iPad User Guide
- iPad User Guide
- What’s new in iPadOS
- Supported models
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off sounds
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Open apps on the Home screen
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Zoom an app to fill the screen
- Drag and drop
- Search with iPad
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPad
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- View photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Portrait mode photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
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- Get started with accessibility features
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPad using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPad
- View or change cellular settings
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
- Copyright
Open an app in Slide Over on iPad
You can use an app that slides in front of another app or in front of itself. For example, open Messages in Slide Over to carry on a conversation while using Maps.
iPad keeps track of the apps you open in Slide Over so that you can switch between them easily.
![A graphics app fills the screen. Mail is open in a Slide Over window on the right side of the screen.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5F19052E680CE2FB46D88582/5F190531680CE2FB46D88597/en_US/e2f9292fb18e48a3cee554fb88935c76.png)
Open another app in Slide Over
While using an app, swipe up from the bottom edge and pause to reveal the Dock.
Touch and hold an app in the Dock, then drag it above the Dock.
If an app is already open in Slide Over, it’s replaced by the app you drag from the Dock.
To open a third app in Slide Over when the screen is in Split View (on supported models), drag the app from the Dock to the Split View divider. (See Open two items in Split View on iPad.)
![A graphics app is open on the left side of the screen, Calendar is open on the right, and Mail is open in a Slide Over window that partially covers Calendar.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5F19052E680CE2FB46D88582/5F190531680CE2FB46D88597/en_US/43a93a0d449de8f84a7653a097109cc3.png)
Switch between apps in Slide Over
Swipe right along the bottom of the Slide Over window, or do the following:
Swipe up from the bottom of the Slide Over window.
Tap the app you want to view, if it’s visible.
If you don’t see it, swipe right through the apps.
![Three apps open in Slide Over windows.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5F19052E680CE2FB46D88582/5F190531680CE2FB46D88597/en_US/fc51be7deaa435eef2370a0cb81a7ae9.png)
Move the Slide Over window
Do one of the following:
Move the Slide Over window to the other side of the screen: Drag from the top of the Slide Over window.
Remove the Slide Over window: Drag the top of the window off the right edge of the screen.
Move the Slide Over window back onto the screen: From any open app, swipe left from the right edge of the screen.
Turn Slide Over into Split View
Drag the top of the Slide Over window to the lower right or lower left of the screen.
On supported models, you can use Slide Over and Split View simultaneously. See Open two items in Split View.