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Make your iPad your own

You can tailor your iPad to your own interests and preferences. Personalize your Lock Screen and Home Screen, keep certain features like brightness or text size handy, turn on accessibility features, adjust your privacy settings, and more.

A screen showing customization options for the iPad Lock Screen with a photo of the Earth. On the left side are widgets for Clock, Calendar, and Weather. On the right side are choices for the font and color of the clock.

Personalize your Lock Screen

You can showcase a favorite photo, add filters, and widgets, and even change the font of the date and time.

To get started, touch and hold the Lock Screen, then tap the Add New button at the bottom of the screen. Browse the gallery of options, then tap one to customize its appearance. When you’ve created a Lock Screen that you like, tap Add, then tap Set as Wallpaper Pair.

A customized iPad Home Screen with widgets at the top for Clock, Translate, Reminders, Maps, and Photos.

Add widgets to your Home Screen

Widgets help you easily see the information that’s most important to you, like the current weather and upcoming calendar events.

To add a widget, touch and hold the wallpaper on any Home Screen page until the apps jiggle, then tap the Add Widget button. Tap a widget, swipe right or left to view the different sizes, then tap Add Widget.

A screen showing controls you can add to Control Center, such as Text Size, Dark Mode, and Quick Note.

Set your favorite controls

Some iPad controls—like Silent mode and timer—are just a swipe away in Control Center. To quickly open Control Center, swipe down from the top-right corner.

To customize the controls, tap the Add button at the top left of Control Center. You can add, resize, rearrange, and remove controls.

A Settings screen showing Accessibility options such as VoiceOver, Audio Descriptions, and Switch Control.

Use built-in accessibility features

iPad provides many accessibility features to support your vision, physical and motor, hearing, and learning needs. Change text appearance, make it easier to use the touchscreen, turn on subtitles and captioning, and more.

To customize these settings, go to Settings  > Accessibility.

A Settings screen showing Privacy & Security options such as Location Services and Tracking.

Check your privacy settings

iPad is designed to protect your data and your privacy. You can grant or deny apps permission to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites.

To deny requests from apps to track your activity, go to Settings  > Privacy & Security, tap Tracking, then turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track (green is on).

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