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Table of Contents

Welcome
- Setup basics
- Make your iPad your own
- Streamline your workflow on iPad
- Do more with Apple Pencil
- Customize iPad for your child
What’s new in iPadOS 26
- Turn on and set up iPad
- Wake, unlock, and lock
- Set up cellular service
- Connect to the internet
- View or change cellular data settings
- Find settings
- Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- - Learn basic gestures
  - Learn advanced gestures
- Adjust the volume
- Turn the iPad flashlight on or off
- Drag and drop
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- Perform quick actions
- Search with Spotlight
- Get information about your iPad
- Manage storage on iPad
- Travel with iPad
- Change or turn off sounds
- Create a custom Lock Screen
- Change the wallpaper
- Use and customize Control Center
- Record audio and video
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Keep the iPad display on longer
- Adjust iPad display and text settings
- Change the name of your iPad
- Change the date and time
- Change the language and region
- Change the default apps
- Change your default search engine on iPad
- Rotate your iPad screen
- Customize sharing options
- Add or change keyboards
- Add emoji, Memoji, and stickers
- - Write and draw in documents
  - Add text, shapes, stickers, and more
- Fill out forms, sign documents, and create signatures
- Interact with content in a photo or video
- Identify objects in your photos and videos
- Lift a subject from the photo background
- Take photos
- Take Live Photos
- Take a selfie
- Take a Portrait mode selfie
- Record a video
- Change advanced camera settings
- Adjust HDR camera settings
- View, share, and print photos
- Use Live Text
- Scan a QR code
- Scan documents
- - Get apps
  - Use App Clips
  - Update apps
  - Install and manage fonts
  - Share and send apps
  - See your purchases and subscriptions
  - Change settings and restrictions
- - Buy books and audiobooks
  - Read books
  - Annotate books
  - Access books on other Apple devices
  - Listen to audiobooks
  - Set reading goals
  - Organize books
  - Read PDFs
- - Get started with Calendar
  - Create and edit events in Calendar
  - Send invitations
  - Reply to invitations
  - Change how you view events
  - Search for events
  - Change Calendar settings
  - Schedule or display events in a different time zone
  - Keep track of events
  - Use multiple calendars
  - Use reminders in Calendar
  - Use the Holidays calendar
  - Share iCloud calendars
- - Get started with Calculator
  - Use the basic calculator
  - Use the scientific calculator
  - Solve math with Math Notes
  - Work with graphs in Math Notes
  - Convert units or currency
  - See previous calculations
- - See the world clock
  - Set an alarm
  - Use the stopwatch
  - Set timers
- - Get started with Contacts
  - Add and use contact information
  - Edit contacts
  - Add your contact info
  - Share contacts on iPad
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Hide duplicate contacts
  - Sync contacts across devices
  - Import contacts
  - Export contacts
- - Get started with FaceTime
  - - Set up FaceTime
    - Make FaceTime calls
    - Receive FaceTime calls
  - Create a FaceTime link
  - Take a Live Photo
  - Use FaceTime audio call tools
  - Use Live Captions and Live Translation
  - Use other apps during a call
  - Make a Group FaceTime call
  - Use SharePlay to watch, listen, and play together
  - Share your screen in a FaceTime call
  - Request or give remote control in a FaceTime call
  - Collaborate on a document in a FaceTime call
  - Use video conferencing features
  - Hand off a FaceTime call to another Apple device
  - Change the FaceTime video settings
  - Change the FaceTime audio settings
  - Change your appearance
  - Leave a call or switch to Messages
  - Screen and filter calls
  - Block a FaceTime call and report it as spam
- - Files basics
  - Modify files and folders
  - Find and view files and folders
  - Find your downloaded files on iPad
  - Organize files and folders
  - Send files from the Files app
  - Set up iCloud Drive
  - Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
  - Transfer files from iPad to a storage device, a server, or the cloud
- - Get started with Find My
  - Adjust map settings
  - Turn off Find My
- - Get started with Freeform
  - Create a Freeform board
  - Search Freeform boards
  - Delete and recover boards
  - Subscribe to Apple Creator Studio
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
  - Change Freeform settings
- - Get started with the Apple Games app
  - Set up your Game Center profile
  - Find and download games
  - Subscribe to Apple Arcade
  - Connect with friends in the Apple Games app
  - Play with friends in the Apple Games app
  - Manage your game library
  - Connect a game controller
  - Change game-related settings
  - Report a problem with a game
- - Get started with Health
  - Fill out your Health Details
  - View health records
  - - Track your medications
    - Learn more about your medications
  - - Log your state of mind
    - Take a mental health assessment
  - - Use a Sleep Focus
    - View your sleep history
  - - Check your headphone audio levels
    - Use hearing health features
  - Back up your Health data
- - Get started with Home
  - Intro to Home
  - Upgrade to the new version of Apple Home
  - Set up accessories
  - Control accessories
  - Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
  - View electricity usage and rates
  - Adaptive Temperature and Clean Energy Guidance
  - Set up HomePod
  - Control your home remotely
  - Create and use scenes
  - Use automations
  - Set up security cameras
  - Use Face Recognition
  - Configure a router
  - Invite others to control accessories
  - Add more homes
- - Get music
  - Get ringtones
  - Manage purchases and settings
- - Get started with Journal
  - Write in your journal
  - Edit or delete an entry
  - Add formatting, photos, and more
  - Journal for your wellbeing
  - Build a journaling habit
  - View and search journal entries
  - Print and export entries
  - Protect your journal entries
  - Change Journal settings
- - Magnify or describe things around you
  - Customize controls
- - Get started with Mail
  - - Add and remove email accounts
    - Set up a custom email domain
  - Check your email
  - Use categories
  - Automatically clean up iCloud Mail
  - Set email notifications
  - Search for email
  - Organize your email in mailboxes
  - Use iCloud Mail rules to automatically apply actions to emails
  - - Flag or block emails
    - Filter emails
  - - Use Hide My Email
    - Use Mail Privacy Protection
  - Change Mail settings
  - Delete and recover emails
  - Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
  - Print emails
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
- - Get started with Maps
  - Set your location and map view
  - - Explore 3D maps
    - Look around places
  - Clear location history
  - Delete recent directions
  - Report an issue with Maps
- - Measure dimensions
  - View and save measurements
  - Measure a person’s height
- - Get started with Messages
  - Set up Messages
  - About iMessage
  - Send and reply to messages
  - Schedule a text message to send later
  - Unsend and edit messages
  - Keep track of messages
  - Search
  - Forward and share messages
  - Group conversations
  - Share screens
  - Collaborate on projects
  - Add backgrounds
  - Use iMessage apps
  - Poll people in a conversation
  - Take and edit photos or videos
  - Share photos, links, and more
  - Send stickers
  - Create and send Memoji
  - React with Tapbacks
  - Format text and animate messages
  - Draw and handwrite messages
  - Send and save GIFs
  - Send and receive audio messages
  - Share your location
  - Turn read receipts on or off
  - Stop, mute, and change notifications
  - Screen and filter texts
  - Report spam and block senders
  - Delete messages and attachments
  - Recover deleted messages
- - Get started with Music
  - Get music
  - Customize Music
- - Get started with News
  - Get News notifications and newsletters
  - Use News widgets
  - See news stories chosen just for you
  - Read and share stories
  - Read local news
  - Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
  - Search for channels, topics, stories, or recipes
  - Save stories
  - Clear your reading history
  - Customize the tab bar
  - Subscribe to individual news channels
- - Get started with Notes
  - Create and format notes
  - Use Quick Notes
  - Add drawings and handwriting
  - Enter formulas and equations
  - Add photos, video, and more
  - Record and transcribe audio
  - Scan text and documents
  - Work with PDFs
  - Add links
  - Search notes
  - Organize in folders
  - Organize with tags
  - Use Smart Folders
  - Share and collaborate
  - Export or print notes
  - Lock notes
  - Delete and recover notes
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Change the Notes view
  - Change Notes settings
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
- - Use passwords on iPad
  - Find your password for a website or app
  - Change the password for a website or app
  - Remove a password
  - Recover a deleted password
  - Create a password for a website or app
  - Show passwords in large text
  - Use passkeys to sign in to websites and apps
  - Sign in with Apple
  - Share passwords
  - Automatically fill in strong passwords
  - See websites excluded from AutoFill
  - Change weak or compromised passwords
  - View your passwords and related information
  - View password history
  - Find your Wi-Fi password
  - Share passwords securely with AirDrop
  - Make your passwords available on all your devices
  - Automatically fill in verification codes
  - Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
  - Use two-factor authentication
  - Use security keys
  - See your Mac FileVault recovery key
  - - Import passwords
    - Export passwords
- - Make a call
  - Record and transcribe a call
  - Change your Phone settings
  - View and delete the call history
  - Answer or decline incoming calls
  - While on a call
  - Have a conference or three-way call
  - Set up Voicemail
  - Check voicemail
  - Change voicemail greeting and settings
  - Select ringtones
  - Make calls using Wi-Fi
  - Set up call forwarding
  - Set up call waiting
  - Screen and block calls
- - Take photos
  - Delete, share, or copy a photo
  - View and edit Photo Booth photos in the Photos app
- - Get started with Photos
  - Browse your photo library
  - Browse your photo collections
  - View photos and videos
  - See photo and video information
  - - Find photos and videos by date
    - Find and name people and pets
    - Find group photos and videos
    - Browse photos and videos by location
    - Find recently saved photos and videos
    - Find your travel photos and videos
    - Find receipts, QR codes, recently edited photos, and more
    - Locate photos and videos by media type
  - Sort and filter the photo library
  - Back up and sync your photos and videos with iCloud
  - Delete or hide photos and videos
  - Search for photos and videos
  - Get wallpaper suggestions
  - - View your memories
    - Play memory movies
    - Share or delete memories
    - Personalize your memory movies
    - Make slideshows
  - - Create and work with photo albums
    - Add, delete, and find photos and video in albums
    - Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
  - - Share photos and videos
    - Share long videos
    - Create shared albums
    - Add and remove people in a shared album
    - Add and delete photos and videos in a shared album
    - Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library
    - Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
    - Add content to an iCloud Shared Photo Library
  - - Edit photos and videos
    - Crop, rotate, flip, or straighten photos and videos
    - Undo and revert photo edits
    - Trim video length, adjust speed, and edit audio
    - Edit Cinematic videos
    - Edit Live Photos
    - Edit Portrait mode photos
  - Make stickers from your photos
  - Hide people, memories, or holidays
  - Duplicate and copy photos and videos
  - Merge duplicate photos
  - Import and export photos and videos
  - Print photos
- - Get started with Podcasts
  - Find podcasts
  - Watch and listen to podcasts
  - View podcast transcripts
  - Follow your favorite podcasts
  - Rate or review podcasts
  - Use the Podcasts widget
  - Select your favorite Podcasts categories and channels
  - Organize your podcast library
  - Download, save, remove, and share podcasts
  - Subscribe to podcasts
  - Listen to subscriber-only content
  - Change download settings
- - Get started with Preview
  - - Open and view PDFs and images
    - Interact with text in an image
  - - Edit an image
    - Remove the background from an image
  - Reply to an email with a PDF attachment
  - Scan text and documents
  - Create an image
  - Share PDFs or images
  - Print PDFs or images
  - Customize the toolbar
- - Get started with Reminders
  - Create reminders
  - Make a grocery list
  - Add details
  - Complete items
  - Delete and recover reminders
  - Edit and organize a list
  - Search your lists
  - Organize multiple lists
  - Tag items
  - Use Smart Lists
  - Share and collaborate
  - Print a list
  - Work with templates
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Change Reminders settings
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
- - Get started with Safari
  - Browse the web
  - Search for websites
  - See highlights
  - Customize your Safari settings
  - Change the layout
  - Create multiple Safari profiles
  - - Open and close tabs
    - Work with multiple tabs in the sidebar
    - Organize your tabs with Tab Groups
    - View your tabs from another Apple device
    - Share Tab Groups
  - Listen to a webpage
  - Mute audio in tabs
  - Bookmark a website
  - Open as Web App
  - Bookmark a website as a favorite
  - Save pages to a Reading List
  - Find links shared with you
  - Download a PDF
  - Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
  - Fill in forms
  - Get extensions
  - - Hide distractions when browsing
    - Hide distractions when reading
    - Block pop-ups
  - Clear your cache and cookies
  - Enable cookies
  - - Browse the web privately
    - Sign in with passkeys in Safari
    - Use Hide My Email
    - Get HTTP website warnings
    - Digital certificates and encrypted websites
    - Verify website encryption
  - - Import browser data into Safari
    - Export Safari data to another browser
- Shortcuts
- - Check stocks
  - Manage multiple watchlists
  - Read business news
  - Add earnings reports to your calendar
  - Use a Stocks widget
- Tips
- - Translate text, voice, and conversations
  - Translate text in apps
  - Translate with the camera view
  - Change your Translate settings
- - Get started with the Apple TV app
  - Subscribe to Apple TV or a channel
  - Start watching and control playback
  - Find shows, movies, and more
  - Personalize the Home tab
  - Buy, rent, or pre-order items
  - Manage your library
  - Add your TV provider
  - Change the settings
- - Get started with Voice Memos
  - Make a recording
  - View a transcription
  - Play it back
  - Work with layered recordings
  - Export a recording to Files
  - Edit or delete a recording
  - Keep recordings up to date
  - Organize recordings
  - Search for or rename a recording
  - Share a recording
  - Duplicate a recording
- - Check the weather
  - Check the weather in other locations
  - View weather maps
  - Manage weather notifications
  - Use Weather widgets
  - Learn the weather icons
- How to use Siri
- Turn on and activate Siri
- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Image Wand with Apple Intelligence
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
- Set up Family Sharing
- Add Family Sharing members
- Remove Family Sharing members
- Share subscriptions
- Share purchases
- Share locations with family and locate lost devices
- Set up Apple Cash Family and Apple Card Family
- Set up parental controls
- Set up a child’s device
- Share age ranges with apps
- Get started with Screen Time
- Protect your vision health with Screen Distance
- Create, manage, and keep track of a Screen Time passcode
- Set schedules with Screen Time
- Block apps, app downloads, websites, and purchases
- Block calls and messages with Screen Time
- Check for sensitive images and videos
- Set up Screen Time for a child
- Respond to a Screen Time request
- Set up Apple Pay
- Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
- Use Apple Cash
- Use Apple Card
- Remove payment cards
- Fill in payment information
- Change Wallet & Apple Pay settings
- Power adapter and charge cable
- - Use AirPods
  - Use EarPods
- Use headphone audio-level features
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Connect Bluetooth accessories
- Play audio from your iPad on a Bluetooth accessory from your iPad
- Apple Watch with Fitness+
- Printers
- Polishing cloth
- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPad
- Allow phone calls and text messages on your iPad
- Share your internet connection with Personal Hotspot
- Use your iPad as a webcam for Apple TV 4K
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans on Mac
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Connect iPad and your computer with a cable
- Transfer files between devices
- Get started with accessibility features
- Use accessibility features during setup
- Change Siri accessibility settings
- Quickly turn accessibility features on or off
- Share your Accessibility settings with another device
- - Overview of cognitive accessibility features
  - Lock iPad to one app
- Control what you share
- Turn on Lock Screen features
- Block contacts
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use Advanced Data Protection
- Use Lockdown Mode
- Install Background Security Improvements
- Receive warnings about sensitive content
- Use Contact Key Verification
- Turn iPad on or off
- Force restart iPad
- Update iPadOS
- Back up iPad
- Reset iPad settings
- Erase iPad
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell, give away, or trade in your iPad
- Install or remove configuration profiles
- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Apple and the environment
- Class 1 Laser information
- Disposal and recycling information
- Unauthorized modification of iPadOS
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
Copyright and trademarks

Change mouse settings on iPad

You can change how you use a mouse to interact with items on the iPad screen.

Go to Settings > General, then select Trackpad & Mouse.
Do any of the following:
- Change the tracking speed: Drag the slider to set the tracking speed of the pointer when you move it across the screen.
- Turn Natural Scrolling on or off: With this option selected, the contents on the screen move in the same direction as your finger.
- Specify a finger to use for Secondary Click: You can specify either the right or left finger to show the Quick Actions menu when you click items like icons on the Home Screen, messages in a mailbox, or the Camera button in Control Center. To turn off Secondary Click, choose Off (Magic Mouse 2).

Note: You can also change the appearance of the pointer, such as its color, shape, and size. See Make the pointer easier to see when using a mouse or trackpad with iPad.

See alsoMouse actions and gestures for iPad

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