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
New Sidebar Enhancement on the iPad
Learn about the new Sidebar enhancement in iPadOS 14 on the iPad.
in this lesson for iPadOS 14 on the iPad, I look at the new Sidebar enhancement added. This new sidebar is available across different apps and gives a consistent look cross multiple apps. It can be hidden or set to be shown all the time. When it is hidden, in most cases, you can swipe to view the sidebar. Take a look a tthe new sidebar enhancement on the iPad with iPadOS 14.
Video Transcript (video also has closed captions):
In this video, we’re going to take a look at what Apple calls a new enhancement to iPadOS – the sidebar. With the sidebar, what Apple is doing is building a consistent look or feel across different apps, much like what we have on the Mac. On the Mac, when we open up our Photos app, we have a sidebar on the left side to choose our different albums.
If we go into a Finder window, we can browse the different files; we have a sidebar in that Finder window. Well, we have the same thing on the iPad. Now let’s take a look at this new sidebar. Let’s go to my iPad.
Let’s go and open up my Photos app. You’re going to see on the left side of my Photos app; I have a sidebar. With this sidebar, what I’m able to do is select my different albums. So if I swipe up here, I can select my videos or myself fees. I swipe up further. I have my shared albums here. This is the new sidebar what Apple calls an enhancement to iPadOS. Let’s take a look at the Files app. I’m going to press in on the Home button here, and now I’m going to go to my Files app.
You’re going to see; I have a sidebar again. I can go to my favorite folders. I can go to different locations. Now, depending on the app, the sidebar can be hidden. You’re going to see, we have this icon here, what this icon does when I tap on it, as it hides the sidebar. So I’m going to tap on it. The sidebar is hidden. I tap on it again. It shows. Also, when it is hidden, I’m going to hide it again; what I’m able to do is, I’m able to swipe to the right from the left edge here. And when I do, I get my sidebar. When I use this technique, I swipe over to the right from the left edge; the sidebar is what I would call a temporary sidebar.
I tap outside here. You’re going to see that the sidebar disappears. How do I get it back again? I go over to the left edge, swipe to the right. And it shows. If I want to show up permanently again, I no longer want to hide it. What I need to do is I need to go to that icon in the upper left-hand corner.
Well, if we look, that icon isn’t there. Well, what I have to do is I have to tap outside here to hide that sidebar. And then, I tap on this icon here to show it. We have the same thing in the Photos app. You’re going to see that this is pretty consistent. I go over to my Home button here to get to my home screen.
I tap on the Photos app. We have this icon here. I tap on it to hide it, tap on it again to show it. If it is hidden, I swipe over to the right to show it. I tap on any one of my photos, and it hides it again. Let’s go and take a look at my Pages app. I’m going to press in on the home button here, and now I swipe over to the left, and we’re going to go to pages again.
When I’m looking at all of my documents, I have my sidebar again, I can go and hide it, and I can go and show it by swiping to the right from the left edge. Tap anywhere to hide it again; tap on the icon to show it. And now I’ll no longer be hidden. When I’m in portrait mode, I’m going to rotate my iPad towards portrait.
The sidebar is hidden. So now, what I need to do is I need to go to the left edge here. And then I swipe over to the right. We have our sidebar. So it is always hidden when we are in portrait mode. But then when I go back to landscape mode, as long as I’m showing my sidebar, which I am here, it’s going to show.
Now you can see that the sidebar has been pretty consistent across three different Apple apps. Let’s look at it in the calendar app. It’s going to be slightly different. Now I go back over to my home button, and then I swipe over to the left. And we go over to calendar. When I tap on this again, I do have a sidebar, but the way that I showed is by tapping on one of these icons here in the upper left-hand corner.
So let’s go and tap on the calendar icon. When I tap on that, the sidebar shows for my different County. Let’s go and tap on the inbox here. This is all my invitations. Again, we can see what I’m looking at. My sidebar does not have any invitations here. If we go over to the list view, I can see all the different events in a list view in my sidebar to hide the sidebar and the calendar.
I tap on any one of these icons again to hide it. And now it is hidden. We still have that sidebar buddy behaves a little bit different with the calendar app. So that’s a look at the new sidebar on the iPad; Apple is calling the sidebar an enhancement. What they’re doing is they’re building a consistent look or feel across different apps this way.
When you open up a brand new app, you’ll already know how to get around that app because you’re going to see their sidebar on the left side. So that’s a look at the new sidebar enhancement on iPadOS 14.