iPad Give an example of how you use your iPad ...

[Lerten]

Connecting it to my MacBook Pro and using it, with an apple pencil and notability, as a whiteboard for my students (e-learning).

Grading papers, marking pdfs a lot of uni/school stuff (both from a uni teacher and a student perspective)

Plus all of the usual, Netflix, apple arcade, ebooks, podcasts (through speakers, when I’m at home).

Other then that, in tandem with a magic keyboard, it is a pretty capable laptop replacement when I don’t want to use or carry my MacBook Pro.

I honestly think it‘s one of the most versatile computers that apple currently sells.

 

[hollowsocket]

I teach in a Zoom Room using the Pencil to students who are in-person and remote. Screen sharing allows me to use Zoom as a whiteboard, annotate a .pdf live, present a .ppt (and annotate that in real time), draft a document together (using MKB), or run any other program or webpage. While there are restrictions, I have figured out how to teach a successful class with the iPP and my students seem to appreciate that given the challenges of our hybrid model. I can grade student papers in the LMS using the Pencil.

I annotate academic .pdfs in a citation management software, read ebooks with OneNote open to take notes. I can have a .pdf of a foreign language work open while I translate it in Word or Pages, in which I can also write first drafts of academic works. I sign legal documents, pay my bills, and answer quick emails. I play a geography game, use a flash card app for vocabulary in other languages, and draw for fun in a painting app. FaceTime/Zoom with family is nice, especially since I can Airplay to the AppleTV.

But I have no illusions about the iPP as a laptop replacement. I have to use my iMac to finish the formatting of documents, design .ppts, record lectures, set up my course LMS pages, etc., because the iPadOS apps are all gimped in some way, including Office but also all our college's learning software and video apps. That is frustrating, but I'm not going to plunk for an Intel laptop right now.

 

[Marty_Macfly]

Hi All,

I had a hunt around for the post I did a while back, on my use of the ipad. Be interesting to see how its changed:


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15th June:
I was happily:

1. Listening to Music on it, taking It around the house. OK ipad Speakers. No Sonos speakers dotted in every room for me, so a bonus.

2. Reading kindle - bit of a crappy UI app but works

3. Watching amazon prime - great screen!

4. Internet browsing over breakfast

5. Tiny amount of excel work - learn’t just enough to get by on the crappy windows implementation on the ipad. (XLS on onedrive, so using on other devices as well etc.)

6. Broke and fixed my 10years worth of iPhone photos.

And that’s it!




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Now - 29th August:
Currently I’m happily:


1. Listening to Music on it, taking Ipad around the house.
- While cooking and kitchen stuff.
- exercise music

2. Reading kindle - bit of a crappy UI app but works
- A lot less now, I actually started using the kindle again for this


3. Watching amazon prime?
- Stopped. I’m finding better use of time with ipad.
- Screen is wrong dimensions for wide screen viewing. The black notches top and bottom are annoying me! And the squeezed in movie on the screen seems tiny.
- is the Macbook screen dimensions correct for wide screen TV viewing?


4. Internet browsing over breakfast?
- Oh yes, this remains the main daily staple. The MK really brings the ipad close enough to easily browse, and key things in, with the cereal bowl inffont of me.


5. Excel?
- Using Numbers now - works great 👍


6. Broke and fixed my 10years worth of iPhone photos.
- Distant memory.
- Need to get around to adding in photos from old windows machines, not got around to yet.


And that’s it!


Overall impressions:
Ipad is awesome bit of kit
Looking fwd to using its techie stuff, when I get around to it.

 

[George Dawes]

I do more gaming on my 12.9 pro than on my PS4 pro ..

 

[thelookingglass]

Lots of reading in the Kindle app, writing with iA Writer, sketching with Concepts or Sketchbook Pro, and general web browsing stuff (like this)/time wasting stuff like YouTube.

It’s the device I use to do important things in my life that aren’t related to work. I try not to mix work on this thing because I want it to be focused on things other than work. And for that it’s terrific.

For the life of me, I still don’t understand why Apple doesn‘t allow us to download all iCloud documents in Files to have them for offline storage. We can do this on the Mac, why not the iPad?

 

[firedept]

Browsing and TV/movies. Reading.

 

[BigMcGuire]

My iPad?

Mostly reading articles I save on Safari (Reading List). Apple Books for my book reading. And depending on how I feel, Macrumors or Youtube watching. Sometimes I'll put it in a stand on my desk with a keyboard/mouse and use it like a laptop.

I tried gaming on it recently (Real Racing 3, etc) but I find it far less of a mind numbing reward than Youtube or Netflix.

Throughout the day I'll use Notability with my Apple Pencil for work notes, things I need to remember. I also de-stress on paper via Notability and Apple Pencil. I find writing down my thoughts to be extremely stress relieving.

I use my iPad with Notability for sermon notes, work notes, and personal notes.


What do I use it for mostly? Reading.

 

[Marty_Macfly]

Connecting it to my MacBook Pro and using it, with an apple pencil and notability, as a whiteboard for my students (e-learning).

Grading papers, marking pdfs a lot of uni/school stuff (both from a uni teacher and a student perspective)

Plus all of the usual, Netflix, apple arcade, ebooks, podcasts (through speakers, when I’m at home).

Other then that, in tandem with a magic keyboard, it is a pretty capable laptop replacement when I don’t want to use or carry my MacBook Pro.

I honestly think it‘s one of the most versatile computers that apple currently sells.

I teach in a Zoom Room using the Pencil to students who are in-person and remote. Screen sharing allows me to use Zoom as a whiteboard, annotate a .pdf live, present a .ppt (and annotate that in real time), draft a document together (using MKB), or run any other program or webpage. While there are restrictions, I have figured out how to teach a successful class with the iPP and my students seem to appreciate that given the challenges of our hybrid model. I can grade student papers in the LMS using the Pencil.

I annotate academic .pdfs in a citation management software, read ebooks with OneNote open to take notes. I can have a .pdf of a foreign language work open while I translate it in Word or Pages, in which I can also write first drafts of academic works. I sign legal documents, pay my bills, and answer quick emails. I play a geography game, use a flash card app for vocabulary in other languages, and draw for fun in a painting app. FaceTime/Zoom with family is nice, especially since I can Airplay to the AppleTV.

But I have no illusions about the iPP as a laptop replacement. I have to use my iMac to finish the formatting of documents, design .ppts, record lectures, set up my course LMS pages, etc., because the iPadOS apps are all gimped in some way, including Office but also all our college's learning software and video apps. That is frustrating, but I'm not going to plunk for an Intel laptop right now.

Hiya Guys,

Thanks for sharing your use cases

Yes, another cool direction Apples comes from - Education and academia.

RE: The other uses - Drawing, Music, Movies & Photos - I‘m can’t imagine myself being much of an artist, to makes loads of use of the touch pad pencil ideas etc. from the artist people commenting here.


However Education - When we finally do retire, it would be good to use the grey matter still. E.g. U3A or open university studies in the UK. It would be great to use tech to do the ideas off - multi screens; note taking/annotating on the ipad, while looking at 2 documents on a main large display Etc.


E.g. Study set up could be:

1. Monitor Split Screen - Document 1
- The main document to look at. (E.g. Academic studies - Do mobiles Rot your brain?)

2. Monitor Split Screen -Document 2
- The main review of document (E.g. Phone4U - Nah - rubbish study!)

3. Ipad - My notes on subject

Ideas, ideas for the future use of the IPAD


Regards
Martin

 

[Ungibbed]

I use my for just about everything under the sun but found that it has nearly become my primary computer. I remember buying the first model and getting a lot of use out of it since I spend many hours in bed (ALS sucks)

A majority of use has been for reading comics and other books from both Apple and on the Kindle app, other uses have been for shopping on Amazon etc.

I really do end up using it as a media consumption device. I do dabble with the Apple Pencil and Procreate/Affinity Photo.

 

[AshleyPomeroy]

Here's a little video in which I use an iPad Mini 2 as a drum machine, with Patterning:

There's also a really good VCS 3 simulator called iVCS3:

It's also dead handy for travel. I have an Android mobile phone that I use for boarding passes and OSMAnd, but it's no good for reading books. I tend to use my iPad as a backup in case my phone breaks.

It impresses me that a mobile device released in 2013 still gets security updates. Eventually it'll become a glorified alarm clock but at the moment it's still a viable browsing-the-internet machine.

 

[quadra605]

Beleive it or not, I'm still using a 1st Gen iPad Air w/16 GB running iOS 12.4.8. But I mainly use it for watching movies (Netflix, HBOMax, YouTube, etc) reading online blogs & forums, and the occasional ebook. I treat it like a portable tv or radio. My day-to-day work revolves around Pro Tools & FCPX so I'm usually working with MacPros for most of my day.

 

[sparksd]

Nice one Spider-Man

Fantastic case study IMHO of the type of users Apple was originally for. Music, Videos, Photos - the arts.


I‘m coming from a Office work, excel etc. Background, so all this IPAD fun stuff is alien to me.

Its cool though, using Tech for personal stuff outside of my “work” environment.

I hit 50 this year, looking into the retirement years. It will be good to use computers, and be the hell alway from reminders of work when the time comes to retire.

E.g.
Number app
= Refreshingly different and simple


Excel app
= Pull hair out - where the hell has the settings been put now etc.?
= Why am I putting up with this outside of work?!


Regards
Martin

I can tell you retirement is good and iPads are nice toys for me. A bit different from the s/w & h/w gear I started working with 49 years ago now ...

 

[MacRazySwe]

- Safari browsing
- Email
- News
- Social media
- YouTube
- Spotify/Podcasts
- Notes app
- Finances, paying bills et.c.
- Browsing marketplaces

I plan on using it for work with OneNote. I reckon it will be a great way to take handwritten notes in meetings and then have them synced to the work PC. I will see how I get on!

 

[Marty_Macfly]

Here's a little video in which I use an iPad Mini 2 as a drum machine, with Patterning:

There's also a really good VCS 3 simulator called iVCS3:

It's also dead handy for travel. I have an Android mobile phone that I use for boarding passes and OSMAnd, but it's no good for reading books. I tend to use my iPad as a backup in case my phone breaks.

It impresses me that a mobile device released in 2013 still gets security updates. Eventually it'll become a glorified alarm clock but at the moment it's still a viable browsing-the-internet machine.

Hi Ashley,


wow.thats.cool.

I’m no musician but loving what you are doing there

Its also cool that the 2013 apple tech is still getting updates and works still. I thought my missus’s iPhone 5se was a one off, but looks like it runs through the apple range. If the device is good enough, it still gets updates etc.


Old tech still being kept alive. No bloatware killing off perfectly good gadgets.

Nice one apple, I’m really liking what you are doing



Cheers
Martin

 

[ElitistWhiner]

One app supercedes OS X, runs exclusively on an iPad Air3 QuickPlan Pro which is a superb field app for timeline and project management.
A handful of crucial apps no longer support older Macs. They are on the iPad supplementing the deprecated hardware.
Traveling iPad Air3 is my desktop. Dropbox has my 6; iCloud my synch-buddy. Amazon tri-fold keyboard totes better than Apple keyboards - one caveat that the keys are smallish and one plus its integrated Microsoft soft switching.