We carefully open the box and… a brand new iPad. What a beautiful feeling. Our ecosystem grows or renews itself with a piece halfway between the Mac and the iPhone and who takes the best of each of them. An iPad that we already want to start enjoying as soon as we configure it.
The setup itself only takes a few minutes, and then there’s some additional highly recommended tasks when launching an iPad. Let’s review, among the long list of candidates, the six most important to start enjoying our iPad in the best conditions.
Many options, but we can highlight a few
Customizing the iPad, as the name suggests, is a very personal task. We will start from the assumption that we released an iPad for the first time
- Customize the Dock: Just as we customize the home screen of our iPhone, it is important that we customize the home screen of our iPad. Of course, let’s pay special attention to the Dock. Because? Because access is very simple from any application and on a device where multitasking is the order of the day, it is very useful to be able to drag applications from the dock next to those we use.
- Let’s try Stage Manager: Especially coming from the Mac, Stage Manager makes managing windows on the iPad more desktop-like. We can resize, reposition, and quickly jump between them as easily as we would on the Mac.
- Configure our email accounts in Mail: We may not have made it on the iPhone, but the iPad, by its very nature, is a great place to collect all of our accounts, bar none. In settings > Mail > Add an account we can configure as many as we have.
- Activate night shift: which gives the screen a warmer hue as bedtime approaches. A resource to avoid the blue light as the break approaches, which could disrupt it. An adjustment we can make from the same application settings come in screen and brightness.
- Set a focus state to read: We may already have focus states on the iPhone, but on the iPad there is one that stands out above the rest. We can configure a state to avoid distractions and activate it as soon as we open the Books app. Ideal for reading comfortably with our iPad.
- Try the Freeform app: an application in which we can organize practically anything and do it collaboratively. Freeform gives us a blank slate on which to annotate, add content, link to it, comment on it, post sticky notes, and more. On iPad, thanks to the Apple Pencil, the application takes on a whole new meaning.
Obviously there are many other things to discover in our new iPad that we will find for ourselves as we use it. These are only some first indications during the exploration our newest addition to the Apple ecosystem that we already enjoy.
