Make your iPad your own (2024)

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iPad User Guide

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.

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 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.

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 . Tap a widget, swipe right or left to view the different sizes, then tap Add Widget.

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.

You can add more controls—like alarm or text size—to Control Center. To remove or rearrange controls, go to Settings> Control Center.

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.

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

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