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
Set Where New Apps are Download to on the iPad
Learn how to set if you want new apps downloaded to your Home Screen and App Library, or just your App Library.
When you download a new app on the iPad, by default it downloads to your Home Screen. Introduced in iPadOS 15, you can now set if you want it to download to both your Home Screen and App Library, or just the App Library. This way you can keep you Home Screens the way you want and have new apps only install to the App Library. If you want it on a Home Screen, you can easily install it on your Home Screen by dragging it from the App Library. See how to set where new apps are downloaded to on the iPad.
Video TranscriptIn this video, we’re going to look at how we can set where apps are downloaded on the iPad. We can have them download or installed on our Home Screens and the App Library, or just the App Library. Now, being that we’re working with the App Library, you do have to have at least iPad OSS 15 on your iPad. This was introduced with iPadOS 15. If you’re using an older version of iPadOS, it will always be installed, your apps will always be installed on your Home Screen. But with iPadOS 15, we can now set where we want it to download. Let’s see how this works. Let’s go to my iPad.Now, as I mentioned in the introduction with iPadOS 15, Apple introduced the App Library. This is where I can find all of my apps. I tap on this, I can see my App Library. I swipe down, I can see all of my apps in alphabetical order. Every one of these apps is installed on my iPad, but also when I download an app, what it does is it also installs it on my Home Screen. So any new apps that I add to my iPad are going to show up on my Home Screens. As I add more apps, it’s also going to add more Home Screens.
Well, now that we have our App Library, what we can do is we can tell the iPad to only install new apps in the App Library. So then it doesn’t change our Home Screens here. So how do we do that? Well, all we have to do is just go into our Settings app and then we go over to Home Screen and Dock. You’re going to see an option for Newly Downloaded Apps. From here, what I am able to do is set it to Add to the Home Screens, or App Library only.
Now, if I do set it for adding it to the Home Screen, it is also going to add it to my library. Again, every app installed on your iPad is going to show up in your App Library.
So right now, the way that I have my iPad set is any app that I download from the App Store is going to be added to my Home Screen and to the App Library. Let’s go and change it to App Library. Now, if I go and add a new app from the App Store, it is only going to be installed on the App Library.
Now let’s say you install an app and it installs it in the App Library, and it did not install it on your Home Screen. Because you have it set for App Library only. How do you move that app from the App Library to your Home Screen? Maybe it’s an app that you use quite a bit. So you want to place it in your Dock or on one of your Home Screens. Well, it’s pretty simple. Let’s go and press in on the Home Button, and now let’s say I installed an app. I installed Dark Sky. It’s in my App Library here. I want to place it on my Home Screen. Well, all you have to do is just open up your App Library. You find the app, I’m just going to swipe down here, and then I swipe up until I find Dark Sky. I want to install this on my Home Screen. All I do is just drag the out and place it on my Home Screen. And now we can see we have Dark Sky on my Home Screen. And again, it is also in my App Library, again because every app on your iPad is located in your App Library.
So that’s how you can set where apps are downloaded to on your iPad. This was introduced with iPadOS 15 and the App Library. Basically what we’re able to do is set new apps to be downloaded to our Home Screen and the App Library, or just the App Library. So if you like how your home screens are set, I would recommend leaving it for installing in the App Library. If you like an app after you install it, you can just drag it out of the App Library and place it on one of your Home Screens. It’ll still remain in your App Library.
So that’s how we can set where apps are installed on the iPad.