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 (2nd 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 (1st and 2nd generation)
- Air pods (3rd 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.
