iPad User Guide

• Welcome
• Introducing iPad
  • iPad models
    • iPad models compatible with iPadOS 26
    • iPad mini (5th generation)
    • iPad mini (6th generation)
    • iPad mini (A17 Pro)
    • iPad (8th generation)
    • iPad (9th generation)
    • iPad (10th generation)
    • iPad (A16)
    • iPad Air (3rd generation)
    • iPad Air (4th generation)
    • iPad Air (5th generation)
    • iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
    • iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
    • iPad Air 11-inch (M3)
    • iPad Air 13-inch (M3)
    • iPad Air 11-inch (M4)
    • iPad Air 13-inch (M4)
    • iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation)
    • iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation)
    • iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation)
    • iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation)
    • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)
    • iPad Pro 11-inch (M5)
    • iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation)
    • iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation)
    • iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation)
    • iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation)
    • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4)
    • iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)
  • Setup basics
  • Make your iPad your own
  • Streamline your workflow on iPad
  • Do more with Apple Pencil
  • Customize iPad for your child
• What’s new in iPadOS 26
• Set up and get started
  • Turn on and set up iPad
  • Wake, unlock, and lock
  • Set up cellular service
  • Connect to the internet
  • View or change cellular data settings
  • Apple Account and iCloud
    • Sign in and manage your Apple Account
    • Use iCloud
    • Subscribe to iCloud+
  • Find settings
  • Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
  • Learn the meaning of the status icons
  • Charge and monitor the battery
    • Charge the battery
    • Show the battery percentage
    • Set a charge limit
    • Understand Thermally Limited Charging
    • Use Low Power Mode to save battery life
    • Understand your iPad battery usage and health
• Basics
  • Learn gestures for iPad
    • Learn basic gestures
    • Learn advanced gestures
  • Adjust the volume
  • Turn the iPad flashlight on or off
  • Use your apps
    • Open apps
    • Find and use your apps in App Library
    • Quit and reopen an app
  • Drag and drop
  • Use multiple apps simultaneously
    • Work with multiple windows at once
    • Switch between apps
    • Change the layout of windows
    • Open and view windows in an app on iPad
    • Organize windows with Stage Manager
    • Move an app to an external display
    • Multitask with Picture in Picture
    • Use the menu bar
  • Access features from the Lock Screen
  • Perform quick actions
  • Search with Spotlight
  • Get information about your iPad
  • Manage storage on iPad
  • Travel with iPad
• Personalize your iPad
  • Change or turn off sounds
  • Create a custom Lock Screen
  • Customize your Home Screen
    • Add an app
    • Add, edit, and remove widgets
    • Move apps and widgets on the Home Screen
    • Customize apps and widgets on the Home Screen
    • Lock or hide an app
    • Organize your apps in folders
    • Remove or delete apps
  • Change the wallpaper
  • Use and customize Control Center
  • Record audio and video
  • Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
  • Keep the iPad display on longer
  • Adjust iPad display and text settings
  • Change the name of your iPad
  • Change the date and time
  • Change the language and region
  • Change the default apps
  • Change your default search engine on iPad
  • Rotate your iPad screen
  • Set up Focus, notifications, and Do Not Disturb
    • View and respond to notifications
    • Change notification settings
    • Set up a focus
    • Allow or silence notifications for a Focus
    • Turn a Focus on or off
  • Customize sharing options
• Work with text and graphics
  • Enter, select, and revise text
    • Type with the onscreen keyboard
    • Dictate text
    • Commands for dictating text
    • Move the onscreen keyboard
    • Select and edit text
    • Use predictive text
    • Use text replacements
  • Add or change keyboards
  • Add emoji, Memoji, and stickers
  • Capture and record the iPad screen
    • Take a screenshot
    • Take a screen recording
    • Change the screen capture settings
  • Use Markup tools
    • Write and draw in documents
    • Add text, shapes, stickers, and more
  • Fill out forms, sign documents, and create signatures
  • Interact with content in a photo or video
  • Identify objects in your photos and videos
  • Lift a subject from the photo background
• Camera
  • Take photos
  • Take Live Photos
  • Take a selfie
  • Take a Portrait mode selfie
  • Record a video
  • Change advanced camera settings
  • Adjust HDR camera settings
  • View, share, and print photos
  • Use Live Text
  • Scan a QR code
  • Scan documents
• Apps
  • App Store
    • Get apps
    • Use App Clips
    • Update apps
    • Install and manage fonts
    • Share and send apps
    • See your purchases and subscriptions
    • Change settings and restrictions
  • Books
    • Buy books and audiobooks
    • Read books
    • Annotate books
    • Access books on other Apple devices
    • Listen to audiobooks
    • Set reading goals
    • Organize books
    • Read PDFs
  • Calendar
    • Get started with Calendar
    • Create and edit events in Calendar
    • Send invitations
    • Reply to invitations
    • Change how you view events
    • Search for events
    • Change Calendar settings
    • Schedule or display events in a different time zone
    • Keep track of events
    • Use multiple calendars
    • Use reminders in Calendar
    • Use the Holidays calendar
    • Share iCloud calendars
  • Calculator
    • Get started with Calculator
    • Use the basic calculator
    • Use the scientific calculator
    • Solve math with Math Notes
    • Work with graphs in Math Notes
    • Convert units or currency
    • See previous calculations
  • Clock
    • See the world clock
    • Set an alarm
    • Use the stopwatch
    • Set timers
  • Contacts
    • Get started with Contacts
    • Add and use contact information
    • Edit contacts
    • Add your contact info
    • Share contacts on iPad
    • Add or remove accounts
    • Hide duplicate contacts
    • Sync contacts across devices
    • Import contacts
    • Export contacts
  • FaceTime
    • Get started with FaceTime
    • Make and receive FaceTime calls
      • Set up FaceTime
      • Make FaceTime calls
      • Receive FaceTime calls
    • Create a FaceTime link
    • Take a Live Photo
    • Use FaceTime audio call tools
    • Use Live Captions and Live Translation
    • Use other apps during a call
    • Make a Group FaceTime call
    • Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
    • Share your screen in a FaceTime call
    • Request or give remote control in a FaceTime call
    • Collaborate on a document in a FaceTime call
    • Use video conferencing features
    • Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
    • Change the FaceTime video settings
    • Change the FaceTime audio settings
    • Change your appearance
    • Leave a call or switch to Messages
    • Screen and filter calls
    • Block a FaceTime call and report it as spam
  • Files
    • Files basics
    • Modify files and folders
    • Find and view files and folders
    • Find your downloaded files on iPad
    • Organize files and folders
    • Send files from the Files app
    • Set up iCloud Drive
    • Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
    • Transfer files from iPad to a storage device, a server, or the cloud
  • Find My
    • Get started with Find My
    • Find people
      • Share your location
      • Add or remove a friend
      • Locate a friend
      • Get notified when friends change their location
      • Notify a friend when your location changes
    • Find devices
      • Add your iPad
      • Get notified if you leave a device behind
      • Locate a device
      • Mark a device as lost
      • Erase a device
      • Remove a device
    • Find items
      • Add an AirTag
      • Share an AirTag or other item in Find My on iPad
      • Share location of a lost item in Find My on iPad
      • Add a third-party item
      • Get notified if you leave an item behind
      • Locate an item
      • Mark an item as lost
      • Remove an item
    • Adjust map settings
    • Turn off Find My
  • Freeform
    • Get started with Freeform
    • Create a Freeform board
    • Add content to a board
      • Draw or handwrite
      • Solve handwritten math problems
      • Add text
      • Add shapes, lines, and arrows
      • Add diagrams
      • Add tables
      • Add images, scans, links, and other files
      • Apply consistent styles
      • Position items on a board
    • Share or present a board
      • Collaborate on a board
      • Send a copy or PDF
      • Print a board
      • Navigate and present scenes
    • Search Freeform boards
    • Delete and recover boards
    • Subscribe to Apple Creator Studio
    • Use keyboard shortcuts
    • Change Freeform settings
  • Games
    • Get started with the Apple Games app
    • Set up your Game Center profile
    • Find and download games
    • Subscribe to Apple Arcade
    • Connect with friends in the Apple Games app
    • Play with friends in the Apple Games app
    • Manage your game library
    • Connect a game controller
    • Change game-related settings
    • Report a problem with a game
  • Health
    • Get started with Health
    • Fill out your Health Details
    • View and share health data
      • Intro to Health data
      • View your health data
      • Share your health data
      • View health data shared by others
    • View health records
    • Track your menstrual cycle
      • Log menstrual cycle information
      • View menstrual cycle predictions and history
      • Log a pregnancy
    • Manage your medications
      • Track your medications
      • Learn more about your medications
    • Track your mental wellbeing
      • Log your state of mind
      • Take a mental health assessment
    • Prioritize your sleep
      • Use a Sleep Focus
      • View your sleep history
    • Use headphone hearing safeguards
      • Check your headphone audio levels
      • Use hearing health features
    • Back up your Health data
  • Home
    • Get started with Home
    • Intro to Home
    • Upgrade to the new version of Apple Home
    • Set up accessories
    • Control accessories
    • Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
    • View electricity usage and rates
    • Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance
    • Set up HomePod
    • Control your home remotely
    • Create and use scenes
    • Use automations
    • Set up security cameras
    • Use Face Recognition
    • Configure a router
    • Invite others to control accessories
    • Add more homes
  • iTunes Store
    • Get music
    • Get ringtones
    • Manage purchases and settings
  • Journal
    • Get started with Journal
    • Write in your journal
    • Edit or delete an entry
    • Add formatting, photos, and more
    • Journal for your wellbeing
    • Build a journaling habit
    • View and search journal entries
    • Print and export entries
    • Protect your journal entries
    • Change Journal settings
  • Magnifier
    • Magnify or describe things around you
    • Customize controls
    • Detection Mode
      • Detect doors, people, and furniture around you
      • Detect text around you and have it read out loud
      • Set up shortcuts for Live Recognition
  • Mail
    • Get started with Mail
    • Add or remove email accounts
      • Add and remove email accounts
      • Set up a custom email domain
    • Check your email
    • Use categories
    • Automatically clean up iCloud Mail
    • Write and send email
      • Send email
      • Unsend email with Undo Send
      • Reply to and forward emails
      • Save an email draft
    • Work with attachments
      • Add email attachments
      • Download email attachments
      • Annotate email attachments
    • Set email notifications
    • Search for email
    • Organize your email in mailboxes
    • Use iCloud Mail rules to automatically apply actions to emails
    • Flag and filter email
      • Flag or block emails
      • Filter emails
    • Mail privacy and security
      • Use Hide My Email
      • Use Mail Privacy Protection
    • Change Mail settings
    • Delete and recover emails
    • Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
    • Print emails
    • Use keyboard shortcuts
  • Maps
    • Get started with Maps
    • Set your location and map view
    • Explore maps with immersive views
      • Explore 3D maps
      • Look around places
    • Navigate
      • Set your home, work, or school address
      • Use Maps
      • Get driving directions
      • View a route overview or a list of turns
      • Change or add stops to your route
      • Get walking directions
      • Save walks or hikes
      • Get transit directions
      • Get cycling directions
      • Download offline maps
    • Customize your experience
      • Share your estimated time of arrival
      • Change settings for spoken directions
      • Choose a default travel mode and units
      • Check traffic conditions and report traffic incidents
      • Get weather info
    • Find places
      • Search for places
      • Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
      • Explore airports or malls
      • Get information about places
      • View and manage Visited Places
      • Add places and notes to your Places
      • Share places
      • Mark places with pins
      • Rate places and add photos
      • Explore places with guides
      • Organize places with custom guides
    • Clear location history
    • Delete recent directions
    • Report an issue with Maps
  • Measure
    • Measure dimensions
    • View and save measurements
    • Measure a person’s height
  • Messages
    • Get started with Messages
    • Set up Messages
    • About iMessage
    • Send and reply to messages
    • Schedule a text message to send later
    • Unsend and edit messages
    • Keep track of messages
    • Search
    • Forward and share messages
    • Group conversations
    • Share screens
    • Collaborate on projects
    • Add backgrounds
    • Use iMessage apps
    • Poll people in a conversation
    • Take and edit photos or videos
    • Share photos, links, and more
    • Send stickers
    • Create and send Memoji
    • React with Tapbacks
    • Format text and animate messages
    • Draw and handwrite messages
    • Send and save GIFs
    • Send and receive audio messages
    • Share your location
    • Turn read receipts on or off
    • Stop, mute, and change notifications
    • Screen and filter texts
    • Report spam and block senders
    • Delete messages and attachments
    • Recover deleted messages
  • Music
    • Get started with Music
    • Get music
    • Customize Music
    • Apple Music
      • Subscribe to Apple Music
      • Transfer music from other music services
      • Get personalized recommendations
      • Mark items as favorites
      • Add music and listen offline
      • Pin music
      • Create a profile to share
        • Create an Apple Music Profile
        • Share music with friends
        • See what friends are listening to
    • Find and play music
      • Find music
        • Search for music
        • Find music shared with you
        • Find new music
      • Play music
        • Play music
        • Use the music player controls
        • Play lossless audio
        • Play Spatial Audio
        • Listen to radio
        • Play music together using SharePlay
        • Play music together in the car
        • Queue up your music
        • Transition songs
        • Shuffle or repeat songs
        • Sing along with Apple Music
        • Show song credits and lyrics
        • Tell Apple Music what you enjoy
        • Adjust the sound quality
    • Organize songs in playlists
      • Intro to playlists
      • Create, edit, and delete playlists
      • Collaborate on playlists
        • Collaborate on a playlist
        • Join a collaborative playlist
        • Add a reaction to a collaborative playlist
      • Organize playlists in folders
  • News
    • Get started with News
    • Get News notifications and newsletters
    • Use News widgets
    • See news stories chosen just for you
    • Read and share stories
    • Read local news
    • Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
    • Apple News+
      • Subscribe to Apple News+
      • Browse and read Apple News+ stories
      • Use Offline Mode to read downloaded News content
      • Manually download Apple News+ issues
      • Find recipes and food stories in Apple News+
      • Puzzles
        • Find puzzles in Apple News+
        • Solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles
        • Solve Quartiles puzzles
        • Solve sudoku puzzles
        • Play Emoji Game
    • Search for channels, topics, stories, or recipes
    • Save stories
    • Clear your reading history
    • Customize the tab bar
    • Subscribe to individual news channels
  • Notes
    • Get started with Notes
    • Create and format notes
    • Use Quick Notes
    • Add drawings and handwriting
    • Enter formulas and equations
    • Add photos, video, and more
    • Record and transcribe audio
    • Scan text and documents
    • Work with PDFs
    • Add links
    • Search notes
    • Organize in folders
    • Organize with tags
    • Use Smart Folders
    • Share and collaborate
    • Export or print notes
    • Lock notes
    • Delete and recover notes
    • Add or remove accounts
    • Change the Notes view
    • Change Notes settings
    • Use keyboard shortcuts
  • Passwords
    • Use passwords on iPad
    • Find your password for a website or app
    • Change the password for a website or app
    • Remove a password
    • Recover a deleted password
    • Create a password for a website or app
    • Show passwords in large text
    • Use passkeys to sign in to websites and apps
    • Sign in with Apple
    • Share passwords
    • Automatically fill in strong passwords
    • See websites excluded from AutoFill
    • Change weak or compromised passwords
    • View your passwords and related information
    • View password history
    • Find your Wi-Fi password
    • Share passwords securely with AirDrop
    • Make your passwords available on all your devices
    • Automatically fill in verification codes
    • Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
    • Use two-factor authentication
    • Use security keys
    • See your Mac FileVault recovery key
    • Import and export
      • Import passwords
      • Export passwords
  • Phone
    • Make a call
    • Record and transcribe a call
    • Change your Phone settings
    • View and delete the call history
    • Answer or decline incoming calls
    • While on a call
    • Have a conference or three-way call
    • Set up Voicemail
    • Check voicemail
    • Change voicemail greeting and settings
    • Select ringtones
    • Make calls using Wi-Fi
    • Set up call forwarding
    • Set up call waiting
    • Screen and block calls
  • Photo Booth
    • Take photos
    • Delete, share, or copy a photo
    • View and edit Photo Booth photos in the Photos app
  • Photos
    • Get started with Photos
    • Browse your photo library
    • Browse your photo collections
    • View photos and videos
    • See photo and video information
    • Find your photos and videos
      • Find photos and videos by date
      • Find and name people and pets
      • Find group photos and videos
      • Browse photos and videos by location
      • Find recently saved photos and videos
      • Find your travel photos and videos
      • Find receipts, QR codes, recently edited photos, and more
      • Locate photos and videos by media type
    • Sort and filter the photo library
    • Back up and sync your photos and videos with iCloud
    • Delete or hide photos and videos
    • Search for photos and videos
    • Get wallpaper suggestions
    • Watch and personalize memories
      • View your memories
      • Play memory movies
      • Share or delete memories
      • Personalize your memory movies
      • Make slideshows
    • Use photo albums
      • Create and work with photo albums
      • Add, delete, and find photos and video in albums
      • Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
    • Share photos and videos
      • Share photos and videos
      • Share long videos
      • Create shared albums
      • Add and remove people in a shared album
      • Add and delete photos and videos in a shared album
      • Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library
      • Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
      • Add content to an iCloud Shared Photo Library
    • Edit photos and videos
      • Edit photos and videos
      • Crop, rotate, flip, or straighten photos and videos
      • Undo and revert photo edits
      • Trim video length, adjust speed, and edit audio
      • Edit Cinematic videos
      • Edit Live Photos
      • Edit Portrait mode photos
    • Make stickers from your photos
    • Hide people, memories, or holidays
    • Duplicate and copy photos and videos
    • Merge duplicate photos
    • Import and export photos and videos
    • Print photos
  • Podcasts
    • Get started with Podcasts
    • Find podcasts
    • Watch and listen to podcasts
    • View podcast transcripts
    • Follow your favorite podcasts
    • Rate or review podcasts
    • Use the Podcasts widget
    • Select your favorite Podcasts categories and channels
    • Organize your podcast library
    • Download, save, remove, and share podcasts
    • Subscribe to podcasts
    • Listen to subscriber-only content
    • Change download settings
  • Preview
    • Get started with Preview
    • View PDFs and images
      • Open and view PDFs and images
      • Interact with text in an image
    • Edit PDFs
      • Fill out and sign PDF forms
      • Annotate a PDF or image
      • Add, delete, rotate, move, or crop PDF pages
    • Edit images
      • Edit an image
      • Remove the background from an image
    • Manage PDFs or images
      • Manage PDFs and images
      • Copy PDFs and images