iPad Settings To Change: Making It More Useful

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Start date: 2024-5-14 00:01PDT
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Let's talk about settings and changes I make to customize my iPad.

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[MistrThmaz]

Keep it going! Enjoy seeing iPad content from users who actually understands the device!

[kekchanbiggestfan]

I turn on “Double-Tap to Drag” without drag lock in Accessibility > Pointer Control. It helps a ton with long drag operations on the trackpad, especially when using an external monitor. It lets you drag items without constantly physically pressing down on the trackpad, just sliding your finger. And it gives you a short grace period where you can lift and reposition your finger to move the cursor further like one would when not dragging. It’s a godsend on the tiny trackpad on the Magic Keyboard, but I find it takes just a little too long than I’d like to stop the drag behaviour. In a perfect world they’d bring Three-Finger Drag from the Mac, it’s such a productivity boost when working with trackpads it’s crazy to me it’s not on by default!

[rickinator]

Just picked up my 13 inch with MKB and I’m blown away! So excited for WWDC and the future of the iPad. it’s my favorite computer.

[ArnauDisrepair]

I love how you keep referring the iPad as "my computer." Just remembering the haters that yes, it is in fact a computer

[adibhanna]

I'm just here to say love your videos and hope your channel grows to 1 million.

[stephensmith]

Great video! I learned several things here. One minor clarification. Apologies if I misunderstood or if someone else has already mentioned it. The pointer control “scrolling speed” covered in the video only controls how pages scroll up and down, not how quickly the trackpad cursor moves as seemed to be implied. To update the trackpad speed, go to General -> Trackpad -> Trackpad Speed. Again, great video!

[dplj]

I’ll have to go theough this list again. So many good like typing instead of speaking to Siri. Maybe i’ll use Siri now. Is there a shortcut to turn Siri off or on, or maybe in control center? After having Google Assistant join in a conversation, i was spooked about user either of the two busy bodies.

9:51 i turn off the iPad SHAKE TO ERASE, to scary to have on a default.

[Dwilsonmusic]

Just picked up my first iPad and this is a HUGE help to make the iPad much more useful.

[Byte_J]

Nice video. Enabling the favorites bar in Safari seems like a small thing, but it really helps give it more of a desktop feel.

[DougMcCready]

Thanks for this video. I always learn something ….. in this case, I did not know you could change how the cursor looks. 🙏

[lwbatts]

Thank you for sharing your settings. I’ve looked everywhere and can’t find it. Where is “Fixed position volume control”? You mention it around the 5 minute mark.

[DavGreg]

Always a welcome episode when you go through your setup and it has shown many cool things over the years.

[YoungThos]

I was like yeah yeah, whatever, I know all of this — and then "show links on hover" came up and my jaw dropped 😮 I had no idea this was a thing on iPad

[hevi]

Thank you for the suggestions, especially around the resolution of the iPad. I never knew it could be changed, and I was furious that I can't code properly on it in Playground. Now that's fixed thanks to you :) Only thing is missing now is a fully capable XCode on the iPadOS.

Edit: And probably iTerm.

With Quake style console.

[HFProductionsComp]

Fixed position volume control settings are back on the M4 iPad? M2 did not have this and forced you to use the “auto swap” feature when rotating… biggest pet peeve I have with it lol

[chrisatwood]

The “More Space” option wasn’t something I had noticed before. I don’t know what I’m going to do with all this space now!

[katharinabruns]

thanks a lot. I didn‘t know „Try to Siri“ existed. That‘s quite good. Yet, I only have the old magic keyboard and that doesn‘t have a microphone key and „press top button“ isn‘t convenient to use. Is that any way I could use a custom key? Or shortcut to activate „Type to Siri“?

[tobiaxed]

Great video. What widget are you using in top left corner for time and sunrise/sunset?

[marcinwolski]

6:24 Having more apps in the dock would be nice, but I would prefer not to say goodbye to the Handoff suggestions. Can I have both?

[logantaylor]

I would recommend reducing text size if you have no problem reading.

On a recent iPad Air or Pro, you can have automations set up that alternate between 2 different UI text sizes when you connect or disconnect from an external monitor. Very handy for getting even more content on the monitor!