iPad and iPad Pro For Dummies. Bob LeVitus
(provided that you tap the Undo Paste or Undo option when it appears and keep the shake feature enabled in Settings ⇒ Accessibility ⇒ Touch ⇒ Shake to Undo).You might also see these options:Auto-Correct: If you happen to select a word with a typo, the iPad might underline that word. If you tap the underlined work, the iPad might show you the word it thinks you meant to spell. Tap that suggested word to accept it.Predict: A predictive word feature reveals up to three word or phrase options in buttons just above the keyboard. If one of these words or phrases is what you had in mind, tap the appropriate button.Replace: The iPad may show you possible replacement words. For example, replacement words for test might be fest, rest, or text. Tap the word to substitute it for the word you originally typed.Indent Right or Left: Pretty self-explanatory. With this option, you can indent highlighted text to the right or left.Look Up: Tap your selected word for a definition, courtesy of the New Oxford American Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of English, an Apple dictionary, or a foreign language dictionary if you’ve downloaded any dictionaries onto your iPad. But Look Up goes well beyond definitions and includes searches that extend to the App Store, Apple Music, Twitter, the web, Wikipedia, and more.
Multitasking
Through multitasking, you can run numerous apps in the background simultaneously and easily switch from one app to another. The following examples illustrate what multitasking enables you to do on your iPad:
A third-party app, such as Slacker Personal Radio, can continue to play music while you surf the web, peek at pictures, or check email. Without multitasking, Slacker would shut down the moment you opened another app.
A navigation app can update your position while you’re listening to, say, Pandora Internet radio. From time to time, the navigation app will pipe in with turn-by-turn directions, lowering the volume of the music so you can hear the instructions.
If you’re uploading images to a photo website and the process is taking longer than you want, you can switch to another app, confident that the images will continue to upload behind the scenes.
You can leave voice notes in the Evernote app while checking out a web page.
Multitasking couldn’t be easier — and it only gets better in iPadOS. Your iPad can anticipate your needs. For example, if it detects, over time, that you tend to turn to your social networking apps around the same time every morning, it will make sure the feeds are ready for you.
Here’s another example. Double-press the Home button or swipe up from the bottom of your screen to display the app switcher. You see preview pages with icons just above them for any open apps. Scroll to the left to see more apps. Tap the preview screen for the app you want to switch to; the app remembers where you left off. If you hold the tablet sideways in landscape mode, as shown in Figure 2-5, the previews for your apps appear sideways, too.
To remove an app from the multitasking rotation, swipe up on the app’s preview. Poof — it’s gone.
Now let’s look at some other tricks that make multitasking even more powerful.
Splitting the screen
You can exploit all that gorgeous screen real estate on your iPad to make multitasking even more productive.
FIGURE 2-5: Scroll to the left to see the apps you’ve recently used or are still running.
For starters, there’s a feature called slide over. Launch the first app you want to use and then swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring out the dock. Drag an app off the dock, and iOS 11 will make a tray on the right side of the screen where you can drop that app. Now it’s running side by side with your first app! This split view mode is shown in Figure 2-6. Drag the gray bar between the two apps to resize them.
FIGURE 2-6: iPadOS split view in action with Safari on the left and Mail on the right.
The second way requires you to have Tabs turned on. Go to Settings ⇒ Safari and toggle Show Tab Bar so that it turns green. In the Safari app, you can then drag a tab to the right edge of the screen and release, and a new split view is created.
We bet you can think of all sorts of reasons to run two apps at the same time. Maybe you’re composing a message to a friend in the Mail app while scrolling through Safari in the smaller panel to find a place to have lunch. Or perhaps you’re sketching in one app while using a photo in another as a reference point.
When you’re finished with that secondary app, just slide it away by dragging the gray handle in the middle to the right side of the screen. The slide-over feature works with Apple’s own apps and some third-party apps. Apps that don’t support it can still have a second app running on top of them, as described in the preceding tip.
Picture-in-picture
There’s a good possibility that your television at home has a picture-in-picture feature that enables you to watch one channel in the main portion of the TV screen while checking out a second channel in a small window on the screen. You don’t really want to miss any of the action in the big game now, do you?
Since iOS 9, your iPad has had the same feature. The picture-in-picture feature on the iPad works when you’re on a FaceTime video call, watching a video stored on your iPad, or streaming a video from one of the many streaming video services. These topics are reserved for Chapter 8.
Picture-in-picture couldn’t be simpler. While watching a video, press (not tap) the Home button, or simply swipe up from the bottom of the screen. The video picture shrinks into a small window hanging out in the lower-right corner of the display.
You can pause the video or shut it down by tapping the controls that appear in this diminutive video window. (Tap the window if you don’t see the controls.) If you want the video to take over the entire iPad screen, tap the leftmost picture control inside the video window, shown in Figure 2-7.
FIGURE 2-7: Like some TVs, the iPad has a picture-in-picture feature.
Meanwhile, if the video window is blocking a portion of the screen that you want to see, you can drag it to another space.
Organizing icons into folders
Finding the single app that you want to use among apps spread out over 15 screens may seem like a daunting task. But Apple felt