The Complete Guide to iPad OS 15

The iPad OS 15 IS Magical

You can achieve a lot with your iPad, the IOS 15 will help you to take the iPad’s versatility further. This helps you to save more time because the IOS 15 makes tasks completion much easier, finding and organising information hasn’t been much easier with the IOS 15.

 

Multitasking

Working with great multiple apps on the iPad is much easier, all thanks to the large screen. You might have a Mini iPad, according to review the next iPad mini 6 will come with a wider screen.

 

 

Apple seems to be paying more attention to the screen so that people can get more done in less time. Multitasking is compulsory in this tech age because there are so many things to achieve at the same time. The IOS 15 helps you to take your productivity to a whole new level. The iPad OS 15 makes multi-tasking:

• Easier to achieve more
• Easier to navigate
• More powerful

New Multitasking Menu

The new multitasking menu helps you to

• Create a full screen
• Slide over
• Split view
• Centre window to work on multiple apps at once

Choose an App

Access your home screen when you select a multi-tasking layout, you can choose the various apps that you want to work with at the same time.

 

 

Split View

Apps will appear side by side, select the app you want to replace and swipe down from the top, then select a new one from the home screen.

 

 

 

Centre Window

If you want to bring a note or message to the centre of the screen, all you need to do is touch and hold the note or the message, without leaving your current view. The multitasking menu will also appear as well.

The New Shelf

Add and close windows, view all open windows for an app and switch between them with ease with the new shelf.

App Switcher

App switcher is a feature that now allows you to create split spaces in one screen. To create a split view just drag one app over the other.

 

 

 

Keyboard Shortcuts

View a list of all the shortcuts by attaching the keyboard to your iPad. To view a shortcut for an app, just press and hold the command key for multitasking and more as well.

Widgets and App Library

The iPad has a lot of amazing things to offer most especially in conjunction with amazing apps. The app library automatically organises the apps for you. You can view your information briefly, directly on the home screen with the new widget.

 

Widgets on the Home Screen

Take advantage of the iPad canvas because of the new larger widget size, which allows you to place widgets among apps on your iPad.

 

 

 

All – new Widgets

Some features with new Widgets are:

• Find my
• Contacts
• Game Centre
• App Store
• Mail

A lot of widgets now come with bigger sizes.

App Library

The App library is now on the iPad. The apps are automatically organised into useful categories like productivities and games. It’s built into the dock for quick access.

 

 

Quick Notes and Notes

Apple claims iPad is the world’s best note – taking device. Note now goes systemwide with quick notes which is a fast and easy way to get a note irrespective of what you are doing.

 

 

Record anything in a Quick note

You can add:

• Handwriting
• Links
• Safari Highlights
• Tags
• Mentions

Getting important names, numbers, and ideas as re very easy.

Thumbnails appear in context

You can add a link from an app or highlight a text in safari, a quick note thumbnail will appear the next time you visit the site.  This will take you straight to your last viewed, a quick note recorded on your iPad will sync with your MacBook and iPhone.

 

View all Quick notes

All quick notes are accessible in the notes app.

 

 

 

 

 

Organise and notify

To get quick access to a note all you need to do is tag the note using # symbol and a keyboard. You will find it later in the tag browser, you can also view what others have added to your share note plus the activity view and notify them with mentions. To notify someone in a note, type the name and it will be highlighted.

 

New Experiences – True Connections

Saying in touch is more vital than ever. Share play means:

• Watch together
• Listen together
• Share your screen time with FaceTime

An improvement to face time calls means it sounds and feel more natural, messages also make it much easier to find and enjoy a great content share with friends and family.

FaceTime

Introducing Share Play

Enjoy your TV shows and movies and keep the face time conversation going at the same time. Share Play also allows you to listen to music and share your screen. This is a new way to experience relationships with family and friends no matter the distance.

Watch Together

While on Facetime call with friends, you can stream movies and TV shows at the same time. Watch everyone laugh, jump, and react to the same moments at the same time with sync playback and controls. The volume will adjust automatically so that you can keep talking while watching.

 

 

 

Listen Together

Get your friends together and listen to an album, people can see the next song on the list and even add a song to the queue with synced playback and easy to use control.

 

 

 

 

Share your Screen

Facetime call allows you to share your screen with everyone. You can browse flat to rent, swipe through a photo album or plan your next holiday as a group. You will see and talk to each other as you make the plans.

 

Spatial audio

It helps conversation to flow more naturally because individuals’ voices sounds as if they are coming from the direction from where they are positioned.

 

 

Grid View

You can have a better conversation with a large group because grid view shows people on your FaceTime call in tiles of the same size. You will always know the current speaker because he or she will be highlighted.

 

Portrait Mode

The focus is on you and not the object behind you because the video effect inspired by the portrait mode in the camera.

 

 

 

 

Mic Modes

You don’t have to struggle to put your voice at the front and centre because voice isolation will minimise the background noise. If the music around you is as important as what you have to say, the wide spectrum will leave the ambient sound unfiltered.

 

 

 

Invite anyone to Facetime

Send a link to family and friends to connect on facetime, irrespective of the platform – Window or Android. It’s still end to end encrypted therefore you call is as private and secure as any other facetime call.

 

Messages and Memoji

The share with you section in the corresponding app now features links, images and other content shared with you in messages. Reply straight to messages from the app without going back to the message.

 

 

Share with you in Apps

Share with you is built in:

• Photos
• Safari
• Apple News
• Apple Music
• Apple Podcast
• Apple TV app

New Memoji

Express yourself with new stickers and choose outfits for your memoji. Multicoloured headgear will help you to create a look and style you desire. The accessibility customisation now includes:

• Cochlear implants
• Oxygen tubes
• Soft helmets

 

Photo Collections

Messages now showcase your photos as a collage or an elegant stack of images which you can swipe through. You can view them all as a grip or add a quick tap back. Save them to your library with a few taps.

 

 

 

Be in the moment

Prioritise your time in a new way with a new powerful set of tools which gives you more control. This helps you to find a balance and stay focus on whatever you’re doing now.

Focus

Choose a Focus

Focus is everything if you’re trying to stay in the moment so that you can concentrate on the issue at hand. Notifications can be selected from a focus, get work done whilst in the zone or enjoy a distraction free dinner. There are ranges of suggested focus or create your own.

Signal your Status

If you don’t want to be disturb when you’re busy, engage focus and your status will be automatically displayed in messages. There’s still a way for people to get through to you in case of urgent messages.

 

Notifications

Notification was redesigned with a new look which includes:

• Contact
• Photo
• Large app icons

The new design makes it easier to identify them.

 

 

Notification Summary

Notifications are delivered daily based on the schedule set by you, so that you can quickly catch up with the collection of notifications received. Notifications are listed in order of priority in other words the most relevant shows up first.

 

 

 

A different view of looking at the World

This is exploration at its best, incredible detail are delivered through the map which goes further than taking you from point A to point B. There are more options of exploring through Safari.

 

 

 

Safari

Streamlined tab bar

The new tab bar was designed to create more space on the page and adjust to the colour of the site you are visiting. It extends your webpage to the edge of the window.

 

 

Voice search

Surf the web with your unique voice

Tab Groups

Organise your tabs in a way that fits your style and switch between them in an easy manner. Tab group will sync across all devices so that you can access your tabs from anywhere.

 

 

Extensions

One of the intriguing things about iPad OS is being able to install Safari extension on your iPad. You can choose when the extension will be active just in the same way on the MacBook.

 

 

Maps

Get full details about:

• Roads
• Landmarks
• Neighbourhood
• Trees
• Buildings
• And more

New Transport Features

Discover nearby stations and travel times from the public transport integration that lets you pin your favourite routes to the top.

 

 

 

Interactive World

The rich and interactive world exposes you to the natural beauty of the World. Explore are enhanced details for:

• Mountain
• Ranges
• Deserts
• Rain forests
• Oceans
• And More

Intelligence designed to be helpful

Your photos offer so much rich information from memorable places you’ve visited to handwritten family recipes. Discover more about your photos with iPad OS 15’S secure on device intelligence which makes easy to find what you are looking for and relive special moments.

Live Text

Live Text in Photos

Unlock rich and useful information in images with Live intelligence, so that you can:

• Make a call
• Send an email
• Look up directions
• Highlight text in a photo with a tap

 

 

Live Text Translation

Live text understands seven different languages:

• English
• Chinese
• French
• Italian
• German
• Portuguese
• Spanish

Simply tap and translate with systemwide translation.

Visual Look Up

Discover more in Photos

Discover more about the objects in your photos. Highlight objects and scenes with the visual look up to get more information about them.

 

 

 

 

Learn more with a Tap

Learn more about

• Art
• Landmarks
• Nature
• Books
• Pets

By simply tapping a photo on your device or the web.

Spotlight

Rich Results and Photos Search

Get more information straightaway with spotlight with the new rich search results for:

• Artists
• Entertainers
• TV Shows
• Movies
• Contact

Search for your photos in the spotlight and you can even search based on text in your photos by using Live Text.

Photos

Interactive memories with a new Look

There’s a new way to interact with an immersive interface plus new memory mixes which allows you to personalise the look and feel of your story with a song and a vibe to match.

Swift Playgrounds

Experience a new level of productivity with your iPad all thanks to the swift playground. There’s a lot more to get, such as learning about code, build real apps with swiftUI and see your dream come true in the App store.

 

SwiftUI

Development is easy because apps are built with SwiftUI. You can preview the code you write straightaway in the live preview of your app. Beginners can also access a guide to creating your first app.

Code Completion

Improved code completion with Swift playground so that you can start typing and quickly add the suggestion toy our code. You also have access to the full library of UI components.

Universal Control

Work seamlessly with a single keyboard, mouse or trackpad between you Mac and iPad, connect to more than one of the same devices. Move your cursor from your Mac to your iPad, anything you type on your iPad will reflect on your Mac.

Privacy

It’s pointless having great features at the expense of your privacy. Get more insight from iPad OS 15 about how Apps access your data, protect you from unwanted data collection and gives you more control about what you want to share.

App Privacy Report

The reports provide details of the permission you’ve granted to certain apps. It will reveal the third-party domain that was contact and how they were contacted.

 

 

iCloud +

Vital documents are safe in the iCloud, important information like:

• Photos
• Documents
• Notes

Are up to date an accessible across all your devices. iCloud + will even offer you a new experience with all new subscription that will replace today’s storage plans.

 

 

Introducing iCloud+

iCloud + adds to everything you already enjoy with iCloud; the new features include:

• iCloud private relay
• Hide my email
• Expanded home kit secure video support

Hide my Email

You can instantly generate unique random email addresses. This means that you don’t have to share your real email address when you’re filling a form or signing up for a newsletter. Hide my email is built into:

• Mail
• Safari
• iCloud settings

Accessibility

You can customise text size and display for each app, bold or enlarge text, increase contrast, invent colours and more for the app of your choice. Voiceover helps you to explore more in details with:

• People
• Objects
• Text
• Tables

Within images, nutrition and receipts can be view in logical order. Discover a person’s position by moving your finger over a photo relative to other objects in the image.

Translate

The app is now available in iPadOS, translate text anywhere on your device with systemwide translation. Auto translate and face to face view improve conversation flow and make it easier to follow along in the app.

Find my

Continuous updates provide family and friend’s location, locate your devices using find my network even if they are powered off or erased.

 

Apple ID

Maintaining access and resetting your password is much easier than ever with Account Recovery Contacts. People can access your account in case you die through a digital legacy programme which allow you to designate people.

Games

There’s a new game category in the App library which you could browse through and capture and exciting moment with various game controllers. It’s easy to play with your most recent messages friends and group in the game centre.

Siri

Command Siri to share items from your screen such as:

• Photos
• Webpages
• News
• More

If you’re unable to share an item, Siri will suggest a screenshot.

In Conclusion

iPad OS 15 will make life much easier for you because you will get more done with multitasking because of the keyboard shortcuts. Organise and personalised your widget based on your personal preference, capture your thoughts with quick notes and organise with tags.