iPad User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for models with Face ID
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off the sounds
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPad
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPad using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Accessories included with iPad
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Connect to a TV, projector, or monitor
- Control audio on multiple devices
- Apple Pencil
- Use Smart Keyboard and Smart Keyboard Folio
- Use Magic Keyboard
- AirPrint
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Instant Hotspot
- Personal Hotspot
- Transfer files with iTunes
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPad using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
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- Guided Access
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Zoom an app to fill the screen
- Get information about your iPad
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPad software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
- Copyright
Share photos and videos on iPad
Share photos and videos from the Photos app in Mail or Messages, or other apps you install. Photos even selects your best photos from an event and recommends people you may want to share them with.
Share photos and videos
Share a single photo or video: While viewing the photo or video, tap , then choose how you want to share.
Share multiple photos or videos: View photos by moment, album, or Memory. Tap Select, choose the photos you want to share, tap , then choose a share option.
The size limit of attachments is determined by your service provider. iPad may compress photo and video attachments, if necessary.
You can share a Live Photo using iMessage, Shared Albums, AirDrop, and more. A shared Live Photo plays in Photos on any iOS device with iOS 9 or later or a Mac with OS X 10.11 or later. For devices or services that don’t support Live Photos, a Live Photo is shared as a still photo.
Tip: Photos you share with an iCloud link can be shared using any app. Each iCloud link is unique and remains available for 30 days.
Share photos with Sharing Suggestions
Sharing Suggestions recommends a set of photos from an event that you may want to share, and based on the people in the photos, who you may want to share the photos with. After you share your photos, the recipients are prompted to share their photos from the event with you. Sharing Suggestions requires iCloud Photos.
Tap the For You tab, then tap a photo collection in Sharing Suggestions.
Tap Select to add or remove photos, then tap Next.
Photos suggests sharing the photos you took with the people who were also at the event. You can choose who to share with, as well as add others.
Tap Share in Messages.
To send the link to more friends, or to stop sharing it, tap the collection, tap , then choose Copy iCloud Link or Stop Sharing.
To remove a photo collection from Sharing Suggestions, tap , then tap Remove Sharing Suggestion.
See the Apple Support article Use Sharing Suggestions in Photos.
Save or share a photo or video you receive
From email: Tap to download the item if necessary, then tap . Or, touch and hold the item, then choose a sharing or saving option.
From a text message: Tap the photo or video in the conversation, tap , then choose a sharing or saving option.