1. How to change the wallpaper on your iPad
You can (of course) easily change the wallpaper of your iPad, both on the lock screen and home screen. Simply head to Settings, tap ‘Wallpaper’ and then tap ‘Choose a New Wallpaper’. You can browse from a selection of Apple’s own wallpapers, with ‘Dynamic’ wallpapers moving slowly in the background, or browse for a photo from your photo library.
Once you’ve found the wallpaper you’d like to use, tap it to bring up a lock screen wallpaper preview. From here, you can preview what your wallpaper will look like, along with specifying whether you want to set it as a universal wallpaper, or if you want it specifically for the lock screen or home screen.
2. How to manage storage on your iPad
Maybe your iPad won't let you snap another image. Perhaps it refuses to let you download one more app. Because iOS storage space isn’t expandable, it’s important to monitor what's gobbling up the available gigabytes on your device. Here's how.
Go to General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage in Settings, and wait for a moment or three as iOS calculates which apps are using the most space internally and in iCloud.
Often, Music and Photos & Camera are the two biggest offenders. If you use a service like Apple Music or Spotify, you can safely delete the Music cache on your device to free up space. If you back up photos and videos to your PC or Mac, you can delete them too.
Elsewhere on the list, you’ll see the apps you use, sorted with the most storage-intensive ones at the top. If apps that you rarely use take up a lot of space, tap on them in the list, then tap Delete App to remove them in an instant.
3. How to set up location-based reminders for specific locations
If you want to be reminded to do something when you leave your home, work, current location, or any address in your address book, that’s pretty easy to get with iOS’s Reminders app. But what if you want to remember to buy something when you’re at the shops? You probably don’t want to add their locations in your address book just to get that feature.
Fortunately, you don’t have to. When you create a reminder, tap it and turn on Remind Me at a Location. By default, Reminders will populate your current address – tap that and you’ll get a host of options, including, at the bottom, a text box to enter a custom address.
4. Get your iPad to read to you
Enabling the Speak option makes it possible for your iPad to read aloud any selectable text. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility. Scroll down to Speak Selection, and tap to turn it on. You can also adjust the speaking rate, choose from a wide variety of voices and highlight words as they are spoken.
Now, go into any app that lets you highlight text. Your options include Mail, as well as Safari, Notes and a fair few others. Select some text, and you'll see a new option appear in the contextual menu (you may have to tap the right arrow to view more options). Tap the Speak command, and your iOS device will start reading the text aloud.
5. Enable the Emoji keyboard on your iPad: get access to special characters and animal icons
The Emoji keyboard lets you insert all kinds of fun images wherever you can type, including the recent additions of tacos, unicorns and y’know, the middle finger. Your iOS device can speak the names of those symbols, too.
Perhaps you've seen these iconographic symbols in emails, iMessages and tweets, and wondered how on earth people managed to type them. Maybe you've mistakenly assumed that you need to purchase a third-party app to gain access to those special symbols.
You don't: Apple treats those symbols, called Emoji, as an international keyboard. Go to Settings > General > International > Keyboards. Then tap Add New Keyboard and find Emoji. Now open an app where you can type some text.
Next to the spacebar, you'll see a little globe icon. Tap it to switch between your normal keyboard and the Emoji one.
6. How to multi-task on an iPad
Now, this tip only applies to those using fairly recent iPads – and by recent, we mean iPad mini 2 or later, iPad Air or later and, of course, the iPad Pro. The multi-tasking features are split into three groups; slide over, split view and picture-in-picture. All iPads mentioned can use slide over, which brings up a small side pane (using 1/3 of the screen) displaying an iPhone-esque app, alongside the first. You can then change the app by swiping from the top of the app, and selecting a new one.
The only downside is that you can’t interact with both apps at the same time, and if you want to use the app you originally had open, you have to close the ‘slide over’ app first.
Split view is more impressive, but is limited to the iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4 and iPad Pro. When using slide over, applicable users can ‘pull’ the app into a split screen mode where both apps can be used at the same time, and the amount of space can be adjusted by tapping and holding the divider between the apps.
Finally, ‘Picture-in-picture’ mode allows recent iPad users to watch videos or FaceTime people while using other apps. When in a FaceTime call, or watching a movie (not just in Videos – some third-party apps are supported) simply tap the home button and the video will be minimised and displayed in the bottom corner of your iPad. Feel free to drag it to the other corners of the iPad if needed, and pinching the video will expand it.
7. Tap to top
You won't believe how much time this will save you. If you're halfway down a web page in Safari, tap the top bar to jump back to the top of the page. Try it in other apps too - lots of them, third-party apps included, use this navigational trick.
8. Take photos with volume
Did you know you can take photos using either of the volume buttons? Their location is much more convenient when shooting in landscape mode, especially when using an iPad.
9. How to share your current location
With iOS, it’s easy to let loved ones know where you are at any given time – and this can be achieved in a number of ways. First of all, you can open Maps, tap a pin (or your current location marker), tap the arrow, and finally tap the Share button. You can then choose where to share your location to, with options including Messages, as well as Facebook and Twitter (which we wouldn’t recommend).
Of course, that method becomes irrelevant if you want constant location information. For that, you have to open Find my Friends and invite the person you want to share your location with, by entering their Apple ID when prompted. Once accepted, they’ll be able to see your location whenever they desire – unless of course, you disable Location Services.
10. How to download a single track from Apple Music
Apple Music users can stream music from the internet to their mobiles wherever there’s signal – but what about when you’re on the tube or on a plane with no connection? Thankfully, you can download any individual track from the streaming service onto your iOS device – just tap the menu button displayed next to each song in the ‘My Music’ tab and tap “Make available offline”.
11. How to pull-to-refresh
To check for new emails within the Mail app, simply navigate to a mailbox view or the Mailboxes screen (you can't force a refresh while viewing a message) then swipe the screen downward until you see a little refresh button (the one with the circular arrow) at the top. Keep swiping until that button stretches down and then 'snaps back' to a progress indicator.
12. Delete recent addresses
Mail has always been helpful with addresses, showing possible matches from your recent history and Contacts as soon as you start filling the 'To' field. With iOS 9, Mail also gained the ability to suggest contacts based on the people you usually email. As intelligent as it may be, there will be situations where you’ll only email someone once and never want to contact them again, so it’s best to remove them from your ‘recent addresses’ list.
Simply scroll down to the suggestion you want to delete. Tap the ‘i’ icon, then 'Remove from Recents'. You can't do this for those on your Contacts list, as they will always be suggested where relevant - if you want rid of them, you'll need to delete the contact entirely.
13. How to set a different signature for every Mail account
You’ll be glad to know that you can edit the default signature (by default this would normally read 'Sent from my iPhone' or 'Sent from my iPad') for each of your email accounts independently, with little effort.
Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Signatures, then choose ‘Per Account’. This enables a separate signature field for each email account you've set up. Type or paste your preferred signatures, and Mail will automatically append them to each outgoing email message.
14. How to flag messages in iOS Mail
iOS 9 offers top-level Mailboxes (VIP and Flagged) that each gather particular messages across all your inboxes and present those messages in one convenient list. They're great.
The Flagged mailbox displays any flagged messages - those you've marked with the dedicated Flag button. It makes it easy to quickly see your most important messages without having to scroll through other messages in your inboxes.
You can flag an email when you're viewing it by tapping the little flag icon in the top bar and selecting Flag.
15. How to set VIPs, and how to view VIP messages in iOS Mail
iOS 9's VIP mailbox gathers messages from people you've designated as VIPs - your wife, your boss, your colleagues, your bookie... er... financial advisor - so you won't overlook those messages in the daily flood of emails. To designate someone as a VIP, tap the ‘i’ icon at the right edge of the VIP mailbox (in All Mailboxes), then tap Add VIP and choose the person in your contacts list.
Alternatively, open an email from the person you want to add as a VIP, tap their name/email address and then tap ‘Add to VIP’ to achieve the same effect.
Tap VIP Alerts, and you're taken to Settings > Notifications > Mail > VIP, where you can configure notification settings for email received from VIPs.
16. How to quickly add photos and videos to messages
Suppose you snapped the perfect panorama and want to email it to your friend. You needn't start from the Camera or Photos app (although you can, by opening the photo you want to scare, then tapping the square ‘Share’ icon and selecting the Mail icon).
Instead, head over to the Mail app and start composing your new message. Tap and hold a blank bit of the message to bring up the contextual menu, then tap on Insert Photo or Video (you may have to tap the right arrow). You'll get the photo select screen.
You can pop a photo or video clip into an email simply by tapping and holding on the message body. Simply select the file, and then select the level of compression to finish.
17. How to jump back to drafts in iOS Mail
Maybe you abandoned a message before you tapped to send it. You needn't navigate deep into the Mail app's mailbox hierarchy to find your Drafts folder. Instead, you can tap and hold on the New Message icon to bring up a menu listing all your saved drafts. You can still select a totally new message from the dropdown menu that appears.
18. How to archive messages in iOS Mail
To archive an email instead of delete it, simply navigate to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar and tap on the relevant email account. Tap on the Account entry at the top, scroll down to the Advanced section, and tap on your email address; swipe down until you find the Archive Messages switch. Slide it to ON, and then make sure to tap the Done button in the upper-right corner twice to save the change.
Now, all instances of the Delete command in Mail will be replaced by an Archive button.
19. How to delete messages in iOS Mail
If you do enable archiving as an option for your messages, that doesn't mean you're no longer able to delete messages outright from your iPhone or iPad. Just tap and hold on the Archive button, and you'll get a second option: Delete Message.
20. Show me more (or fewer) unread emails
Go to Settings > Notifications > Mail, and you'll see three sets of options. The Show item simply lets you choose how many unread email messages appear in Notification Center – the default is five, but this can be increased or lowered depending on your preference.
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