iPad Pro for Beginners: The Unofficial Guide to Using the iPad Pro (3 page)

The little camera button will let you add a photo you have taken or let you take a photo from within the app and insert it.

And finally the squiggly line let’s you draw in the Notes app; when you press it, you’ll see three different brushes (pen, marker, and pencil) that each work a little differently, as well as a ruler and eraser.

There’s also a round black circle—tapping that let’s you change the color of the brush.

Just tap the Done button in the upper right corner once you’ve picked your color and it will be changed.

Once you tap the Done button after you’ve finished drawing, you will go back to the note. If you tap the drawing, however, it will activate it again and you can make changes or add to your drawing.

It’s obviously not the most advance drawing app—but that’s the point—it’s not supposed to be. As the name of the app says, this app is just for jotting or drawing quick notes.

In the Settings menu a Search option has been added at the top. There’s a lot of Settings in iOS and there’s more and more with each update—search settings let’s you quickly access the setting you want. So, for instance, if you want to stop getting notifications for a certain app, you no longer have to thumb through endless apps—now just search for it.

Notes has also been added to Safari, so if you want to add a website to a note, it’s now possible.

There’s a number of smaller changes (such as better transit guidance in Maps), which will be covered more thoroughly throughout the book.

The last feature—the one most people were most thrilled to see—was the ability to run
some
apps side-by-side on
some
iPads. I use the word “some” because it’s not for all apps and it’s not for all iPads. On the iPad Pro, however, this feature really shines.

There’s three kinds of such multitasking:

• Slide Over: (available on iPad Air, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPad mini 4) If you’re working in one app, you can swipe from the right side of the screen to view and work with a second app; swipe down to pick a different app. This option is mainly if you want to check something quickly, but don’t want to have the app running next to it.
  

Below is what Slide Over looks like running Maps:

• Split View: (iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4) To keep to apps open at the same time, tap the app divider and drag it; this locks it onto the screen. Drag the divider to resize the app pane. To close it, slide the divider all the way to the right of the screen; this same method also let’s you switch the app. This feature is supported on all Apple apps, but for other apps, it’s up to the developer to include it. So if you don’t see a divider you can adjust, it just means the developer has not included this feature.
  

• Picture in Picture: (iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPad mini 4) As a video plays (or during a FaceTime video call), press the Home button and the video scales down to a corner of your display. You can also pinch it with three fingers to shrink it.
  

Once it’s shrunk, you can move it around your screen to any of the four corners.

If you want to close the video, tap the “X”; if you want to enlarge it, tap the far left button; and if you want to play it within another app, just open any app. Below you can see it running within Safari.