iPad Tips & Lessons
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Classes on using the iPad4 Lessons
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New in iPadOS 172 Lessons
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New in iPadOS 169 Lessons
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All New Weather App on the iPad
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Apple Introduces Smarter Dictation on the iPad with iPadOS 16
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How to Create a Shared Library in Photos on the iPad
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How to use Multi-stop Routing and Scheduled Times in the Maps app on the iPad
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What's new in Contacts with iPadOS 16
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View and Copy Wi-Fi Passwords and Delete Known Networks on your iPad
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My Favorite New Features in Notes with iPadOS 16
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My 4 Favorite New Features in Reminders with iPadOS 16
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Lift the Subject from the Background in a Photo on the iPad
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All New Weather App on the iPad
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Getting Started with the iPad18 Lessons
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Sleep/Wake/On/Off, Volume, and Side Switch on the iPad
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Arranging and Organizing Apps on the iPad
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Home Button Features on the iPad
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Access All Your Apps from the iPad's App Library
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Searching your iPad
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4 Ways to Find and Delete an App on the iPad and iPhone
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Add Folders to your Home Screen on the iPad
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Use large Icons on the iPad's Home Screen
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Using Siri on the iPad
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Subscriptions and Purchase Location in the App Store
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Take and Mark Up Screenshots on the iPad
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Working with the iPad's Dock
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Notifications and the Notification Center on the iPad
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Switching between Open Apps
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How to Rename your iPad
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View iPad Storage
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Make the iPad easier to Read
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Background Sounds on the iPad with iPadOS 17 or older
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Sleep/Wake/On/Off, Volume, and Side Switch on the iPad
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iPad Basics27 Lessons
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Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo with iPadOS
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Delete and Offload Apps on the iPad
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Sharing from within Apps on the iPad
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Hide thumbnails when reading a PDF on an iPad
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Magnify the iPad screen with Display Zoom
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Select which App to open a Document With on the iPad
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Prevent In-App Ratings & Review Popups on the iPad
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Quickly Scroll to the Top of an App on the iPad
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Moving the Cursor with iPadOS
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New Compact Siri on the iPad
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New Pulldown Menu Enhancement on the iPad
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New Sidebar Enhancement on the iPad
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Using your Mac as a Second Display with Sidecar
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A Look at the Find My App on the iPad
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Using the iPad's Scrollbar
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Controlling the Cursor on the iPad
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Access the Today View on the iPad
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Exporting Documents as PDF on iPad: A Step-by-Step Guide
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Compress Images in Seconds on the iPad!
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Remove Downloads or Delete Files? How to Manage Your iPad Storage
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Managing subscriptions on iPad
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How to Zip and Unzip Files on the iPad
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Find out what's changed in your Favorite iPad Apps!
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Combine and Compress files on the iPad
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Finding text on web pages made easy in Safari on the iPad!
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App Privacy Report: Manage your Privacy on the iPad
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Discover How to Optimize Your iPad's Storage
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Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, and Redo with iPadOS
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Home Screen Basics18 Lessons
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Accessing the New Today View on the iPad
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Edit the Today View on the iPad
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Edit Widgets in the Today View on the iPad
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Creating Widget Stacks on the iPad
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Smart Rotate and Smart Stacks for Widgets on the iPad
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Select and Move Multiple Apps on the iPad
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View All your iPad Apps in the App Library
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Rearrange and Hide Home Screens on the iPad
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Add Widgets to the iPad's Home Screens
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Remove Apps from the iPad's Home Screen
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Shortcuts for Editing your Home Screen on the iPad
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Set Where New Apps are Download to on the iPad
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Delete Apps from your iPad through the App Store
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Save a Website to your iPad's Home Screen
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Access Your Favorite Websites with Just a Tap on Your iPad
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Find your Lost Apps on the iPad
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Apple Passwords App for the iPad? A Step-by-Step Guide
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9 Tips for Working with Apps on the iPad
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Accessing the New Today View on the iPad
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Keyboard and Dock Lessons for the iPad9 Lessons
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Keyboard Options for the iPad
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Hide Recent Apps in the Dock on the iPad
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Typing with QuickPath using the iPad's Floating Keyboard
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Enable Caps Lock and lock the Shift Key on the iPad
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Undock the Keyboard
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Float the iPad's Keyboard
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Splitting the iPad's Keyboard
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Add an Escape Key to the iPad's Smart Keyboard
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Discover the Power of Text Replacement on iPad
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Keyboard Options for the iPad
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Notifications and Control Center Lessons for the iPad7 Lessons
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Multitasking on the iPad5 Lessons
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iPad Settings10 Lessons
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Dynamically Position the iPad’s Volume Buttons
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Privacy Options with iPadOS
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Set Dark Appearance on the iPad
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Privacy Settings on the iPad
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Passcode Options on the iPad
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Do Not Disturb Options and Settings on the iPad
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iCloud Settings on the iPad
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iPad Settings and Searching the Settings App
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Search the Settings App on the iPad
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How to Extend Your Mac Display to Your iPad
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Dynamically Position the iPad’s Volume Buttons
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Accessibility Options for the iPad6 Lessons
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Require Attention for Face ID on the iPad
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Use VoiceOver to Speak Items on the iPad
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Set Display & Text Size for All Apps on the iPad
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Change Settings for Specific App with Per-App Settings on the iPad
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Set the Text Size for Individual Apps on the iPad
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Use your iPhone to control your iPad effortlessly from anywhere in the Room
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Require Attention for Face ID on the iPad
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Lessons for Older Versions of iPadOS4 Lessons
Add Widgets to the iPad’s Home Screens
Learn how to add widgets, including stack widgets, to your iPad’s Home Screens.
Did you know you could add widgets directly to the iPad’s home screen? You can stack them and add them to multiple home screens, much like you can on the iPhone. This was introduced with iPadOS 15. Learn about adding widgets to your iPad’s home screens in this video for the iPad.
Video TranscriptAnd this video, we’re going to look at adding widgets to your iPad’s home screen. This was introduced to the iPadOS 15. Let’s go to my iPad.Now, if you have an iPhone, you know that you can add widgets to your home screen. These widgets could be your latest Mail messages, latest News, or even the Weather. Well, we can now add these same widgets to our iPad home screen. It works very similar to how it works on the iPhone.
All we have to do is just go into our jiggly mode. To get into our iggly mode, I can tap and hold at any one of the app icons. But what I find easiest is to just tap and hold outside of an app icon. When I tap into hold outside of an app icon, it immediately goes into that jiggling mode. We can see that our app icons are joggling.
To add a widget, we just go up to the plus here, and from here I can select from all of my different widgets. So let’s go and add a Calendar. Tap on it. I select which widget I want. We’re going to go with this widget here. I can tap on Add Widget or what I can do is just drag this out and place it where I want.
So let’s go and drag this out. I just tap and hold on it. And then I drag it and I place it where I want. And it goes back to our widgets. Now I can add another widget. Let’s go with our News widget. I tap on. And then I select which widget size I want. And then I just drag it to my home screen again, and I can drag it to a different home screen if I wanted to.
Now, when I drag this, we can stack our widgets. When I drag this, what I am able to do is place it on top of another widget. But if you notice I can’t do that here. So how do I do that? Well, the easiest way is to just place it. And then once you place it, what you’re able to do is drag it on top of another widget. You’re going to see that this has two widgets. When you are finished, you just tap anywhere outside of an app icon. And now you’ve just placed your widget. I’m able to swipe through them because this is a stack.
If you want to edit any one of the widgets, let’s go over to my calendar, I want to edit this particular widget. If you tap and hold on it, you’re going to get a menu. And from here I can edit the stack or I can edit the calendar widget. So I tap on edit Calendar, and now I’m able to set which calendar I want to show in this widget.
If I wanted to edit the stack, then what I would do is I would tap and hold on this again. And then we go over to Edit Stack. When I tap on this, I’m able to edit my stack. I can turn on Smart Rotation as well as add Widget Suggestions. To remove a widget from a stack, you just tap on the minus in the upper left hand corner of the widget you want to remove. I tap outside here again to close it.
So that’s how we work with our widgets on the iPad. As you can see, it’s very similar to how it works on an iPhone, if you have an iPhone. Essentially what we have to do is go into our jiggly mode. I find it easiest to just tap outside of any app icon. If you tap on an app icon, you have to tap and hold a little bit longer because you’re going to get a menu that pops up. But if you just tap outside of an app icon, then what you’re able to do is go directly into that jiggle mode. Once all the apps are jiggling, you just go up to the plus in the upper left hand corner, select which widget you want and drag it onto your home screen. You can drag it to any one of your home screens to stack widgets. You just drag one widget on top of another. You may have to drag it to your home screen in order to get this. In some cases you can drag it directly from where all of your widgets are. And other cases I’ve found that you have to drag it to the home screen first and then drag it on top of another widget. So you may have to experiment with this a little bit, and then if you want to edit your widgets, you tap and hold on the widget and you can select from editing the actual widget that you’re looking at or editing the stack if it’s a stack of widgets.
So that’s how widgets work on the iPad.