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Issue 36
HOW TO use iWork’s all-new features; save money with iCloud; and more!
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hen it comes to creative software on the desktop, it’s often too intimidating to get started with. Even if you just want to have a play around, it can be so complex, with functions often so hidden, that if you’re like me, you just don’t start. But it’s different on the iPad. With the immediacy of a touchscreen, apps tend to be designed to be more obvious. You can just start drawing with a finger (or stylus). In a music app, you can play a facsimile of an instrument you recognise. Movie editing can just mean dragging stuff around for fun until suddenly you hit on something really cool. Even coding apps are usually designed differently, with touchable elements that make them easier to get to grips with. This issue, we’ve got a feature that shows you all the most amazing creative apps, that help you dive right into making something great, even if you’re new to the subject. Plus, we’re got other great tutorials, including tips on reducing your iCloud usage, so you can potentially save money on your iCloud storage tiers. And we have reviews of the latest and greatest accessories, of course!
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Save iCloud storage space Save money by reclaiming capacity
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Master Split View in Safari View two web pages side-by-side
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Unlock Pages’ new features Take advantage of extra iWork tools
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Find your way with Maps Find points of interest and get directions
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Get the news you want Create your own personal news service
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Get creative with your iPad Express your creativity with these easy and powerful apps
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Apple Gear We review the latest accessories
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iOS Reclaim iCloud storage
Save iCloud storage space Save money by reclaiming wasted online storage capacity it will take 15 minutes you will learn How to stop apps using iCloud storage You’ll need iOS 10.3
It’s tempting to leave certain settings on your iPhone or iPad on their defaults, not least iCloud Backup – how many times has the importance of backing up been hammered into your brain, after all? That may seem like the safest strategy, but ask yourself whether it’s costing you more money than necessary.
While writing this tutorial, we were shocked to discover that iCloud Backup was putting 941MB of data from Tweetbot, and 459MB from Amazon Music online. Neither of those apps stores anything precious, or that we can’t just easily download again when we need it. So, if you’re trying to stay within the 5GB Apple provides for free with all iCloud accounts, we suggest checking the space your backups of app data are taking up, and whether that’s close to costing money that you don’t really need to spend. However, if you’re already paying for more space in your iCloud account, and an ample amount remains free, you may not care to follow the advice here, as it isn’t going to change anything for the better for you. The following walkthrough is written with iOS 10.3 in mind, which was released just as we went to press. That update relocates some of the settings you’ll need to access from previous versions, but the same principles apply in earlier versions of iOS – instead of tapping the new consolidated row for your Apple ID, iCloud, iTunes, and App Store accounts at the top of Settings, scroll down the list a way and look for the discrete iCloud submenu instead.
How to Reclaim wasted iCloud storage
Genius Tip! If you prefer to back up everything regardless, but need more space to do so, tap the storage breakdown in iCloud’s settings, then Change Storage Plan.
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1Locate iCloud settings
In the recent iOS 10.3 software update, Apple consolidated settings that relate to your Apple ID, iCloud, and the iTunes and App Stores in one place, which is conveniently at the top of Settings. Start by tapping that row.
2iCloud storage usage
Tap iCloud near the top of the next page. You’ll see a colour-coded breakdown of what’s using your iCloud storage – not just iCloud Drive, but email and backups, too. Tap that, and then tap Manage Storage.
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4Identify space hogs
5Is it necessary?
6Free up the space
7What saves to iCloud
8Limit select apps
The next page breaks things down more precisely. Ignore the Documents & Data section lower down, despite it listing how much iCloud storage each of your apps is using. Instead, under Backups, tap the device you’re using.
Several of our apps’ backups were using a significant amount of the storage iCloud gives you for free. Consider turning off backups for apps that contain media that’s free to redownload, or for which there’s no benefit.
As well as disabling backups for apps, consider whether apps should save content to iCloud Drive at all, or if you’re content to use File Sharing (see apple.co/2nObcTV) to move files to and from your Mac manually.
Jargon Buster iCloud Backup is a feature of iOS that will automatically back up the data contained in each of the apps you’ve installed on your iPhone or iPad. It includes everything from your photo library to saved progress for games.
Under the heading Choose Data to Back Up, tap Show All Apps, and then work your way down the list, noting any apps whose usage you consider excessive or unnecessary. You may be surprised by what’s backed up online.
When you switch off an app’s backups, you’re asked to confirm; doing so deletes the backup data from iCloud immediately, freeing up space for what really matters, such as data that actually warrants being backed up.
At the top of iCloud’s settings, scroll past “Apps Using iCloud” to third-party apps. Check online whether those that use lots of space support an easy transfer method (File Sharing, or AirDrop); switch off those that do.
Genius Tip! You’ll need to repeat these steps on each of your iOS devices to configure their backups individually.
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APPLE APPS Safari multitasking
Master Split View in Safari Discover how to view two web pages side-by-side in Safari it will take 5 minutes you will learn How to open Safari tabs side-by-side, and go back to a single screen when needed You’ll need iOS 10 or later, supported iPad model
Tabbed browsing has changed the way we surf the web, making it easy to quickly switch between web pages. That said, there’s no substitute for being able to view two web pages side-by-side in separate windows, allowing you to easily compare them. That’s easy on your Mac, but the good news is that – armed with a newer iPad – you can do the same in Safari too. Apple has enabled the Split View feature it introduced in iOS 9 to work within Safari in iOS 10. As the step-by-step guide reveals, you can quickly split your window in two from scratch, or split off a web link or tab. If you’ve connected your iPad to a Bluetooth keyboard you can quickly create a new Split View window using the ç+N shortcut, too. The bad news is that – like Split View – it only works with the latest iPad models: the new iPad (reviewed next issue), the iPad Air 2, iPad Pro and iPad mini 4. Other caveats: you need to be viewing your iPad in landscape mode and you can’t resize either window – each takes up exactly half the screen. When the new window has been created, you’ll be able to tap ‘Private’ to convert that window to private browsing mode without
affecting the other screen. Once set up, each window behaves just like any regular Safari window, so you can open multiple tabs in each. You can also easily move tabs between windows – just tap and drag the tab into the opposite window (note, if one window is in Private Browsing mode and the other in normal mode, this won’t work). You’re also able to open links in the opposite window: tap and hold on a link and then choose ‘Open on Other Side’ from the pop-up menu to do so.
Going back Finally, should you want to revert to a single window browser window in Safari, you have two choices: the first is to combine all the tabs from both views in a single window. To do this, simply tap and hold the tab button – you’ll find it’s moved to the bottom right-hand corner of the Safari window when Split View is running – and choose ‘Merge All Tabs’ from the pop-up menu. So every tab you had open will remain, but now all together. If you want to close Split View without retaining the tabs from one of its windows, you can close all the tabs in the unwanted window one at a time – once the final tab is closed, you’ll return to a single window view.
How to Invoke Split View
1Open a blank tab
In Safari, touch and hold the tab button in the top right-hand corner until a popup menu appears. Choose ‘Open Split View’ to split the window in two – your current page on the left, your Safari home page on the right.
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2Open link to Split View 3Convert tab If you come across an interesting link on a page you’re browsing that you’d like to look at side-by-side with your original web page, tap and hold on the link, then choose ‘Open in Split View’ from the popup menu.
If you’ve got two tabs open, you can convert them into Split Screen view by tapping and dragging one of the tabs to the right or left of the screen – wait until it splits into a new window at the side you’ve dragged it to.
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APPLE APPS Pages’ new features
Unlock Pages’ new features
Take advantage of new formatting tools, bookmarks and more in Pages 3.1 it will take 25 minutes you will learn Format text, apply ligatures, add equations and improve pie charts You’ll need Pages for iOS 3.1
Apple has added many new features to Pages for iPad over the years
These days, it’s easy to forget the controversial decision Apple took back in 2014 to revamp its iWork package by “dumbing down” the Mac version to bring it in line with the less powerful iOS iteration. In the years since, Apple has moved to restore missing features (and add new ones), with iPad users gaining many of these for the first time. Pages for iOS 3.1 in this vein. There are new text formatting tools for starters: you have superscript and subscript formatting options, support for ligatures – see the box on the next page – and background colour for text. See below for information on these. When writing long documents, it helps to be able to rapidly navigate them. Our second step-by-step guide will show you how to use Pages’ new Bookmarks feature to move quickly between different parts of your document, which you specify. Mathematicians will be thrilled to discover Pages now supports equations through LaTeX commands or MathML elements – the final step-by-step guide reveals how this works. Other changes are minor. When you protect your document by tapping the three dots (…) icon and choosing ‘Set Password’, for
example, you can now choose to protect them using Touch ID.
More new features Pages allows you to customise dates, times and currencies for different languages and regions – you’ll need to open the Settings app and navigate to General > Keyboard to enable a second keyboard, then once done tap … in Pages and choose ‘Language & Region’ to switch. Pages 3.1 also supports both importing and exporting documents in the popular Rich Text Format (.rtf), and claims to make it easier to swap out missing fonts. Sadly, we’ve yet to find evidence of this – Mac users gain a handy Format > Fonts > Replace Fonts command, but there’s no equivalent tool on the iPad. When creating pie charts, you’ll also be given the opportunity to add new leader lines for clear labelling – tap Value Labels inside the Chart Format Painter, then choose to position them ‘Outside’ to reveal three options: none, straight and angled. The final change is undocumented, and unwelcome – it appears that Apple has dropped support for triple-tapping to select a paragraph of text. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update.
How to Use Pages’ new formatting tools
1Subscript and superscript 2Apply formatting There are two ways to apply these to your document. If you’ve not yet typed the character or word, skip to step two; otherwise, you need to select the character or word using Pages’ selection tools. Tap the Format Painter.
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Tap the three dots (…) underneath the font name to open the Text Styles box. You’ll see both superscript and subscript listed under ‘Baseline’. Tap to apply, but remember to tap again when done to de-select it if you’re typing.
3Text background colour
Select your text, tap the Format Painter button and tap the three dots (…) as before. This time, scroll down to the bottom of the Text Styles box and tap ‘Text Background’ – swipe left and right for more colour options.