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
Hide thumbnails when reading a PDF on an iPad
Learn how to hide a PDF’s thumbnails by opening it in the Books app on the iPad.
If you’ve ever opened a PDF on an iPad, you may have noticed that the thumbnails show on the left. While this can be handy to see what page you are looking at or looking for, when you are reading a PDF, it can be in the way. How can you remove it? One way is to open the PDF in the Books app on the iPad. The advantage to this is it then syncs across all our devices in the Books app, you can bookmark pages, and you can markup a PDF with an Apple Pencil. It also adds it to the PDF Collection in the Books app automatically. See how to open a PDF in the Books app in this video for the iPad.
Video TranscriptionIn this video, I’m going to show you how you can remove the sidebar when viewing a multi page PDF on the iPad. Basically, the way that we do this is by opening it up in the books app. An advantage to this is that you can also open up a PDF across all your different devices when it’s on the books app. Let’s see what I mean. Let’s go over to my iPad.
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Now first, let’s take a look at what happens when you open up a PDF on the iPad. Basically, when you open up a PDF, I’m going to go down to my files app here. And what I have here is a PDF. If we look at this, you’re going to see that we have all of the thumbnails for each page here on the left side. While that looks nice when you’re looking at the iPad, when it’s horizontal, it can take up some extra space. When you’re viewing the iPad in portrait mode. Maybe you do not want to see all these extra Pages here. What do you do? Well, in past versions of iPad OS, you used to be able to remove the sidebar. You can no longer do that with iPad os 15. That sidebar always shows. If I go up to these three horizontal lines. What it does is it allows me to open up my recent documents, my recent PDFs. That’s not what I want to do I want to hide the sidebar. Well, basically, the way that I found that works really well with this is by opening it up in the books app. And an advantage to it, as I mentioned in the introduction is when we open this up in the books app, we can now open it up across all of our different devices because it’s in the books app. So how do we do that? It’s pretty simple. Basically, all we have to do is go over to our share icon here. And when I share it, what I’m able to do is share it with the books app. When I select this, what it’s going to do is make a copy of that in the books app. And we can see now it is in my books app. So now when I’m viewing this, you’re gonna see it no longer has that sidebar. So how do I get to the thumbnails? Well, basically, all I do is just tap on it. And then down at the bottom, I can view all the different Pages. So if I wanted to go to a specific page, I can just click on it, and it takes me to that page.
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Another advantage of the books app is I can go and bookmark different Pages, I can highlight text. And as I mentioned, what it does is it syncs it across all of your different devices. It also places it into a PDF category. When I close this book, we click on the left arrow here, I click on it. To close it, you’re going to see that I have all of these different categories in my library. One of the categories here is PDFs. So now all I need to do is just click on this. And we can see that my PDF is in there, I didn’t have to add it in there. So I can easily find all of my PDFs within the books app. So now that we have it in the books app on the iPad, let’s take a look at this on the iPhone, all I need to do is go over to my books app here I have it on my home screen, I tap on it. And then from here, what I do is I go over to the PDF category. So now I just go down to my library here.
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This is where I’m going to be able to see all of my different collections. And one of the collections here is PDFs, I tap on it.
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And you’re going to see I have my mouse tracks here. Same thing with the Mac. If I go and open up my books app, let’s go ahead and open it up.
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And then we go over to my PDFs here, you’re going to see I have mouse tracks. All I did was just open that up in the books app on my iPad, and it added it to both my Mac and iPhone, and it placed it into the PDF collection.
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So that’s how we can get rid of those thumbnails. When we’re looking at a multi page PDF on the iPad. We do this by opening up in the books app, we just go to the share icon and then share with the books app. From there. What you’re going to be able to do is open it up on all of your different devices as well. It’s going to place it in the PDF collection. So that’s how you can get rid of those little thumbnails when you’re viewing a PDF on the iPad.