iPad User Guide
- iPad User Guide
- What’s new in iPadOS
- Supported models
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off sounds
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Open apps on the Home screen
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Zoom an app to fill the screen
- Drag and drop
- Search with iPad
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPad
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- View photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Portrait mode photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
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- Get started with accessibility features
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- 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
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPad
- View or change cellular settings
- Find more resources for software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
- Copyright
Write an email in Mail on iPad
With the Mail app , you can write and edit emails, and send and receive photos, videos, drawings, documents, and more.
Create an email message
Ask Siri. Say something like: “New email to John Bishop” or “Email Simon and say I got the forms, thanks.” Learn how to ask Siri.
Or do the following:
Tap .
Tap in the email, then type your message.
With the onscreen keyboard, you can tap individual keys. Or pinch closed to use the smaller QuickType keyboard, then slide your finger from one letter to the next without lifting your finger. (See Enter text using the onscreen keyboard.)
To change the formatting, tap .
You can change the font style, change the color of text, use a bold or italic stye, add a bulleted or numbered list, and more.
Reply to an email
Tap in the email, tap , then tap Reply.
Type your response.
With the onscreen keyboard, you can tap individual keys. Or pinch closed to use the smaller QuickType keyboard, then slide your finger from one letter to the next without lifting your finger. (See Enter text using the onscreen keyboard.)
Quote some text when you reply to an email
When you reply to an email, you can include text from the sender to clarify what you’re responding to.
In the sender’s email, touch and hold the first word of the text, then drag to the last word. (See Select and revise text.)
Tap , then tap Reply, then type your message.
To turn off the indentation of quoted text, go to Settings > Mail > Increase Quote Level.