iPad Tips & Lessons
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Classes on using the iPad4 Lessons
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New in iPadOS 184 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 Basics28 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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Screenshot and Screen Recordings on the iPhone
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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
Remove Apps from the iPad’s Home Screen
Learn how to add and remove app from the iPad’s Home Screen and keep them in the iPad’s App Library.
Did you know you could add and remove apps from the iPad’s Home Screen, while keeping them available in the App Library? This was introduced with iPadOS 15 and it is a great way to place apps that you seldom use, but you do not want to delete them. You can always find them on your iPad’s App Library, but they are not taking up any Home Screen space. See how to add and remove apps from your Home Screen while keeping them in the App Library in this video for the iPad.
Video TranscriptIn this video, I’m going to show you how you can remove an app from the iPad, but still keep it in the App Library. This was introduced in iPadOS 15. Let’s see how this works. Let’s go to my iPad.So I’m looking at my iPad here and I have this app here, the iTunes Store. What I would like to do is I would like to remove this. I no longer want to have this taken up valuable real estate on my iPad. Now, the way that we used to do this in the past is we would put it on a different Home Screen. We basically hide it by putting it away in a different Home Screen. We can also bury it in a folder.
Well on the iPad now, what we’re able to do it, this was introduced with iPadOS 15, what we’re able to do is hide an app from our home Screen Here, but we can still find it in our App Library. I have a separate video on the App Library. The App Library shows us every app that we have on our iPad. So now what I’m able to do is just have any app just showing our library, but not show on our Home Screen.
So how do we do that? Well, all we have to do is just go over to the app that we want to remove. So let’s go with our iTunes Store here. I tap and hold it, and you’re going to see Remove App. Another way of doing this as going into the jiggly mode and then tapping on the minus.
So I tap on this to remove it, and when we do that you’re going to see I have two options. I can delete the app or can remove it from the Home Screen. If I delete the app, what it’s going to do is remove it from the iPad. So I’m going to have to download it again if I want to use that app again. So if it’s an app that you never use, what you may want to do is just delete it.
But if it’s an app that you want to keep, but you do not want to have it on one of your Home Screens, then what I would recommend doing is removing it from the Home Screen. When you do that, it removes it from the Home Screen. You can see it as no longer there, but it is still on the iPad.
So how do I find it? Well we just go over to our library. I’m going to show this as a list. I just swipe down here to see a list of all of my apps. And when I swipe up, that was the iTunes app or the iTunes store, you’re going to see it as still there. So what I’m able to do is tap on this to open it back up. So it’s not on any one of my Home Screens, but it is in my library.
Let’s reverse this. I want to place this back on my Home Screen. How do I do that? Well, we just go into our library, which is what I’m looking at right here. And I just drag this out. It’s not going to remove it from the library, but what it is going to do is place it on my Home Screen here. So now we have my iTunes store again. And if I go to my library here, remember it, doesn’t remove it from the library, you’re also going to see that it is in my library. Every app resides in this library. You can’t remove it from this library unless you remove it from the iPad altogether.
So to remove an app, all we have to do is just tap and hold it, and you’re going to see Remove App, or I can go into the Jiggly mode and tap on the minus. I tap on Remove App, and from here I’m able to delete the app or remove from the home screen. If I delete the app, it’s going to remove it from the iPad altogether. It’s going to delete it. If I remove it from the Home Screen, it’s still going to be on my iPad. I’m still going to have access to it. You will find it in the App Library. If you want to take an app from the App Library back over to your home screen, you just go into the App Library and drag it over to your Home Screen.
So that’s how we remove apps from our Home Screen, as well as delete them on the iPad.