face if you wish. 5 Your recent workouts are displayed here. Again, the information is gleaned…

Books in Focus 1 Tap the chevron to close the a book and go back to your eBooks library. When you open the book again, it’s on the last page you viewed. 2 This icon gives you access to the book’s contents and also any bookmarks and notes you made whilst reading it. 3 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you change the font and font size, adjust the brightness, change the page colour, set the text to scroll up and down rather than turn pages like a physical book, and toggle the automatic Night Theme option. 4 Tap here to search for a word, phrase or page number in the book you currently have open. 5 Tap here to place or remove a bookmark. The book stays…

News in Focus 1 Today’s date, which is always important on a digital news app. 2 This is Today, the News app’s main page. Scroll for top stories, trending stories and more. 3 You can watch videos directly from the News app. Just tap the Play button and the video plays, right there in the story. 4 Stories in the News app are tagged with how long ago they were uploaded to the Internet, so you know how recent your stories are. 5 Front-page news stories are usually illustrated with photos, videos or other such graphics. If you scroll the page, you get to see a range of news stories, trending stories, top videos and articles selected especially for you. 6 This is the Today icon. It takes you back…

Setting alarms 1 Tap the Alarm tab at the bottom of the clock screen to start editing your alarms. To set a new alarm, use the ‘+’ icon (top right). This opens an Add Alarm window. Use the two wheels to pick a time for the alarm to sound. You can also choose which days the alarm plays, the sound, whether it can be snoozed and what it’s called. When you’ve set an alarm in the Clock app, an alarm clock icon appears at the top of the Home screen to show that it’s active. 2 You can set an alarm to repeat at the same time on specific days of the week or never repeat. To turn each alarm on or off independently, tap the On/Off button. Alternatively you…

The People tab 1 Tap the People icon at the foot of the screen. To start sharing your location with friends or family members, tap Start Sharing Location. Enter the name, Apple ID email, or phone number of the person you want to share with. 2 As is usual, you can tap the + sign to the right and select a person from your Contacts app. Add as many people as you wish, and tap the Send link. Then you can choose whether to share for an hour, the rest of the day or indefinitely. 3 The people you shared your location with can now see you as a blue spot on the map. Pinch and spread to zoom in and out. Tap a name for options. From here, you…

Features of the Files app 1 When you first open the Files app, you see two icons at the foot of the screen. The Recents icon shows you documents you’ve recently opened, and also gives access to those you’ve shared and tagged with a colour. The Browse icon lets you look through your files. 2 The Files app has an improved search facility. You can restrict your search to recents, files on iCloud Drive, or the specific app whose folder you’ve opened, and can also add ‘tokens’ to restrict the search to (for example) specific file types or production dates (e.g. ‘last week’). 3 The first four options on the Browse screen include On My iPhone (documents you’ve stored locally) iCloud Drive (documents stored on your iCloud service), Shared (files…

Searching for Photos 1 Type (or at least, start to type) ‘Photos’ and you can open the Photos app, or see photographs taken from apps, including the Photos app. Tap Show More next to Photos from Apps to see more pictures. 2 You can look for specific subjects within your photos if you wish. Here we’ve searched for ‘cats’. In the search results are pictures taken from the Photos app; tap Search in App and you’ll see the results in Photos. 3 You can be more specific too. By searching for ‘Summer Alison’, for example, we see pictures of Alison that were taken during the Summer months. Of course, we could use that search in other apps too, such as Mail and Safari. Accessing Spotlight. To access the Spotlight feature…

1 Go to Settings > Focus. Some categories are already offered. There’s a regular Do Not Disturb, and ‘Focuses’ for Driving; Personal; Sleep and Work. Turn on Share Across Devices to sync settings across your Apple gear. 2 Tap one of the Focuses to set it up. Under Allowed People, tap Add and on the next screen, tick anyone you wish to get through without being blocked when the Focus is active. You can choose an entire group or none from Other People too. 3 Tap Allow or Allow None to continue to the next screen, where you can do the same for Apps and allow certain apps to still send you notifications, even when the Focus in question is active. Tap a switch to allow Time Sensitive notifications too.…

1 When setting up a new account, some apps and websites let you sign in with your social media and online accounts such as Facebook, Google and Windows Live. Where available, you can also sign in using your Apple ID. 2 You sign in with Apple using your Face ID our Touch ID. Your account is created on the website or app in question, without you having to type in your details and come up with a password. It’s very convenient and quick. 3 If you’re signing in to an app and you don’t want to give them your email address, you can register using a random address generated by Apple, and forwarded to your iCloud email. This can be deleted whenever you choose. Security control. Sign in with Apple…

Using the Notification Centre 1 To access the Notification Centre, swipe your finger down from the top of the screen. Notifications are arranged in stacks according to the app that sent them. Tap one of these stacks to open it and see its notifications. 2 To clear a single notification, swipe it left and tap the Clear button. To delete all notifications received from a given app, tap the X next to the app name and then the Clear button that replaces it. All those notifications go. 3 Swipe an incoming notification left and tap Options to mute notifications from that app for an hour or the rest of the day, view the settings for that app’s notifications or turn off notifications for that app altogether. Notification options. If you…

In the Autumn of 2022, Apple lifted the lid on two brand new iPads; the fourth generation of the popular iPad Air and the eighth generation of the regular iPad. The new tablets joined Apple’s iPad Pro and iPad mini, two models that weren’t updated but are still going strong. iPad’s range of smart tablets now looks impressively strong, with the new Air benefitting from technology developed for the Pro and the iPad is a great alternative for those on a budget. If you want a smaller tablet, take a look at the iPad mini and for high-needs users, the iPad Pro still rules supreme. On the following pages, let’s take a look at Apple’s iPad family, starting with the two new models.…

[The Subscription Service] Apple One What You Can Get Apple has some great subscription services, such as Apple TV+ for streaming original TV shows and movies, Apple Music for audio streaming and Apple Arcade for gamers. None of them are expensive but from Autumn 2020, you can save money by subscribing to Apple One instead. Apple One is available in three packages; Individual includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and 50GB of iCloud storage for £14.95/$14.95/14,95 € per month. Family includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and 200GB of iCloud storage for £19.95/$19.95/19,95 € per month, and can be shared among up to six family members. Premier, where available, includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+ and 2TB of iCloud storage for £29.95/$29.95 per…

iPads with a Home Button iPads with No Home Button Charging Your iPad. To charge, you need the Lightning or USB-C cable supplied with your iPad. Connect the larger end of this cable (the USB plug) to a computer or the mains adapter that came with your iPad. Make sure it’s the right way up in the socket. The smaller end (the Lightning or USB-C plug) goes into the slot in the base of your iPad (see below) and can go either way up. When it’s being charged, assuming it’s switched on, you can see a lightning icon in the top right corner of your iPad’s screen, on the battery icon. Turning On and Off. To turn your iPad on, press and hold the On/Off button until you see the…

Setting Up Face ID 1 Open the Settings app and scroll down the list of apps and features until you get to the one called Face ID & Passcode. Tap it to open these settings. 2 If you’ve set up a passcode on your iPad, whether four-digit, six-digit or alphanumeric, you must enter it now to get to the main Face ID settings screen. 3 Tap Set Up Face ID and on the next screen read the instructions; then tap Get Started. You can add two faces to Face ID. 4 Make sure the iPad is in portrait mode, then position your face within the frame. Move your head in a circle until the small white lines go green. 5 Tap Continue. You’re then asked to do exactly the same…

Touch To activate items such as applications, to use the on-screen keyboard, or to press on-screen buttons, touch them with your finger. The touchscreen is sensitive to the tiny electrical charge in our bodies, so you don’t need to press hard. Touch and Hold You can touch and hold an item on the screen by placing your finger it and not lifting that finger until an action occurs. This action depends on what you’re touching; it could be a menu opening or an icon lifting off the screen and showing it’s able to be moved. Double-tap Tap quickly twice on a web page, map, a photograph or other screen to zoom. Double-tap a section of a web page in the browser to zoom fit it to the width of the…

The Widgets Sidebar 1 The Widgets sidebar can be found on the far left of the Home screen. Keep swiping the Home screen right until you reach the first page, and then swipe it once more to bring the sidebar into view. 2 You can scroll the sidebar up and down to access more widgets. If you tap one of the individual widgets, whether it’s for an Apple app or a third-party app, you open the application that created it. 3 Tap and hold a widget for a pop-up menu. The exact options here depends on which widget you tapped but you can always remove the widget/edit the Home screen. Most widgets can be edited too. 4 To edit the widget, hold your finger on the item and select the…

If you own a first-generation Apple Pencil (the one with the silver band at the end), start by removing the cap at the top of the pencil to reveal a Lightning connector plug; make sure your iPad is switched on and unlocked, then plug the end of the Apple Pencil into the Lightning socket at the bottom of your iPad. An alert appears on the iPad’s display saying ‘Bluetooth Pairing Request’. Tap Pair to connect the Apple Pencil to your iPad Pro. Wait for the alert window to disappear, and then remove the Apple Pencil from your iPad. Now reattach the cap to the Apple Pencil to cover the Lightning connector. The second generation Apple Pencil (with no silver band), does not need to be paired like the older version.…

System Requirements. If you want to update to iPadOS 15, your iPad must be one of the following. To find out which iPad you have, go to https://apple.co/35mb9oe. 12.9-inch iPad Pro 11-inch iPad Pro 10.5-inch iPad Pro 9.7-inch iPad Pro iPad Air (3rd generation) iPad Air 2 iPad (7th generation) (6th generation) (5th generation) iPad mini (5th generation) iPad mini 4 Auto Updates. To download and install updates automatically, open Settings and go to General > Software Update > Customise Automatic Updates. On this screen, you can choose to automatically download iPadOS updates and/or install them automatically overnight. To do either, your iPad must be connected to a Wi-Fi network. 1 When there’s a new version of iOS, the Settings app icon on the Home screen is badged with a…

Safari in Focus 1 Tap this icon to open the sidebar, from where you can access your Tab Groups and switch to Private Browsing. You can also open your list of bookmarked pages, or those on your Reading List. 2 These chevrons let you move forwards and backwards through your browsing history; use the left chevron to go back to the previous page and the right one to go forward again. If one or both chevrons are greyed, you can’t navigate in that direction at the moment. 3 Tap the Aa icon for a menu that lets you increase and decrease the font size, show and hide the Toolbar, translate the site, request the mobile version of the website, turn off content blockers and more. 4 This is your URL…

Notes in Focus 1 Tap this chevron to open the folders sidebar and choose a new folder. Swipe the sidebars left to close them. The currently open folder is the iCloud folder, which is synced across your Apple devices. 2 The three-dots icon here gives you a menu from where you can manage your notes, view them as a thumbnail gallery or see all the attachments you have stored in them. 3 Tap the tick icon to start a new checklist or to turn a highlighted list into a checklist. 4 Scan a document with your camera, take a photo or video or choose one from the Photos app. 5 The Markup icon lets you draw and annotate on a note and its attachments. 6 This three-dots icon gives a…

Contacts in Focus 1 Search your contacts by typing a name or part name here. Suggestions are offered. You can also search for other things on a contact card, like your notes. 2 Tap here to cancel a search and list all your contacts once more. 3 The name and picture of your currently open contact. If you don’t have a picture added, the person’s initials are shown here in a grey circle. 4 Tap Edit to add, remove or change information on the contact card. You can add things like birthdays, social media addresses and more, as well as further phone numbers, street addresses, etc. 5 These icons let you communicate with your contact directly from the Contacts app. Tap an icon to send a message, make a call,…

Photos in Focus 1 This sidebar is part of iPadOS 15. Show it by swiping in from the side of the screen or tapping the chevron in the top-left corner. To hide it, swipe it away or tap the screen away from the sidebar. 2 Customise the sidebar by tapping the Edit link. Use the three-lines icons to drag items up and down the list. 3 View your photos according to the year, month or day they were taken or look at all your photos. 4 Toggle between viewing the thumbnails as squares or the full rectangular picture; whether taken in portrait or landscape mode. 5 Tap here to select multiple photos. You can drag your finger to select multiple photos more easily. 6 This action icon lets you zoom…

Music in Focus 1 To access the Music app’s sidebar in portrait mode, swipe in from the side of the screen or tap the Music link (top left). In landscape mode, it’s always there. 2 Tap the Edit link and you can hide, show and reorder options in the Library section of the sidebar. 3 Tap here for your account details. You can redeem an iTunes card, manage your Apple Music subscription and more. 4 Tap here for the Listen Now screen, the Apple Music service’s front page. It offers albums, songs and playlists based on what you’ve listened to before. 5 The Browse section lets you find new music on the Apple Music service. It offers new releases, what’s popular, genre-based options and more. 6 Tap here to access…

Books in Focus 1 Tap the chevron here to close the currently open book and go back to your book collection. 2 This icon gives you access to the book’s contents and also any bookmarks and notes you made whilst reading it. 3 The title of the book you’re currently reading. 4 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you enlarge or reduce the font size, change the font, adjust the screen brightness, change the colour of the page, set the text to scroll up and down rather than turn like the pages of a physical book and switch off and on the automatic Night Theme. 5 Tap here to search for a word, phrase or even a page number in the currently open book. 6 Tap here to…

Full Screen iPhones Models 1 This part of the iPhone contains much of Apple’s latest technologies. In the high-end iPhones, an infrared camera, flood illuminator, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor and Dot projector are all present; alongside a speaker, microphone and front camera. The latter is utilised by the Face ID feature. 2 This is the Ring/Silent switch. Click it to turn Silent Mode on and off. 3 These are the volume buttons. The upper one increases the volume, and the lower button lowers it. In Apple’s Camera app, and many third-party photography apps, you can also use the volume buttons to take a photo, instead of the on-screen shutter button. 4 This is the side button. On some iPhones, this button is located on the top instead of on…

1 Open the Settings application from your iPhone’s Home screen and scroll to the top of the screen. Tap the Sign in to your iPhone option right at the top of the list, then in the pop-up window, tap ‘Don’t have an Apple ID or forgot it?’. 2 Tap Create Apple ID in the next window and, when instructed, enter your name in the fields provided. In the next field, Date of Birth, set your date with the wheels, and then tap Next to move on to the next step. 3 Then, you’re asked whether you want to use your current email address (if you have one) for your Apple ID. Tap Do not have an email address? if you want to use the free iCloud address that comes with…

Joining a Wi-Fi network 1 To activate Wi-Fi go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn it on. The iPhone searches for all networks in range. If at home, pick your home network and enter the security details, the password should be supplied with your router. 2 If you’re at a public hotspot that has no security, you can just connect. If it’s password protected, which is far more likely, you need to get the network name and the passcode from whoever is providing the Wi-Fi service. 3 From now on, whenever you’re in range of this Wi-Fi service the iPhone automatically connects without any prompting. If more than one is in range, the iPhone rejoins the last network it joined. You can follow these tips for joining a public Wi-Fi…

Touchscreen actions Touch The iPhone has a capacitive touchscreen, which means it’s sensitive to the tiny electrical charges in our bodies. With this type of screen, you only have to tap it, not press down hard with your finger. To activate items on the screen such as applications and settings icons, type letters and symbols using the on-screen keyboard or to press on-screen buttons, you simply (gently) touch them with your finger. Touch and hold Touch and hold is useful in a number of different situations. You touch and hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your finger until an action occurs. The action in question depends on where you’re using the gesture. For example, if you touch and hold a web link, you’re presented…

Reminders in Focus 1 Use the Search field to search your reminders. Titles, notes, people, locations and more are searched. 2 Tap this link and you can edit your lists; delete them with the minus sign, reorder by dragging the Three-line icon up and down and tap the ‘i’ icon to rename a list, change its colour and choose a new icon. 3 These are your smart lists. ‘Today’ is all your reminders scheduled for that day, ‘Scheduled’ shows reminders that are scheduled for any day, ‘All’ lists all of your reminders, and ‘Flagged’ shows reminders to which you’ve added a flag. 4 These are your lists. They can be called anything you like. Tap one to open it and see the individual reminders you’ve added, mark reminders you’ve done…

Notes in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to the folder containing the currently open note. As you can see, that’s the iCloud folder, which is synced across your Apple devices, including your iPhone. You can then tap another folder on the Folders screen to open it, and look at the notes inside. 2 At the top of a note, you can see the date and time when the note in question was last edited. Drag the note down to get this information. 3 The three-dots icon opens a window containing a lot of options, including sharing the note, inviting people to collaborate on it and deleting it from your Notes app; all of which were previously available directly from this screen. 4 Various typographic options are available.…

Camera in Focus (older iPhone’s interfaces may vary) 1 Tap the flash icon to turn it on or off, to suit current lighting conditions. 2 Tap this to change the Night Mode setting. A slider lets you switch from Auto to manually setting the time length of the photo, but there’s no real need to do so. 3 Tap the inverted ‘V’ icon to open a row of control icons under the picture. These give greater control over things like the flash and HDR feature. 4 HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It averages the exposure by taking photos at different exposures in a short burst and then combining them into a single image. This icon turns it on or off. 5 A Live Photo adds a few seconds of…

Maps in Focus 1 Tap the folded map icon for a pop-up window, where you can switch between four map types; Explore, Driving, Public Transport and Satellite view. 2 Tap this arrow icon to focus the map on your current location. Tap it again and the map rotates as you move, so the direction your travelling is always ‘up’. A third tap returns it to its default function. 3 The blue dot shows your current location on the map and the direction you’re facing. The smaller the blue circle around it, the more accurate the location is. 4 Use the search bar found here to look for a location or nearby feature; we looked for Fast Food. Tap the Search field without typing anything for a list of recent searches…

How to store credit and debit card information 1 To use Apple Pay, you need at least an iPhone 6, 6 Plus or SE; or an Apple Watch connected to a compatible iOS device. Apple Watches are compatible with the iPhone 5 or later, including the iPhone SE and require at least iOS 8. You can make Apple Pay payments online with an iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 or an iPad Mini 3. 2 Credit or debit cards are added to Apple Pay through the Wallet app. To add a new card, use your iSight camera to take a photograph of the card in question. Just keep it in the frame as advised on screen, and the card is photographed and its information stored. Or type the information in manually.…

Measure App in Focus 1 The back arrow undoes the last command but doesn’t clear all the points of a multi-point measurement. 2 The Clear button gets rid of all the current measurements so you can move on to the next one. 3 Measure is designed to calculate the distance between fixed points such as the length of a table or width of a chair. 4 You will need to direct Measure to the object you’d like to measure by hovering over it. 5 The + button is used to specify the start and end points that Measure should use when measuring your object. 6 The onscreen Shutter button is used to take a photo of what you’ve just measured for future reference. 7 Tap the ruler icon to access…

Podcasts in Focus 1 This is your Library. Tap one of the links under this title to see shows you’re subscribed to, a show’s individual episodes and more. 2 Tap the three-dots icon for a menu that lets you save a New Station, Add a Show by URL or Edit Library. 3 Tap Shows to see the list of shows to which you’ve subscribed. 4 Tap Saved to see individual episodes you’ve saved for later listening. 5 The Downloaded link takes you to episodes you’ve downloaded to your iPhone for offline use. 6 The Latest Episodes link shows episodes recently added to your subscribed podcasts. 7 The Podcasts Player. Tap this strip for a full set of controls for the podcast you’re currently listening to. 8 Tap here for a…

First Steps with FaceTime 1 To start a FaceTime conversation from the Contacts app, first find the contact card of the person you wish to call. If that person’s email or phone number are registered with FaceTime, you can see FaceTime icons for both audio (the telephone receiver) and video (the camera). Tap one to make the call. 2 There are several ways of starting a FaceTime call from the FaceTime app. Tap the New FaceTime button (top right). Add the name of the person you want to call (or their phone number or email address if they’re not in your Contacts), then tap a button for either a video or audio FaceTime call. 3 The FaceTime app also shows a list of recent FaceTime calls, showing whether they were…

iTunes in Focus 1 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you filter music according to its genre. Available genres include Blues, Classical, Country, jazz, metal, rock, greatest hits and more. Choose the Tones option to view ringtones. 2 Tap the Featured tab to see what’s hot and what’s new. The Charts tab gives you the best selling songs, albums and music videos on the iTunes Store. 3 Tap here for your wish list, songs you’ve identified using Siri (see the Siri guide for more details) and tracks you listened to as previews. 4 Scroll this line of albums left and right for more options, or tap See All to open the New Music page. 5 The iTunes Store’s shop window. Tap a price to buy a song or…

Now you’ve mastered the iPhone’s basics and its amazing range of apps, it’s time to explore its more advanced features. Live Text is a great new feature that lets you scan writing from photographs, handwritten notes and more, and turn them into editable text. Siri is a great digital personal assistant, iCloud lets you sync your settings and data, plus you can use your iPhone as a personal hotspot to get your Mac or iPad online. We also show you how to customise your iPhone, monitor it with Screen Time and more.…

Updating iOS and Apps 1 When a new version of iOS is available, the Settings app is badged. Open it, go to General > Software Update and your iPhone checks with Apple to check if there’s a new version for you. If there is, it gives you an option to Download and Install. Tap the link to do so. 2 The update downloads. When advised to do so, tap Install Now; you might need to connect your iPhone to a power source if the battery is low. After your update has installed, your iPhone restarts. Of course, if you turn on Automatic Updates, all this is done for you. 3 When app updates are available, your App Store app is badged. Open it, and tap the badged icon in the…

How to activate and speak to Siri 1 To open Siri, hold down the Home button or the Side button on Face ID iPhones. Siri now appears at the foot of the screen; as you can see here. 2 Begin speaking and the coloured icon reverberates to let you know that Siri can hear you. If it doesn’t, tap it to talk to Siri again. 3 You can also access Siri by saying “Hey Siri” and then speaking your request. Tap the answer shown to open the app that created it. Siri learning. The more you use Siri, the more it learns about you, your voice and the sort of words you use. The digital assistant gets used to your accent and also your way of speaking. Over time, Siri…

Changing your Wallpaper 1 Go to Settings > Wallpaper and tap Choose a New Wallpaper. Choose from Dynamic, Stills, Live, or a pic from the Photos app. Dynamic wallpapers are lightly animated, Stills are static and Live wallpapers give more movement. 2 Tap the pictures found under the Dynamic, Stills and Live options to navigate your way through your Photos app’s images. Choose a photograph by tapping on it, then drag and pinch to move and scale it to fit your screen. 3 If the wallpaper is animated, the icon next to Cancel switches the animation off. The icon next to the Set button turns the Perspective Zoom on and off. Tap Set, and choose to use the new wallpaper on the Home screen, Lock screen, or both. Changing your…

Using AirDrop for file transfer 1 Send files to other Apple devices using AirDrop. Switch on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, then go to Settings > General > AirDrop and decide whether receiving via AirDrop is on or off, share only with Contacts, or share with everyone. 2 Select a file, photo, or video you want to send by AirDrop, and open it. Tap the Sharing icon (the page with the up-pointing arrow), and then tap AirDrop in the pop-up window. Tap the person to which you want to send the file, and it’s sent. 3 If you accept AirDrops from everyone, when you’re sent an AirDrop file, you have to accept it first. AirDropped files are accessible from their host apps: Safari links open via Safari, photos via the Photos app,…

[Functionality + Design] [Edge-to-Edge Screen] Unlike previous models of the iPad Air, the fourth generation model has an edge to edge screen. Like the recent versions of the iPad Pro, there’s no Home button on the new iPad Air. Instead, the touchscreen extends all the way to the bottom of the device, with very little bezel. This has allowed for a larger, 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with 3.8 million pixels. The screen also boasts advanced technologies and features such as full lamination, P3 wide colour support, True Tone and an anti-reflective coating [Liquid Retina Display] New Touch ID Button Previous generations of iPad Air used a Home button with a fingerprint scanner. By placing your finger on the button, your fingerprint was scanned and recognised, allowing you to unlock your…

[The Ultimate iPad] With Apple's M1 chip, the same chip set used to power their Mac and MacBook computer range, iPad Pro is the fastest device of its kind, further bluring the lines between tablet and desktop computing. The iPad Pro ha sbeen designed to take around the M1 chip to increase performance and allow the use of custom technologies such as advanced image signal processor and unified memory. The couple this with the incredible power efficiency of M1, iPad Pro is still thin and light with all-day battery life, making this incredbible feat in tablet computer as portable as it is powerful. Stunning! The iPad Pro benefits from a new 10MP Ultra Wide camera alongside its standard 12MP camera. It also has a LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) scanner…

1 Power Up Your Device When you first power up your new device you’re greeted with this welcome screen. To move on, press the Home button, as instructed. You can toggle the iPad’s VoiceOver function by triple clicking the Home button. The word ‘Hello’ in several different languages is displayed. Tap the ‘i’ icon in the bottom right for regulatory information. 2 Choose Your Language You’re now asked to select your iPad’s language, which is used to display all information and menus. Scroll up and down to find your choice and then tap it to select. The most commonly used languages are at the top of the list. The iPad supports over 30 languages, several with regional variations, such as UK, American or Australian English. 3 Choose Your Country You’re…

1 To turn on Wi-Fi, go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn Wi-Fi on (or you can use the Control Centre; see Control Centre tutorial), after which, the iPad searches for all networks in range of your device. 2 If you’re at home, pick your home network from the list and enter the security details to be allowed access. Take care to enter your password correctly, making sure, for example, that you don’t confuse the letter ‘O’ and a zero. 3 If you are in a public hotspot, maybe at a cafe or a hotel, it’s very unlikely to have security so you can just connect. You probably need to find out the login details from whoever is providing the Wi-Fi service. 4 From now on, whenever you are in…

The Keyboard in Focus 1 Tap on any box or screen where text can be entered, and the virtual keyboard appears as shown. This is true for emails, messages, search fields and indeed any area of the screen where you can enter text. 2 The keyboard’s top bar icons differ according to the app you're using. Here, the left-hand icon gives access to the Undo, Redo, and Paste options. The middle two are to add a photo to your email and take a new photo to add. The ‘Aa’ icon opens the formatting window. 3 As you type, suggestions for the word you’re currently typing appear here. When one of them is correct, you can tap it to automatically complete the word. 4 These three icons let you attach a…

1 To create a folder of apps, on the Home screen tap and hold an app until a pop-up appears. Choose Edit Home Screen and the icons wobble and a small X icon appears in their top left corner. Drag one app onto another and they’re grouped into a folder. Tap outside the folder box to return to the Home screen. Drag the other apps you wish to store there onto the new folder. 2 Tap Done (top right corner) to stop the apps wobbling. You can see that we’ve put five separate apps in this folder here. As they’re all productivity apps, it’s automatically named Productivity. Tap the folder to open it, then tap one of the apps to use it in the usual way. It’s a great means…

Draw Shapes. If you draw a regular shape using your Apple Pencil, it’s automatically converted into a geometrically sound graphic. As soon as you lift the pencil, the shape is automatically reshaped, like the hexagon lampshade drawn here. The new, geometric shape retains the size and angle of the one you drew. Write in Text Fields You can also use the Apple Pencil to write in text fields such as the URL bar in Safari or a search field in any app. You just write whatever it is you need to write into the text field using Apple Pencil and your own handwriting, then it’s automatically converted into text. It’s a lot less hassle than having to put down your pencil just so you can type a couple of words.…

Mail in Focus 1 The column on the left of the screen currently shows your Inbox. Tap here to go back and choose another mailbox, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk, and your VIP emails. 2 Tap the Edit link and a circle appears beside every email in your inbox. Tap a circle to check it and then tap Mark, Move, or Delete, at the foot of the column, to action all the emails you selected with Edit. 3 Tap the Rubbish bin icon to delete the currently selected email. 4 You can move an email to another folder, such as Junk, Bin, or Archive. Tap here and the available folders are shown in the left hand column. 5 Tap the Pen-and-paper icon to open a new email, which you must…

Reminders in Focus 1 Use the improved search field to search the app for people, locations and notes, individual lists and reminders. 2 Tap this link to edit your lists. Delete them with the minus sign, reorder by dragging their three-line icons up and down and tap the ‘i’ icon to rename a list, change its colour or choose a new icon. You can rearrange or hide smart lists too. 3 This is the Reminders app’s front page, showing smart lists as well as the lists you’ve created yourself. A ‘list’ is a group of reminders you’ve set up and can be called anything you like. 4 Tap the three-dots icon to select reminders so you can edit, flag or complete them at the same time and show completed tasks.…

1 To open a Quick Note on your iPad, swipe into the screen from the bottom-right corner. A note is dragged onto the screen as shown. If it’s inconveniently located, you can move it to a new position with the handle at the top. 2 Tap the body of the note and the keyboard appears. You can then type in whatever you like, just like with a regular Note. When you’ve finished typing your Note, tap the Done link in the top-left corner of the window, saving it to the core Notes app. 3 In the Notes app, in the Folders sidebar, there’s now a new option at the top of the list. This is called Quick Notes, and it shows all your scribbles as a grid. Tap the three-dots…

Setting Alarms 1 Tap Alarm at the bottom of the screen to create and edit alarms. To set a new alarm, use the ‘+’ icon (top right). This opens an Add Alarm window. Use the keypad and the AM/PM switch to pick a time for the alarm to sound. Tap Save then choose which days the alarm plays, the sound, whether it can be snoozed and what it’s called. When set, an alarm clock icon appears at the top of the Home screen to show it’s active. 2 You can set multiple alarms, and set up an alarm to repeat at the same time on specific days of the week or never repeat. To turn each alarm on or off independently, tap its On/Off button. To edit or remove an…

Maps in Focus 1 Use the search bar found here to look for a location or nearby feature; here we looked for Fast Food. Tap the Search field without typing anything for a list of recent searches and popular search options such as Petrol Stations, Restaurants, Shopping Centres and Bars. 2 The ‘X’ icon collapses the bottom window panel, giving you a better look at the main map screen; or you can simply swipe it down. 3 Use these buttons to filter and fine-tune your search, for example, restricting a search to specific fast food outlets, and changing how they’re sorted. 4 Tap the folded map icon for a pop-up window, where you can switch between four map types; Explore, Driving, Public Transport and Satellite view. 5 Tap this Arrow…

Podcasts in Focus 1 This is your Library, which is the collection of podcasts to which you’re currently subscribed or followed. Tap one of the links under this title to see shows you’re subscribed to, a show’s individual episodes and more. 2 Tap the three-dots icon then Edit Library and you can customise your main Library screen, dragging categories into a position of your choosing and hiding ones you don’t need to use any more. 3 Tap Shows to see the podcasts to which you’re currently subscribed or are following through your account. 4 Tap here for shows that you’ve saved for later listening or if you wish to listen to again. 5 Tap this link for a list of podcast episodes that are downloaded, and are ready to be…

Setting up accounts. For most of the popular web-based email services such as Gmail and Yahoo, the iPhone automatically enters most of the settings needed for you to access your account. We’ve put together these steps that cover each of the Internet’s key email providers. Just follow this guide and you’ll soon be emailing from your iPhone. Setting up an iCloud email account 1 Tap the Settings icon and scroll down. Tap the Mail option, then Accounts. From here tap Add Account then tap the iCloud link and enter your Apple ID and Password. If you don’t have an Apple ID, tap Create a New Apple ID instead and follow the instructions. Tap Next to automatically verify your details. 2 If you have Two-Factor Authentication on, you must authenticate now.…

1 Once you’ve opened the on-screen keyboard, you can enter text by simply tapping on the keys as you would on any similar typing device. It’s really easy and intuitive to use. 2 To add digits and punctuation to your text, just tap the 123 key located on the lower-left side of the keyboard. An additional tap on the key above brings up more symbols. 3 When you start to type a word, the iPhone tries to complete it for you and displays its predictions in a bar above the keyboard. Tap one of the suggestions to finish the word. 4 When sending messages or emails, predictive text learns your choice of language and suggests the correct word for the tone of what it is you’re writing. Tap on the…

Mail in Focus 1 This screen, in Mail, shows your Inbox. Tap the Mailbox link to go back and choose another mailbox, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk or VIP emails. 2 The Edit link puts an empty circle to the left of each email. You can tap these circles to add a tick, and then action multiple emails at once. 3 These are your emails, listed in the order they arrived. Tap on one to open and read it. Emails with blue dots to their left have not yet been opened and read. Pull down on the screen to get new mail. 4 Tap here to search your emails. You can type a name, a subject or something from the body of an email, and suggestions are offered as you…

Messages in Focus 1 Tap here to take you back to the list of message conversations. Tap one of them to open, and if you wish, continue that conversation; such as the chat you see here. 2 This is the person you’re chatting to. The picture is drawn from your Contacts app and is replaced by an initial if it’s not available. Tap this pic for more options, including sharing your location, making a call or video call, send an email and more. 3 Tap the video camera icon here for a pop-up menu, offering FaceTime Audio and FaceTime Video calls. Tap one to make that call. 4 Your outgoing messages are on the right, incoming ones on the left. Received messages are grey. Sent messages are blue if sent…

Calendar in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to the month view, showing the whole of the month. 2 Here you see the days of the month, with the currently displayed day highlighted. So here we’re looking at 12th November. 3 This icon gives you a list of upcoming events, displayed according to their date and time. 4 Tap here to search the Calendar app, looking at titles and content in your calendar entries. 5 Tap here to create a new calendar event, setting the date, time and title, as well as whether it repeats (for example, with birthdays and anniversaries), which calendar it’s in, when it starts and ends and more. 6 The day, date, month and year currently open are shown here for easy reference. 7…

Camera Features on the Latest iPhones The latest high-end iPhones have excellent cameras, and a revised interface for the Camera app to help you make the most of them. The Zoom function is implemented a little differently; there’s a QuickTake feature to let you quickly film a video without changing modes and the Burst Mode needs a new gesture too. There are extra controls, including the famous Night Mode, and you can take a wider image using Capture Outside the Frame. While most of the Camera app is just like it is on other iPhones running iOS 13 or later, these are the new features and interface changes and how to use them. Those Cameras in Focus Volume Up for Burst Photography You can use the Volume Up button to…

Translate in Focus 1 These are the languages you’re currently translating out of (left) and into (right). Tap the down-pointing chevrons to choose another language. 2 This is the last thing you typed into Translate. 3 This is the translation of the English you typed in. As you selected German at the top of the screen, it’s translated into German. 4 These icons are; Switch to full-screen mode for the translation; save the translation as a favourite; and look up a highlighted word in the dictionary. 5 Tap Play to read the translation out loud. 6 This is where you type the text you wish to be translated. Tap here to bring up the virtual keyboard. 7 Tap here and speak what you want to be translated instead of typing…

Music in Focus 1 This is the main page of the Apple Music streaming service, where albums, artists and playlists tailored to your tastes are suggested for your listening. 2 Tap here to see your account details. You can change your username to a specific Music app nickname, choose more of your favourite artists, replace the silhouette with a photo and add some personal details. 3 Top Picks is a range of playlists from bands and artists curated by the Music app to match your tastes, gleaned from what you’ve listened to. Tap one to play the tracks. 4 The mini-player shows the track you’re currently playing. You can tap it to expand it to full-screen size, with all the usual audio controls available to use. 5 You can use…

Finding and viewing TV shows 1 From the main screen, tap the top right icon (silhouette or your photo) for this window, from where you can manage your account (tap your name), manage services to which you’ve subscribed, or add funds or gift cards to your Apple account, to spend on apps and media. 2 Tapping Connected Apps shows the TV and catch-up apps you downloaded from the App Store, and that are linked to your TV app. Tap the switch to unlink an app and stop its content appearing in your TV app. If you don’t have any, download some now. 3 Tap Account in the top left corner to go back to the previous window. Then tap Done, in the top right corner, to get to here. This…

Weather in Focus 1 This is the town that’s currently featured; the weather forecast below it is for here. 2 This is the current recorded temperature in the town or area you’re currently looking at. 3 This is the highest and lowest the forcast temperatures should reach for the day. Which should give you an idea of whether it’s getting warmer, colder or staying reasonably stable. 4 An hourly forecast, predicting the weather and the temperature. Slide it left to see later forecasts. The icon showing the weather might be cloudy, sunny, raining and more, and sunrise/sunset times are also shown in this window. 5 Your ten-day weather forecast for the town or area in focus. Scroll the screen up to see later days, and also for more weather information…

Home in Focus 1 Tap the home icon in the top left corner of the screen for a pop-up allowing you to access your Home Settings and your Room Settings. Home Settings cover the whole of the house, while Room Settings let you set up specific rooms and groups of rooms. 2 The Plus icon gives another pop-up, from which you can add a HomeKit-compatible accessory; or add a scene or group of instructions to your accessories activated with a single tap. 3 This is the current name of your home. To change it, tap the Home icon (1), Home Settings and then tap the Name field to edit or change the current name. 4 These status icons give important information gleaned from your HomeKit-compatible accessories. You can tell at…

App Store in Focus 1 The App Store’s Today screen gives you the pick of the best of the new releases, chosen every day by Apple’s editors. Scroll up for the apps that were chosen on previous days. 2 Tap here to get to your account details, redeem a card, send an app as a gift, update apps, and check on the apps you’ve previously purchased, or sign out of the App Store. 3 These are the apps, and a feature highlighting a range of apps, that have been chosen by Apple’s editors as the choice of the day. Tap one for information on that particular app, and the opportunity to get it. 4 Tap here to get to the Today screen, as seen here. The Today screen is a…

An introduction to iCloud Drive and the Files app 1 In the Settings app, tap your name at the top of the screen, tap iCloud and scroll down to iCloud Drive. If it isn’t on already, turn it on. You can now save your files in the cloud and access them from any Internet device. 2 Open the Files app and under Locations, tap iCloud Drive. Here you see the files stored on your iCloud Drive, arranged by their apps. iCloud Drive is also accessible through other Apple devices, and www.icloud.com. 3 You can open an iCloud document on your iPhone, if you have the iPhone version of the app that created it. Just open the folder for the app in question (here we’re looking at Pages) and tap a…

Using Live Text 1 Using the Camera app, point your iPhone’s camera at a piece of text or numerals, such as the picture here. The text is identified, and a ‘page’ icon appears in the bottom-right. Tap this icon. 2 The text is lifted, and a menu appears giving you the chance to copy it, select more text, look it up, translate it or share it. You can also tap and drag to select a portion of the text instead of all of it. 3 You can copy and paste it into any app that uses text, or share it directly to that app. It sometimes needs a little editing, especially if the original text is presented in an unusual font. 4 Tap a text field in an app that…

1 While watching a video or in a FaceTime video call, swipe the screen up or tap the Home button to get back to the Home screen. The video continues to play in a floating window on top of whatever is open on your screen on your iPhone. 2 Tap screen for controls; play, pause, 15 secs and scrub through the video. Tap the video to hide and show on-screen controls. The icon in the middle lets you pause and play the video and you can skip forward and backward 15 seconds too. 3 Close window or back to full size You can drag the floating window into any corner of the screen. Tap the X icon in the top-left to close it or tap the Picture-in-Picture icon in the…

1 To set up and use Dark Mode, open System Preferences (the app with the grey icon showing cogs), and scroll up. Tap the Display and Brightness link; it’s in the third set of links, and has a blue double-A icon. 2 At the top of the screen, you see the Light and Dark options; tap one to choose it, immediately making the screen light or dark. This is the option you use to change the screen between Light and Dark Mode on a permanent basis. 3 Under the Light and Dark pictures, there’s a switch labelled ‘Automatic’. If you want the light and dark modes to toggle automatically, turn it on by tapping this switch. Do so and an Options link appears under the Automatic switch. 4 By default,…

Screen Time in Focus 1 To open Screen Time, go to Settings > Screen Time. You can also get to the Widgets screen by swiping right from the Lock screen, or the Home screen, and tapping the Screen Time widget near the bottom. 2 A summary of how you’ve been using your iPhone on each day of the week. Tap a bar to see how much you used it on that day. Also shown is your daily average time, and whether this is up or down. 3 This link takes you to a more detailed breakdown of what you’ve been doing with your phone, and when. 4 Tap here to schedule downtime for your iPhone. During this time, only apps you choose to exclude can be used. It’s great if…

Close an application If an application has frozen or is running very slowly, try forcing it to quit. On an iPhone with no Home button, on the Home screen swipe from the bottom to half-way up the screen. If your phone has a Home button, Quickly press it twice. Either way, you get to a screen showing your open apps. Find the faulty one and swipe it off the top of the screen. Restart your iPhone This tip solves most iPhone issues, and indeed, most tech issues in general, so always start with this if you’re having a problem. To restart an iPhone with no Home button, press and hold the Side and top Volume buttons. On older iPhones, press and hold the side or the top button. This screen…

[9th Generation] Powerful New Processor The iPad, Apple’s entry-level full-sized tablet, has had a substantial boost in power. Its A13 Bionic processor is 40 percent faster than its predecessor, with double the graphics power. It’s up to two times faster than the top-selling Windows laptop, up to three times faster than the top-selling Android tablet and up to six times faster than the top-selling Chromebook. To super charge the iPad, the A13 Bionic brings with it the Neural Engine for next-level machine learning capabilities, including people occlusion and motion tracking in augmented reality (AR) apps, enhanced photo editing, Siri performance and more. [A12 64 bit chip] Powered by iPadOS. Like all of Apple’s current iPads, the 8th Generation iPad runs iPadOS 15. This is the latest version of the iPad’s…

[Small but Powerful] The iPad mini is small, but perfectly formed. Its 7.9-inch screen is the same aspect ratio as the regular iPad, meaning it can run all the same software without leaving ugly black gaps at the top and bottom or sides of the screen. Its A12 Bionic chip with Neural Engine is more than capable of running the best tablet apps the iPad has to offer, and if you want to use an Apple Pencil, it’s compatible with the first generation of Apple’s popular stylus. Naturally, you can use the same multi-touch gestures on the iPad mini’s smaller screen as you do on a larger Apple tablet too. The advantage of the iPad mini’s smaller, more compact size is it’s easy to carry around in your handbag or…

1 Open Settings from the Home screen and scroll to the top of the left hand column. Tap ‘Sign in to your iPad’ right at the top of the list, then in the pop-up window, tap ‘Don’t have an Apple ID or forgot it?’ 2 Tap ‘Create Apple ID’ in the next window and then, when instructed, enter your first name, last name, and date of birth. When you’ve entered these details, tap Next in the top right to move on to the next step. 3 Next, you’re asked whether you want to use your current email address (if you have one) for your Apple ID, or get a free iCloud email address by tapping the ‘Do not have an email address?’ link. Choose one and tap Next to continue…

Set Up iCloud Mail 1 Tap the Settings icon located on the Home screen of your iPad and scroll down on the left side panel and select the Mail option. From here, tap the Accounts option and then tap the Add Account link to start adding a new account on your iPad. 2 Your Apple ID’s iCloud email is likely already signed in; when you first set up. If you want to add another iCloud email account, tap the iCloud link and enter the Apple ID and password. Tap Next to automatically verify your details. 3 You’re taken to an options screen and asked what apps you want to sync over iCloud. Some apps and features, such as bookmarks, Photos, iCloud Drive, Notes, Backup and Find My iPad aren’t available…

Control Centre in Focus 1 In this box, you can turn (clockwise, from top left) Airplane Mode, AirDrop, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on and off. Tap and hold the main box for a bigger version. Turning off Bluetooth or Wi-Fi is temporary, they’re only switched off until the next day. 2 This box shows what you are currently listening to. Tap and hold for more options, including volume control and an option to play your sounds through external speakers. 3 To open the Control Centre, swipe with one finger from the top right corner of the screen towards the middle. 4 Tap here to lock the screen in its current orientation, so it doesn’t switch between landscape and portrait mode when you turn the iPad. Tap again to unlock. 5 To…

Transfer Files with AirDrop. 1 You can send files to other Apple devices using AirDrop, but Wi-Fi and Bluetooth must be switched on. Open the file, tap the Share icon. People to whom you can AirDrop are shown at the top of the window; look for the AirDrop icon. Tap the person to whom you want to send the file. 2 Use Settings > General > AirDrop to determine whether receiving via AirDrop is on or off, share only with people in your Contacts app, or share with everyone. If you accept AirDrops from everyone, when you’re sent an AirDrop file you have to accept it first. Pairing with Bluetooth 1 Bluetooth can wirelessly connect your iPad with devices such as speakers, headphones and keyboards. The item you wish to…

1 To talk to Siri, hold down the Home button (or the top button for Face ID iPads) for a few seconds. You hear a beep and Siri appears on the screen. You can also activate Siri by saying, “Hey, Siri”. 2 Begin speaking and the coloured effect at the bottom-right pulses to let you know Siri can hear you. If it doesn’t, tap it and talk to Siri again. Your question is answered in a notification-like window. Tap it for more info. 3 In the Settings app, tap Siri & Search. If you activate the Listen for “Hey Siri” switch at the top, you can activate Siri just by saying “Hey Siri”. If you dislike this feature, turn it off. 4 Having switched on the Listen for “Hey Siri”…

Home in Focus 1 Tap the home icon in the top left for a pop-up allowing you to access your Home Settings and Room Settings. Home Settings cover the whole of the house, while Room Settings let you set up specific rooms. 2 The Plus icon pop-up allows you to add a HomeKit-compatible accessory or add a scene; a group of accessory instructions activated with a single tap. 3 This is the current name of your home. To change it, tap the Home icon (1), Home Settings and then tap the Name field to edit or change the current name. 4 These status icons give important information gleaned from your HomeKit-compatible accessories. You can tell at a glance whether a light is on, what the temperature is or if a…

Messages in Focus 1 Tap Edit for a three-option pop-up. Select Messages to mark conversations to mark as read/unread or delete, Edit Pins is for pinning and unpinning conversations and Edit Name and Photo lets you change these things. 2 Tap here to open a new, blank message, which you can then write and send in the usual way. To message someone you’ve already chatted with, you can tap their name in the left hand sidebar instead. 3 This is the person you're currently talking. Tap the chevron to the right of the name to see their Details Window, drawn from the Contacts app,. 4 Tap this FaceTime icon for a menu that lets you initiate a FaceTime Audio or Video call with the person. 5 Using this field, you…

Calendar in Focus 1 Tap here to open and close a sidebar showing a list of all the calendars you have set up in the Calendar app. 2 Invitations you’ve been sent by other people are stored in your inbox. From there you can accept or decline the invitation. Tap here to open this inbox. 3 Tap here for a sidebar showing today’s entries in your Calendar app. When exploring your calendars, it’s a useful way to look at today’s events without moving from the currently selected page. 4 Tap here to add a new Calendar event. You can then add details such as a title, start and finish time, location, alerts and which calendar you wish to add it to. 5 Tap these tabs to switch between looking at…

Camera in Focus 1 The FaceTime or TrueDepth (front) and iSight (rear) cameras. The front camera is for selfies and video chats and the iSight camera is for general photography. 2 This grid overlay helps you to compose your photo or video. It can be turned off in Settings if you find it distracting. 3 The zoom slider. Move the slider to zoom in or out. You can of course use the regular pinch/spread gestures anywhere on the screen too. 4 This square shows where the screen is focused. If you wish to move the focus point to somewhere else, tap another part of the screen. This will also summon a brightness slider; slide your finger up or down to raise or lower the brightness. 5 The Live Photos option…

Measure in Focus 1 The back arrow undoes the last command but doesn’t clear all the points of a multi-point measurement. 2 Measure is designed to calculate the distance between fixed points such as the height of this church or width of the window. 3 The Clear button gets rid of all the current measurements so you can move on to the next one. 4 You will need to direct Measure to the object you’d like to measure by hovering over it. 5 The onscreen Shutter button is used to take a photo of what you’ve just measured for handy future reference. 6 The + button is used to specify the start and end points that Measure should use. Measuring Regular Shapes. No doubt some objects you measure will be…

1 On the TV app, tap the icon, in the top right corner of the screen, to sign into your Apple account. Enter your Apple ID and Password in the fields provided and then tap the Sign In link below them. If you haven’t yet got an Apple ID, set one up now. 2 When signed in, tap the top right icon to obtain this window, from where you can manage: your account (tap your name), services to which you’ve subscribed, or add funds or gift cards to your Apple account (to spend on apps and media). 3 Tapping Connected Apps (in the window in Step 2) shows the TV and catchup apps you’ve downloaded from the App Store, and consequently are linked to your TV app. Tap the switch…