With iOS 5, Apple did something to make sense of the barrage of notifications coming in to the typical iPhone with Notification Center. Similar to the way Android works, there is a persistent pull-down drawer that lists all of your recent notifications along with the ability to clear them out by tapping a tiny "x" for each app. Notification Center is also Apple's first, tiny foray into the world of ambient information, with weather and stock widgets built-in.
There is also a large and depending on how many apps you have installed, somewhat daunting section within settings for managing which apps can notify you and how.
Within these settings you can also decide which notifications appear on the lock screen. One final notification feature is the option to have notifications appear as transient banners at the top of the screen rather than as interruptive, modal pop-ups.
The jury is still out on whether or not Apple can improve on Notification Center, but at the very least we now have an entirely new area within iOS beyond the homescreen, lockscreen, and individual apps. With iOS 5, Apple has begun encroaching on some carrier revenues and also the hardcore BlackBerry Messenger fanbase with its own system for sending short messages.
Like BBM, it is capable of showing deliver receipts and sending multimedia messages. Unlike SMS, it's entirely free. It's tied to either an Apple ID or a phone number and in both cases it can automatically detect whether your recipient is capable of receiving iMessages. When they are, iOS automatically converts your text message into an iMessage, which is sent to all iOS devices that user has registered and active.
This system is convenient and invisible for most iPhone users, but that convenience is possibly offset by potential confusion for people who switch phones on a regular basis. So far, iMessage hasn't quite captured the popular imagination in the same way BBM did, but it's still early days for the system and we'll have to see how much pickup it gets going forward.
No PC required. Perhaps most importantly, Apple removed the requirement that iOS devices be physically tethered to a computer via USB in order to be activated. Theoretically, an iPad or iPhone could now become somebody's sole computing device. That's a significant change and while it could portend bigger things for the iOS platform in the future, for now it's more of a necessary condition for a mobile computing revolution than a sufficient one.
It says something that a feature like Wi-Fi sync is so far down on the list of features for iOS 5. The syncing here works quite well and is set by default to only operate when the device is charging.
You might be tired of reading this by now, but once again Apple waited until it got the feature right rather than launching before it was ready. Over-the-air updates. Apps purchased on one device automatically appear on all other iOS devices. There's also a new music component that stores all of your music on Apple's servers for easy downloading.
Fitting with the "PC-Free" feature, you are also able to back up and restore iOS devices directly instead of with a computer.
While iTunes W-Fi sync means you don't have to tether your iOS device to a computer as often, the promise of iCloud is that you won't have to tether your iOS device to a computer at all. Other new features in iOS 5 include Twitter integration, the ability to use the volume button as a shutter button in the camera, a Reminder app, and an app called "Newstand" for magazine subscriptions.
Mobile Safari gained "Reader" functionality, which both saves and reformats web pages for easier reading a la Instapaper. Apple added a split-keyboard option in landscape mode on the iPad, which makes thumb-typing a bit easier when holding the tablet.
The iPad also got proper tabs in the Safari web browser. Apple replaced the modal-pop up for lists introduced way back in iOS 3. AirPlay also saw an update, allowing the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S to directly mirror the entire screen instead of requiring each app to build in support. The biggest complaint about iOS 5. Apple has released on bugfix update, iOS 5.
Arguably, all of the most important features in iOS 5 are more about the future of iOS than about this particular software release. Siri is still in Beta, the promise of iCloud and a PC-free existence is tempting but, for most users, not likely to be fully realized today. Yet the pieces are all here to make the case that iOS is on its way to being able to replace the computer for a very large number of users.
The new version revealed even mix of surprises and expected changes, but none sent greater shockwaves through the industry than the revamping of one of the most important apps in the platform: Maps.
Google Maps has long been considered the benchmark in online mapping, a service that Apple had licensed since the original iPhone's introduction in In iOS 6, that effort comes to fruition with a thoroughly revamped Maps app that features turn-by-turn navigation for the first time, a 3D "Flyover" mode, and Siri integration.
The underlying mapping data is seemingly provided by a variety of sources, but Dutch navigation company TomTom is prominently noted in the new app's credits. Siri enhancements. Speaking of Siri, Apple's versatile voice-powered assistant got a big upgrade after being introduced as a beta in iOS 5.
Version 6 now lets you ask for sports scores, schedules, and player data, restaurant reviews from Yelp, and reservations from OpenTable. You can also launch apps directly from Siri by speaking their names and post status updates directly to Facebook and Twitter. Indeed, the dream of a completely hands-free smartphone is starting to seem within reach, and that seems to be part of Apple's long-term picture: the company announced a partnership with a number of automotive manufacturers to integrate Siri control in their cars.
With laws against handheld phone use cropping up around the world, it's a shrewd move. Still, Apple made a couple key changes here, most notably a Do Not Disturb mode that silences notifications and phone calls during hours of your choosing.
The pull-down tray also adds Twitter and Facebook buttons to quickly fire off status updates and tweets. Facebook integration. Of course, with Facebook features in Siri and Notification Center, that can mean only one thing: Facebook integration has officially been added to iOS 6, joining Twitter which had been added the year prior. A dark horse in the iOS 6 announce, Passbook, might factor prominently in a future attack by Apple in the still-immature mobile payments market.
Shared Photo Streams. Just like iOS 5's original Photo Streams feature, shared Streams show up in real time on other devices, the only difference is that other users' devices can be added into the mix.
Safari has been refreshed in iOS 6 to battle Google's popular Chrome Sync with a feature called iCloud Tabs that does pretty much what you'd imagine: it syncs your browser tabs across devices and PCs. Reading List, meanwhile, now saves web page content in iOS 5, it just saved links , pitting it head to head against popular apps like Instapaper.
FaceTime over cellular and better Apple ID integration. FaceTime's restriction to use over Wi-Fi networks had stymied many users since the release of the iPhone 4, limiting its usefulness. To help facilitate adoption on 3G and LTE iPads, Apple is tightening its Apple ID integration: users can add their phone numbers just as they would an email address and receive FaceTime calls on their iPads using the number.
In addition to shipping iOS 7 with the new handsets, Apple is updating all its devices from the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 onwards to the new OS on September 18th.
Big changes at Apple. After the botched introduction of the Maps app saw Tim Cook post a personal apology on the Apple homepage, Scott Forstall, who had led iOS design for several years, parted ways with the company.
Soon after the departure, Apple's lead industrial designer, Jony Ive, took leadership of the company's "human interface" efforts. The result of Ive's intervention is Apple's first attempt at a visual overhaul of its mobile OS. Gone are the famous glossy icons, the rich textures, and, for the most part, the skeuomorphic apps, replaced by flattened graphics, colorful gradients, and transparencies. Immediately after its June 10th unveil, iOS 7's redesign was panned by critics for what they called an "overly simplistic" and confusing design.
The key to iOS 7's new look is layering. The home screen and applications run on a bottom layer, while Apple has added transparency and background blurring within apps to make certain interface elements appear to hover over others.
The keyboard and navigation bar in Messages is a good example of layering: text bubbles now slide beneath the newly translucent elements. This UI layering also applies to the refreshed Notification Center, which is similarly translucent, and an all-new feature: Control Center.
Control Center. Accessed with a swipe up from the bottom of your screen, Control Center is Apple's version of the quick-settings toggles found on Android phones. The translucent overlay offers one-click access to Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, Rotation lock, and sliders for volume and brightness. In addition to settings shortcuts, there are buttons for a flashlight as well as the Clock, Calculator, and Camera apps, and full music controls.
Finally, you can turn on and off AirPlay, or initiate an AirDrop see below. Like Notification Center, it's available from anywhere in the OS, including the lock screen.
First introduced with OS X Mountain Lion, AirDrop is an ad-hoc sharing system that lets you quickly share images, videos, and other files with people around you. All-new core apps and free iWork. Apple has freshened up all of its core apps with a new coat of paint, bringing them in line with the new look of iOS.
Most of the apps are white with a simple one-color flourish, and completely devoid of texture, but Notes and Reminders retain a slight papery feel. While the basic layout of all of the apps remains the same, Apple introduced a new swiping gesture that makes navigating around apps much easier.
Swiping in from the left side of the screen in all of the core apps executes the same function as the "back" button in the top-left corner of apps. This gesture also works both ways in Safari, letting you swipe back and forth through your browser history. Safari in general is cleaner, with a new omnibar up top and a UI that fades away as you scroll through a page. An animated weather app, but still no widgets. Borrowing heavily from Yahoo's successful iOS app, the new Weather app features lush animated backgrounds that change based on time of day and the current weather conditions.
It's a fantastic-looking app, but its dynamic backgrounds aren't mirrored by its icon, which remains sunny. The omission of widgets, a standard feature of Android and in some ways Windows Phone for many years, will disappoint many. Apple gave some hope that the static iOS home screen might change with the inclusion of an animated Clock icon that constantly updates to show the correct time to the second, but that's it.
The Clock icon now shows the correct time, just as the Calendar icon has always shown the correct date, but every other icon is stoically static. It's a streaming service, but rather than focusing on a fully fledged service that might eat into its iTunes music revenue, Apple essentially remade Pandora.
It lets you choose songs to listen to on demand, but the main focus is on curated radio stations based around particular songs, artists, albums, or genres. Camera and Photos. The camera software in iOS 7 has been rethought with a simple black layout. New additions include an Instagram-like "square" mode and an array of filters. The app is very fast, and shutter delay is now almost imperceptible. For the iPhone 5s, which features a better sensor than Apple's previous phones, the camera software will automatically assess the lighting conditions and fire a flash in one of a thousand tones thanks to a new dual-LED flash.
The Photos app now automatically arranges your images into what Apple calls Collections and Moments. A day trip to Venice, for example, will be cordoned off from other photos, headlined with the location and the date that you visited. These new views replace the Camera Roll by default, which is now accessible via an Albums tab.
The layout of the app is a little more confusing than before, with dense clusters of photos that you can hover over with your finger to preview. Multitasking is massively improved in iOS 7, both in interface and implementation.
Double-clicking your home button now brings up full-page previews of all your current apps, not unlike webOS or Windows Phone. Although iOS still manages your apps automatically, you can close multiple apps by swiping them away. More interesting is what's going on behind the scenes, where there are two big changes. First, apps can now be triggered to download data by a push notification.
That means if you get an email or IM notification, the relevant app will start downloading the new data immediately. The second change could have huge implications for battery life: the addition of automatically coalescing updates means that iOS will, without prompt, wait for the right moment to start downloading app updates and other data.
It groups all of the data requests together, only triggering them when you're in good signal areas or when you switch on your iPhone's screen , which saves on the amount of time your phone's radio needs to be working.
FaceTime Audio. FaceTime Audio wasn't widely discussed in the months following the June unveil of iOS 7, but it could be its single most important feature. Automatic updates. With iOS 7, the days of opening up the App Store to click "update all" are over. The OS now offers the option to update all apps on your system without asking, much like its competitors have done for some time. Touch ID. Once you do that, you can either cut, copy, or paste.
Remember, cut removes the selection, and copy makes a copy of it that you can paste somewhere else. These appear at the bottom of each Home screen. By default, the docked icons are Safari, Mail, Photos, and Music. To do this, you're going to move the icons for the apps that you want moved to the dock. To add icons to the dock, go to the Home screen where the app you want to dock is located. Hold your finger on the app that you want to move. Do not lift your finger until all the apps start to wiggle.
All the apps on your Home screen will wiggle when you do this. Now, using your finger, simply drag the app icon to the dock, then lift your finger. As you can see, your app now appears on the dock. Tap the Home screen button to stop the wiggling. You'll see your folder on your Home screen. Do not hold the power button in or it will power down. Just press and release.
To unlock the iPad, go to the bottom of the screen where it says "slide to unlock" and drag your finger across it to the right. This will take you to the Home screen. To print, tap the button with an arrow on it. When you do, a drop down menu will appear. Select Print. If you haven't printed before, you may have to select a printer before printing. Remember, your printer must be wireless. There's no way to connect a printer to the iPad. Third-party printing apps will give you more printing options than printing directly from the iPad.
You can search for printing apps directly from the iPad. Open Main Menu. Browse Courses My Classes. Sign In Subscribe Course Catalog. This article is designed to teach you how to use the many features of the iPad for entertainment, surfing the Internet, and for productivity work.
The latest version runs iOS 6. Originally, iPad only offered up to 64 gb. The latest version has faster processor speeds and more graphics power. The iPad Exterior. To turn on the iPad, simply press and hold the power button until you see it start on the screen.
Simply pushing the button, then releasing, will not turn on the iPad as it does with other devices. Setting up the iPad Without a Computer. You can then sync the iP ad with music, videos, and other types of content you have in your iTunes library. At any time, you can connect your computer to your iPad and pull content from iTunes directly onto your iPad, even if you didn't use the computer to set it up.
In addition, you can back up your iPad apps and content by syncing it to your computer. Want to learn more? Take an online course in How to Use an iPad. You can also select, cut, and copy text on your iPad just as you would on a regular computer. To select text to either copy or paste, press your finger down and hold it near the text. This will select a word and also bring up a magnfiying glass.
To paste text or images that you've copied or cut, tap your finger on the spot where you want to place the images. The iPad Pro came in two sizes - a The sixth-gen iPad has been used by Apple Retail employees at the Genius Bar till date and was discontinued after Apple introduced the seventh-generation in The sixth-generation iPad was launched with iOS Launched in November , the third generation iPad Pro brought the latest full-screen display to the iPad and it was the first iPad model to feature the company's Face ID face unlock technology.
This iPad Pro was also the first iPad model that came without a physical button on the front and did not include Touch ID. Additionally, it was also the first iPad model where Apple removed the headphone jack. The Apple iPad Air third generation was also the first iPad Air model that came with support for Apple Pencil and was launched in a The third generation iPad Air came with a 7-megapixel front camera same as the iPhone XS , and an older, 8-megapixel rear camera.
It has a 7-megapixel camera up front, and an 8-megapixel rear camera. The 8-megapixel rear camera on the iPad Mini was the same unit that the company has been carrying on since the iPad Air second generation model. With the seventh generation iPad, Apple increased the size for the standard iPad to a Apple was criticised for launching the seventh generation iPad with the same processor as its predecessor.
It was the first Apple device to feature a LiDAR scanner within the camera module, and was also the first iPad model to come with a dual-camera setup. This is also the iPad variant with which, Apple launched its magic keyboard and it carries a USB type-C port for charging and data transfer. The eighth generation iPad came with the same The iPad 8th Generation comes with support for Apple pencil and brings features like Scribble to the standard iPad model.
With the iPad Air 4th generation , Apple also introduced its latest A14 Bionic chip - an announcement Apple usually reserves for the iPhone launch presentation.
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