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
Lift the Subject from the Background in a Photo on the iPad
Learn how to lift the subject out of a photo using copy and paste or with gestures on an iPad with iPadOS 16.
You can now lift the subject out of a photo on the iPad with iPadOS 16! This works from within any app, including Photos, Messages, and even Safari. You can then copy the subject from the photo using with copy and paste, or even gestures. In this video I show you how to use copy and paste as well as gestures to lift the subject with my iPad running iPadOS 16.
Video TranscriptionNow this feature where we can lift the subject out of a photo was introduced with iPad os 16. So if you’re using an older version of iPad OS, you’ll not be able to use this feature. Also, this feature is not specific to the Photos app, this works across multiple apps, I’m able to lift the subject out of a photo in my messages. If I had a photo in my notes, I’d be able to lift the subject out of a photo and my notes. This is not tied to a specific app, it’s just tied to the iPad. So let’s go and see how this works in the Photos app, and then I’m going to show you how it works in the Messages app, just so you can see how it works across multiple apps. Let’s go over to the Photos app.
Now the first thing that you’ll need to do is find a photo that has a clear foreground and background. This doesn’t work across all photos, you’re not going to be able to choose what is lifted, what happens is the iPad will look at the photo and see what is in the foreground. And then it lifted up as an example, when I go over to this photo here. If I wanted to lift the subject out of here, the iPad would not know what is the subject here, what is in the foreground. So I would not get good results with this. So to get the best results, we want to have a photo that has a subject, something in the foreground that it can separate from the background. As an example, when we go over to this photo here. This is from Disney’s Animal Kingdom, what I’m able to do is actually lift this mountain, this roller coaster up from the sky in the background, there is a clear distinction between the foreground and the background. To do that, all we have to do is just tap and hold on the subject. So I’m going to tap and hold on the mountain when I do that, you’re going to see a white line flash through the photo, it only takes about a second. It’s using machine learning to figure out what the subject is. And then from there, what I’m able to do is copy it and paste it into another app as an example. So I’m going to tap and hold and watch for that white line. There it is. And now what I’m able to do is take this photo here or this mountain, and lifted from the background. If I let go, what we have here is copy. So now what I’m able to do is copy this and you’re also going to see we have that white line outlining what the subject is. So I’m going to copy this.
Now what I can do is paste this into another app. Unfortunately, I can’t paste it on to a photo in the Photos app. So we can’t do any layering. But let’s go and open up my notes app. When I go to my notes app. And I create a new note. And I paste I just tap in here to paste, you’re going to see paste up towards the top here, watch what happens. We have my roller coaster there and it’s lifted from the background. Let’s go and do that again, I’m going to go back over to my photos app.
I’m going to show you how you can do this with gestures as well. And we’re going to go to a different photo. So I’m just going to tap on the care in the upper left hand corner to go back. And let’s take a look at this photo here with the elephant. Again, we can see that we have a good distinction between the foreground and background. So now all I have to do is just tap and hold on the elephant, we get our white line, we can see that it lifted the elephant there, I’m just moving my finger around. And now instead of letting go, I’m just going to keep holding on to the elephant here. And with my other hand, I’m going to swipe up to get to my home screen, we can see we have the elephant here. Now what I’m going to do is go to my notes app. And I’m going to create a new note, you’re going to see we have the green plus over here. And all I have to do is just let go and pasted that elephant in there.
Let’s see how we do this from another app. This time, what we’re going to do is go over to our messages app, I have this tool appear I would like to look that tool up out from the background. All I have to do is just tap on it to bring it into a bigger screen. And again, I just tap and hold and watch what happens. We have that white line and now from here I can lift it up. And if I swipe up and go over to my notes and create a new note. I can let go. And there it is with no background. I could have also used copy and paste. So that’s Now we looked the subject out of the background of a photo. Again, this was introduced with iPad os 16.
This does work within any app that you can open up a photo with just tap and hold on the photo. As long as it has a clear foreground, what you’ll be able to do is lift that subject in the foreground away from the background, and then you can copy and paste it or use gestures to bring it into another app. So that’s how you lift the foreground away from the background and how you can copy and pasted into other apps on the iPad.