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Welcome to The ipad Book

If you own an iPad, you’re probably no stranger to some of the incredible features included in Apple’s range of tablets. Both the iPad Air and the iPad mini pack a lot of power into their slim frames, and the iPad Pro now offers unparalleled performance on the go. But the real beauty of the devices lies in their versatility and the huge range of apps to which they play host. The sheer number of possibilities can be a little overwhelming, but thankfully that’s where this new edition of The iPad Book comes in. In this bookazine, we’ll cover apps that can turn your iPad into a fully fledged media centre, a creative hub, an essential office companion, and more. We’ll break down the iPad hardware models, and to top…

Welcome to The ipad Book

Ultimate guide to iPad

Apple entered uncharted territory by offering five different models of iPad for sale at the same time. You can choose from two Airs and four minis, which can be quite confusing as the differences between some of the models are minimal. However, we hope to highlight the main ones for you, which should make a purchasing decision easier as you will be armed with more information about the subtle changes. We can confirm that the current iPads perform well, but your particular requirements may mean that one model stands out above the rest and with the detail included here, you should be able to find it and enjoy years of reliable performance at home and when travelling.…

Ultimate guide to iPad

When the iPad Pro was unveiled, the Internet was awash with mirth and images featuring obscenely oversized iPads being used. But, all joking aside, the iPad Pro is formidable beast featuring an expansive 12.9-inch Retina display, nearly double the CPU power of the iPad Air 2 and all-new Multi-Touch technology that allows you to work more efficiently and take your entertainment to a whole new level. So what of the Retina display? With 5.6 million pixels, the iPad Pro features the highest-resolution display of any iOS device, ever, and the expanded screen size means that you can do so much more, from editing videos to designing captivating presentations, more easily and effectively. Everything is powered by Apple’s new A9X 64-bit chip, which offers desktop-standard performance up to 1.8 times more…

The iPad Air 2 is a classic example of a product taking the best of the previous generation and making all of the practical areas even better than before. Some may see the subtle improvements in the Air 2 as displaying a lack of innovation, but those who use iPads will fully understand the benefits that the enhancements offer. The original Air was designed to make the full-size iPad more portable than ever before and at only 7.5mm thick, it truly was. The fact that Apple has shaved a further 1.4mm off the thickness does not sound that impressive, but when you pick it up and use it on a daily basis, the decreased depth and weight are very noticeable. Indeed, these subtle changes come together to offer an emotional…

When, on the one hand, you’ve got the immense size of the iPad Pro and on the other the small compactness of the iPad mini 4, the question must surely be asked, is bigger better or does petite prevail? The truth is that there is an iPad for everyone and where the iPad Pro meets the demands of the workers head-on with its larger screen size and hike in processing power to effortlessly handle the big apps, the iPad mini 4 is perhaps better suited to more casual tablet users who crave peak performance in a small, more manageable package. Powered by the A8 second-generation 64-bit chipset, the iPad mini 4 hardly skimps on the processing power as desktop-standard performance is still assured, whether you’re checking emails or recording and…

Featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display and driven by the power-efficient A7, 64-bit chipset, the iPad Air may not boast the colossal screen size and peak performance of its bigger brothers in the iPad range, but it is still a fast and highly capable tablet to suit a wide range of needs. At just 7.5mm thin and weighing in at just a pound, the device is easy to ferry around and great to whip out when you fancy surfing the web through Safari, checking your social media feeds, playing games or watching movies. It is worth noting that not all of the new iOS 10 multitasking features are compatible with the iPad Air. Picture in Picture and Slide Over modes are present but the Split View mode is only available to…

When this enhanced tablet entered the market, we weren’t exactly blown away by the specifications when compared with the iPad mini 2. Certainly the most notable addition was the inclusion of Touch ID, using a sensor housed in the Home button. This made it instantly easier to secure your device and make purchases online with Apple Pay. A great deal of third-party apps have also started to incorporate Apple Pay as a way to purchase goods, so you don’t have to worry about inputting your payment details into numerous shopping apps and websites. Sat awkwardly in no-man’s land between the iPad mini 2 and 4 it is hard to find other merits to recommend this model, but for many that will be enough. Blinged! Your golden iPad Being almost identical…

iPad accessories

Smart Case The Smart Case offers all of the protection you require for your precious iPad. It covers the back of the tablet, which can get scratched when moved on a flat surface, and the clever front works as a stand when rolled up to aid typing. It can also stand up to let you watch a movie without even touching the iPad, but the smartest function is the sleep/wake facility. Lift the cover and the iPad will turn on and when you shut it, the iPad turns off. It sounds simple, but it quickly becomes second nature to use and it will also save battery power over time. The slightly high price you pay for an Apple Smart Case turns out to be well worth it after a short…

iPad accessories

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO iOS 10

Apple has made concerted efforts to make iOS 10 feel like a new experience, while continuing to concentrate on the stability and familiarity that has made it such an essential tool for so many people. Messages has received the most obvious updates, and in a world where rival messaging platforms offer stickers and a variety of personal features, this makes a lot of sense. We will detail all that is new in iOS 10, but it is fair to say that Messages now builds upon the hugely popular iMessage platform to keep kids and adults happy in equal measure. Siri, which has improved greatly in recent times, can now be leveraged by third-party apps, thus offering the potential to make it your preferred way to manage your phone when your…

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO iOS 10

Get to know Settings

You might think that the Settings app would contain a spattering of options to change specific features of the iPad, but it actually presents you with a huge list of options which contain further settings within them. The list has grown over time and can be confusing at first, but the best advice is to take a long look at what is available and to then only change what you need to. The number of options will also expand as you install new apps because many will push their individual settings to the main Settings panel, so that is something to be aware of if you are struggling to make changes in an app. Here, we will highlight the most useful settings and also show you how to navigate through…

Get to know Settings

Customise Touch ID on your iPad

Now that Touch ID is available on the iPad Air 2 and mini 4, it’s easier than ever before to secure your device against potential thieves, or mischievous friends that you don’t want accessing your information. The best news of all is that it’s just so easy to set up – you’re prompted to add a fingerprint when you first activate your device, but you can add up to five individual prints if you want to make unlocking your device more natural. And for even greater security, you can then add a complex passcode, made up of numbers and letters, on top of your prints, to make it even harder for people to break into your device. Read on to get all our security tips, so you can rest easy…

Customise Touch ID on your iPad

Organise your contacts

You may think that keeping a contacts list is an easy thing to do and it certainly can be if all you need is an accurate listing of your friends and colleagues. However, if you want more, the standard iPad Contacts app is more than capable of providing it. You can set up as many groups as you need and separate your acquaintances into logical listings, which will speed up your people finding every single day. With groups you can still access all of your contacts with one tap if needed, which is handy, and you can even link contacts together to share data. For example, if you have accidentally created a duplicate of one person, simply use the ‘link contacts…’ option and they will magically merge into one contact.…

Organise your contacts

Send multimedia messages

The Messages app probably benefitted the most from the recent iOS 10 update, with a raft of cool new features made available to iPad users. Of course, you can still send text messages quickly and easily, but you can now express yourself in new and imaginative ways thanks to Digital Touch mode and downloadable emoticons. Digital Touch allows you to perform on-screen gestures to create animated effects and you can also record sequences to send to other people. And if the installed selection of emoticons isn’t quite to your liking (tap on the smiley face icon on the keyboard to access them), then you can tap on the arrow next to the message text field, tap the ‘A’ icon and then tap on ‘Store’ to shop for more. Some cost…

Send multimedia messages

FaceTime with friends

FaceTime is an fantastic app in that it only offers benefits and no downsides at all that we are aware of. You can use Wi-Fi to make and receive calls and this of course will decrease your mobile call spend, and you can also use it for audio calls. Again, the audio calls can use Wi-Fi and the resultant call quality is much better than you would receive over a mobile network. It is, however, video calling that makes the experience so much fun and very personal. If you are speaking to family members who live some distance away or simply chatting to friends before a night out, there is something special about doing it face to face and standard audio calling never feels quite the same again. Even better,…

FaceTime with friends

Enhance your iPad with iOS 10 widgets

Although widgets have been a feature of the Android operating system for a while, they have now been introduced to your iPad as part of the iOS 10 update. Widgets allow you to use and experience key features of certain apps without launching the actual app itself. For example, you can view the latest headlines in the News app, see what’s up next in the Calendar app, see what’s nearby in the Maps app and so on. Many of your iPad’s bolt-on apps will carry their own widgets, but some third-party apps will also supply them and you have full freedom to activate whichever widgets you want and even change the order in which they appear on your Spotlight search screen. To start using your iOS 10 widgets, simply swipe…

Enhance your iPad with iOS 10 widgets

Use Siri to streamline tasks

Siri is a brilliant invention from Apple and can be used for much more than you might expect. We will highlight some of the more popular and lesser known features, but the best advice is to just speak to Siri and see what answers you get back. Web searches are built in and Siri is also capable of interacting with many default apps including Maps, Contacts and Calendar. However, it is the way that Siri works that is most impressive: you can speak naturally and it will understand you. The more you use it, the more accurately it will recognise your voice and over time you’ll find yourself speaking to it just as you would a friend. Don’t ever feel restricted by what you believe it can or cannot do…

Use Siri to streamline tasks

Surf the web on your iPad with Safari

In terms of radical new features, the iOS 10 update left Safari largely alone, although enhancements elsewhere in the operating make multitasking with Safari much easier. If you are using one of the newer models of iPad then you will be able to open Safari in the main screen, swipe in from the right to reduce the size of the window and then open another app to sit next to it on the screen. This means that you can surf the web for research and jot down ideas in the Notes app, to the side, at the same time. One of the welcome new enhancements specifically to Safari is the introduction of ad-blockers, third-party applications that you can toggle on or off in Safari’s settings to ensure that your web…

Surf the web on your iPad with Safari

Install a custom keyboard on your iPad

App used: SwiftKey Keyboard Price: Free The introduction of third-party keyboard support back in iOS 8 was one of its standout features. At first it was believed this would allow for some nice new features and different-coloured keyboards, but it didn’t take long for developers to come up with a variety of clever tricks that let you do almost anything you like with your iPad when entering text. We’ll show you how to install a new keyboard and also touch upon some of the benefits they offer. You can install as many as you like, but we would suggest trying to keep the number as low as possible to ensure that you do not have to spend too much time flicking between all of the ones that are installed. Feel…

Install a custom keyboard on your iPad

Use your iPad for longer

The iPad’s battery performance will easily get you through a busy day, but there’s still a lot you can do to increase it further. If you consider that the screen and wireless connections are the two main battery hogs and if you manage these two areas well, the benefits will become obvious immediately. We will show you how to manage these to increase power and also the areas that can be tweaked to offer even more battery life between charges. There are many tweaks you can make to increase battery life and not all of them are obvious, but when combined you have the ability to add an hour or two of use every day, which will be advantageous if you are often away from a power source. Some of…

Use your iPad for longer

Set up Family Sharing

You’ve always been able to use one Apple ID as the main account for multiple iPads and iPhones, and it has worked well, but it can lead to confusion and even annoyance as purchases are shared between people. Family Sharing, a great feature from Apple, is designed to take those problems away by letting you use one account for payments and so benefit from using an app or song on more than one device, but it includes a degree of separation by using different Apple IDs for family members. You will see when we explain the process that there’s not much to learn here and that it will work for you consistently without you needing to think about what is happening, and your children will be able to feel like…

Set up Family Sharing

Back up to iCloud

iCloud Backup is a feature that could easily be classed as essential for anyone who owns an iPad. It is exceptionally easy to set up and Apple offers 5GB of free online storage that you can utilise by simply creating an Apple ID. When a backup is performed, it will take care of every important piece of data that you need to keep safe, from messages to apps preferences to game progress. Physical apps are not backed up, but the fact that you own them is, and when you restore through iCloud to a new device, they will be automatically installed as part of the process. A restore will bring back 100 per cent of your personal information and the device will look identical to the way it was before.…

Back up to iCloud

Manage your email

Apple’s Mail app has got all the tools you could ever need to keep your emails neatly organised. From your initial inbox, you can sort your messages into multiple folders so that you can always access what you need, when you need it. The Mailbox feature is super-handy, too. For example, creating different mailboxes allows you to keep your emails of different topics separate. Say you’re planning a party – create a specific ‘Party’ mailbox and send all of your emails about the party to that mailbox; then, when you need to quickly and easily find some details, you can simply navigate to your Party mailbox, where all the emails will be there waiting for you! Flagging messages is also a great feature – simply tap the flag icon on…

Manage your email

Organise with Calendar

If you’re in need of order in your life, Calendar is surely the app for you. It has a clean and easy-to-use interface, plus quite possibly every capability you could ever need from a diary – throw the little book of dates and scribbles out, as your iPad has your organisational needs covered. Adding events to Calendar is incredibly easy, with the ability to include as much info as you like. You can invite whole guest lists to events to keep your friends in the know, and even share your calendar with other people. The app already provides you with default ‘Home’ and ‘Work’ calendars – to share information with family and colleagues respectively. Another excellent feature is that your Calendar app will sync seamlessly over all of your Apple…

Organise with Calendar

Make use of Reminders

For those times when there’s just too much stuff in your brain to possibly remember to do everything at once, Apple’s Reminders app is here to save the day. The beauty of this app is in its simplicity. It does exactly as is says on the tin. You can set yourself reminders with as much or as little detail as you like. This could be a simple note to yourself to remind you to pick up eggs on your way home from work, or it could be a more complicated, repeat alert to remind you to take what medication and when. The Reminders app lets you make lists, so that you can store your reminders in handy categories. You can choose to simply make brief to-do lists to check off…

Make use of Reminders

Retrain Siri to understand you better

Siri is an extremely clever personal assistant and if you take the time to use it fully, you will definitely benefit in a variety of ways. There are times, however, when Siri starts to lose the recognition of your voice and, if we are honest, the reasons for this are unclear. This will not be the end of the world though because there is an easy way to retrain Siri to understand your voice again by resetting what it has learnt so far in order to improve your usage in the future. There are many other ways to improve Siri recognition, but it is fair to say that it will improve the more you use it for the vast majority of people, and you should be able to speak naturally…

Retrain Siri to understand you better

Use the multimedia Notes app

The Notes app on iOS has long been a source of frustration for Apple users. While it is a functional tool that allows you to jot down lists and things to remember, it has traditionally been a basic, bare bones app. The iOS 9 update brought great changes to Notes, giving users a raft of extra functions, such as the ability to format your notes and write in different colours. You can also add in photos and other handy memory aids, transforming your notes from bland documents to vibrant, interesting lists. Although many people will just want to use it to write down an address or a booking reference number, there are plenty of times where a range of options will prove useful to people using Notes. The addition of…

Use the multimedia Notes app

Navigate in Maps

You will be hard-pushed to find a better navigational companion than Maps on your iPad. This app has everything you need in order to find your way when setting off on a trip, or to explore brand new and exciting places and discover precisely how to get there from the comfort of your own home. What’s more, thanks to enhancements made to the app through the iOS 10 update, you can plan journeys using public transport and even book your tickets in-app, saving massive amounts of time and hassle. Another new feature is the enhanced search function. You can still search for places and activities nearby, such as the best restaurants or places of interest, but after planning out a route to somewhere, you can instantly search for locations along…

Navigate in Maps

Search smarter with Spotlight

Apple has taken strides to improve the Spotlight search efficiency of its operating system with iOS 10, and the benefits are instantaneous. As soon as you swipe to the left of your Home screen to initiate a Spotlight search, the screen will be populated with people from your Contacts app whom you have recently contacted, apps that you use frequently or that you routinely use at a certain time of day (for example, if you always check your News app in the morning, this app will be present in the morning on your Spotlight search screen). Also included are nearby places of interest (as supplied by your recently enhanced iOS 10 Maps app) and the latest news articles that are trending in your local area. It is also worth knowing…

Search smarter with Spotlight

Create documents with Word

App used: Microsoft Word Price: Free A recent update to Microsoft’s Office apps enables you to create documents for free – as long as you have a Microsoft account (Xbox Live or Windows 8 login email account will do). The functionality and features share a strong resemblance to the desktop equivalent and the app has been adapted to the iPad’s multi-touch controls perfectly. It has plenty of formatting options so you can create professional-looking documents on the fly. In the tutorial we’ll show how to do this, though most of the options should be easy to work out if you’ve used the desktop version before. A good tip is to use the pre-installed templates and edit the default text and images to suit your own needs. A downside to the…

Create documents with Word

Create business cards in Pages

App used: Pages Price: Free/£7.99/$9.99 The iPad certainly isn’t just a device for fun – apps like Pages, Numbers and Keynote, as well as the Microsoft Office suite, make it just as good for business as it is for entertainment. And one of the things it does particularly well is design work; the iPad’s touchscreen is perfect for combining images and text, and Pages is a great place to do just that. Plus, with the brilliant selection of built-in templates, you can create all kinds of projects within a few seconds. If you’re one of those using your iPad for work, you can even use it to make your own business cards. Whether you want to print the design or hand it out digitally, Pages has everything you need to…

Create business cards in Pages

Import and edit Excel files in Numbers

App used: Numbers Price: Free/£7.99/$9.99 The built-in apps on your Apple device work perfectly with the hardware and are optimised to take full advantage of the operating system. So while alternatives like Microsoft’s Office suite are still worth a look, Apple’s own iWork apps offer similar functionality, complete compatibility and a much nicer interface. Also, since the iWork apps are designed to work the same on Mac and iOS, you won’t be frustrated by missing features. But Apple knows that many people still use Microsoft Office, and it has therefore made it quick and easy to import and edit Microsoft files using iWork apps. You can continue to enjoy the improved interface of iWork on your iPad without having to transfer to a Mac or PC to work on a…

Import and edit Excel files in Numbers

Manage a monthly budget

App used: Microsoft Excel Price: Free Microsoft Excel is part of the Office suite of apps that you can download for free. It lets you create effective spreadsheets – with formulas, albeit not as many as the desktop version – as long as you have a Microsoft account, although certain options require an Office 365 subscription (from £7/$8 a month). In this tutorial we showcase how to set up a monthly spreadsheet to keep track of your expenditure. The process of using the app is very intuitive thanks to the interface adapting perfectly to the iPad’s multi-touch controls. It also bears a similarity to the Excel desktop version, with the core layout comprising a series of rows and columns that you can use to input values and then add or…

Manage a monthly budget

Edit PowerPoints in Keynote

App used: Keynote Price: Free/£7.99/$9.99 If there’s one thing you can rely on in the world of Windows, it’s that Microsoft Office is king. That means that occasionally you need to be able to access documents from Office on your Apple devices. This is easier than you might think, however, and one of the best methods of editing the ubiquitous PowerPoint presentation is with Keynote on the iPad. Once loaded – either from the cloud or via iTunes – presentations can be worked on and then shared by saving to your iCloud account, which automatically syncs across other Apple devices like your iPhone or your Mac back home. Meanwhile, you can get on with the job of editing the PowerPoint presentation while on the move with the ultimate in portability,…

Edit PowerPoints in Keynote

Get cinema-quality Keynote transitions

App used: Keynote Price: Free/£7.99/$8.99 For creating professional presentations, or just cool photo slideshows, Keynote has no equal. The app is incredibly powerful and gives you practically all the abilities of its Mac brother on the iPad. What this means is that you can create some truly amazing-looking slides with beautiful imagery, fonts and animations. But where your creation can really shine is in the details, and it’s here that transitions will really matter. Keynote offers a number of beautiful transitions to give your presentations a professional sheen. You can even set up transitions to happen automatically, so all you have to do is hit the Play button to get things rolling. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to create cinemaworthy presentations in Keynote using these incredible and easy-tomaster…

Get cinema-quality Keynote transitions

Save files to iCloud Drive

iCloud Drive is a well established feature now in iOS 10. You can think of it as a virtual hard disk where any documents saved to your default 5GB of online storage can be accessed by other devices and computers. In the tutorial we showcase how to enable iCloud Drive if you haven’t done so already and look at how files are saved to it using the core app, Pages – although the principle can also be applied to Keynote and Numbers. In addition, we show how to open and import documents from compatible third-party apps, as well as providing a tip on how to access your files via your Mac, PC or iCloud.com. What’s useful to note here is that any changes saved in one app/service will sync across…

Save files to iCloud Drive

When you first start up your iPad, one of the first things you’ll want to do is jump onto the App Store and download new or favourite apps to run on your iPad. The App Store lets you browse for apps by categories including games, books, education, entertainment and many more. The App Store syncs directly with your Apple account, so any purchases you’ve made on the Store across any of your Apple devices will be made available to you. From the Purchased screen in the App Store, you’ll be able to access all of your previous purchases across all devices and download apps that you’ve not yet installed on your iPad. The App Store is also where you can go to update all of your iPad apps. Whenever a…

Download from iTunes

iTunes started life as a way to purchase and download music from your computer onto your iPad. Since then it has expanded to cover films, TV shows and audiobooks. As with apps, you can access iTunes purchases across all of your compatible devices. iTunes also comes with its own recommendation service called Genius, which uses your previous purchases to highlight music, films and shows you might like. When it comes to music on iTunes, you’ll be making an outright purchase of an album or single that you can then transfer to other devices. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to download the music to your device since purchased music can be streamed via the Music app as long as you have an internet connection. TV shows are also purchased outright,…

Download from iTunes

Discover new tunes with Apple Music

Aside from keeping your favourite tracks at your fingertips, Apple Music is most exciting for discovering music. Apple’s latest big venture has hit the ground running, and with brand new tunes emerging all the time, this subscription service is all about delivering them straight to your Apple devices without having to wait. Fire up the new Music app from the iOS home screen and you will immediately find a dedicated New tab complete with fresh releases spanning every type of genre. Whether browsing Hot Tracks, New Music or Recent Releases, there’s no better or easier way to find popular or rising artists just waiting to be heard. The service becomes even more impressive when you factor in the exclusive releases that Apple commands. Want to listen to Dr. Dre’s Compton…

Discover new tunes with Apple Music

Create your first playlist in Apple Music

Thankfully everybody gets a three-month, free trial for Apple Music to figure it out before deciding whether or not to subscribe. You can still enjoy all your locally stored Library tracks alongside the new service; blending the two with the redesigned home screen app. So one of the initial things you may wish to try here is putting together a playlist. Again, you needn’t include Apple Music songs (or even be online at all if you’re merely arranging tunes on the device) however you won’t be able to enjoy the added benefit of sharing your picks with friends. With the hottest tracks now centralised and instantly accessible anywhere thanks to Apple Music, the playlist possibilities really are limitless. Here we take a look at the key steps for compiling and…

Create your first playlist in Apple Music

Listen to your favourite podcasts

The Podcasts app is Apple’s native iOS app for managing your podcast subscriptions, making it easier than ever to keep up to date with the latest episodes. The app features thousands of podcasts offering free episodes to download and listen to on your iPad. There is a huge variety of content to choose from. Whether you are into sports analysis, movie reviews or gardening tips, there is a podcast for everyone. You don’t need to subscribe to a podcast to check out its episodes: when browsing, you can stream individual episodes without having to download them to your iPad. Once you’ve subscribed to some podcasts, you can then set up your own podcast station, lining up all of your available podcasts to be listened to in the same way you…

Listen to your favourite podcasts

Store and stream videos

iTunes will send any video purchases or rentals straight to the Videos app for you to download and stream to your iPad. Content in the Videos app is broken down into Movies, TV Shows, Home Videos and Shared. The Home Videos tab will hold all of the videos that you have made or imported onto your iPad. Note that your iPad can only play certain video file types, so when transferring a video onto your iPad, make sure that it is in the M4V, MP4 or MOV file format. You can use the TV Shows and Movies subheadings to watch purchases made on iTunes while offline, as long as you’ve downloaded the videos to your iPad. With the Shared tool you can stream video files from other devices running iTunes.…

Store and stream videos

Watch your favourite YouTube videos

App used: YouTube Price: Free The YouTube app brings millions of videos to your iPad for you to watch and share with friends, as well as letting you upload your own videos directly from your iPad. Upon launching the app and signing in, YouTube will be able to start registering what you’re watching to make video recommendations in the future. The main left menu is broken down into four sections; the first is based around your account, where you can get recommendations, manage your own YouTube channel and subscriptions, and check out your viewing history. Next is the Playlists section, where you can view and manage all of your created YouTube playlists. Next is the Subscriptions list, where you can view the latest content from channels that you have subscribed…

Watch your favourite YouTube videos

Stream movies and TV shows

App used: Netflix Price: £5.99/$7.99 per month The Netflix app provides an almost limitless array of movies and TV shows broken down into categories. A video-store-style interface makes Netflix perfect for browsing. If you don’t know what you want to watch, just browse a while until you find something. Netflix also makes recommendations: by monitoring what kind of movies and shows you’re watching, it will make a Top Picks digest for you. When you rate shows, it also uses this info to better work out the kind of content you like. Netflix can also connect to your Facebook account so you can recommend content to friends as well as see what they like. With the introduction of Profiles, Netflix can give you personal recommendations even if multiple people are accessing…

Stream movies and TV shows

Read on your iPad

iBooks provides iOS users with an almost limitless library of literature, non-fiction, magazines, journals, publications and more to be accessed from your iPad. No matter what genre you are into, you’ll be able to find a great read in the iBooks Store. iBooks is connected directly to the iTunes Store and content for iBooks can be found in either app. Once you’ve found a book you want to buy, it can be purchased on your iTunes account and downloaded straight to iBooks. The beauty of iBooks is that there is a lot of free content available, especially with classic literature; in fact, in the Top Charts section of iBooks you’ll be able to browse between Free and Paid content. Any purchases made through the iBooks app will also be available…

Read on your iPad

Stay informed with News

The News app was first introduced with iOS 9, but the recent iOS 10 update sees it getting a complete re-design to help you stay informed like never before. The interface has been tweaked to be a lot easier on the eye and your own personal ‘For You’ news edition is updated throughout the day as the news comes in from your trusted sources and is neatly packaged along with the date and even your local weather. Adding extra news sources is easy, just tap on the Explore tab at the bottom of the interface and browse through the various categories, tapping the ‘+’ icon in the corner of any that take your fancy. You can browse your selected sources in the Favourites section and then determine which sources notify…

Stay informed with News

Use the Camera app

Capturing that special moment has never been easier than today, with the ability to take images quickly and in a few seconds be sharing them with friends via the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Once you have got to grips with the iPad’s Camera app, you will be snapping away in no time. Built into the iOS operating system, the Camera app is arguably one of the most used and most loved on the iPad and allows you to take and share personal photos and videos, all with just a few taps of the screen. The usability of the app, as with all things made by Apple, is as easy and as transparently clear as you would expect. However, despite the Camera app’s apparent simplicity, it actually packs in a…

Use the Camera app

Take time-lapse videos with the Camera app

iPad owners running iOS 8 and up are now able to take awesome time-lapse videos with the built-in Camera app. Time-lapse videos work in the opposite way to slow-motion videos, speeding up long clips in a fastforward style. This is the type of footage you’ll have seen in documentaries when clouds are racing through the sky. Rather than filming continuously, time-lapse footage takes photos at intervals, leaving you with this sped-up version of events. The Camera app enables you to create this impressive type of footage in just a few easy moves. The time-lapse feature is perfect for condensing a beautiful, burning sunset into a short but dramatic video clip, or capturing a long and winding journey into just a few seconds of footage. This innovative feature has broadened the…

Take time-lapse videos with the Camera app

Take crazy selfies with Photo Booth

Who doesn’t love to take a good selfie? You’ll have seen them shared all over Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Selfies are everywhere these days and everyone from Hollywood celebrities to your next-door neighbour’s Nan is taking them. However, if you want to take something a little different, it’s time to have a play around with Apple’s Photo Booth app. This allows you to take weird and wonderful selfies, from those that swirl your face to look like a puddle, to those that show it through a kaleidoscopic prism: Photo Booth is simple to use and has a variety of image styles that all distort your selfies in wildly interesting ways. What’s also great about Photo Booth is that there is an integrated feature that allows you to share your pictures…

Take crazy selfies with Photo Booth

Master the Photos app

Pretty much perfect before, the Photos app hasn’t needed to benefit considerably from the iOS 10 update. All of its editing features remain intact (although it does now feature the handy Markup feature) to help you transform your photos into stunning works of art, but it is in the sorting that the real iOS 10 improvements occur. It now features more AI, meaning that it can sort your images into albums based on details such as faces and places and it will also allow you to group together images in magazine-style ‘Memories’ that will never let you forget those life-affirming moments that you have captured through the years. In this feature we will focus on the Photos app’s rich editing suite though and show you how you can transform even…

Master the Photos app

Make incredible edits with Pixelmator

App used: Pixelmator Price: £7.99/$9.99 Pixelmator is now available on iPad, bringing with it a range of powerful editing, painting and vector shape tools that work brilliantly with the touch screen. The team behind Pixelmator have also managed to integrate these powerful features into the Photos app, thanks to the new Extensions functionality in the latest iOS 10 operating system. The result is a selection of tools that can be accessed right within the Photos app. You won’t find every Pixelmator tool here – so its app will undoubtedly still be used regularly – but the breadth of options is really impressive. Whether you want to add filters and effects, or just colour-correct your image, the tools you need are at your fingertips, and more powerful than anything Photos alone…

Make incredible edits with Pixelmator

Insert and arrange clips in iMovie

App used: iMovie Price: Free/£3.99/$4.99 With iMovie on your iPad you are no longer limited to adding your clips in a linear order to put your movie together. With the various insert options on offer, you can now create cutaways, add images side by side to each other and quickly edit your clips before adding them to your timeline. The more time you can spend shortening your clips from the clip library, the easier it will be for you to edit your movie in the timeline. Rather than dumping your entire clip into a timeline, you can shorten it to roughly the length you want it to be, and then insert it. By doing this you are effectively building an assembly cut of your edit, which can then be further…

Insert and arrange clips in iMovie

Master adjusting and editing audio

App used: iMovie Price: Free/£3.99/$4.99 Taking the time to properly edit and mix your audio levels in iMovie will make all the difference to your finished film. Sound is too often overlooked when it comes to making a great movie and poorly recorded or edited sound can easily detract from the overall quality of a piece, no matter how good the visuals are. iMovie gives users plenty of editing tools to make the most of your movie’s audio. These include the ability to adjust the levels of individual tracks, add background audio tracks such as theme music, voice-overs and sound effects, as well as create audio transitions, such as fading in and out of and between audio clips. By following these steps to adjusting your timeline’s audio, you’ll soon find…

Master adjusting and editing audio

Recreate legendary guitar rigs

App used: GarageBand Price: Free/£3.99/$4.99 For guitarists, GarageBand on iPad has been a fantastic practice solution for some time. Whether you’ve any intention to record performances or not, the app lets you plug in and monitor the impressive output via headphones. It offers some startlingly authentic amp and stompbox effects, customisable with just a few taps. Experienced players will soon recognise the array of virtual gear as an affectionate homage to iconic brands like Fender, Vox and Marshall. Whether you crave a clean jazz sound, some bluesy warmth or searing stadium lead, the combinations are limitless. So over the next few steps we’ll learn how GarageBand on iOS 8 enables you to model legendary guitar ‘rigs’ or sounds using built-in amps and stompboxes. Tune up, plug in and rock out.…

Recreate legendary guitar rigs

Create your own drumbeats on iPad

App used: GarageBand Price: Free/£3.99/$4.99 When it comes to making music, on any device, the rhythm section is rarely optional. Most GarageBand fans start from a steady, hypnotic beat and work from there. Thankfully this isn’t compromised at all on iOS, with the GarageBand app featuring a number of ways to create new, natural rhythms. Not only can you tap out beats ‘live’ on a trio of realistic virtual drum kits, you can also select pad-based Drum Machines. This intelligent Touch Instrument simplifies the beat layering process, generating intricate drum tracks rapidly. In this tutorial we’ll examine the drums instrument in GarageBand and the various settings you’ll need for recording drumbeats straight into your projects, ready for looping. Over the next few steps we’ll show you how it’s done, so…

Create your own drumbeats on iPad

Capture sounds with the Audio Recorder

App used: GarageBand Price: Free/£3.99/$4.99 Touch Instruments are at the very heart of GarageBand on Apple’s iOS. These are the app’s software-based instruments you can play in a variety of engaging ways when recording track regions into your projects. However, within Touch Instruments, a slight exception can be found in the form of the new app Audio Recorder. With this app, you don’t actually play an instrument but instead capture external sounds via the iPad or iPhone’s built-in microphone. The background recordings are of course then added automatically to a new track, typically to provide vocals or whatever you wish to include. In addition to the new features, these new ‘dry’ sounds can have eight preset effects applied to create some stylised results in a single tap. Get your hands…

Capture sounds with the Audio Recorder

Integrate Facebook

App used: Facebook Price: Free Facebook and the native apps on iOS are more tightly integrated with each release. If you depend on Facebook for keeping you in touch with your friends, it’s great to be able to get to those contacts directly from the Contacts app. When your Facebook friends are in your Contacts, you can easily send them emails or messages without having to dig around in Facebook to find addresses. You may also find it useful to be able to view your Facebook events in your iPad’s Calendar app. If you like keeping track of your Facebook friends’ birthdays, you can even display those in your Calendar, too. There are even more ways that Facebook and the iPad work together. Notification Centre can give you a quick…

Integrate Facebook

Start tweeting with the Twitter app

App used: Twitter Price: Free If you’ve been using the web version of Twitter on your iPad, you’ve been missing out. The free Twitter app has all the features of the website but is easier to use and enables you to quickly swap between multiple Twitter accounts with a single tap. The app lets you manage your followers, view your mentions and direct messages, and respond to them. The Search facility shows your saved searches as well as trending topics. You can also control all facets of your profile, from your image to your URL and biography. The interface is easy to use, with one-tap access to mentions and messages. Push notifications when you get a new mention or message make it even more convenient. And when the Twitter app…

Start tweeting with the Twitter app

Microblog creatively with Tumblr

App used: Tumblr Price: Free If you’re ready to share things online and Facebook or Twitter isn’t flexible enough for you, Tumblr may be the answer. It’s more than a simple blogging platform. It has an easy-to-use interface where you can manage your posts, follow other Tumblrs, control your blog’s appearance, and most importantly, create new blog posts. The iPad app allows you to post 6 different types of media: text, images, quotes, links, music, and videos. You can use the iPad Camera Roll directly without having to dig around in a file system, but the Tumblr app has a few more nifty features that many users overlook. For instance, you can create posts and schedule them to run at a later time. This automation can be very useful when…

Microblog creatively with Tumblr

Find inspiring images with Pinterest

App used: Pinterest Price: Free Pinterest is the perfect social network for sourcing ideas and discovering new content. Focussing almost entirely on images, users browse millions of ‘pins’ that are sorted by category, pinning their favourites to their own set of virtual boards. Boards can cover any topic, whether it’s cool posters, beautiful architecture or spectacular travel photos, but they work best when organised around a theme. Many people use Pinterest for inspiration, creating boards filled with new recipes, home decorating tips or hot fashion ideas – it can even be a great help when planning a wedding or birthday party. Discovering great images is easy, as Pinterest allows you to follow friends and other users that share your interests, updating you on the most popular pins throughout your network.…

Find inspiring images with Pinterest

Keep a digital diary with Day One Journal

App used: Day One Journal Price: £3.99/$4.99 While writing a daily journal seems like an oldfashioned idea, there are lots of good reasons to try to keep one. It can help you focus, make it easier to keep track of your progress, and, if nothing else, be a safe place for you to vent your frustration. Journals let you express yourself creatively without fear of being judged. You can use your journal as a place to track the important events in your life so you can remember them and share them with your friends. Previously, you’d be faced with a pen and a blank page to document your day. Lucky for us, we can use Day One Journal, an elegant iPad app that lets you easily enter the details of…

Keep a digital diary with Day One Journal

Essential iPad games

As you’ve already discovered in this book, your iPad is made even better by the stunning range of Apple-made and third-party apps available on the App Store. The range of apps on offer is quite incredible – and the Games section is absolutely no different. Whether you’re looking to test your brain with a mind-boggling puzzle game, use your iPad as an educational tool for your children, or let your hair down and get engrossed in a stunning first-person shooter or your favourite sports game, the App Store has you well and truly covered. So why would you play games on your iPad when you’ve got an ultra powerful desktop machine or next-generation games console sitting at home? Well you’d be foolish to underestimate the power of the mobile device…

Essential iPad games

Action & Adventure

The best action and adventure games are imaginative, well-written, visually stunning and original. Thankfully the App Store is teeming with these types of games, which are invariably some of the most popular on the store. The very best get you engrossed in their stories and leave you investing hours and hours into them, forcing you to keep on playing. The iPad is the perfect platform for action and adventure games that benefit from the extra screen space – there’s more to see and gamers get to witness it in all its glory. In this mini rundown of the essential action and adventure games, we’ll guide you through multiple award-winning apps that will take away your breath with their beauty and originality. Then there are the games that thrill you with…

Action & Adventure

The trusty board game is enjoying something of a renaissance at the moment, becoming popular once again with families looking to spend time together around holidays and other gatherings. But your dusty board games are looking a bit tired now and it’ll be a miracle if that old pack of cards has four aces in it, let alone 52 cards. So, why not leave them collecting dust in the loft and head to your iPad for a similar fix. That’s right – the App Store is chock-a-block with digital alternatives to all your favourite board and card games, and it’s also a haven for new ideas, like the award-winning Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Your tablet can also be the perfect tool for learning a new game, like Texas Holdem poker,…

Family & Educational

There’s a lot of fun to be had with an iPad, as you’ve probably already guessed by now. Whether that’s watching movies and TV on Netflix, keeping in touch with the stories that matter to you on Flipboard or editing your favourite photos in Pixelmator, your iPad has fast been replacing your laptop as your go-to device. The iPad has also championed other skills, none more so than learning. More and more schools are using the iPad as an educational tool, so why not use it at home to teach essential skills to your children. Learning doesn’t have to mean dusting off the dull, boring black and white textbooks you learned from growing up – now you can use your tablet to keep kids engrossed in the subject matter and…

Family & Educational

Puzzle or word games may not be the first genre you think of when it comes to iPad games, but there is fun for all the family to be had in this section of the App Store. The joy of these apps is just how engrossed you get in them. Download one of these and you’re going to while away a fair bit of time, which is no bad thing when the games are this good. Some of the apps showcased across these pages are remarkably simple ideas, put into practice exceptionally well. Words With Friends, for example, become a cultural phenomenon a few years ago and is still going strong today: a simple idea, implemented impeccably. Other apps like Threes! and Rules! are firm favourites and are never far…

Racing & Sports

Some of the best games on the App Store fall into these two categories. Sports fans will find a plethora of apps covering every sport imaginable, while four wheel fanatics will love what’s on offer in the racing category. Here, we’ll highlight the very best, whether you want to take control of your favourite football team and lead them to the glory of a league and cup double, thrash a McLaren race car around a fully licensed track, jump into the ring and learn how to land a knockout blow or build a century break to make Ronnie O’Sullivan jealous, this list will give you a few tips in choosing the games to get started with. You’re going to love the high-quality graphics that perfectly showcase the power of the…

Racing & Sports

Strategy & Simulation

There have been plenty of games featured over the last few pages that offer five minutes of fun, but they might not be for someone who likes to invest heavily in a game. There’s only so much blowing up targets, or mastering of a puzzle that you can do. For those looking for more substance, the App Store is packed with some staggering simulation and strategy games. These are all about creating your own worlds to get lost in, and enthralling stories to follow to their dramatic conclusions. This used to be the realm of PC gamers, but because the iPad is now such a powerful device, game developers are jumping on the mobile bandwagon to provide gamers with more and more epic sim games. Here’s your chance to build…

Strategy & Simulation

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