fonts for inclusion in your documents across a
range of apps. When typing text in any font, you
have various new gestures at your disposal –
including making a three-finger pinch to copy
and simply dragging your finger to move a
cursor or select text, with no double-tapping
needed beforehand.
Then, there’s the Files app. Of course, this isn’t
a new addition in iPadOS, but it has been
beefed up in functionality. The app gives you
more information about your files at a glance,
including in a new column view that makes
it easier for you to dig deep into folders and
subfolders and quickly edit and tweak your files
within the Files app. The app also lets you fetch
extra files from an external hard drive, SD card
reader or USB drive connected to the iPad.
PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE FOR A
PROFESSIONAL MACHINE
As the full potential of iPadOS as a work-oriented
platform could only be realized with third-party
developers’ support, it’s heartening that Adobe
is reportedly working to bring Photoshop to
iPad. Well, okay, in a sense, it’s already there
- but only in the form of distinct, specialist
apps like Photoshop Express, Photoshop
Sketch, Photoshop Mix and Photoshop Fix. The
functionality of each app for photo-editing is
purposefully limited, making “proper” image-
editing cumbersome on an iPad.
Fortunately, that might not remain the case
for too much longer, as according to Daring
Fireball’s John Gruber, Adobe is “all in” on
an iPad version of Photoshop that serves
as a “serious top-shelf project for creative
professionals”. Although people beta-testing