The iPad was born in its time as a tool to consume multimedia content, far from productivity due to the limitations that iOS implied. However, with the arrival of iPadOS, Apple has decided to give a “second life” to this very special product, and for the first time it has become what Tim Cook has always wanted, the PC replacement.
However, iPadOS hides many secrets that you may not know and in Actualidad iPhone we are going to explain it to you. Discover with us these productivity tips that will allow you to get the most out of your iPad and improve your experience.
Where are the widgets?
Let’s be honest, the new implementation of iOS and iPadOs that allows to put widgets on the screen is not designed for those who decide to work with their iPad, and it is that the Springboard should only be relegated to the important stuff, i.e. That’s why having a “clean” home screen can make all the difference.
But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean you have to ditch the widgets. If you are on the home screen, simplement swipe from left to right and a drop down list of widgets will appear. Now it’s up to you to customize it and add your favorite tools.
Slide Over, the floating screen of little things
You may know that iPadOS allows the use of a multi-window system to work with multiple applications at the same time. What you might not know is Slide Over, another multitasking mechanism, but this time for small tasks that don’t require 100% of our attention.
When you are in an application, swipe from bottom to top to reveal the “Dock” and drag the desired application on the screen with the same gesture. Now this application will appear as a small floating window, with which you can do many things.
How many apps do I have in Slide Over?
Once you’ve mastered the iPadOS Slide Over technique, these little windows can pile up, and we remind you that iOS and iPadOS don’t close apps by default, but always stay open in the background.
So things, if you slip from bottom to top on the “start” icon displayed in the window of the application you are running in Slide Over, It will let you invoke the open apps indicator in Side Over, too easy.
Select text easily and quickly
If you need to select text and are tired of the little bubble that used to appear in iOS and iPadOS, you’re in luck. Selecting text has never been easier on a device with these features, Apple not only changed the way we invoke the text selector, but it also added a bunch of new features that allow you to perform text editing tasks with small gestures, like the ones we’ll tell you about below:
- Copy text: Pinch from outside to inside with three fingers on the selected text, and it will copy itself.
- Get text: Pinch from the inside out with three fingers on the desired location, and the text will paste
- To cancel: Swipe from right to left with three fingers and the last option will be cancelled.
- Remake: Flick from left to right with three fingers and the last option will be redone.
Does the keyboard bother you? minimize it
The iPadOS keyboard is sometimes huge, we want to work with several applications at the same time, or we have a lot of content to display on the screen, and it’s a shame to waste all this space on a simple “keyboard”.
Well, don’t worry because you might not know about this Apple innovation for your iPad, but it can help you in your productivity tasks. Just make a pinch gesture on the iPadOS keyboard and you’ll see how it minimizes, displaying a small floating keyboard like we might have on iOS.
If you want to go back to the full size keyboard, you just have to do the same gesture in reverse, namely: Pinch from inside to outside.
You can type by swiping your finger
This is an option that iOS users are quite familiar with, that of typing with one hand by sliding your finger between the keys. This option, how could it be otherwise, is also fully available on iPadOS.
This swipe input feature is fully enabled on iPadOS, so swiping from side to side will select characters and form words based on Apple’s own predictive keyboard.
Open all windows quickly
Expose That’s what Apple decided to call this new feature which not only reached macOS but is also available on iPadOS.
And it is that if we make a long press on an application like Safari, the classic features pop-up will open. Well, now a news has been added that will allow us to see all the windows we have open at a glance, select it and enter the one we want quickly, did you know?
We are more than sure that you will know many of these iPadOS tricks, being a good user of the platform that you are. However, we do not exclude that among the list of novelties that we have shown you, some will be useful for you. We take this opportunity to remind you that our YouTube channel is full of these tricks, and if you have any doubts about any of them, you will find the video inserted in the header in which we explain each of them they.
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