iPad User Magazine - UK (2019-10)

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Customise the Home screen

iPadOS bringssome welcomeimprovementsto youriPad’s Homescreen

ITWILLTAKE

5 minutes

YOUWILLLEARN

How to fine-tunethe

new Homescreen

YOU’LLNEED

iPadOS

We love iPadOS. It keeps

everything we like about iOS but

takes advantage of the iPad’s

power and much bigger screen.

That’strueof the interface, which now lets you

to do a lot more in the same space: where iOS

on iPad sometimes felt like a phone operating

system made big, iPadOS is better and bolder.

If like us you wished you could get more

things on screen at once, you’re going to love

the changes to the Home screen and Today

View: both are really easy to customise so that

you can get the widgets you want alongside

your app icons. It doesn’t sound like a big

change but just having your to-do list (or

anything else important) visible when you

unlock your iPad is really useful.

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There are some other useful changes too.

The new Dark Mode is a boon for anyone

whose iPad stays on long after the sun goes

down (and can be set to automatic so it’s light

in the daytime and dark in the evening – head

to Settings > Display & Brightness), and the

choice of icon sizes means you can choose

between big friendly icons or going smaller

and cramming much more into a single screen.

It’s not all good news, though. iPadOS is

compatible with most but not all iPads, so if

you’re running an original iPad Air or an iPad

mini 2 or 3 you won’t be able to install the new

OS. However, the vast majority of iPads can be

upgraded. Carrie Marshall

You can toggle Dark Mode on and off from the Control

Centre in iPadOS, and wallpapers change accordingly.

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