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very year, Apple updates its devices with a new operating system, improving and building on what’s come before with new features and options. Last year, with iOS 10, iPad users may have felt a little forgotten, though – there were pretty much no new features specifically for the iPad. But that’s definitely not the case with iOS 11, which adds some killer new stuff. You can read all about the new features starting on page 5. I’m really excited about them – they’re focused on productivity and multitasking, and go a long way towards making the iPad better for some of the more complex tasks people still go to their PC and Mac for. The only downside is that not all iPads will get these new features, since they require some strong processing power – you can read about that on p5 too. And in the future, we’ll have lots of guides to getting the most from this new stuff! Of course, we’ve still got our regular guides this issue – we’ll show you how to use Apple’s latest free app, how to power up GarageBand with new instruments, how to translate languages instantly, and polish your photos.
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Your guide to iOS 11 Discover the new features coming to your iPad
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Make fun videos with Clips Mix movies, stills and funky stickers in this app
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Turn GarageBand up to 11 Add instruments and effects with Audio Units
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Make a photo shine with Affinity Photo Bring out the best in a photo quickly and easily
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Understand anything with Google Translate Get the most from Google’s languages app
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Your guide to iOS 11 iOS
Your guide to
iOS 11 Apple’s yearly shake-up of its operating system doesn’t look like it’s going to disappoint. Let’s look at what’s new in iOS 11 written by
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ALAN STONEBRIDGE
pple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) delivered a quartet of stunning software updates that are coming to your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV this fall. Here, we’ll focus on the changes coming to your iPad and iPhone. Of Apple’s four operating systems, it’s iOS 11 we’re most excited about. It offers refinements to make things you already do quicker and easier to accomplish, includes creative and fun new things to do with photos and videos, and looks set to introduce a whole new class of apps and games through augmented reality.
The biggest changes are on iPad, with huge improvements to multitasking, and newly added support for drag and drop between apps that make things much more like using a desktop computer. On the bigger screens of the iPad Pros especially, these enable amazing flexibility in the way you work, but they’re awesome additions to any iPads that support them. Read on to find out everything you need to know ahead of Apple’s update coming later in September. iOS 11 is supported on the iPad Air and later, iPad mini 2 and later, all iPad Pro models, iPhone 5s and later, and the most recent iPod touch. Earlier models won’t be able to update, sadly.
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iOS Your guide to iOS 11 We love the new vertical control strips for brightness and volume.
Control Centre A more powerful and easier-to-use way to adjust iOS device settings
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ontrol Centre is a little awkward in iOS 10, so the new version reverts to a one-page design, meaning you no longer have to swipe left or right just to reach the set of controls you need. Instead, controls are neatly grouped, and there are additional settings just a firm press away. One of our favourite changes is that the redesigned interface dispenses with some of the clumsy, Mac-like controls. Notice in the screens here that the volume and screen brightness controls are no longer adjusted by dragging a small handle along a track. Instead, they’re shown as two vertical strips; you only have to place your finger on one of these and swipe up or down to adjust its value. At first, it might appear that some important controls are missing. For example, the one that redirects your device’s audio to an AirPlay speaker or Apple TV, the switch that toggles Night Shift on or off, and the controls for your favourite HomeKit accessories and scenes. In reality, what’s changed is that Control Centre
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now makes more extensive use of 3D Touch on iPhone than it does in iOS 10. Pressing firmly on some controls, or on groups of them, uncovers more detailed settings, such as those just mentioned. 3D Touch can also be applied to the group of connectivity icons at the top left, which initially shows four switches for Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular data. Pressing firmly on this group reveals AirDrop and Personal Hotspot, and status descriptions for all six items. Beyond aesthetics and interactions, Control Centre sports a huge practical improvement: you can remove the familiar alarm, flashlight, camera, or calculator controls if you don’t use them, and there’s a bunch of extra controls you can choose to add instead. The additional controls include shortcuts to Low Power Mode, Dynamic Text size, and the special Magnifier camera mode, which is an accessibility feature introduced in iOS 10. On the iPad, the Dock evolves from a simple place to keep up to six of your most-used apps visible on all pages of the Home screen and becomes a lot more like the one in macOS. Notice a dividing line to the right. You choose
Your guide to iOS 11 iOS
Control Centre for iPhone
Admittedly, Control Centre is busy but it’s now smartly divided into logical groups.
Using 3D Touch on the brightness slider reveals a switch for Night Shift.
Clearer notifications > Apple has revamped the way notifications are presented in iOS 11, which should help if you’ve ever found yourself disoriented by the differences in their arrangement between Notification Centre and the Lock screen. Your Lock screen always shows recent notifications, and you can swipe up to see older ones. When your device is unlocked, swipe down from the top of the screen to open Notification Centre; at first you’ll see
only recent, unattended items. However, by then swiping up you’ll reveal a history of items going back chronologically through time. Though this sounds like a small change, it brings a greater sense of continuity, regardless of whether you’re checking notifications after plucking your iPhone from a pocket, or taking a few minutes out of doing something else to deal with items that you’ve ignored for a while. Current notifications, are always on show when you wake your device…
At last, you can toggle Personal Hotspot from the Lock screen.
Press on the audio group to find the control for where sound is sent.
which apps are to the left of that and the items on the right are picked for you by iOS itself, based on what it thinks you might need next. On the iPad, the new Dock is about more than providing a new way to quickly switch between apps. When you reveal the Dock while using an app, you can drag the icon of another app from the Dock to the side of the screen to open it in the temporary Slide Over view. If you decide to keep that app open you can pin it open in Split View to refer to as you continue to use the original app.
… but then you can swipe again to reveal a history of older notifications.
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iOS Your guide to iOS 11
Messages Apple promises continuity of conversations across all your devices
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he Messages app gained apps and stickers last year, but accessing all the ones installed by apps on your device has been a cumbersome process in iOS 10. Apple has redesigned the app drawer; app icons are shown in a scrolling row across the bottom of the screen, which you swipe to find the one you want. As you do so, the row’s height increases to make it easier to pick out the app you want – simply tap it to access stickers or other features. For a number of years, one of our greatest frustrations with Messages has been inconsistent records of communications when moving from one device to another. Apple’s solution
to this is to store a copy of all the messages you receive in iCloud, and have all your Mac and iOS devices use that collection. Messages you delete in one place disappear from all your other devices, too. Naturally, this might concern you when it comes to privacy; but Apple says that delivery of your messages is end-to-end encrypted. Due to storing your long-term archive of messages in the cloud, only recently received items are cached on your devices; older ones are retrieved on demand. And if you send a lot of photos and videos, they’re put in the cloud on the go, so devices’ periodic iCloud backups will complete faster.
Person-to-person Apple Pay > Apple’s contactless payment and iMessage systems pair up in iOS 11, enabling you to send money to friends, family, or colleagues right from your conversations with them. Let’s say you’re talking with a friend about booking cinema tickets. They use an app to purchase the tickets and send you an iMessage to let you know how much you owe them. You then tap the Apple Pay icon in Messages’ app drawer (or the Apple Pay suggestion that appears above the keyboard), confirm that the amount the app has picked out of the message is correct, then place your fingerprint on your device’s Touch ID sensor. Money received is held on an Apple Pay card in the Wallet app; you can either keep it there to fund future payments using Apple Pay (in a retail store or online), send it on to another person, or transfer it to your bank. 8|
Sending money to your friends is now much easier with iOS 11.
Thanks to a redesigned app drawer, it’s now much easier to find stickers and add-on apps to make your messages more interesting.