MASTER DRAG AND DROP

Move files with ease on your iPad now

IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN How to drag and drop files on your iPad

YOU’LL NEED iPad, iPadOS 14 or later

Drag and drop, one of the features that characterised the Mac when it first arrived all the way back in 1984, comes to the iPhone later this year in iOS 15. Even in early beta versions, it looks like it works very well, and will make a huge difference to getting work done on the iPhone.

The feature will also be included in iPadOS 15, but won’t have quite the same impact on the iPad as it will on the iPhone. Why? Because you can already drag and drop between apps in iPadOS, and you can drag and drop files between folders in the Files app.

The key difference between the way drag and drop will work in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 and the way it currently works in iPadOS, is that to use it to drag content from one app to another at the moment, the apps need to be side by side on screen in Split View or Slide Over mode. In the updated version, there won’t be any set-up required at all.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use drag and drop in iPadOS 14. Kenny Hemphill