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
Select which App to open a Document With on the iPad
Learn how to select which app you’d like to open a document with on the iPad.
Did you know you could select which app you want to open a document with on the iPad? As an example, you can tell the ipad to open a movie in iMovie or VLC. Or have an image open in Photos or Photoshop Express. You do this by ‘sharing’ the document. See how to select which app you want to open a document with in this video for the iPad.
Video TranscriptSo I have some images in my files app. I’m going to go down. My files app here. And when we open it up, I’m looking at my iCloud Drive. When I opened this up, you’re going to see that I have here a movie. Now, when I open this movie up, what it’s going to do is just open this up in the iPad. So let’s go ahead and click. And we can see it, open it up.
If I want to play this, I just tap on the play button here. But what I would like to do is open this up in another app. I have a third party app VLC installed on my iPad. I want to open up this movie in VLC. How do I do that? Well, all we need to do is just go to our share icon. So when I go to the upper right hand corner, you’re going to see that.
My share icon here. When I click on this, what I’m able to do is open this up or select which app I want to open it up in, including VLC. So all I have to do is just click on this and it’ll open up in VLC. We can open it up in any one of these apps here. So if I wanted to open this up and I movie, I couldn’t do that as well.
I can also select which apps to open it up and down below. You may see a list of apps down here where you can open it up in, let’s go to an image file. So what I’m going to do is tap on done here in the upper left hand corner. And now we’re going to go to an image file here. So I have this image here. I click on it to open it up.
I go over to my share icon in the upper right-hand corner. And. What I’m able to do is select which app I want to open it up in, but also you’re going to see down at the bottom. I do have Photoshop express installed on my iPad. I can also open this up in Photoshop express. So in addition to finding the different apps up here, we can also find them in the lists down here.
Now you can also do this from within an app. Let’s go over to my photos app. So I’m going to swipe up here and let’s open up my photos app. I want to open up this photo here in Photoshop express. How do I do that? Well, all we have to do is go to the share icon again. So I go up to the upper right-hand corner.
I have the share icon here. I select. And then you’re going to see all of the different apps. I can open it up in including Photoshop express. Now, unfortunately we cannot tell a document to open up in a specific app by default. On the Mac. What we can do is we can tell our Mac to always open up this type of document in a specific app.
We can’t do that on the iPad, but we can do it on a file by file basis. All we have to do is just open up the document to where we can see the share icon. When you see the share icon, tap on that and share it with the app. You want to open it up. Depending on which type of document you have open, you may see different options available to you.
So if it’s an image, you may see Photoshop express. If you have Photoshop express open, if it’s an Excel spreadsheet, you may see Excel as opposed to numbers. So your options will change depending on what type of document you have. So that’s how we set what we want to open up a document with on the iPad.