Transform Your iPad Experience: 10 Essential Settings for Peak Performance

As technology becomes ever more woven into the texture of everyday life, it’s important to customise your machines for personal comfort and efficiency. One of the most compelling examples of ‘adaptive’ technology is Apple’s tablet computer, the iPad. By tinkering with the little menus in the Settings app, you can get tremendous mileage out of this portable powerhouse. A few tweaks here – a few flicks and TAPs there – can open up the inner sanctum so that your iPad works for you rather than against you. Here’s how to get the most out of your iPad so that each flick, TAP or swipe brings results.

1. Personalize Your Lock Screen

You can now turn the lock screen, previously the screen accessing your device, into a customisable canvas. Long press on the lock screen to open the ‘Customise’ menu. From here, you can adjust the typeface, change the wallpaper, and add useful widgets to provide helpful info at your fingertips.

2. Streamline Your Focus

We live in a distracted world. Apple’s Focus settings let you regain control with any combination of exclusions, contacts, time windows and Do Not Disturb settings, via a few easy TAPs. Go to Settings > Focus on iPad, and define each mode as you see fit, with your choices propagating through your Apple ecosystem so that everything plays nicely together.

3. Master Multitasking with Stage Manager

It’s essential for the multitaskers among us: Stage Manager, a new feature in iPadOS 16, arranges all the apps that are open on your screen into one neat stack, so you can easily dip into the app you need next. To try it out, find the app in the Control Center or go to Settings > Multitasking & Gestures, and turn that sucker on. Then let your productivity skyrocket on your iPad.

4. Soothe Your Eyes with Night Shift

Spending too much time late at night looking at your Mac’s display can result in eyestrain. However, your Mac can reduce the impact of the light to ease the strain on your eyes. In a dark room, Night Shift reduces your display’s color temperature to make it easier on your peepers. You can set a schedule that will allow Night Shift to run automatically, or you can turn it on manually at any time. To set it up, go to System Preferences > Displays > Night Shift.

5. Save Battery Life with Low Power Mode

Low Power Mode, which reduces background tasks to conserve energy, will also extend the iPad’s battery. Set it up when you are working intensively or when you connect to an unstable network. You enable Low Power Mode by swiping down to Control Center and TAPping the battery button. The color of the battery indicator, indicated in the Control Center and in the upper-right corner of the screen, will turn yellow.

6. Protect Your Privacy with Notification Management

Want to keep prying eyes out of your notifications? Make the information private. To do this, find your privacy settings on the iPad, navigate to Settings > Notifications > Show Previews and select ‘When Unlocked’. Notifications should stay private until you’ve been authenticated.

7. Enhance Your Typing Experience

You’ll be spending a lot of time typing on that big screen, but no worries: Apple has several tools to try to make it just a little bit easier. Go to Settings> General > Keyboard to open options, such as splitting the keyboard or floating so you’re not required to use your thumbs to type and can type how you feel most comfortable holding your iPad.

8. Maximize Screen Efficiency with ProMotion

If you use an iPad Pro, ProMotion can make the screen look so silky smooth that it should affect how we judge visual intelligence on a computer. In iPadOS, go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion and check that Limit Refresh Rate is off so your screen can dynamically ramp down.

9. Customize Your Control Center for Quick Access

Another hidden gem is the Control Center, a quick source of shortcuts that you can also customise. Jump to Settings > Control Center and you can add, remove and rearrange your favourite controls to provide always-on access to your most commonly used features.

10. Enable Attention Awareness for Smart Interactions

iPad Pro users will be familiar with Attention Awareness, a Welcome Home feature that predicts and adjusts to your actions. The feature taps into the TrueDepth camera to act like the smart second set of eyes it’s meant to be. This setting keeps your screen awake if you’re looking at your device, and gently lowers the volume of alerts to keep interruptions to a minimum. Visit Settings > Face ID & Passcode to get your device up to speed.

Exploring the Magic of TAP

Master this craft, and you stand a better chance of optimising the device. It’s the art of the TAP. With little more than the beam of a finger, you can harness your iPad for maximum efficiency and comfort. Fiddle with the settings, and use TAPs to fine-tune alerts, make battery-savvy adjustments, tweak display settings for eye comfort or even wipe unnecessary files from your latest purchase.

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