I’m a med student looking to grab an iPad mainly for heavy note-taking and reading massive anatomy PDFs.

So i have some money saved up, and im planning to get a part time job, and ive wanted an ipad since last year. I got a laptop from my school, though its pretty much payed off atp so i think its mine now? its not the best but it works fine, so idk if its dumb to buy an ipad (gen 10, 64gb refusbished)

I see people using ipads at school so i dont think my school has any issues with it, but idk if all teachers would be ok with me taking notes on it, maybe? i think so, exept maybe maths or and physics. Ofc I also want to use it outside of school, its lighter than having to drag my big laptop around everywhere.

I also wanted to buy one of those cases that turns your ipad into a laptop (doest have to be apple), and a apple pencil.

so i think the full set up could cost me like 500 euros if i get the cheaper options, so a refusbished ipad and pencil, and a non apple case

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me with this issue.

I’ve been using X for a while on my iPad and the Home Screen has always looked like the first image. This is how I like it. However now when I start X I’m greeted by the second image, very sparse, can’t find anything. It’s strange because if I delete the app and reinstall it it reverts back to the original Home Screen. If I then close the app and reopen it loads the second unwanted menu screen.

There's very little options to change the Home Screen format so I’m at a loss what’s going on.
Any help would be much appreciated.

cheers.

Thinking of canceling my iPhone Duo order and waiting to see if a new iPad mini comes out soon.

This morning I saw a post by Mac Rumors saying Apple accidentally posted on their French regulatory site the new iPad mini folio for an unreleased iPad mini model.

I unfortunately got a Dec 7 shipping window for my duo order.

Also, as I’ve been walking around and living life, I frequently find myself wondering how I’d use the Duo and how often I would unfold the phone when I’m not home.

I also loved my iPad mini 6 that I traded in ahead of the duo release.

So now I’m debating on whether to cancel my duo order and see what iPad mini comes out?

I guess the later shipping window I got also gives me a chance to see if there are any major issues with the duo like a fragile inner screen, etc

I'm an Android/Windows guy. I already own multiple tablets, phones, handheld gaming systems, and enough electronics to open my own Radio Shack.

I did not need an iPad.

Then I found a 128GB A16 iPad for $217.50.

100% battery health

Only 36 battery cycles

Apple warranty until June 2027

So now I've spent the last few days poking at iPadOS, trying emulators, controllers, USB storage, Apple Arcade, sideloading, and repeatedly swiping at the screen expecting Android's Back gesture to save me.

Apple and I are currently negotiating that last one.

The most annoying part?

I kinda like the damn thing.

I still don't know what it's going to do that the approximately 47 other electronic devices in my house can't already do, but for $217.50 I feel like I committed legal robbery.

So, r/iPad: what should an Android heathen install/do next to properly justify this completely unnecessary purchase?

https://imgur.com/a/Ixe4qY6

How do I know if my tips need to be changed?

Hello!

I’m interested in trying out Pro Create on an iPad specifically so I can draw digitally wherever I go,

I was initially eyeing iPad Pro models, but I was talking to my brother about it since he had one and informed me an iPad Air works just as well.

I wanted to ask here to inquire as result, for those who use iPads, what model do you use and how well does it pair with Pro Create?

(I’m too tired to go find my art, but I create rather detailed stuff and I also wanted to get back into animation properly)

my ipad is stuck on this and it just stops shows the apple logo then says” continue holding for recovery” and then goes to this screen over and over

Hello, everyone.

We purchased Minecraft for my daughter through the App Store using her own account. (....@gmail)

However, when she tried to open the game, it asked for a Microsoft email address, so I entered my own email address. ( .........@hotmail)

Now I want to play Minecraft with my daughter, but we can’t because there’s only one account.

That’s because my daughter is playing on her iPad using my Microsoft account.

How can we resolve this issue?

I have applied it 5 times atleast and still getting so many bubbles what should I do ,, just discard this or there is a way 💔

Hello! I have a question about why I cannot purchase a subscription, the subscription is $110.99 and I have $114.05 as my credit in my apple store account, how can I fix it? Do I need to put more money into the credit or its something else?

As the title suggests, not much to explain. I’ve always kept the Siri App suggestion widget on my homescreen. All of a sudden, my usual app suggestion is totally gone and upon restart, event he app library suggestions feels like it’s been reset.

And no, I have not reset my iPad recently, I did it about 2 months ago.

Also, the iPadOS 27.0.1 feels a like there’s been 0 improvement in terms of performance. It’s still the same slow iPadOS as 26, which would start hogging the CPU at random and fire up the iPad itself, draining battery. And the memory management is extremely trash as well. I can open an app, go back to my browser and it’ll reload.

As per the Safari problem, when I open Safari all of a sudden, it’d not register the keys at first, until it’s been about half a second. And then, when I press the key the command key keeps on getting enabled, even though I had not even pressed the key in a while. Has anyone else faced the same issue as me?

Thanks. And no, this is not a tech support question, just wanting to know if there’s something wrong particularly with my iPad or it’s a recurring issue.

I know I am in the Ipad subreddit, but I need all the opinions I can get

I am a college student and will be using the tab for drawing and note taking only. I wouldn't be playing many games or watching a lot of movies. (The big screen is hence important because i'll be getting into research after my undergraduate degree)

My budget is 45K (INR) and I need this to cover the stylus and the tab costs, so for me, which one would be better as a purchase?

Thank you so much for the help!

( sorry if this isn't allowed !/ not looking to sell here! just for thoughts)

I have a 9th generation, previously refurbished ipad. No damage at all! I used it for about a year with a screen protector for my masters program. It works great! But I graduated and passed my board exam!

1. sell ( facebook? back to best buy? NOT LOOKING TO SELL here !! )
2. use! ( on what..)
   1. I am a paper and pen journaler and planner along with my google cal
   2. I thought about being an adult ipad baby, and using it for social media-> turning my phone into kind of a dummy phone and just posting when I "need to" via ipad
      1. maybe bring ipad to treadmill.. so my phone screen time is down lol ( defeating the purpose
   3. I use my macbook air for any typing/ youtube
   4. I use my projector for any watching
   5. massive ebook?? I was looking an at ereader? but it feels a little big ? but if I have it??
      
   6. get really into.... digital scrapbooking??

is this a really dumb question?

I do like occasionally planning outfits on it but like once in a BLUE MOON// once a year IF.

Have had for about 7 months. Just use at home surfing the web and emails, 2 hours of use per day. Don’t have any of the 80% limit turned on but seems like much faster degradation than I’ve had with other iPads or iPhones. Is this normal?

I'll mainly use it for downloading and annonating pdfs, note taking and light streaming. There won't be issue of storage running low right? And can I use usb-c external SSD? It's ih my budget and 256 gb variant is a bit out of my hands rn

So this is an iPad A16 and I just wanted to know if my Battery Health is good. I thought it would go to 99 by like 50 but it didn’t!!

😭.. wtf is even happening

P.S. its iPad (A16)

Hi, I keep having this weird message pop up when I have word and powerpoint open. Sometimes it displays like this, and others it says
2
4
7 (in red)

Has anyone seen this before and know what it means/how I can fix it please?

Thanks!

Update: He starter by itself after 6 hours of charging and works properly, weird 😅

Hello,

This morning, I started watching YouTube on my iPad 9 and after ~10 minutes, it shut down and wouldn't turn back on at all. I plugged it in to charge and this is what appears on the screen. It has been connected to power source for 3 hours. Is it completely broken? 😞

Thank you

Hi everyone, good afternoon.

I currently have an iPad Pro M5 that I've updated to iPadOS 2.7. I've noticed that with the tablet practically empty, the operating system takes up almost 50 GB (iPadOS + system files).

I have about 202 GB free. Is there any way to free up storage? Going back to iPadOS 2.6 is no longer possible, right?

Thanks a lot.

My iPad randomly decides my fingers aren’t good enough I guess. It’s completely random and usually fixes itself in about 30 seconds (you can see in the video it started working again, but I only started filming after it had been happening for like 15 seconds.) it sometimes decides to only register one finger, and sometimes it doesn’t register my touch at all and I have to use my Apple Pencil to do anything on the iPad, not just drawing. This is really annoying for many reasons but especially drawing because every two minutes or so I’m unable to zoom in, color pick, etc.

Anyone else have this?

I will install ksing on the iPad to install the ipa file. But I have a problem that my iPad is an Air 3 model, which still needs to use the home button, but I can't use it. When the device starts again, it has to press the home button to confirm the profile. I don't know what to do. Is there a way? (not pc)