New features
available with iPadOS.
iPadOS is designed to make your iPad even more powerful and capable. So you can do more things even more easily.
New features
Key Features and Enhancements
Trackpad Support
Trackpad for iPadOS
iPadOS now works with a mouse, trackpad or Magic Keyboard, making it even more natural to use and delivering even more precision for tasks like text selection, working with spreadsheets and manipulating small objects in apps.
Reimagined cursor
The cursor in iPadOS has been redesigned specifically for iPad. It adapts to the content as you move it around, elegantly transforming into app icons on the Home screen and Dock, buttons in apps and an I‑beam in text areas.
Scroll
Quickly scroll through web pages and documents using two fingers on a trackpad or one finger on the Magic Mouse.
App Switcher
Swipe up and pause with three fingers to open the App Switcher.
Swipe between apps
Swipe left or right with three fingers to switch between apps.
Pinch to zoom
Pinch in and out with two fingers on a trackpad to zoom in on web pages, documents, maps and photos.
Go home
Swipe up with three fingers to go to the Home screen from anywhere in iPadOS.
Right-click
Click with two fingers on a trackpad — or right‑click on a mouse — to reveal the contextual menu.
Dock
Move the cursor to the bottom edge of the screen to activate the Dock.
Slide Over
Move the cursor to the right edge of the screen to see Slide Over. Swipe left and right with three fingers to switch between apps. Move the cursor to the right edge to hide Slide Over.
Control Centre
Click the status bar in the upper right of the screen to open Control Centre. Click and hold to see available options for each control.
Notifications
Click the status bar in the upper left of the screen to see notifications.
Mouse and trackpad support
iPadOS supports Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, as well as third‑party mice using Bluetooth and USB.
Swipe between pages
Swipe with two fingers on the trackpad — or one finger on the Magic Mouse — to swipe between pages in Safari.
Multitasking
Multiple apps in Slide Over
Keep multiple apps at the ready in Slide Over and quickly access your favourites with just a swipe.
Swipe between Slide Over apps
Quickly move between Slide Over apps by swiping along the bottom.
Slide Over switcher
Swipe up to see all the apps in Slide Over.
Slide Over to full screen
Easily make a Slide Over app full screen by dragging it to the top.
Close Slide Over apps
Quickly close a window in Slide Over by going to the App Switcher and flicking up.
Multiple windows from the same app
You can now open multiple windows from the app in Split View. Perfect for working on two notes or Pages documents, viewing two maps or organising files in the Files app.
Same app in multiple spaces
Open a window from the same app in multiple spaces so you can work on different projects across your iPad.
Drag to create windows
Quickly open a window by dragging the content into its own space. Drag a link to open Safari, a location to open Maps or an email address to open Mail.
App Switcher
The updated App Switcher shows all spaces and windows for all apps along with title windows.
App Exposé
See all the open windows for an app by tapping its icon in the Dock.
New Home Screen
New layout
The Home screen has been redesigned with the icons arranged in a tighter grid. The refined layout gives you more room for apps and information.
Pin widgets
Get at‑a‑glance information by pinning your Today View widgets on the Home screen.
Favourite widgets
Use the widget editor to choose your favourite widgets, which will always appear on the Home screen. Swipe up to see all your other widgets.
Apple Pencil
Lower latency
Thanks to advanced prediction algorithms, latency in Apple Pencil is as low as 9 milliseconds.1 So it feels even more like writing on paper.
Redesigned tool palette
The redesigned tool palette has a fresh new look and several improvements. You can drag it to either side of the screen or minimise it in the corner so you have more room for your content.
New tools
A pixel eraser lets you remove exactly what you want from a drawing, and a ruler makes it easy to draw straight lines.
Full-page screenshots
Now when you take a screenshot, you can capture the entire document, email or web page and mark it up.
Take a screenshot with Apple Pencil
Quickly take a screenshot using Apple Pencil by dragging it from either bottom corner.
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Extended desktop
Use your iPad as a second display for additional screen space. Have one app open while you work in another, or see how a presentation looks in presentation mode while editing it on your Mac.
Mirrored desktop
Mirror the screen on your Mac to have two screens displaying the same content, making it perfect for sharing with others.
Wired or wireless
Connect your iPad to your Mac using a cable to keep it charged, or use it wirelessly — within 10 metres — for greater mobility.
Draw and sketch in apps
Use the precision and intuitiveness of Apple Pencil with your favourite creative Mac apps. Draw and write naturally, edit a photo or graphic, and use it to point and click like you would with a mouse.
Continuity Markup
Write and sketch on PDFs or mark up your documents with Apple Pencil. See the updates live on your Mac as you mark them up on your iPad.
Continuity Sketch
Create a sketch on your iPad using Apple Pencil, and easily insert it into any document on your Mac.
Text Editing
Scroll bar scrubbing
Instantly navigate long documents, web pages and conversations by dragging the scroll bar.
Cursor navigation
Moving the cursor is even faster and more precise — just pick it up and drag it to where you want. It will automatically snap to lines and between words.
Text selection
Select text just by tapping and swiping. Triple-tap to quickly select a sentence, or quadruple‑tap to select a paragraph.
Intelligent selection
Double-tap to quickly select addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more.
Cut, copy and paste gestures
New gestures make cut, copy and paste a snap. Pinch up with three fingers to quickly copy, pinch up with three fingers two times to cut, and pinch down with three fingers to paste.
Undo and redo gestures
Undo with a simple three‑finger swipe to the left or redo by swiping three fingers to the right.
Multi-select
Quickly select email messages, files and folders by tapping with two fingers and dragging.
Keyboard
QuickPath
The QuickType keyboard now includes QuickPath, so you can type a word by swiping your finger from one letter to the next without lifting it from the keyboard.
Floating keyboard
Pinch to shrink the QuickType keyboard and move it wherever you want so there’s more room for your apps.
Swipe or tap to type
You can swipe or tap to type interchangeably, so you can choose what’s most convenient even if you’re mid‑sentence.
Alternate word options
Alternate word options appear in the predictive bar, so you can quickly choose a different option.
QuickPath language support
Support for English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese is now included.
Automatic language selection in Dictation
Dictation automatically detects which language a user is speaking. The language will be chosen from the keyboard languages enabled on the device, up to a maximum of four.
Fonts
Custom fonts
You can now install custom fonts and use them in your favourite apps.
Manage fonts
Easily see and manage the fonts you’ve installed directly in Settings.
App Store
Fonts are available from the App Store, making it easy to find and install them.
Files
Column View
Easily browse files deep in nested folders in the new Column View. Just select a file and get a high‑resolution preview.
Quick Actions
Quick Actions make it easy to rotate, mark up or create a PDF in the Files app.
Rich metadata
Column View displays a rich set of metadata, so you can see the details for each file as you browse.
Downloads folder
A new Downloads folder gives you a central place to access your web downloads and attachments from Safari and Mail.
External drive support
Access files on a USB drive, SD card or hard drive.
iCloud Drive folder sharing
Share folders with friends, family and colleagues using iCloud Drive straight from the Files app on your iPad.
Local storage
Create folders on the local drive and add your favourite files.
Zip and unzip
Select files and zip them for easy sharing via email. Tap a zip file to expand it into a folder and access the files.
File servers
Connect to a file server at work or to a home PC using SMB from Files.
Keyboard shortcuts
A host of new keyboard shortcuts make navigating Files even easier.
Search suggestions
Search suggestions make it simple to find what you’re looking for. Just tap the suggestion to quickly filter your results.
Document Scanner
Create digital copies of physical documents and put them directly in the location where you want to store them.
Safari
Updated start page
An updated start page design includes favourites, frequently visited and most recently visited websites so you can quickly get to the site you want. Siri suggestions bring up relevant websites in your browsing history, frequently visited sites, links sent to you in Messages and more.
Download Manager
Check the status of a file you’re downloading, access downloaded files quickly, and drag and drop them into a file or email you’re working on. You can even download files in the background while you get work done.
Photo upload resize
Choose to resize your photo to small, medium, large or actual size before you upload it.
Website View menu
The new View menu in the Smart Search field gives you quick access to text size controls, Reader view and per‑site settings.
Per-site settings
Choose to enable camera, microphone and location access depending on the website you’re visiting. You can also decide whether to view a website in its desktop or mobile version, use Reader view and enable content blockers on a per‑site basis.
Page zoom
Quickly zoom in and out on a website’s text.
Save open tabs as bookmarks
Save a set of open tabs to Bookmarks so you can quickly reopen them later.
Jump to open tab from Smart Search field
If you start to type the address of a website that’s already open, Safari directs you to the open tab.
Expanded email sharing options
New options let you email a web page as a link, as a PDF or in Reader view from the share sheet.
Weak password warnings
If you try to use a weak password when signing up for a new website account, Safari warns you.
iCloud end‑to‑end encryption
Your Safari history and open tabs that have synced with iCloud are now protected with end‑to‑end encryption.
Desktop websites
Safari automatically presents a website’s desktop version for iPad. Touch input maps correctly when a website expects mouse or trackpad input. Website scaling takes advantage of the large iPad screen, so you’ll see websites at their optimal size. And scrolling within web pages is faster and more fluid.
Keyboard shortcuts
Navigate the web even faster with over 30 new keyboard shortcuts when you use an external keyboard.
Full toolbar in Split View
Now you can access the full Safari toolbar in Split View.
Dark Mode
Beautiful new look
A new Dark Mode option gives iPadOS and apps a beautiful dark colour scheme. Perfect for low-light environments, Dark Mode is easier on your eyes and won’t disturb people around you.
Turn on manually
Tap the new button in Control Centre to quickly turn Dark Mode on and off, such as when you enter a dark room or cinema.
Scheduled
Have Dark Mode turn on and off at a certain time or based on sunrise and sunset, which is great when you’re outside at night or using your iPad before you go to bed.
Wallpapers
New wallpapers optimised for Dark Mode automatically change as you switch between light and dark.
System integration
Dark Mode is beautifully integrated throughout iPadOS, from built‑in apps and settings to system‑level views.
Works with your favourite apps
An API lets third‑party developers implement Dark Mode in their apps.
Privacy and Security
App location permissions
Control the location data that you pass to apps with new, fine-grained controls. You can choose to grant an app access to your location once or anytime you use it.
App location transparency
Receive notifications when an app is using your location in the background, so you can decide whether to update your permission.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth location privacy enhancements
API changes and new controls help prevent apps from accessing your location without your consent while you’re using Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth.
Location controls for shared photos
Now you can control whether you share your location when you share a photo.
AirDrop
Content previews are only displayed from known senders in your contacts.
Sign in with Apple
Sign in with Apple ID
Sign in to apps and websites quickly and easily using the Apple ID you already have. No filling out forms or creating new passwords. Just tap “Sign in with Apple”, use Face ID or Touch ID, and you’re all set.
Respect for your privacy
Apple will never track or profile you when you sign in with Apple. The most information you’ll have to share with an app or website is your name and email address.
Hide My Email
Not sure you want to share your email address with a particular app? You’re in control. You can choose to share or hide your email address. You can also choose to have Apple create a unique email address for you that forwards to your real address.
Built-in security
Sign in with Apple requires your Apple ID to be protected with two‑factor authentication. That way, access to the accounts in your favourite apps is protected as well — automatically.
Works everywhere
Sign in with Apple works on all your Apple devices as well as the web and apps on Android or Windows. No matter where you need to sign in to your favourite app, you can use Sign in with Apple.
HomeKit
HomeKit Secure Video
HomeKit‑enabled cameras can now add support to detect and record specific activity like people, animals or vehicles. These recordings are stored securely in iCloud. And new privacy settings allow you to control when your cameras stream and record.3
HomeKit‑enabled routers
Enabled routers bring an extra layer of security to your smart home. Use the Home app to control which services your HomeKit accessories can communicate with in your network and on the Internet.
AirPlay 2–enabled speakers in scenes and automations
Access songs, playlists and radio stations with Apple Music.
Refreshed Home app accessory controls
There are more robust accessory controls in the Home app.
Siri shortcuts
Siri shortcuts can now be added to automations.
Photos
Learn moreAll-new Photos tab
The all-new Photos tab lets you browse your photo library with different levels of curation, so it’s easy to find, relive and share your photos and videos. You can view everything in All Photos, focus on your unique photos in Days, relive your significant moments in Months or rediscover your highlights in Years.
Auto-playing Live Photos and videos
Throughout the Photos tab, muted Live Photos and videos begin playing as you scroll, bringing your photo library to life.
Smart photo previews
In Days, Months and Years, photo previews are larger to help you distinguish between shots. Photos uses intelligence to find the best part of your photo in photo previews, which means you get to see the uncropped version of your photo when you tap to view it.
Contextual transitions
Animations and transitions keep your place in the Photos tab, so you can switch between views — like Days and All Photos — without losing your place.
Removes similar shots and clutter
Duplicate photos, screenshots, whiteboard photos, documents and receipts are identified and hidden, so you see only your best shots.
Significant events
Months presents your photos by events, so you can rediscover the moments that matter most.
Event titles
The Photos tab displays the name of the location, holiday or concert performer to provide helpful context for your significant events.
On this Day
Years is contextual, so it shows you photos taken on or around today’s date in past years.
Birthday mode
If you have birthdays assigned to people in your People album, the Photos tab will highlight your photos of them on their birthday.
Zoom in and zoom out
View your library in All Photos however you’d like. Zoom in for a closer look, or zoom out to quickly scan through your library and see all your shots at once.
Screen recordings smart album
All your new screen recordings are now in one place.
Search enhancements
You can combine multiple search terms — like “beach” and “selfies” — without tapping each word in search.
Music for Memories
Soundtracks for Memory movies are selected based on what you listen to in the Apple Music app.
Extended Live Photos playback
When you press and hold to play a Live Photo, Photos will automatically extend the video when you have Live Photos taken within 1.5 seconds of each other.
Preview intensity
As you apply an edit, each adjustment displays its intensity, so you can see at a glance which effects have been increased or decreased.
Individually review each effect
Tap each effect icon to see what your photo looked like before and after the effect was applied.
Filter control
Control the intensity of any filter, like Vivid or Noir, to fine‑tune your look.
Enhance control
Enhance now lets you control the intensity of your automatic adjustments. As you increase or decrease Enhance, you’ll see other adjustments — including Exposure, Brilliance, Highlights, Shadows, Contrast, Brightness, Black Point, Saturation and Vibrance — intelligently change with it.
Video editing support
Adjustments, filters and crop support video editing, so you can rotate, increase exposure or even apply filters to your videos. Video editing supports all video formats captured on iPad.
Non-destructive video edits
Video edits are now non-destructive, so you can remove an effect like a filter or undo a trim to return to your original video.
Vibrance
Boost muted colours to make your photo richer without affecting skin tones and saturated colours.
White Balance
Balance the warmth of an image by adjusting temperature (blue to yellow) and tint (green to magenta).
Sharpen
Change photos by making edges crisper and better defined.
Definition
Increase image clarity by adjusting the definition slider.
Noise reduction
Reduce or eliminate noise such as graininess or speckles in photos.
Vignette
Add shading to the edges of your photo to highlight a powerful moment using Strength, Radius and Falloff.
Updates to auto adjustments
Straighten, crop and adjust the perspective of your photos automatically.
Pinch-to-zoom support
You can pinch to zoom while editing to review your changes on a specific area of your photo.
Image Capture API
The Image Capture API lets you import photos directly into an app when a camera is connected to your iPadOS device.
Updates to Portrait Segmentation API
The Portrait Segmentation API now supports skin, hair and teeth segmentation, so developers can create new effects for Portrait mode photos.
Performance
Faster app launch
Apps launch up to two times faster in iPadOS.4
Faster Face ID unlock
Unlocking the 11‑inch iPad Pro and 12.9‑inch iPad Pro (3rd generation) is up to 30 per cent faster.5
Smaller app downloads
Apps from the App Store will be packaged in a new way that makes them up to 50 per cent smaller.4
Smaller app updates
App updates will be up to 60 per cent smaller on average.4
Augmented Reality
Support for Motion Capture
Motion Capture lets developers integrate people’s movement into their apps.6
People Occlusion
AR content appears naturally in front of or behind people, enabling more immersive AR experiences and fun green screen–like applications.6
ARKit 3.5
AR apps can now take full advantage of the LiDAR Scanner in the new iPad Pro to create even more realistic and immersive experiences.
Accessibility
Voice Control
Introducing a new way to control your iPadOS devices, entirely with your voice.7
Accurate dictation
Voice Control uses the Siri speech recognition engine to give you the latest advances in machine learning for audio‑to‑text transcription.8
Add custom words
Whether you’re writing a biology report, filling out a legal document or emailing about a favourite topic, you can add custom words to ensure that Voice Control recognises the words you commonly use.
On‑device processing
All audio processing for Voice Control happens on your device, ensuring that your personal data is kept private.
Rich text editing
Thanks to rich text editing commands, you don’t have to rehearse before you speak. Making corrections is quick and easy. You can replace phrases by name. Try saying, “Replace I’m almost there with I just arrived.” Fine-grained editing also makes it simple to select text. Try saying, “Move up two lines. Select previous word. Capitalise that.”
Word and emoji suggestions
If you need to correct a word, simply ask and you’ll be presented with a list of suggested replacements.
Seamless transitions from dictation to commands
Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands. For example, say “Happy birthday. Tap send” in Messages, and Voice Control sends “Happy birthday” — just as you intended. You can also say “Delete that”, and Voice Control knows to delete what you just typed.
Comprehensive navigation
You can rely entirely on your voice to navigate an app. Comprehensive navigation is provided by navigation commands, names of accessibility labels, numbers, grids, voice gestures and recorded commands.
Navigation commands
Navigation commands give you quick ways to open apps, search the web, press the Home button and more.
Names
You can easily navigate by telling Voice Control to select the name of an accessibility label for buttons, links and more.
Numbers
Say “Show numbers” to see numbers appear next to all clickable items onscreen. Use this to quickly navigate complex or unfamiliar apps. Numbers automatically appear in menus and whenever you need to disambiguate between items with same name. Just say a number to click it.
Grids
Saying “Show grid” superimposes a grid on your screen and allows you to precisely do things like tap, zoom, drag and more.
Gesture with your voice
Use your voice to perform gestures, such as tap, swipe, pinch, zoom, press the Home button and more.
Recorded commands
You can record multi‑step gestures for apps on your iPad. So if you love to send messages with fireworks, you can record the gestures to do this and use the recording to quickly send messages with fireworks.
Attention Awareness
With Attention Awareness, Voice Control goes to sleep when you turn your head away from the TrueDepth camera on an iPad. It doesn’t activate until you look back at the screen — so you can talk to a friend nearby without affecting your device.
Even More
AirPods
Announce Messages with Siri
Siri can read incoming notifications from your messaging apps to your second-generation AirPods when you can’t reach for your iPad.9
Audio Sharing
Pair two sets of AirPods to one iPad and enjoy the same song or movie along with a friend.10
App Store
Apple Arcade
A game subscription service with over 100 amazing new games, all with no ads or additional purchases. A single subscription allows you to download and play any Apple Arcade game from the App Store, and games will be added regularly. You can play Apple Arcade games across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, and every game is playable offline.
Support for Arabic and Hebrew
The App Store now supports Arabic and Hebrew languages across stories, collections and lists, product pages and search.
Option to download large apps using mobile data
You can choose to download apps and games using your mobile data connection.
Books
Reading goals
Read a book for five minutes while queuing for coffee, on your commute or before bed to achieve your Daily Reading Goal. Build streaks to celebrate your achievements and share books you’ve finished with the Books Read this Year collection.
Business Chat
Business Chat suggestions
When you call supported businesses, iPadOS offers to start a Business Chat instead, so you can interact with a business from a text instead of waiting on hold.
Calendar
Add attachments to events
iPadOS supports adding attachments to events in Calendar.
China
Adjustable handwriting keyboard height
Give yourself more space to write in the handwriting keyboard by pulling up on the tab.
Typing predictions for Cantonese
New predictions for Cangjie, Stroke, Sucheng and Handwriting keyboards bring more relevant character and emoji predictions for Cantonese users.
Contacts
New relationship labels
Hundreds of new, more specific relationship labels in Contacts help users manage their growing contact lists.
Create Memoji
Create a Memoji for yourself and your other contacts directly inside Contacts.
Enterprise
Data separation for Bring Your Own Device
A new form of management called User Enrolment, built specifically for Bring Your Own Device, maintains user privacy while keeping corporate data protected.
Modern authentication for device enrolment
Deliver custom content during Automated Device Enrolment to enhance security and show users tailored information.
Managed Apple IDs for business
Create and manage Apple IDs used by employees, giving them access to services like iCloud Notes.
Single sign‑on extension
APIs for identity providers and app developers enable users to seamlessly log in to apps and websites using the security of Face ID and Touch ID.
FaceTime
FaceTime prominence preference
You can now control automatic prominence on Group FaceTime calls so video tiles do not change size when a participant speaks.
Find My
Learn moreTwo apps in one
Find My iPhone and Find My Friends are now combined in a single, easy‑to‑use app to help you locate the people and devices that are important to you.
Find offline devices
Locate a missing device even if it’s not connected to Wi‑Fi or a mobile network using crowd‑sourced location. When you mark your device as missing and another Apple user’s device is nearby, it can detect your device’s Bluetooth signal and report its location to you. It’s completely anonymous and encrypted end‑to‑end, so everyone’s privacy is protected.
Game Controllers
PlayStation 4 controller support
Use your PlayStation 4 game controller with iPad.
Xbox Wireless Controller with Bluetooth
Connect your Xbox Wireless Controller with Bluetooth to iPad.
India
Indian English Siri voice
iPadOS introduces all‑new and more natural Indian English male and female Siri voices.
Enhanced language setup
When you set up a new device, iPadOS presents enhanced options if it detects that you may speak more than one language. It offers to add relevant languages to your keyboard, dictation languages and preferred languages.
Support for more Indian languages
iPadOS now supports all 22 official Indian languages, with the addition of 15 new Indian-language keyboards: Assamese, Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri (Devanagari, Arabic), Konkani (Devanagari), Manipuri (Bangla, Meetei Mayek), Maithili, Nepali, Sanskrit, Santali (Devanagari, Ol Chiki) and Sindhi (Devanagari, Arabic).
Hindi–English bilingual keyboard
A bilingual Hindi (Latin) and English keyboard is supported, including typing predictions.
Typing prediction for Hindi
The Hindi (Devanagari) keyboard includes typing predictions that suggest the next word as you type and learn from your typing over time.
New Indian language system fonts
Four new system fonts for Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada and Odia help deliver greater clarity and ease when reading in apps like Safari, typing in Messages and Mail, or swiping through Contacts.
New Indian language document fonts
There are 30 new document fonts for Assamese, Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Video downloads optimised for congestion
Video streaming apps like Hotstar and Netflix can optimise the time of day to download your content, helping to avoid congested networks and peak mobile-data prices.
Languages
38 new keyboard languages
iPadOS includes 38 new keyboard languages for Albanian, Assamese, Bodo, Burmese, Cantonese, Dhivehi, Dogri, Faroese, Kashmiri (Arabic, Devanagari), Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani, Kurdish (Arabic, Latin), Kyrgyz, Lao, Malay (Jawi), Manipuri (Bangla, Meetei Mayek), Maithili, Maltese, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Pashto, Sanskrit, Santali (Devanagari, Ol Chiki), Sindhi (Arabic, Devanagari), Sinhala, Tajik, Tongan, Turkmen, Uyghur and Uzbek (Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin).
Typing prediction languages
Next‑word predictions are now available on the Swedish, Dutch, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Hindi (Devanagari), Hindi (Latin) and Najdi Arabic keyboards. The keyboard learns as you type over time and predicts the word or emoji you’re most likely to use.
Dictionaries
A Thai–English bilingual dictionary and a Vietnamese–English bilingual dictionary are now available.
Separate emoji and globe keys
Multilingual users can switch languages with greater ease, with dedicated keys for switching between languages and selecting emoji.
Language selection per app
Use third‑party apps in a different language from your system language.
Braille tables
iPadOS includes support for over 50 new international braille tables.
Multicoloured flags
Choose from a variety of colours when you flag an email message. Coloured flags are synced via iCloud to Mail on all your Apple devices, and they can be changed or removed at any time.
Block sender
Have all email from a specified sender blocked and move the messages directly to the Trash. Blocking a sender works across all your Apple devices.
Extended Reply menu
In addition to reply, reply all, forward and print, the Reply menu adds convenient access to notify me of replies, mark as unread, move to junk, move to different mailbox and flag options, as well as the new Mute Thread option.
Mute Thread
Easily mute notifications from an overly active email thread across all your Apple devices.
New format bar
A convenient new format bar appears above the keyboard when you type text, providing comprehensive formatting and attachment options including the ability to scan, insert a photo or video, add attachments and insert drawings.
Desktop‑class text formatting
A new menu adds comprehensive text formatting tools that let you compose professional‑looking email. Formatting includes new font style, size and colour selections, strikethrough, alignment, numbered and bulleted lists, and indenting and outdenting options.
Updated photo selector
The new photo selector occupies the lower portion of the screen so you can see your email while choosing the photo.
Updated address autocomplete
When adding a recipient to an email, Mail lists email address choices under each recipient.
iPad multitasking
Drag a window to compose an email next to your primary inbox, so you can view or copy from one message and paste it into another, all without obscuring either message.
Maps
Learn moreNew map
Rebuilt from the ground up, the brand‑new map features significantly improved and more realistic details for roads, beaches, parks, buildings and more.11
Look Around
Explore where you’re going before you get there with an immersive 3D experience that gives you a 360‑degree view of a place. And enjoy smooth and seamless transitions as you navigate your way around.12
Collections
Build collections of your favourite and soon‑to‑be‑favourite locations, and share them with friends and family.
Favourites
Whether it’s home, work, the gym or your kid’s school, create a list of places you visit often for quick, one‑tap navigation.
Junction View
Junction View helps drivers in China eliminate wrong turns and directional misses by lining them up in the correct lane before they need to turn or enter an elevated road.
Share ETA
Share your estimated time of arrival with family, friends and co-workers. Your ETA even updates should a significant delay occur.
Customer feedback
A redesigned customer feedback experience makes submitting incorrect addresses, business locations or operating hours that much easier.
Real-time public transport info
See live departure times, the current location of the bus or train on your route, and a more detailed schedule when viewing public transport stops.
Flight status
Up-to-the-moment information about your flight terminals, gate locations, departure times and more is now available.
Place cards
Place cards are more helpful and easier to use, with dynamically updated information for things like Today at Apple sessions at Apple Store locations, cinema showtimes and more.
MapKit
Updates include vector overlays,
Messages
Share name and photo
Automatically share your name and photo when you start a conversation or when the other person responds in a message. Decide whether you share with everyone, just your contacts, or not at all. You can even choose to use an Animoji, image or monogram for your photo.
Memoji stickers
Automatically generate sticker packs based on your Memoji and Animoji characters that allow you to express a range of emotions in Messages.
Improved search
Search in Messages makes it easier to find what you’re looking for. Even before you type a character, you can see recent messages, people, photos, links and locations you might be looking for. When you type in a search, Messages categorises the results and highlights matching terms.
Improved details pane
The details pane organises links, locations and attachments that have been shared in the conversation so they’re easy to find at a glance.
Improved Memoji customisation
Makeup lets you customise blush and eyeshadow, and includes editing tools that make it easy to get just the right look. Customise your teeth with braces and add piercings to your nose, eyebrows, eyelids and around your mouth. There are also 30 new hairstyles, over 15 new pieces of headwear, and more earrings and glasses.
New Animoji
Three new Animoji characters — mouse, octopus and cow — give you more options to express yourself.
Animoji hardware support
All devices with an A9 chip or later support Memoji and Animoji sticker packs.
Music
Time‑synced lyrics
Turn on lyrics to follow along with your favourite music as it plays. Each line appears in step with the music, so you always know where you are and what’s coming next. Scroll and tap any line to jump to your favourite verse. Beautiful animations make following along with your favourite songs fun.
Up Next
With one tap, see the queue of songs playing next and the playlist, album or station it’s playing from. You’ll always know what song is coming up, and you can change the order easily.
Notes
Gallery view
Now you can see your notes as visual thumbnails, making it easier than ever to quickly find the note you’re looking for. It’s especially great for notes with images, sketches or Apple Pencil handwriting.
Shared folders
Collaborate on folders with other people by giving them access to a folder’s contents where they can add their own notes, attachments or subfolders.
More powerful search
Search can visually recognise images inside your notes. Search can also help you find specific text in the items you’ve scanned, like receipts or bills. In addition, you’ll receive single‑tap search suggestions.
New checklist options
Quickly reorder checklist items using drag and drop, swipe to indent them or move checked items to the bottom of the list automatically. If you’ve completed the checklist and want to use it again, you can tap to uncheck all the items and start over.
Folders and notes management
Organise your notes by creating folders and subfolders, and select your preferred sorting option for each of your folders.
View‑only collaboration
Share notes and entire folders as view only so you’re the only one who can make changes.
Reality Composer
New iPadOS app for creating AR experiences
The new Reality Composer app for iPadOS developers lets you quickly and easily prototype and produce augmented reality experiences with no previous 3D experience.
Reminders
All‑new design
The redesigned Reminders app features more powerful and intelligent ways to create, organise and keep track of your reminders.
New quick toolbar
With the new quick toolbar, it’s easier than ever to add dates, times, locations, flags or even helpful attachments to reminders. All without having to go to another screen.
Enhanced Siri intelligence
Now you can type longer, more descriptive sentences. Reminders will automatically understand and provide relevant suggestions.
Siri suggested reminders
When you’re chatting with someone in Messages, Siri recognises possible reminders and makes suggestions for you to create them.
Attachments
Add photos, document scans and even web links to your reminders to make them more informative and useful.
Subtasks and grouped lists
Now there are even more useful ways to organise your reminders. Just drag and drop to add subtasks under a single reminder. You can also group multiple lists together.
Smart lists
Keep track of your upcoming reminders with smart lists that automatically organise and display them. See only your reminders scheduled for today, reminders flagged as important or all your reminders across every list in one place.
Messages integration
Tag someone in a reminder and the next time you’re chatting with that person in Messages, a reminder will appear then and there.
Customise list appearance
Customise the appearance of your personal or shared iCloud lists, choosing from 12 beautiful colours and 60 expressive symbols.
Screen Time
Combined app limits
Create combined limits with a combination of app categories, specific apps or websites.
Usage data
Usage data now spans 30 days so you can compare the previous week’s Screen Time numbers.
Communication limits
Control who your children can communicate with — and who can communicate with them — throughout the day and during downtime.
Contact list for children
Parents can use Screen Time to manage the contacts that appear on their children’s devices.
One more minute
When a Screen Time limit is met, you can tap “one more minute”, giving you time to quickly save your work or log out of a game.
Settings
Low Data Mode
Low Data Mode helps reduce your data usage over your mobile network or specific Wi‑Fi networks you select. When enabled, a number of automatic updates are paused unless manually selected. For example, Photos pauses syncing photos with iCloud; the App Store pauses automatic video playback, automatic updates and automatic downloads; Music pauses automatic downloads and optimises music streaming for low bandwidth; Podcasts pauses automatic downloads and limits feed updates; FaceTime optimises video for low bandwidth. Apps are prevented from using network data when working in the background and a developer API lets apps build in further optimisations to use less network data.
Share Sheet
Smarter share sheet
The most popular way to quickly share content is smarter and faster.
One-tap suggestions
When you share a photo or document, receive a suggestion about who you might want to share it with and which app you may want to use, so you can share with just a tap.
Sharing row
Easily see how many people around you are available for AirDrop. Apps are even intelligently sorted based on the content you’re sharing.
New actions
You can customise options for the content you’re sharing, like removing the Live Photo action or location information from a picture you’re sending to a friend.
Shortcuts
Conversational shortcuts
Shortcuts are even more powerful, enabling you to interact with your apps in a conversational way.
Built-in Shortcuts app
The Shortcuts app is now built in and is home to all your shortcuts.
Suggested automations
Get started with the Shortcuts app by adding a personalised daily routine to help streamline your day.
Automations
Set up triggers to run any shortcut automatically.
Siri
Siri intelligence
Siri offers personalised suggestions in Apple Podcasts, Safari and Maps. Siri can even detect reminders in messages and events in third‑party apps.
SiriKit for Audio
Siri can now play music, podcasts, audiobooks and radio with third‑party apps.
Radio
Ask Siri to tune in to your favourite radio station.
Indian English voice
Siri has a new Indian English voice.
System Experience
Control Centre
You can now select Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth accessories directly from Control Centre.
Redesigned volume control
The redesigned volume control appears in the upper-left corner, so it doesn’t interfere with your content.
Content preview
Preview email messages, web links and more simply by pressing and holding to see a hint of the content.
Quick actions
Press and hold an app icon to quickly perform actions specific to the app.
Dolby Atmos playback
Enjoy a thrilling surround-sound experience from content with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks.13
Enhanced QR code scanning
A new QR code scanner, accessible from Control Centre, offers improved QR code performance, a torch option and enhanced privacy.
Voice Memos
Pinch to zoom
Edit your recordings with more precision with pinch to zoom on the waveform.
Split View
Voice Memos has Split View support on iPad.
Wi-Fi
WPA3 Wi-Fi support
iPadOS supports the latest standard from Wi-Fi Alliance to provide you with a more secure browsing experience.
Automatic personal hotspot
Automatically connect to your nearby iPad personal hotspot when there’s no Internet connection available.
Persistent personal hotspot
Remain connected to your nearby iPad personal hotspot even when your device sleeps, so you can receive incoming messages and push notifications.
Family sharing hotspot
Your family’s devices can automatically connect to your nearby iPad personal hotspot when there’s no Internet connection available.
Popular Wi-Fi networks
Your iPad determines which Wi-Fi networks at your location are being used and notifies you if one is available.