ipad os NUMBER_TOKEN is a huge quality of life improvement there are features in this release that just make working from an ipad more streamlined and this video is all about everything that's in ipad os NUMBER_TOKEN. my thanks to surfsharkvpn for sponsoring this video with ipad os NUMBER_TOKEN the ipad is getting the customizable home screen we've all wanted it's borrowing from the update the iphone got last year but at the same time doing stuff only the ipad's larger canvas can handle widgets are the first area where you'll see improvements they can be placed anywhere on the home screen now the side effect of this is that the ipad's home screen is much more spaced out again i'm disappointed to see this after last year apple made a big deal of using space appropriately in ipad os NUMBER_TOKEN. but if i had to pick between the two i would pick the ipad os NUMBER_TOKEN implementation of the home screen with widgets being able to be placed anywhere and on more than just the first page we can see more information on any given screen this is a big part of my current home screen setup there is now a new extra large widget exclusive to the ipad this is great for apps that have a lot of information to share during the beta i found the tvs app extra large widget to be really useful i use my ipad as a bedside tv so when i wanted to resume a show i would just tap on it and it would play the next episode there is also an extra large version of the files widget as well with that comes some nice changes you can change the display directory to any of your favorited folders in files so it's not just stuck on the recent folder you can tap on any folder or file to quickly launch it this is great if an app stores its content in the files app you can use this to quickly launch into a specific file or project i use this to jump into the user media folder for lumafusion all the time i've been wanting a way to add folders and files to the home screen to quickly open them with this widget i can do exactly that the contacts app got an extra large widget this isn't one that i expected to use but it's pretty cool how it works at first it displays recommended contacts but you can go into the widget settings to set specific people the widget will show if any of these contacts have do not disturb on which this is just a nice indicator to know if i sent them something they probably won't see it anytime soon when you tap on a contact you're presented with a custom page it gives you access to obvious things like messages and facetime but also items like shared calendar appointments notes and files the new extra large widget is a great choice if you have a lot going on it will show your calendar appointments for the current day plus the next three i don't have enough calendar appointments in my life to need something this big but i used to have a job where i lived out of my calendar and this would have been amazing for that widget stacks got some changes you could now pull widgets out of a stack before you had to delete it then recreate it in some other place now when you create a stack there is an option called widget suggestions this will automatically add widgets from apps to this stack personally i turned this off everywhere i
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