Innehållsförteckning för iPad for Seniors från iPad for Seniors

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…

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…

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 thing again, moving your…

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…

Starting Out 1 You can set the Widgets sidebar to sit permanently on the Home screen or be shown and hidden as you please. Go to Settings > Home Screen & Dock, and use the switch marked ‘Keep Today View on Home Screen to set it. 2 With the switch on, the sidebar is always visible on the Home screen. If the switch is off or the iPad is in Portrait Mode, the sidebar can be opened and closed by swiping the screen right to show the sidebar and left to hide it. 3 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. 4 Tap and…

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 square or oblong. Measure can automatically…

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 place or remove a bookmark. The…

The People Tab 1 The Find My app is divided into three sections, represented by icons at the foot of the screen; People, Devices, and Me. Unsurprisingly, the People tab is for finding your friends. If it isn’t already selected, tap it. 2 To start sharing your location with friends or family members, tap the large Start Sharing Location button. You should then enter the name, Apple ID email, or phone number of the person with which you want to share locations. 3 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. 4 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.…

Files App in Focus 1 To get this sidebar, tap the Files link in the top-left corner. To close it, tap the screen off the sidebar. In landscape mode, the sidebar is always visible. 2 The three-dots icon gives you a pop-up menu that lets you scan documents using your iPad’s camera, connect to an external server or edit what’s available in your sidebar. 3 The Files app has an excellent search facility, which lets you enter multiple search terms, just like on a Mac. 4 Tap here to create a new folder in the currently open window. You can then give it a name – call it whatever you like. 5 The icon found here toggles the current window between showing folders as icons or a list; and whether they’re listed according to Name,…

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” feature, you need to…

1 First of all, from the Home screen, go to Settings > Accessibility > Voice Control. There’s a range of options on offer to configure the Voice Control feature but first, we must switch it on. Tap the switch at the top of the screen. 2 The iPad downloads the filters needed for Voice Control. Tap Learn More when its done and you’re shown instructions, including a list of commands you can use. It’s worthwhile taking a moment to read through these guidelines but it’s not compulsory. 3 When it’s done, Voice Control is switched on; look for the Blue icon in the top left corner. You can turn Voice Control on and off by saying ‘Hey Siri, turn on/off Voice Control’. You can now begin using this accessibility feature. 4 To open an…

Sidecar If youhaveaMacrunningmacOSCatalinaand an iPad running iPadOS, you can use your tablet as a second screen for your Mac, expanding your desktop space. This is especially good news if you also use an Apple Pencil. You can draw on your iPad, using it as a high-resolution input device for your Mac. To use Sidecar on your Mac and iPad, first of all, on your Mac, open System Preferences. Click on the Sidecar preference pane, and you can set where the Sidecar Sidebar and Touchbar appears on your screen, if at all. When you’re done, in the pull-down menu labelled ‘Connect to’, choose your iPad. There’s a brief flash, and your Apple devices connect, sharing screen space between your Mac and your iPad. If you want to move your iPad to…

Apple introduced controller support with iPadOS 13.4, which launched along with the Apple Arcade gaming subscription service. iPadOS 14 takes things a step further. The range of joypads has been increased, with support for Microsoft’s Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 and Adaptive Controller being added. New controller features added for iPadOS 14 include custom button mapping, force feedback and speciality features like motion sensors, lights and battery level. Mouse and trackpad support is no longer a throwaway feature tucked away in the Accessibility options. The new operating systems bring support for the mouse and trackpad to the fore, with better, more highly integrated options. The iPad can, for the first time, register multiple key presses. This is essential for some games. In first-person shooters, for example, it means you…

9th July, 2020 The date on which the first public beta of iPadOS 14 was released by Apple. The number of iPad models that can run iPadOS 14. It runs on any iPad that could run the very first release of iPadOS. fifteen VP9 With iPadOS 14, the iPad natively supports Google’s VP9 video encoding format. Forty iPadOS 14 is available in 40 different languages. 5 iPadOS 14 is written in five different programming languages; C, C++, Objective-C, Swift and Assembly. 2 iPadOS 14 is the second release of iPadOS since it split from iOS. The number ’14’ was used to keep it in line with the current release of the iPhone’s iOS operating system. 4 There are now four modes of transport offered in the Maps app for finding routes. Cycling has…

System Requirements. If you want to update to iPadOS 14, 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…

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 range of this Wi-Fi…

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. These icons give access to the Undo, Redo, and Paste options, and open 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, saving on your typing. 4 These three icons in the top right of the keyboard, let you take, or choose, a photo to add to the email, choose or scan a document, or use…

Photos in Focus 1 This sidebar is new for iPadOS 14. 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 in and out of the photo…

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 Apple Music’s radio stations, including the…

News in Focus 1 Open this sidebar by tapping the icon in the top left corner of the screen. Close it by tapping the news stories on the right. 2 Tap here to edit your sidebar, moving and deleting entries. 3 Tap here to search for news items and features. This is useful if there’s something in the news you want to read about and want to find a variety of sources that are talking about it. 4 Today takes you to today’s top stories (the main page). These stories are chosen by Apple’s in-house team of news editors, making this the News app’s front page. 5 News stories are summarised on the front page. To read one in its entirety, tap it. When in a news story, to get back to the previous screen,…

iTunes Store in Focus 1 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you filter the music offered on this page according to its genre. Available genres include Blues, Rock, Jazz, Metal and more. Scroll the Genres list all the way to the bottom for the Tones option, which lets you filter available ringtones by their genre. 2 The title of the current page. At the moment, as you can see, we’re on the Music page of the iTunes Store, where we can shop for albums and individual songs. 3 Tap here for your wish list, a list of songs you’ve identified using Siri (see the Siri guide for more information) and a list of tracks you’ve listened to as previews. 4 The Search field. It searches throughout the iTunes Store, so search results…

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.…

Slide Over 1 When using an app, you might find you need access to a different app, maybe to look up or transfer some information. Swipe up from the foot of the screen to access the dock, then drag another app to the side of the screen, as shown. 2 Let go of the new app, and it’s shown on a card-like window. With the grey line at the top of this window, you can drag it across the screen or to the side, from where it can turn into a Split Screen app for another sort of multitasking. 3 To close the sidebar app, simply swipe it off the right hand side of the screen or tap the main app. You can open several apps at once as Slide Over cards and…

Changing Your Wallpaper 1 Go to Settings > Wallpaper and tap Choose a New Wallpaper. You can choose from Dynamic wallpapers or Stills, or a pic from the Photos app. Dynamic wallpapers are lightly animated, but Stills are completely static. 2 Tap the pictures found underneath the Dynamic or Stills options to navigate your way through your Photo app’s images. Choose a photograph by tapping on it; it’s automatically scaled and sized to fit your screen. 3 The Circular icon at the foot of the screen toggles between a ‘flat’ and a perspective view. Try each in turn and tilt the screen. Tap Set, and you can choose between setting it as your Home screen, Lock screen, or both of them. 4 Still wallpaper images with the Light/dark icon found in the bottom right…

1 Whether you’re on the Home screen or using an app, you can access Notification Centre at any time, simply by swiping your finger down from the top of the screen. You can also swipe the Notification Centre screen to the left to open the Camera app. 2 The most recent notifications you have received are shown on top of the Notification Centre. Notifications can be automatically grouped by app, topic and more. Tap on a stack to open it up so you can see the individual notifications. 3 To clear notifications that you don’t want to deal with, all you have to do is tap the cross next to the appropriate one and then tap Clear when prompted. This removes the notification, enabling you to keep Notification Centre tidy and uncluttered. 4 Tap…

Setting Up Continuity Calls on Your iPad To take iPhone calls on your iPad instead of your iPhone (known as Continuity Calls), you must make sure of the following; Both devices must be signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID. Sign both devices in to FaceTime with the same Apple ID. Both devices must have Wi-Fi turned on The iPad and iPhone must be connected to the same wireless network. Now you must turn on the Continuity Calls feature. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Phone > Calls on Other Devices, and turn on Allow Calls on Other Devices. On your iPad, go to Settings > FaceTime, and turn on Calls from iPhone. With that, you’re ready to make and take calls. Making and Taking Continuity Calls.…

Deleting Apps If you want to delete an app or apps that you no longer need, tap and hold a Home page app icon; it doesn’t matter which, any icon will do. A menu window springs up showing various options. Tap the Edit Home Screen link found on this pop-up menu. Alternatively, just tap and hold and wait until they wobble of their own accord. The wobbling app icons show an X in the corner. Tap the X of any app you want to delete, then confirm. The app’s data is also deleted, unless it’s stored on iCloud. When finished, tap Done (top right corner) or press the Home button if your iPad has one. If you’ve updated an app and decide you no longer need it, you can swipe…

It was a strange keynote. Thanks to the coronavirus lockdown, there were no crowds filling Apple’s Steve Jobs Theatre as Tim Cook, Craig Federighi and the rest of the Apple crew introduced new operating systems for the iPad, iPhone, Mac and more. Instead, we had an online-only Worldwide Developers’ Conference presentation. The absence of crowds clapping, cheering and shouting ‘Woooo!’ every time a new feature was announced didn’t detract from the excellence of the new software. iPadOS 14 really is feature-packed and has a great new design that’s far less intrusive than before. It’s free too, and it runs on every iPad that can run last year’s initial iPadOS release. But if it’s only the second release of iPadOS, why is it called iPadOS 14? Before iPadOS, the iPad ran…

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 with secondary accounts.…

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 Tap here to activate and deactivate…

Maps in Focus 1 You can search for nearby facilities and features using the Search field. Here we searched for Fast Food and found 30 outlets. 2 Tap the X icon to close the search results, showing more of the map. 3 If you move the map around, tapping this button lets you repeat the search for the area you’re now looking at. 4 Tap the ‘i’ for the Maps Settings pop-up window, where you can switch between a normal, Transport or Satellite view, mark your location, add a feature, or report an issue. 5 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 in which you’re travelling is always ‘up’. 6 A regular compass, showing in which direction you’re…

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 to unlink apps…

FaceTime in Focus 1 This is your own video feed, as sent from your iPad. You can drag this window into a different corner of the screen if you wish. 2 The is the video feed window for the person you are chatting to, sent from their own iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Mac. 3 Tap here to take a Live Photo of the person you’re chatting to. See our guide to the Camera app for information on Live Photos. 4 Tap here to switch off your camera and continue with the call in audio only from your end. You can still see the other person’s video feed but yours is blank. Tap the button again to turn it back on. 5 If youneedtoswitchthe microphone off for any reason, tap this button. Tap it again…

App Store in Focus 1 The App Store’s Today screen gives you the pick of new releases, chosen each day by Apple’s editors. Scroll up for the previous days’ selection of chosen apps, featured and trending apps and more. 2 Tap here to get to your account details, to redeem a card, send an app as a gift, update apps, 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. 4 Tap here to get to the Today screen, as seen here. The Today screen is a great way of finding out what’s new and exciting…

An Introduction to iCloud 1 You receive an iCloud account, with a complimentary 5GB of online storage space, with your Apple ID. Open the Settings app; at the top of the sidebar, you should see your name. If you don’t, you need to sign in with your Apple ID; tap the Sign in to your iPad link to do so. 2 To use a photo with your Apple ID and iCloud account, tap the grey circle at the top of the right hand column and then take or add one from your Photos library. If you don’t have one yet, just leave it; you can come back and take or add one whenever you choose. 3 In Settings > [your name], tap the iCloud link for a list of apps that can be…

1 Go to Settings > Do Not Disturb. Flick the switch at the top of the Do Not Disturb options screen to activate Do Not Disturb mode. This blocks incoming FaceTime calls and silences incoming alerts and notifications, for when you need peace and quiet. 2 Under the Phone options, you can set it to allow calls from some people to get through. This can be set as everyone, no one or specific groups from your Contacts app. This is a useful option if you only want to block unnecessary calls. 3 You can also set up to allow repeated calls to get through, so if the same person rings you twice within three minutes, the second call is assumed to be an emergency and gets through as normal. To allow this, just…

Screen Time in Focus 1 To open the Screen Time settings, go to Settings > Screen Time. You can also swipe right from the Lock screen or Home screen to get to the Widgets screen and tap the Screen Time widget at the foot. 2 Here, you see a summary of how you’ve been using your iPad recently. Tap See All Activity for a far more comprehensive breakdown. 3 Tap here to schedule downtime for your iPad. During this time, only apps you choose to exclude can be used. It’s great if you think you’re spending too much time on your iPad. 4 Tap here to limit the time you spend on certain apps or categories of apps. At last, you can break that habit. 5 This option allows you to limit which of your…

1 Go to Settings > Display & Brightness. At the top of the screen, you can choose between Light and Dark modes. Tap the one you want to use throughout your iPad. This changes the screen on a permanent basis (or at least until you change it again in the Settings app). 2 If you want to change between Light and Dark modes automatically according to a schedule, turn on the Automatic switch. You can then tap Appearance Schedule underneath it to set the times at which it changes. By default it’s set at Sunset to Sunrise. 3 To have it change according to a schedule, tap Custom Schedule and then tap the times and type in when you want the iPad to go to Light and then go to Dark. Tap the…

1 To activate a search on your iPad from the Home screen, swipe down on the Home screen (not from the top) with one finger. If you have a Bluetooth keyboard, you can activate a search from anywhere, even within apps, by pressing CMD + Space Bar. 2 Tap the search field at the top of the search window. Type your search terms on the keyboard or tap the microphone on the right and speak your search terms. Auto-complete responses appear as you type/speak. Tap one to access that app or item. 3 The new universal search covers the whole of your iPad and returns apps, Safari pages you’ve recently viewed, people and organisations in your Contacts app, notes, files, folders and more. At the bottom of the search results, you can search…