M1 iPad Air 5 (2022) - First 18 Things To Do!

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Using Spotlight and Siri

The iPad Air 5th generation comes with an incredibly useful feature called Spotlight, which allows you to search for anything on your device. To access Spotlight, simply tap on the search icon, and it will show you exactly what that landmark or object is. However, this feature didn't work in my case today, but I'm sure it usually does.

Another great feature of Spotlight is its ability to identify dog breeds, different cat breeds, animals, plants, and more. This feature is really useful and should be taken advantage of on your iPad. To enable Spotlight search, make sure that both the "Show" and "Look up" features are enabled in your Siri settings.

Focus Modes

Another feature that I highly recommend using is Focus modes. Focus modes are extremely useful for limiting notifications, which is one of the main causes of battery drain on both iPhone and iPad devices. By setting up a focus mode, you can customize it to suit your needs, allowing you to choose who can contact you, what applications can send you notifications, and more.

To create a custom focus mode, tap on the "+" button in the Focus Modes section, and then name it whatever you want. You can add people, applications, or specific settings to your focus mode as desired. For example, I've created a focus mode called "Test" and added messages and Home as allowed applications.

Focus modes also allow you to customize your home screen by hiding notification badges, which is extremely useful in my opinion. Additionally, you can have custom pages where you get a completely different screen when you go into certain focus modes. While I don't use this feature myself, I can see the appeal of it.

Tips and Tricks for iPad Air 5th Generation

To turn off your iPad Air 5th generation, simply press and hold both the power button and volume button at the same time. To force restart your device, if you get stuck with a frozen screen, press and hold the volume up or down button while still holding the power button. This should work every single time if not, it's likely that you're doing something wrong.

Hardware Features

The ability to force restart your iPad is a hardware feature, which means it should work every time. By following these simple steps, you can quickly and easily shut down or restart your device when needed.

Conclusion

I hope this article has provided you with some new tips and tricks for using the iPad Air 5th generation. I've covered Spotlight, Focus modes, and how to turn off and force restart your device. Remember to always take advantage of these features to get the most out of your iPad. If you learned something new from this article, please don't forget to give it a thumbs up, and make sure to subscribe for more iPad OS coverage in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and if you just got an ipad air 5th generation i have more than 18  awesome tips and tricks to share with you that are going to help you get the most out of your  brand new device these are going to range from some of the first settings you need to change  after unboxing your ipad to some advanced tricks that you didn't even know you could do on an ipad  and if you find this video useful at all i would appreciate it if you left a comment down below  just to let me know the first thing we need to talk about is center stage and this is the big  new feature that just came to the ipad air fifth generation it was an ipad pro exclusive before  this and if we go into the facetime application you can see how this works so i don't know why  it's zooming in so close on my face at this angle but if you go around in the frame you can see  that the camera will follow you and keep your face centered in frame hence the name center  stage however sometimes that could get annoying so if you go into your control center right here  you could actually turn this off so if you tap on the little video effects right here you have  a center stage toggle right there where you could turn that feature off if you don't like  it you also have portrait mode right there as well which will basically just put some bokeh  behind you so if we turn both on at the same time and then go right back into facetime you can see  it will zoom in on my face and also blur out everything around me another really awesome  feature you need to try out is universal control so this is a feature that just recently came out  and it allows you to control your mac and your ipad with the same cursor and keyboard so if  you have a magic keyboard for your ipad air this is going to be perfect and if you go into your  settings here and then go to general and then to airplane handoff you will see a toggle here  for cursor and keyboard and it says it's currently in beta and this is going to allow you to use the  cursor and keyboard to control your mac and vice versa so really awesome feature i've been loving  it definitely something to try on the ipad air 5. another thing you need to know about the ipad  air is that it has dynamic volume buttons which means that the volume up and volume down buttons  will depend on the orientation of the ipad so what would be the volume up button in portrait mode  will be the volume down button in landscape mode unless you flipped it of course in that case it  would be volume down again so this could take some getting used to and unlike the ipad pro we do not  have the option to have set volume controls now the next thing you need to do is set up touch id  if you did not do so during the initial setup for at least two fingers so we go into our settings  touch id and passcode enter in our passcode right here you can see i have two fingers but sometimes  you may even want more than that especially if you have multiple people controlling your ipad but  even if not if you find yourself using maybe three fingers three different fingers to unlock your  ipad you could add that in right there you could also rename these if you want as well if you want  to call it like index finger right or left index finger that way you know which one you're deleting  you could do that right there also i like to disable password autofill that way i don't have  to put in my touch id every single time i want it to autofill one of my passwords i find that  rather annoying but the other ones i like having enabled you also have these settings down here you  may want to look into if you don't want to allow access to everything while your ipad is locked  now if you have an apple pencil there's a lot of really cool things you could do with that we'll  talk about that in a moment but honestly you don't even need it these days anymore because ipad os  allows you to do things with your finger now that you used to have to have an apple pencil for like  for example if i swipe up from the bottom right you can see that opens up a quick note where i  could simply type in a quick note right there very easily and it will save to my notes and then if  we go into our settings and go to gestures and then to left corner swipe for example we could  change that between quick note screenshot or off you could do that with the right one as well but  now if you swipe up from the left you can see it will take a screenshot and i've also noticed a bug  where if it doesn't work you may just have to go in here and select something and reselect  screenshot and then it should work properly so now that we have our apple pencil i want  to show you guys how to create perfect shapes so if you go and swipe up from the bottom right to  create a new quick note and if you make a circle right here i'm in the eraser so let's double tap  right there to go back to our pencil if you take a circle and you tap and hold if you don't let up  when you draw a circle it will make a perfect one for you just like that so you have to be pretty  close to being perfect for it to be an actual perfect circle that was a really good one but  you can see there does it for all of your shapes as you can see right there so that is really cool  the best scenario i found for this is when you create a screenshot so if i go ahead and  make a screenshot right here if you want to like circle something let's go ahead and try that again  screenshot and if i wanted to circle like this circle right here let's make it in red instead  let's go ahead to red we go ahead and circle that and hold you can see there it will make it perfect  actually that time it did not let me go ahead and try that again there we go so it makes a perfect  circle as you can see right there you just have to tap and hold or you don't have to tap you just  have to hold on it right there and sometimes if you draw it really bad it will think it's a cloud  now another cool thing is that you can convert written text to typed text it's like for example  if i type in write like this or if i type in right like this you can see it converts it right away  to typed text if you tap on this little icon down here you could change that just the little a right  there if you type on that or if you press on that and then right it will convert that to type text  but if you actually draw something like let's just say i say hello hey just like so if i just type  that out if i tap on this if i tap and hold with my finger on this text right here you can see that  it highlights it yellow and from here we have copy as text and if you tap on that and then go up here  and let's just say we want to paste it somewhere let's just go down here let's go down here and  let's go ahead to paste and you can see it pastes and typed text what we just wrote as text so you  can kind of mix and match handwritten text and type text or you could just convert it at the same  time if you have it selected to use this pin right here now the next tip is more of a suggestion but  that is to get a folio or a magic keyboard if you plan on keeping your ipad air for a long a period  of time this makes a massive difference especially the magic keyboard i know it's expensive but it is  worth it if you use your ipad to work off of or if you just use it every single day and if you do get  a magic keyboard there's a cool new control center toggle for controlling the keyboard brightness so  you could add that in right there you can see the toggle you could turn the brightness of the  keyboard back lights up and down straight from the control center and if you don't have a magic  keyboard you could also connect a mouse keyboard or trackpad to your ipad and control it from that  so you can also connect things like usbc hubs hard drives ssds you can even hook up to some monitors  but keep in mind this is not a thunderbolt port it is a usbc port so you're not going to be able  to move things as quick as you can on an ipad pro with thunderbolt and you won't be able to hook up  to certain displays like crazy high resolution displays like you can with a thunderbolt port like  on the ipad pro now the next thing you guys need to do on your ipad air is to customize your home  screen with widgets and wallpapers so you guys can see this wallpaper i have here is an exclusive  to the ipad air 5th generation so the one that it comes with the wallpaper that your ipad comes with  is ugly i don't know why it did not come with the promotional wallpaper but if you go to your  wallpaper section choose new wallpaper stills then go all the way down to the bottom you can see here  we have four or five new wallpapers right here all color coordinating with the new ipad air colors  and then again on the home screen you can add widgets all you have to do is tap and  hold anywhere on the screen tap the little plus up in the top left and here's where you could add in  widgets on to the home screen you have multiple different sizes as well so like for news you can  see you have all these different sizes that you could add to your home screen so i add one right  here you can move it around you could stack them on top of each other to make smart stacks like  that and you could just do a lot with this and also if you tap and hold and then tap on the  little page dots down at the bottom you could rearrange your pages if you wanted to move one  page over you if you wanted that to be your first page that you see when you unlock your ipad you  could do that you could also hide pages completely or completely remove pages and that's because we  now have the app library on the ipad so if we go over here let's go ahead and put this back to the  first page that i see when i go to my springboard if you go all the way over you can see we do have  the app library right here where we could search for all of our applications that we have installed  and also when you download applications i like to have them not show up on the home screen and just  show up in the app library so if you go to your settings go to home screen and dock and then go  to newly downloaded apps and make sure to change that to app library only that way every time a  new app downloads it only goes to your app library and then from there you could add it to your home  screen if you would like by simply tapping on it and holding and then you should be able to add it  to your home screen from there you could also send certain applications back without deleting them so  we go to remove app but if we only want to remove it from the home screen and not completely delete  we could just simply do that like so something else you need to get used to with the ipad air 5  is multitasking so the multitasking in ipad os 15 is very layered there are multiple layers to  it it gets pretty complex so let's just go ahead and start with opening up safari and if we swipe  up from the bottom and pull up our dock and we drag over let's just say the music application  you can see it opens up in a split view menu right here and we can now go ahead and drag  over to change the width on the little pill right here we can change the width of each application  also up top you can see we have three dots on both sides for both applications if you tap on  that you get three different options right here so we have the option for full screen  split screen and slide over so if we go and tap on slide over you can see it basically just moves  this application out to its own little window that way we could have essentially three applications  open at the same time so like for example if i go ahead and open up tv if i put that right here  you can see we have three apps open at the same time i could also add another app on top of this  slide overview right here so let's just say we want to put let's just say calendar right here  over top of that you can see we have multiple apps now inside of this slide overview and we can go  ahead in and out of each one of those just like so we could slide this off the screen and you can see  right here we have the indicator to pull it back out as well if we wanted to be right back here  in the forefront we could also take this and move it into and kind of replace the music application  right here as well so we go ahead and drag this oops let's go ahead and drag this right here you  can see you get the little highlight right there it makes it makes it a little bit darker if we go  ahead and drop it you can see it replaces that and now that is the split view and you can also  open up applications and bring it into your whole multitasking scene if you get a notification you  can just drag on that notification and pull it down and it can open it up in a split view now  to go along with the multitasking you also need to take advantage of the gestures that are available  with the ipad air 5. so you get a lot of gestures if you have the magic keyboard but you still have  a lot of gestures even without that just from using your fingers so if you swipe out with all of  your fingers you can see it opens up multitasking and if you swipe like this real quick it will take  you to the home screen that's just using all of your fingers and if you type something right here  just type a bunch of random things and if we take our three fingers if you just use three fingers  and if you pinch in so if you pinch like this you can see right there it will copy so let's select  this first and copy and then if we swipe out if we pinch out it will paste so let's go ahead  and delete all this and you can see if we pinch out it will paste so there we go we paste paste  paste you can see it pastes multiple times you can do this on ios as well but it's much  easier it makes a lot more sense on the ipad you could also use those three fingers to swipe left  and right to undo and redo so we swipe left right there you can see it will undo undo again if we  swipe right it will redo so just some simple gestures that you could use i find this to be very  useful in the notes application other gestures you can use in applications or just on the home screen  is a four or five finger swipe either one works to quickly switch between applications you could  also pinch in to go to the home screen quickly and if you have a magic keyboard if you press command  and spacebar it pulls up the spotlight search just like on a mac to easily search for applications  another cool little trick is to make your keyboard small and floating so sometimes it's really hard  to type a lot of sentences on such a big keyboard on the ipad if you don't have a magic keyboard  so if you take two fingers right here and simply just pinch in on the keyboard you can see it makes  it small and it floats and it can move it all around your home screen to wherever you need it  and it makes typing so much easier on the ipad and just simply pinch out with two fingers and  it opens it back up to the default keyboard another thing you need to do is to customize  your control center and just take advantage of all the really awesome features that you could do  from the control center so if we go into our settings here and then down to control center  you have your options here to add controls or remove controls or move them around like so  some of the ones i really like are notes number one i'll tell you why here in a moment of course  dark mode is always nice to have right there low power mode is definitely one we should  add keyboard brightness we talked about that one earlier if you do have a magic keyboard definitely  add the keyboard brightness toggle screen recording and let's just say music recognition  now if we go back to our control center right here one of my favorite ones for the ipad specifically  is the notes control center toggle and the reason for that is if you have to press on that you get  the option to scan document right there so i scan documents on my ipad all the time so it's very  nice to have a quick easy way to scan documents straight from the control center so i use that  all the time highly recommend having the notes control center toggle also it's really nice to  have low power mode right there as well because we do have that on the ipad not just the iphone the  files app is going to be an application that you use a lot if you transfer files back and forth or  if you just work off of your ipad you're going to be a frequent visitor to the files application and  one of my favorite things to do in here is to make it very easy to get to some of my most popular  folders in icloud so for example if i go to my icloud drive here studio is one of the folders  i've been using a lot lately just to get pictures of the mac studio and i can actually add this to  my favorites tab over here so it's easy to get to a lot easier to get to than it was previously so  if i drag right here you can see i can simply add it to my favorites tab so let me go and try that  one more time you can see when it drops down right there you could add that to that you could also  move it around if you go to edit sidebar you can move it around like so and you probably saw when  i click those three dots right there you have the option to scan documents very quickly as well if  you needed to from the files app but you should definitely add folders that you use frequently  to the favorites tab over here on the left hand side and the files app it's going to be a lot more  useful than you think another cool tip especially if you have kids who are interested in coding and  making apps is to download the swift playgrounds application so this is a way where you could  code ios apps and games straight from the ipad you could publish them and everything straight  from the ipad it's really cool it's very intuitive and it's something you should definitely at least  look into if you're interested or know somebody interested in your family and coding or creating  ios apps it's awesome another cool feature is live text and visual lookup so this works on the ipad  air 5. if you take a photo of something you can copy the text just by simply tapping on it and  copying and pasting it just like so you also have visual lookups if you get this little eye up here  with the sparkle if you tap on that and you tap on lookup it will show you exactly what that landmark  is this one failed it didn't detect what it is but it usually does and it will tell you also dog  breeds different cat breeds different animals plants different things like that it's really  really useful and you should take advantage of that here on your ipad just make sure that both of  these are enabled in your syrian search settings right here show and look up and show in spotlight  another thing you need to take advantage of is focus modes so focus modes are extremely useful  for limiting your notifications so that is the number one cause of battery drain on both iphone  and ipad and i would highly recommend setting up a focus mode in here and customizing it to your  liking so if you tap on the plus right here it will allow you to create a custom focus mode and  let's just go ahead and do that actually let's go to custom and we can name it whatever we want add  whatever we want to it so i'm just going to name this test just for this example let's go ahead to  next and you could have people that are allowed to contact you so if you want certain people  to send you notifications if you want to receive notifications only from certain people  and same for calls from certain people you could allow them right there or you could just  allow none same with applications if you only want certain applications to send you notifications and  all the rest get muted you could do that just like so so i'm just going to go ahead and allow just a  couple of applications like messages and home for example let's just tap on done and let's go ahead  to allow and you can see your focus is ready right here and you could change this you could also  customize your home screen as you could hide all notification badges which i find to be extremely  useful one of the best features in focus modes in my opinion you could also have custom pages where  you get a completely different screen a different home screen when you go into certain focus modes  so i don't use that one but i could see the appeal of it and you just have a lot of settings in here  go ahead and take advantage of it i highly highly recommend it and then the final tip is how to turn  off and how to force restart your ipad air 5th generation so to turn it off all you have to do  is press on the power button and the volume button either volume button works volume up or volume  down at the same time press and hold both of those and you will see the slide to power off now if you  get stuck if you you know if your ipad freezes and you cannot turn it off all you have to do is  simply press volume up volume down and then hold on the power button you have to do it quick so one  two three and then hold on the power button keep holding even when you see the slide to power off  and then it will completely restart your device so just keep holding it keep holding it and then  it will eventually force restart and that is a hardware feature so it should work every single  time if not you're doing it wrong so that should help you out if you ever get frozen on anything on  your ipad air so there you have it those are some tips and tricks for the ipad air 5th generation i  hope you guys learned at least one new thing from this video that's my goal i know you're going to  know some of these but i hope you learned at least one new thing from this video if you did i would  appreciate if you gave it a thumbs up also make sure to subscribe because i will be posting more  ipad os coverage in the future but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soonyou\n"