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iPad User Guide
How do I get all my pictures from my iPhone to my iPad?
How do I transfer photos from my iPhone to my iPad without iCloud?
How do I send thousands of photos from my iPhone to my iPad?

iPad User Guide

Welcome
- Setup basics
- Make your iPad your own
- Keep in touch with friends and family
- Customize your workspace
- Supported models
- iPad mini (5th generation)
- iPad mini (6th generation)
- iPad (5th generation)
- iPad (6th generation)
- iPad (7th generation)
- iPad (8th generation)
- iPad (9th generation)
- iPad (10th generation)
- iPad Air (3rd generation)
- iPad Air (4th generation)
- iPad Air (5th generation)
- iPad Pro 9.7-inch
- iPad Pro 10.5-inch
- iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation)
- iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (1st generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation)
What’s new in iPadOS 16
- Turn on and set up iPad
- Wake and unlock
- Set up cellular service
- Connect to the internet
- - Apple ID settings
  - Turn iCloud features on or off
  - Subscribe to iCloud+
- Find settings
- Set up mail, contacts, and calendar accounts
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- - Charge the battery
  - Show the battery percentage
  - Check battery usage
- Download or bookmark the user guide
- - Learn basic gestures
  - Learn advanced gestures
- Adjust the volume
- - Open apps
  - Find your apps in App Library
  - Switch between apps
  - Zoom an app to fill the screen
  - Quit and reopen an app
- - Dictate text
  - Type with the onscreen keyboard
  - Use a split keyboard
  - Select and edit text
  - Use predictive text
  - Use text replacements
  - Add or change keyboards
- Drag and drop
- - Open two items in Split View
  - Switch an app window to Slide Over
  - View an app’s windows and workspaces
  - Multitask with Picture in Picture
  - Move, resize, and organize windows
- Access features from the Lock Screen
- Perform quick actions
- Search with iPad
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- - Draw in apps
  - Add typed text, shapes, and signatures
  - Zoom in or magnify in Markup
- Get information about your iPad
- View or change cellular data settings
- Travel with iPad
- Change or turn off sounds
- Change the wallpaper
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Magnify the screen
- Change the name of your iPad
- Change the date and time
- Change the language and region
- - Organize your apps in folders
  - Add widgets
  - Move apps and widgets on the Home Screen
  - Remove apps
- Use and customize Control Center
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- - View and respond to notifications
  - Change notification settings
  - Set up a focus
  - Allow or silence notifications for a Focus
  - Turn a Focus on or off
- - Get apps
  - - Subscribe to Apple Arcade
    - Get games
    - Play with friends in Game Center
    - Connect a game controller
  - Use App Clips
  - Manage purchases, subscriptions, settings, and restrictions
  - Install and manage fonts
- - Buy books and audiobooks
  - Read books
  - Annotate books
  - Access books on other Apple devices
  - Listen to audiobooks
  - Set reading goals
  - Organize books
  - Read PDFs
- - Create and edit events in Calendar
  - Send invitations
  - Reply to invitations
  - Change how you view events
  - Search for events
  - Customize your calendar
  - Keep track of events
  - Use multiple calendars
  - Use the Holidays calendar
  - Share iCloud calendars
- - Take photos
  - Take a selfie
  - Take a Portrait mode selfie
  - Take videos
  - Change advanced camera settings
  - Adjust HDR camera settings
  - View, share, and print photos
  - Use Live Text
  - Scan a QR code
- - See the world clock
  - Set an alarm
  - Use the timer or stopwatch
- - Add and use contact information
  - Edit contacts
  - Add your contact info
  - Use other contact accounts
  - Hide duplicate contacts
- - Set up FaceTime
  - Create a FaceTime link
  - Make and receive calls
  - Take a Live Photo
  - Turn on Live Captions in a FaceTime call
  - Use other apps during a call
  - Make a Group FaceTime call
  - View participants in a grid
  - Use SharePlay to watch and listen together
  - Share your screen
  - Hand off a FaceTime call to another device
  - Change the video settings
  - Change the audio settings
  - Add camera effects
  - Leave a call or switch to Messages
  - Block unwanted callers
- - Connect external devices or servers
  - View and modify files and folders
  - Organize files and folders
  - Send files
  - Set up iCloud Drive
  - Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
- - - Share your location
    - Add or remove a friend
    - Locate a friend
    - Get notified when friends change their location
    - Notify a friend when your location changes
  - - Add your iPad
    - Get notified if you leave a device behind
    - Locate a device
    - Mark a device as lost
    - Erase a device
    - Remove a device
  - - Add an AirTag
    - Add a third-party item
    - Get notified if you leave an item behind
    - Locate an item
    - Mark an item as lost
    - Remove an item
  - Adjust map settings
- - Intro to Home
  - Set up accessories
  - Control accessories
  - Control your home using Siri
  - Configure HomePod
  - Control your home remotely
  - Create and use scenes
  - Create an automation
  - Configure cameras
  - Face Recognition
  - Configure a router
  - Share controls with others
  - Add more homes
- - Get music, movies, and TV shows
  - Get ringtones
  - Manage purchases and settings
- - Magnify nearby objects
  - Create activities
  - Change settings
  - - Detect people around you
    - Detect doors around you
    - Receive image descriptions of your surroundings
    - Set up shortcuts for Detection Mode
- - - Add and remove email accounts
    - Set up a custom email domain
  - Check your email
  - - Send email
    - Unsend email with Undo send
    - Reply to and forward emails
    - Save an email draft
  - - Add email attachments
    - Download email attachments
    - Annotate email attachments
  - Set email notifications
  - Search for email
  - Organize your email in mailboxes
  - - Flag emails
    - Filter emails
  - - Use Hide My Email
    - Use Mail Privacy Protection on iPad
  - Change email settings
  - Delete and recover emails
  - Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
  - Print emails
  - Keyboard shortcuts
- - View maps
  - - Search for places
    - Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
    - Get information about places
    - Mark places
    - Share places
    - Rate places
    - Save favorite places
    - Explore new places with Guides
    - Organize places in My Guides
    - Get traffic and weather info
    - Delete significant locations
    - Quickly find your Maps settings
  - - Use Siri, Maps, and the Maps widget to get directions
    - Select other route options
    - - Share your ETA
      - Find stops along your route
      - View a route overview or a list of turns
      - Change settings for spoken directions
    - Get driving directions
    - Report traffic incidents in Maps on iPad
    - Get cycling directions
    - Get walking directions
    - Get transit directions
    - Delete recent directions
  - - Look around streets
    - Take Flyover tours in Maps
- - Measure
  - View and save measurements
  - Measure a person’s height
- - Set up Messages
  - Send and receive messages
  - Unsend and edit messages on iPad
  - Keep track of messages and conversations on iPad
  - Set up a group conversation
  - Add photos and video
  - Send and receive content
  - Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
  - Collaborate on projects with Messages on iPad
  - Animate messages
  - Use iMessage apps
  - Use Memoji
  - Send a Digital Touch effect
  - Send, receive, and request money with Apple Cash
  - Change notifications
  - Block, filter, and report messages
  - Delete messages
- - Get music
  - View albums, playlists, and more
  - Play music
  - Queue up your music
  - Listen to broadcast radio
  - - Subscribe to Apple Music
    - Listen to lossless music
    - Listen to Dolby Atmos music
    - Find new music
    - Add music and listen offline
    - Get personalized recommendations
    - Listen to radio
    - Search for music
    - Create playlists
    - See what your friends are listening to
    - Use Siri to play music
  - Listen to music with Apple Music Voice
  - Change the way music sounds
- - Get started with News
  - Use News widgets
  - See news stories chosen just for you
  - Read stories
  - Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
  - - Subscribe to Apple News+
    - Browse and read Apple News+ stories and issues
  - Download Apple News+ issues
  - Search for news stories
  - Save news stories for later
  - Subscribe to news channels
- - Get started with Notes
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Create and format notes
  - Draw or write
  - Scan text and documents
  - Add photos, videos, and more
  - Create Quick Notes
  - Search notes
  - Organize in folders
  - Organize with tags
  - Use Smart Folders
  - Share and collaborate
  - Lock notes
  - Change Notes settings
  - Use keyboard shortcuts in Notes on iPad
- - Take photos
  - Delete, share, or copy a photo
  - View and edit Photo Booth photos in the Photos app
- - View photos and videos
  - Play videos and slideshows
  - Delete or hide photos and videos
  - Edit photos and videos
  - Trim video length and adjust slow motion
  - Edit Live Photos
  - Edit Cinematic videos
  - Edit Portrait mode photos
  - Use photo albums
  - Edit and organize albums
  - Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
  - Duplicate and copy photos and videos
  - Merge duplicate photos
  - Search in Photos
  - Find and identify people in Photos
  - Browse photos by location
  - Share photos and videos
  - View photos and videos shared with you
  - Use Live Text to interact with content in a photo or video
  - Use Visual Look Up to identify objects in your photos
  - Lift a subject from the photo background
  - Watch memories
  - Personalize your memories
  - Manage memories and featured photos
  - - Use iCloud Photos
    - Use iCloud Shared Albums
    - Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library
    - Add content to an iCloud Shared Photo Library
    - Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
  - Import photos and videos
  - Print photos
- - Find podcasts
  - Listen to podcasts
  - Follow your favorite podcasts
  - Organize your podcast library
  - Download, save, and share podcasts
  - Subscribe to podcasts
  - Change download settings
- - Set up accounts
  - Add items to a list
  - Edit and manage a list
  - Search and organize lists
  - Work with templates in Reminders on iPad
  - Use tags
  - Use Smart Lists
  - Change Reminders settings
  - Share and collaborate
  - Print reminders
  - Use keyboard shortcuts
- - Browse the web
  - Customize your Safari settings
  - Change the layout
  - Search for websites
  - - Open and close tabs
    - Organize your tabs with Tab Groups
    - View your tabs from another device
    - Share Tab Groups
  - Bookmark favorite webpages
  - Save pages to a Reading List
  - Find links shared with you
  - Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
  - Automatically fill in forms
  - Get extensions
  - Hide ads and distractions
  - - Browse the web privately
    - Clear your cache
    - Use passkeys in Safari
    - Use Hide My Email
- Shortcuts
- - Check stocks
  - Manage multiple watchlists
  - Read business news
  - Add earnings reports to your calendar
  - Add a Stocks widget to your Home Screen
- Tips
- - Translate text, voice, and conversations
  - Translate text in apps
  - Translate with the camera view
- - Connect apps and add your TV provider
  - Subscribe to Apple TV+ and Apple TV channels
  - Get shows, movies, and more
  - Watch sports
  - Control playback
  - Watch together using SharePlay
  - Manage your library
  - Change the settings
- - Make a recording
  - Play it back
  - Edit or delete a recording
  - Keep recordings up to date
  - Organize recordings
  - Search for or rename a recording
  - Share recordings
  - Duplicate a recording
- - Check the weather on iPad
  - Check the weather in other locations
  - View weather maps
  - Manage weather notifications
  - Add a Weather widget to your Home Screen
  - Learn the weather icons
- Use Siri
- Find out what Siri can do
- Tell Siri about yourself
- Have Siri announce calls and notifications
- Add Siri Shortcuts
- About Siri Suggestions
- Change Siri settings
- 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
- View your Screen Time summary
- Set up Screen Time for yourself
- Set up Screen Time for a family member
- Get a report of your device use
- Set up Apple Pay
- Use Apple Pay in apps, App Clips, and Safari
- Use Apple Cash
- Use Apple Card
- Accessories included with iPad
- - Use AirPods
  - Use EarPods
- Use headphone audio-level features
- - Pair and charge Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
  - Pair and charge Apple Pencil (1st generation)
  - Enter text with Scribble
  - Draw with Apple Pencil
  - Take and mark up a screenshot with Apple Pencil
  - Quickly write notes
  - Preview tools and controls with Apple Pencil
- - Wirelessly stream videos and photos to Apple TV or a smart TV
  - Connect to a display with a cable
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- - iPad keyboards
  - Switch between keyboards
  - Enter characters with diacritical marks
  - Dictate text
  - Use shortcuts
  - Choose an alternative keyboard layout
  - Change typing assistance options
- - Connect Magic Trackpad
  - Trackpad gestures
  - Change trackpad settings
- - Connect a mouse
  - Mouse actions and gestures
  - Change mouse settings
- External storage devices
- Bluetooth accessories
- Apple Watch with Fitness+
- Printers
- Share your internet connection
- Make and receive phone calls
- Use iPad as a second display for Mac
- Use a keyboard and mouse or trackpad across your Mac and iPad
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Wirelessly stream video, photos, and audio to Mac
- Cut, copy, and paste between iPad and other devices
- Connect iPad and your computer with a cable
- - Intro to transferring files
  - Transfer files with email, messages, or AirDrop
  - Automatically keep files up to date with iCloud
  - Transfer files with an external storage device
  - Use a file server to share files between your iPad and computer
  - Share files with a cloud storage service
  - Sync content or transfer files with the Finder or iTunes
- Get started with accessibility features
- - - Turn on and practice VoiceOver
    - Change your VoiceOver settings
    - Learn VoiceOver gestures
    - Operate iPad using VoiceOver gestures
    - Control VoiceOver using the rotor
    - Use the onscreen keyboard
    - Write with your finger
    - Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
    - Use a braille display
    - Type onscreen braille
    - Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
    - Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
    - Use VoiceOver for images and videos
    - Use VoiceOver in apps
  - Zoom
  - Hover Text
  - Display & Text Size
  - Motion
  - Spoken Content
  - Audio Descriptions
- - AssistiveTouch
  - Eye-tracking device
  - Touch accommodations
  - Call Audio Routing
  - Face ID & Attention
  - - Set up Switch Control
    - Use Switch Control
  - Voice Control
  - Home or top button
  - Apple TV Remote
  - Pointer Control
  - Keyboards
  - AirPods
  - Apple Pencil
- - Hearing devices
  - Live Listen
  - Sound recognition
  - RTT
  - Mono audio and balance
  - LED flash for alerts
  - Headphone audio
  - Background sounds
  - Subtitles and captions
  - Transcriptions for Intercom messages
  - Live Captions (beta)
- - Guided Access
  - Siri
  - Accessibility shortcuts
  - Per-app settings
- Use built-in security and privacy protections
- - Set a passcode
  - Set up Face ID
  - Set up Touch ID
  - Control access to information on the Lock Screen
- Keep your Apple ID secure
- - Sign in with passkeys
  - Sign in with Apple
  - Automatically fill in strong passwords
  - Change weak or compromised passwords
  - View your passwords and related information
  - Share passkeys and passwords securely with AirDrop
  - Make your passkeys and passwords available on all your devices
  - Automatically fill in verification codes
  - Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges on iPad
  - Manage two-factor authentication for your Apple ID
- - Control app tracking permissions
  - Control the location information you share
  - Control access to information in apps
  - Control how Apple delivers advertising to you
  - Control access to hardware features
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Lockdown Mode
- Use a private network address
- Turn iPad on or off
- Force restart iPad
- Update iPadOS
- Back up iPad
- Return iPad settings to their defaults
- Restore all content from a backup
- Restore purchased and deleted items
- Sell, give away, or trade in your iPad
- Erase 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
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
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You can import photos and videos directly to the Photos app

from a digital camera, an SD memory card, or another iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has a camera. Depending on your model, use the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter, the USB-C to SD Card Camera Reader, or the Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader (sold separately).

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How do I get all my pictures from my iPhone to my iPad?

Open Photos on your iPad, then tap Import. Select the photos and videos you want to import, then select your import destination. Import all items: Tap Import All.

How do I transfer photos from my iPhone to my iPad without iCloud?

Swipe up on your iPad and tap on AirDrop and follow the same process on your iPhone. Open Photos app in iPad and tap on Share. Select your photos and tap To Share with AirDrop and the name of your iPhone will appear and on the iPhone, tap on Accept to transfer photos from iPad to iPhone.

How do I send thousands of photos from my iPhone to my iPad?

Go to Settings on your iPhone and log in to your account with the help of Apple ID and password. After logging in to your account, tap on iCloud and then on Photos. Go to the Photo Stream and slide to the right to turn it on. Repeat the steps on your iPad.