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The iPad IOS 17

The iPad IOS 17

The iPad iOS 17 was created because of one thing in mind, to ensure that Apple’s customers become more productive with their different devices. The iPad IOS 17 is even more capable by taking the iPad to a higher level.

There are new ways to personalise your iPad
There are beautiful new customs lock screen
There are more features to help you get more done

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There are updates to:
FaceTime
Messages
Improved Auto correct
Interactive widgets
Supports shared passwords
Air Tags
Air Pods
And Many More

Lock Screen

Personalised your Lock Screen

Transform your iPad by creating a stunning custom look for your lock screen
Select a jaw-dropping wallpaper like astronomy which is perfect for large display or kaleidoscope which animate as you rotate your iPad
There is a gallery of collection for inspiration to achieve your personal preference
Swipe through different options to choose from multiple locked screen
Locked screen can be paired with focus mode therefore locked screen can activate focus mode and vice versa

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Motion effect for Live Photo Wallpaper

This is an all-new motion effect for live photos that makes your lock screen feel more dynamic than ever when you iPad is awake and settles into your home screen when unlocked.

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Live Activities

Live activities give you the opportunity to stay on top of things happening in real time directly from your locked screen. You can keep track of the following

Food ordered
Flight update
Sport scores
And more

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Widgets on your Lock Screen

Widgets can be added to the lock screen either in landscape or portrait mode, there’s a widget bar on the left side of the display, the widget are displayed under time in the portrait mode. Favourite widgets can be added to the lock screen to view information immediately such as:

The weather
Time
Date Battery levels
Upcoming events
Clock
Health
Batteries
Notes
News
Sleep
Wallet
And more

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More about Lock Screen Customization and Widgets

You have the options to choose from a set of fonts style and colours to customise the:

Date and time
Style your photos to suit your preference
Shuffle through a set of dynamic photos thought out the day
Colour customisation allows you to create emoji and unique design
And more

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Interactive Widget

A tap allows you to do many things such as:

Play music
Turn off the lights
Mark a reminder without opening an app
And more

All directly from a widget, interactive widgets can be found on both the locked and home screen, third party apps can build interactively into their widgets as well.

It’s easy to interact with a widget from your home screen or lock screen:

Complete to do list
Play, pause a song or a podcast
Access your home control to get task done right now

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Message

iMessage app are now in one place

You can view things you send put the most with the new plus button like:

Photos
Audio messages
And your location

Swipe to view the rest of your iMessage apps

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Catch up and swipe to reply

If the first message gets lost in a conversation, you can jump to this message with a new catch-up arrow, you can now swipe to the right on any message to send a reply

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Search Filters

A combination of search filters will help you to quickly narrow your search to find a message that you are looking for thereby saving you time

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A new way to view and share locations

There are two things you could do, share your location, or request a friend’s location from the plus button. A location someone shares with you could be viewed directly within your conversation.

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Read an Audio message and transcription

Your audio messages can be transcribed therefore rad them straightaway or listen to them later.

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All your Stickers in one Place

There’s a new sticker drawer which gives you access to

Live stickers
Emoji
Memoji
And other stickers packed in one place

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Stickers

Create a unique Stickers

You can create live stickers with your own photo

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There’s also stylise live stickers with effects, add effects like:

Shinny
Puffy
Comic and outline
Create live stickers made with live photos

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Use your Stickers in more Places

You can find your sticker drawer in the Emoji keyboard therefore they can be used anywhere emoji can be accessed – including apps from the App store. Mark up stickers can be used to add stickers to:

Photos
Documents
Screenshots
And more

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FaceTime

Leave a message

A video or audio message can be recorded if someone misses your facetime call, capture your message in a video or audio, could be simply as saying “hello” or “sharing a special moment.”

All video effects that allow you to look your best in face time will be included, these effects include portrait mode and studio light. Your message can also be played on Apple watch.

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React with your Hands

A reaction that fills the camera frame can be done with the fund 3D augmented reality effects like:

Hearts
Confetti
Fireworks
And more

A reaction can be simply shared with a hand gesture

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FaceTime on Apple TV

The iPad can be used as a camera and start a call directly from the FaceTime app on Apple TV or hand off the call from your iPad to your TV.

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Health

Health app on the iPad

The health app was designed to be optimised for a larger display; rich details are offer in:

Favourites
Review
Trends and highlights
Interactive charts

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Mental Health

Reflect on your state of mind with the new features for mental health and discover valuable insights for the root of the problem. Access standardised assessments often used in clinics to understand your current risk to depression and anxiety. This could help you to decide if you need to consult a doctor.

The design was upgraded to accommodate iPads with wide screens and there’s a new look for favourites. You can easily search for something with the sidebar on the iPad and your data can be synced to the iPad through iCloud so that the followings are available:

Medications
Medical records
Trends
And highlights

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Vision Health

This offers you the opportunity to maintain a healthy viewing habits to protect your vision. The risk of myopia in children can be reduced with this new feature. Children should be encouraged to send more time outdoor in daylight and increase their viewing distance from the iPad.

Apple watch now has a feature that measures time in the daylight and parents can track in the health app with health sharing.

The new screen distance features on screen time uses the True Depth camera to encourage moving the iPad further away of it has been held closer than 30 centimetres for an extended period.

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PDFs and Notes

Autofill helps you to fill the Documents faster

You can easily save your information from contacts to fill out a PDF or scanned a document faster with the enhanced autofill

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View and Interact with PDFs in Notes

You can read and annotate a note within your PDF
The Apple pencil can be used to annotate or sketch on PDFs and scanned documents.
The scanned PDFs and documents are presented full width in your note, which makes it easier to get thing done
You can quickly flip to a page of the paper you’re either previewing or reviewing even on multiple PDFs in the same note.
Receive real time updates as you collaborate on PDFs with others, mark a document, draw a diagram, or add a sticker – all these changes will appear on the collaborator’s device.

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Note App

This notes app presents you with news ways to:

Organised your ideas
Enjoy reading
Annotate vital part of a document
And collaborate on a PDF

The PDF appears in full width which make it easy to:

Skim through pages
Make quick annotations
Sketch directly into a document with an Apple pencil

Link Related Notes

Are there notes that are related? if yes, they could be easily link for easy viewing or reference, links can be quickly added from one note to the other

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Stage Manager

This feature was updated so that users are given more options for the position and the size of the stage manager windows to provide and improved multi-tasking experience. Stage manager also allows you to use built in cameras on an extended display.

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Freeform App

This app has been upgraded with new drawing tools:

It features hover and tilt on Apple pencil
Snap to shape
Connect lines and shapes for objects
A guild line for collaborators
Water colour brush
Calligraphy pen
Highlighter
Variable – width pen
And a ruler

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Safari and Passwords

Create a Profile

You can browse separately of you create different profiles for something like work and personal profiles in safari, the profiles help you to separate various activities such as:

History
Extensions
Tab groups
Cookies
Favourites

You can easily switch between profiles as you browse.

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Faster and more Accurate search

Relevant suggestions are more real and easier to read and search in safari is much responsive compared to the past.

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An upgrade to Private Browsing

You won’t have to worry about data on your browsing windows being exposed because it gets locked by private browsing if not in use. Trackers are completely blocked form loading on pages and identifying trackers added to URL as you browse are also remove.

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Received autofill verification code via email

One-off verification codes you receive in mail are filed in automatically, therefore you can log in without leaving Safari.

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Password and Passkey Sharing

A password can be shared with trusted contacts

A set of accounts can be shared among created groups and password will be up to date for everyone in the group. You can remove anyone in the group at any time.

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Keyboard

Autocorrect is more accurate

You get more support from auto correct as you type, autocorrect words are underlined temporarily so you know what needs to be changed and revert to the original word with a tap.

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Predictions in line as you type

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Spotlight

App Shortcuts in Top Hit

If you are searching for an app, spotlight will intelligently offer you an app shortcut to your next action with a feature called the Top Hit. If you search for a music, you can jump straight to your favourite album.

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Rich Visual Results

Familiar app colours and icons will help you to find what you are looking for quicker in the search result.

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Siri

Once Siri is activated, you can issue multiple request back-to-back without having to reactivate it.

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Airplay

Smart Device Suggestions

Airplay learns your preferences overtime with the on-device intelligence, devices in the airplay list are now shown by relevance. iPad OS proactively suggest connections based on your preferences.

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Airplay in your Hotel Room

Airplay will be available in supporting hotel rooms before the end of the year. You can scan the QR code of your room TV and securely share:

Video
Photos
And Music

All from your iPad to the TV.

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Air pods

Adaptive Audio

The air pod Pro (2^nd generation) comes with a new listening mode, the adaptive audio dynamically blends transparency and active noise cancellation to tailor the noise control experience as you move between changing environment and interactions throughout the day.

Adaptive audio helps you to focus on your favourite control content or seamlessly interact with others around you while wearing the Air Pods Pro.

Machine learning helps you to personalise the volume to fine tune your media experience based on your preferences over tine and the environment around you.

If you start speaking to someone nearby, conversation awareness automatically lowers any media volume, reduces the background noise, and enhances the voices in front of you.

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Press to mute or unmute

Quickly mute and unmute yourself on a call while using Air Pods:

Air Pods Pro (1^st and 2^nd generation)
Air pods (3^rd generation)
And Air Pod Max

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Switch devices without missing a Beat

You can move easily between Apple devices while using your Air Pod because the update to automatic switching makes it easier, faster, and more reliable.

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Privacy and Security

Communication Safety

Sensitive videos and phots are not protected with communication safety, it extends beyond message to include content sent and received in:

Airdrop
The systemwide photo picker
FaceTime messages
Contact posters in the Phone app
And third-party apps

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Sensitive Content Warning

Sensitive photos and videos can now be blurred before you decide to view them in and this feature is available in:

Messages
Airdrop
Contact poster in the phone app
FaceTime messages
And third-party apps

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Improved Permission

Have more control over the things you share

Apps allows you to choose the photo you love to share within an app and keep the rest of the photo in your library private. An all can also be allowed to add an event in Calendar and the app cannot view your other events.

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Lockdown Mode

Your device is protected against brutal cyber attacks with the expanded lockdown mode, turn it on across your multiple Apple devices including the Apple watch.

In Conclusion

What ever model of the iPad you have, apart from the ones that might not be compatible with this update, iPad OS 17 will give you various experience about how to interact with your iPad in many unique ways.

The Complete Guide to iPad OS 16 various Features

iPad OS 16

You can do more than ever with the iPad OS 16, because it has redefined how you network with people, helps to increase your productivity. Apps across the system are more intuitive, more customisable, and more capable.

Redesigned Lock Screen

The lock screen was upgraded with a new design and highly customizable with a different range of options for:

Widgets
Typefaces
Multilayer effects for images
Animated wallpaper
Users can create multiple different lock screens linked to focus modes.

Photos

iCloud share photo library

If you set up or join a shared photo, you can choose to contribute past photos based on a start date or the people in the photos. After setting up the Shared library, you can share photos instantly straight from the camera, you can also choose to share automatically when other share library members are nearby and get Smart suggestions for adding photos to the Shared library in for you.

Smart ways to share

You have the option to choose what to include based on a start date or the people in the photos. After setting up the shared library you can share photos manually or get smart suggestion for adding photos to the shared library.

Sync, edit and make changes everywhere

Everyone has equal permission for adding and editing, photos in this shared library. You can also sync favourites, and keywords, therefore if one person organises the collection, everyone gets the benefit.

Messages

Enhance everyday messages

You can now recall a message you’ve just sent or also edit a message before being sent. A message can be marked as unread if you’re able to respond now and want to check it out later.

Video

Share play via messages

Listen to a new song, what’s the latest episode of your favourite TV shows with friends while chatting about in the message app. Share playback control always ensures that you’re always in sync.

Richer collaboration

You can collaborate instantly by sharing:

Notes
Presentations
Reminders
Safari tab groups and more in messages.

Check updates on share projects in the thread and easily get in touch with your collaborators directly from the app you’re working on.

Live Activities

This is a new feature which will help you to track things happening in real-time, things such as:

Sports game
Workout
Ride-share
Delivery

This is all from your locked screen, Live activities come in a card form at the bottom of the locked screen which persists if the activities are live.

Improvement in Focus Mode

IOS 15 came into being last year, so also was a focus mode, which has been expanded and refined in IOS 16, watch 9, and macOS Ventura.

Mail

Improved search

The Search feature delivers accurate and complete results which also provide suggestions before you start typing. There are new features to:

Schedule emails
Cancel delivery
Receive follow up reminders

If you wrongly sent an email, don’t worry because the email can be recalled, schedule messages to be sent at any time, you will get a reminder to follow up on a message or come back to it later. Rick links can be inserted to email.

If you forget to include a recipient or an attachment, you will get a notification prompting you if you would like to add a recipient or an. Image.

Safari and passkeys

Pass keys introduces a more secured way to sign in

Passkeys introduce a new sign in method that is an end-to-end encrypted and prevents users from phishing and data exposure. The passkey is stronger because of its unique feature compared to other two authentication types. Passkey can also be used on non-Apple Devices.

Share tab groups

You can now start FaceTime, share tabs and bookmarks straight from Safari. You could be planning a business presentation with a business partner; all tabs can be shared in one place. If you discover an idea that will be beneficial it can also be added to the tab.

Stage manager

Introducing the stage manager

The new stage manager is a great way to multitask and save time. You can resize Windows based on personal preferences and for the first time on the iPad you can see multiple overlapping windows in a single view.

Switch between apps

You can switch seamlessly between apps with just a tap with a click of the mouse or Trackpad.

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Create your ideal workspace

Create different groups of apps for specific tasks or projects, arrange, resize, and overlap them in your ID layout.

External display support

User’s external display will function with iPad Pro and iPad Air with up to 6K resolutions when using stage manager. Multiple apps can be viewed on both the iPad and the external display. Users can drag and drop files between screens.

New display modes

Display Zoom

Display zoom offers more screen space to work with, view more in your app by increasing the density of the display, this is particularly helpful when using split view or stage manager.

Reference mode

Users don’t need a spare monitor for the workflow, the iPad can be used as a standalone device or as a reference display using a sidecar on your Mac. The 12.9 inch can now display reference colour for popular colour standard, as well as SDR and HDR video formats.

Enlarge your workspace screen with the Display Zoom by increasing the pixel density of the display. It allows you to view more in your apps, this is particularly helpful when using split view or stage manage.

Weather

Weather on the iPad

The weather app is now available on the iPad. You can explore full screen maps with beautiful animations on large iPad display.

Tap for deeper data

You can check details about air quality, local forecast and more by tapping forecast modules. Get hourly forecast for the next 10 days, minute by minute precipitation intensity over the next hour.

Government notification provides severe weather updates and events such as:

Tornadoes
Winter storms
Flash foods
And more

Games

Redesign game centre dashboard

You can see what your friends are playing and view their achievements. Find out when they beat your high score, so you can go and beat theirs.

Play together with share play

It’s very simple to join and play games together with share play. Start a share play session by enabling the multiplayer game that uses game centre and invite your friends to play together.

Metal 3 developers can take their games to the next level, and metalFX upscaling helps games render complex scene faster – by applying intelligent upscaling with temporal anti-aliasing – for an increase frame rate that creates a responsive feel and breathtaking visual quality.

Live Text for video

You can pause a video on any frame that contains text to use familiar interactions like:

Copy
Translate
Look up
Share and More

Live Text Quick Actions

It’s much easier now to:

Call a phone
Visit websites
Convert currencies
Translate Languages
Do more with Photos
Do more with Videos
Do more with Camera

Home

Reimagined Home App

The home app is more efficient than ever because it was reinvented, navigate all your smart home accessories with the new design from the home tab. Access relevant accessories with just a tap with new categories for:

Climate lights
Security
And more

And a multi-camera view that puts your smart home cameras front and centre.

Matter Support

Matter is a smart home connectivity standard; it enables a wide variety of smart home accessories to work together across platforms. You can easily control your Matter and HomeKit- enabled accessories with the home app and Siri. If you are looking for the best choice and compatibility regarding accessories in your home turn to matter because it helps to maintain the highest level of security.

Family Sharing – Caring Family

Child Account Management with no Stress

The parental control gives you the advantage of creating accounts for your children from the beginning. There are options to decide age preferences for the right media screen time, location sharing and more screen. Receive a message about screen time from your kids in messages and decide to approve or decline their request.

Set up a new Device for a Child

Are you trying to set up a new iPad or iPhone? You can use quick start and your current device to set up a new one for your child as well as activating all the parental control features.

Family Checklist

If you want to get the best out of family sharing there are helpful tips and suggestions such as updating the settings as your kids gets older, activating location sharing or getting a reminder that you can share your iCloud + subscription with everyone.

Desktop – Class Apps

New Features and Interactions

Become more Productive with countless App Enhancements

The latest IOS makes it much easier to manage your task daily such as

Your appointments in your Calendar
Finding and merging cards
Creating groups in Contact
Redo and Undo in more Places
Review file extensions
View folder size in files
Using find and replace

You can check a document menu with commonly used actions like:

Duplicate
Rename
Export
Print

Quite useful most especially when using apps like photos and files, the toolbar can also be customised to add apps that are more important to you.

The introduction of Freeform

Freeform allows you to collaborate to save time and be more productive, it also helps to bring ideas to life. You can jot and sketch notes with the Apple Pencil and do the followings:

Share documents
Insert web links
Share videos
Share audios
Share files

Security and Privacy

Apple tries as much as possible to stay ahead regarding security and privacy issues, therefore there are security improvements between normal software updates so that your device is up to date and protected against any security threats.

Photo albums that are recently hidden and deleted are locked by default; the iPad authentication code can unlock them using:

Face ID
Touch ID
Passcode

Accessibility

Door Detection

Locate a door by navigating the final few feet to your destination, you can detect how far it is and find out how to gain entrance. Door detection will also produce important details such as room numbers and wheelchair-accessible symbols.

Buddy Controller

Whenever you need help, you can combine two controllers into one during a game. Two wireless game controllers can be linked to drive a single player and get to the next level while playing your favourite game on

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iPad
MacBook

Apple News

My Sports

Keep track of your favourite leagues and teams and be up to date, get access to the best stories from hundreds of national and local publications. Enjoy highlights and get the latest:

Scores
Fixtures
And rankings in your news feed.

Spotlights

Get in depth results, good suggestions, and even more images result from apps like messages, notes, and files. Start a timer or run a short cut directly from the spotlight.

Notes

Use your device passcode to lock a note, get rid of having to remember multiple passwords. Smart folders come with a new customisable filter that allows you to organise based on:

Creation
Date
Attachments
Checklists
And more

There are pencil and other drawing features which helps you to:

Add shapes
Text boxes
Arrows
Rotate images
Reminders

Favourite lists can be pinned for easy access, today and schedule lists are now grouped items by date and time, which makes it easier to view and add reminders. You can create, save, or share lists as templates to reuse them for routine tasks. View all your completed reminders in one place with the all-new completed list along with details like the time the tasks were completed.

Handoff in FaceTime

Transfer a call from your MacBook to your iPhone or iPad with a simple tap and the connected Bluetooth headset will switch over as well. You can switch devices during a facetime call without missing out.

Stock

The tickers you follow can be easily organise by creating multiple watch lists, symbols can be grouped by the criteria of your choice such as:

Asset types
Ownership status
And more

Upcoming company’s earnings reports can be added to your calendar and get even more information briefly with new widget options.

Memoji

The new Memoji allows you to express yourself with new stickers and customisation options like:

Nose shape
Headgear
And hairstyles that showcase natural hair texture and curl patterns

There are new Memoji contact stickers which adds more personality to your contact app.

Translate

The camera in the translate app helps you to translate text around you, zoom in for a closer look and pause the view to get the translation overlaid on text in a photo. Text can also be translated in photos from your photo Library.

Focus

This new update allows users to decide the apps and people to receive notifications from after setting up focus, there are option to allow or silence people and app. Set boundaries in Apple apps like calendar and messages by hiding contact at are distracting with focus filters.

Maps

Users can incorporate multiple stops into their route in advance, directions checked on the iPad can also be look up in the iPhone when you are setting out. Total cost of journeys by public transport can also be viewed all on the maps.