Essential iPad iOS 12 Edition: The Illustrated Guide to Using your iPad
By Kevin Wilson
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The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it’s hard to keep up.
Essential iPad: iOS 12 Edition is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, photographs, and video resources, this guide offers specifics in...
Setting up your iPad and upgrading from previous versions
A look at the updates introduced in iOS 12
Getting to know your iPad, finding your way around the dock, menus, and icons.
Navigating with touch gestures using quick peek, 3D touch, tap, drag, and swipe
Multi-tasking with slide over, split view, and drag & drop
A look at the new control centre and how to make use of it
Internal & External Keyboards and a look at Apple Pencil
Getting to know Siri, voice dictation and recording voice memos
Communicating with email, FaceTime, iMessage, using digital touch, and peer-to-peer payments
Browsing the web with Safari web browser
Taking and enhancing pictures, panoramic and live photos, as well as recording video
Listening to music with Apple Music and iTunes Store, as well as films and TV
The Files App, as well as Maps, News, Apple Books, Notes, Apple Pay, Calendar, and Contacts
Maintaining your iPad with updates, backups, general housekeeping, and much more...
Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential iPad: iOS 12 Edition tackles the fundamentals of the iPad, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time, can understand.
So, if you’re looking for an iPad manual, a visual book, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference, Essential Pad: iOS 12 Edition will help you maximize the potential of your iPad to increase your productivity, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.
Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Nothing to See Here, which was a Read with Jenna book club selection; The Family Fang, which was adapted into an acclaimed film starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman; and Perfect Little World; as well as the story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award; and Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife and two sons.
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Essential iPad iOS 12 Edition - Kevin Wilson
Essential iPad: iOS 12
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About the Author
Kevin Wilson has made a career out of technology and showing others how to use it. After earning a master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, and multimedia systems, Kevin worked as a tutor and college instructor, helping students master such subjects as multimedia, computer literacy and information technology. He currently serves as Elluminet Press Publishing’s senior writer and director, he periodically teaches computing at college in South Africa and serves as an IT trainer in England.
Kevin’s motto is clear: If you can’t explain something simply, you haven’t understood it well enough.
To that end, he has created the Computer Essentials series, in which he breaks down complex technological subjects into smaller, easy-to-follow steps that students and ordinary computer users can put into practice.
Table of Contents
Essential iPad: iOS 12 2
About the Author 3
Table of Contents 4
iOS 12 8
What’s New? 8
Setting up Your iPad 12
Insert your SIM 12
Power Up & Power Down 14
Unlock & Wake iPad 16
Force Shutdown 17
Upgrading your iPad to iOS 12 18
Initial Setup 19
Auto Setup 19
Manual Setup 22
Charging your iPad’s Battery 29
Connecting your iPad to a Mac/PC 30
Using iTunes 31
Syncing your iPad with your Mac/PC 32
Connecting to the Internet 33
WiFi 33
Setting up Email Accounts 35
Add Social Media Accounts 38
Change your Wallpaper 39
Touch ID 42
Face ID 43
Getting Around Your iPad 44
Available Models 44
iPad Pro Series 45
iPad 9.7" 45
iPad Mini 45
Choosing a Model 46
Sign in & Sign Out of iCloud 46
Touch Gestures 48
Tap 48
Drag 49
Pinch & Spread 50
Swipe 51
Four Finger Swipe 52
Home Button 53
Reveal Home Screen 54
Reveal App Switcher 55
3D Touch 56
Quick Peek Home Screen Icons 58
Multitasking 59
Open Multiple Apps at a Time 62
Using Slide Over 62
Using Split View 63
Drag & Drop 64
Control Centre 68
Customising Control Centre 69
Notifications & Lock Screen 70
Picture in Picture 71
Continuity 73
The On-screen Keyboard 74
Apple Smart Keyboard 76
Bluetooth Keyboards 77
Spotlight Search 78
Arranging Icons 81
Removing Icons 83
Adding Icons to the Dock 84
Siri 85
Using Siri 85
Siri Translate 86
Voice Dictation 88
Settings Search 89
Family Sharing 90
Add a Family Member 92
Invite in Person 93
Child Accounts 94
Managing your Family 97
Screen Time 97
Downtime 100
App Limits 101
Always Allowed 103
Content & Privacy Restrictions 103
Allowing and Blocking Content 104
Internet, Email, Communication 106
Using Safari 106
Reader View 110
Using Email 111
Contacts 114
Calendar (iCal) 118
Adding an Appointment 119
Add a Recurring Appointment 120
Adding an Appointment from a Message 121
FaceTime 122
Making a Call 123
Adding Effects 127
Group FaceTime 129
Adding a Contact 131
iMessage 133
Digital Touch in iMessage 138
Sending Payments with iMessage 143
AirDrop 144
To Send a file to Someone using AirDrop 145
To Receive a File from Someone using AirDrop 147
Using Multimedia 148
Photos 148
Import Photos 148
Editing Photos 151
Crop and Rotate an Image 152
Taking Pictures with Camera App 156
Adjusting Photos 159
Panoramic Photos 162
Recording Video 163
Live Photos 164
Share Pics on Social Media 166
Music with iTunes 169
Connecting to your Computer 170
Transferring Music 172
iTunes Store 173
Apple Music 174
Setting Up 174
The Main Screen 176
Searching for Music 177
Add to Library 179
Films & TV 180
TV App 181
Airplay 182
Apple Pencil 184
Charge your Pencil 185
Pairing your Pencil with your iPad 186
Using Apple Pencil 187
Document Scanner 189
QR Code Scanner 193
Common Apps 194
App Store 194
Search for Apps 197
Browsing the Store 199
Taking Notes 202
Typing Notes & Inserting Photos 203
Dictating Notes 204
Add a Reminder 205
Schedule a Reminder 206
Maps 207
Driving Directions 208
3D Maps 212
News App 214
Apple Books App 216
Files App 220
Apple Pay 223
Setup 223
Using Apple Pay 225
Voice Memos 226
Recording Memos 227
Renaming Memos 228
Trim a Memo 229
Measure App 230
Clock App 232
World Clock 232
Alarm 234
Bed Time 235
Stop Watch 237
Timer 237
Productivity Apps 238
Creating Documents with Pages 238
Formatting Text 241
Adding a Picture 242
Keynote 243
Editing a Slide 244
Adding Media 246
Animations 247
Formatting Text Boxes 249
Formatting Text Inside Textboxes 250
Printing Documents 251
Air Print 251
Older Printers 253
Maintaining Your iPad 254
iPad Backups 254
System Updates 255
App Updates 258
Deleting Apps 259
iPad Storage Maintenance 260
Accessorise Your iPad 262
Smart Keyboards 262
Cases 263
USB Adapters 263
AV Adapters 264
Power Chargers 265
iOS 12
iOS is a mobile, multitasking operating system designed specifically for iPads and iPhones. iOS 12 is the latest release for iPhones and iPads.
An Operating System is a program that manages the device’s hardware resources such as memory, processor and storage. The Operating System also provides a platform for you to run apps such as web browsers, maps, email, photos, games and so on.
The iOS user interface is a touch screen, meaning you can directly manipulate sliders, switches, buttons and icons on screen using your finger.
iOS has a main screen called the home screen containing icons that represent apps. You can download countless apps from the App Store - you’ll find an app for almost anything you can think of.
Security has improved on these devices, you can unlock just with a finger print - no need to keep remembering a PIN.
Finally there’s Siri, the voice activated personal assistant that uses natural language AI to interpret voice commands you speak out loud. You can ask Siri to send messages, dial a number, as well as search the web, and answer certain questions.
What’s New?
With iOS 12, Apple have concentrated on improving performance - meaning apps load faster, and are generally more responsive.
iBooks has been renamed Apple Books and makes it easier to find and read your ebooks.
Apple News app has been redesigned, making it easier to keep up with the news that interests you.
The control center has been moved and you can now find it by swiping downwards from the top right hand edge of the screen.