11 Best iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks To Master Your iPad

Now that iPadOS 16 is finally out for everyone, there are a lot of new features to learn about. In this article, we'll look at the best iPadOS 16 tips and tricks that will change the way you use your iPad.
iPadOS 16 adds new features, such as the ability to edit and unsend iMessages, Stage Manager, and a lot more. But with so many changes, where do you start?
We're here to help you get used to your new iPadOS 16 with the best tips and tricks.

Best iPadOS 16 tips and tricks

Here is a list of the best iPadOS 16 tips and tricks for the year 2022:

1. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Edit or unsend iMessages

If you make a grammar mistake or send a text to the wrong person, you now have 15 minutes to fix it and two minutes to take it back, which is the same as deleting the text.

If you use messaging apps like Slack, you've probably changed at least one of the messages you sent, if not more than 100. Whether you made a typo or your message has wrong information, the editing feature is a great way to fix it quickly. With iPadOS 16, you can also go back and change messages you sent from your iPad within 15 minutes.

Too many messages are sent by mistake. Maybe you accidentally hit "send" when you meant to choose an emoji. Or maybe you sent the message to the wrong person. In either case, you can get those messages back with iPadOS 16. Unlike the option to edit a message, you only have 2 minutes to take back a text message.

1. On your iPad, open the Messages app.
2. Just type your message as usual.
3. Once you've sent the message, press and hold it for a while. You can choose between "Edit" and "Undo send" from the drop-down menu. You can use whichever one you want at the time.

Please note that the message won't look like it hasn't been sent if the person you're sending it to doesn't have iOS 16 or iPadOS 16. They'll still get the message.

2. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Recover recently deleted messages

You might be surprised to learn that the only way to find and recover a deleted text message on iPadOS 15 was to hope that you had a backup with that text and then restore your iPad. A process that takes too long and is too hard for something that should be easy.

iPadOS 16 has made things easier in this area, though.

Instead of having to deal with restoring a backup, you can now find the deleted texts on your device and recover them into the Messages app with just a few taps. It's easy to do, just follow these steps:

1. On your iPad, open the Messages app.
2. Go to the page that says "Recently Deleted."
3. Tap Recover All to restore all deleted messages.
4. If you only want to get back one or a few chats, you can select them by tapping inside the small round box where they are. The next step is to tap Recover.

3. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Scheduled send emails

In iPadOS 16, Apple has made it possible to schedule when emails are sent from the default Mail app. This means that users can write a message and set it to be sent hours, days, or even weeks later.
Users can schedule emails ahead of time, which is helpful for people who work late or need birthday messages or reminders.

There have been third-party email apps on the App Store with scheduling tools for a long time, but Apple has never before added this feature to the Mail app on iPad. Users can choose a generic preset option or make their own custom trigger to send an email at any date and time they want.

1. On your iPad, open the Mail app.
2. Write your email in the usual way, including the recipient, subject, and message.
3. When you're ready to send the email, tap and hold the Send button (the big blue arrow). You'll see a pop-up menu.
4. Pick when you want the message to go out.

Apple gives you a few quick-select options, like Send at 9 p.m. tonight or 8 a.m. tomorrow. If you want to pick a different time, tap Send Later..., and then choose the date and time from a calendar. Tap Done when you're done.

4. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Delete Duplicate Photos & Videos

Photos now has a built-in feature that searches your iPad's camera roll for duplicate photos and videos. This is a quick way to free up space on your iPad. This is a great way to both clean up your iPad and get rid of files that are taking up too much space.

1. On your iPad, open the Photos app.
2. Click on "Albums."
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page until you see "Duplicates" in the list. Now, you can either click "Merge" next to each match, or you can click "Select" at the top, choose each image you want to delete, and click the trash can icon at the bottom.

5. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Use new Weather app

For a long time, the iPad didn't have a built-in Weather app, so users had to get one from the App Store. Luckily, with iPadOS 16, Apple brought its own Weather app to the iPad. iPhone users are probably familiar with the app, but still there are some tricks that not everyone knows.

When you open the app, you'll see a beautiful summary of the weather forecast for where you are or for the city you chose. There are things like hourly forecasts, 10-day forecasts, wind, visibility, a map of where the rain will fall, the UV index, and the time the sun will rise. You can find even more information in the app by just scrolling.

But here’s where things get even more interesting. If you tap on any of the information cards, the app will show you even more weather information. For example, tapping the sunrise card brings up a graph that also shows the time of sunset and the last light. You can also tap on the forecast to see the temperature variations over a 24-hour period.

There are also interactive maps that can show different information depending on what you choose. Tap the rain map to make it bigger and show an animated forecast for the next 12 hours. By tapping the options button at the top right side of the screen, you can also see a representation of the current temperature for each region on the map.

6. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Collaborate on projects

New features in Messages make it easy to start working together and manage shared content across Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, Safari, and third-party apps. When people invite others to work on a document, spreadsheet, or project through Messages, everyone on the thread is automatically added to the document, spreadsheet, or project. When someone makes a change to a shared file, everyone can see it right at the top of the Messages thread. When working on a project with other people, a user can easily jump into the related Messages conversation or just tap to start a FaceTime call with them.

7. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Metal 3 and other gaming enhancements

iPadOS 16 brings Metal 3 APIs to the iPad for the first time. Apple wants iPads with Metal 3-enabled, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to be used for playing games. Apple also has a new application programming interface (API) that lets larger asset packs download in the background while you play the game.

With a Game Center account, you can find friends, keep track of your progress in different games, and look at the leaderboards for different games. Most iPhone games have been played on phones. Apple is trying to get more gamers to use the iPad, though. It has made these moves in order to do that.

8. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Turn Reference Mode on or off

Reference Mode provides a consistent reference workflow across devices. This makes the iPad Pro an essential tool for creative professional workflows like color grading, editing, and content review, where accurate colors and consistent image quality are important. You need a 12.9-inch iPad Pro to use Reference Mode (5th generation or later)

Reference Mode lets you set your iPad Pro's colors to match the way you work. It aims for a D65 white point and turns off all dynamic display settings for the environment, such as True Tone, Auto-Brightness, and Night Shift. You can also manually change the white point and brightness.

The battery life could be affected by Reference Mode. Here's how to turn on or off the feature.

1. Open the app for Settings,
2. Touch Display & Brightness.
3. You can turn on or off Reference Mode.

9. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: Turn Stage Manager on and off

Stage Manager is a whole new way to do more than one thing at once. It organizes apps and windows for you and makes switching between tasks quick and easy. For the first time on iPad, you can overlap windows of different sizes in a single view, drag and drop windows from the side, or open apps from the Dock to create groups of apps for faster, more flexible multitasking. The window for the app you're working on is in the middle and stands out. Other open apps and windows are on the left, in order of when they were opened.

With Stage Manager, you can make windows of different sizes that overlap, move windows by dragging and dropping from the side, and open apps from the Dock to make groups.
Stage Manager is available on iPad Pro and iPad Air with the M1 chip. It unlocks full support for external displays with resolutions up to 6K, so you can set up the perfect workspace and work with up to four apps on the iPad and four apps on the external display at the same time.

Stage Manager lets you set up your ideal workspace and use up to eight apps at the same time. It works with all external displays.

You don't have to use Stage Manager. You can use it as little or as much as you want. To turn it on or off, you just need to tap a button. The Control Center on the iPad is where you can find that button. Follow the steps below to get to it:

1. To open the control center on your iPad, swipe down from the top right corner of the screen.
2. There, you'll see a new icon with three dots on the left and a rectangle to the left of the dots. StageManager can be turned on by tapping on the icon.
3. If you want the iPad to look like it did before, open Control Center again and tap the Stage Manager button to turn it off.

10. Tips and Tricks for iPad OS 16: View saved Wi-Fi passwords and share them

Apple has made it possible for iPadOS users to share Wi-Fi passwords for a while, but only when two Apple devices are close together. And if that feature didn't work automatically, you couldn't just look in your settings to find the password. You also had to remember the password if you wanted to share a saved Wi-Fi password with someone else, like an Android user or someone on a computer. Up to now.

1. Start the app called "Settings" on your iPad.
2. Tap 'Wi-Fi'.
3. Tap the little info icon to the right of the network whose password you want. Tap the Password section, then use Face ID or your passcode to see the network password. Then you can tap Copy to copy the password to your clipboard so you can send it to someone else.

11. iPadOS 16 Tips and Tricks: use iCloud Shared Photo Library

Sharing photos and videos with family and friends is a lot easier with iPadOS 16. iCloud Shared Photo Library goes beyond the Shared Albums feature that has been around for years. It lets you automatically or manually share your whole or part of your photo library, as well as share photos directly from your camera.

You'll be happy to hear that iCloud Shared Photo Library is now available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This will make it much easier to manage and share photos.

Here's how to turn on the iCloud Shared Photo Library

1. Start the app called "Settings" on your iPad.
2. Scroll down and click on Photos under Shared Library. 
3. Then, click Set Up Now. 
4. Tap Get Started
5. You can choose whether to invite people now or later.
6. You can choose what to put in the Shared Library.
7. You can look at the Shared Library if you want to.
8. Send invitations for people to join. 
9. Choose whether you want the Camera to share automatically or manually.
10. Tap "Done," and you're done!