Secrets of iPadOS

There are plenty of new features, tweaks, and improvements in iPadOS 14. We show you how to make the most of them with these tips and tricks.

THE LAUNCH OF iPadOS 14 in 2020 wasn’t the seismic shift we saw the previous year when the iPad got its own operating system for the first time. However, there are plenty of new features, tweaks, and improvements in this version.

Today View widgets have evolved and now feature many of the same options as the Home Screen widgets introduced in iOS 14. So, you can now add Stacks and choose between large, medium and small widgets, for example.

Lots of apps look different now too, thanks to the addition of sidebars and pull–down menus. App Clips make an appearance in iPadOS with this version, and you can now use an Apple Pencil to write in any text box and have your handwriting converted to text. And in the Notes app you can select and format handwriting in the same way you would with regular text.

Safari and the App Store get Privacy reports, and the Messages, Maps, Photos and Reminders apps are all updated with the features seen in iOS, many of which also appear in macOS Big Sur.

There’s a lot to like in this update and in this feature we’ll show you all the tips and tricks you need to get the most from iPadOS 14.