

You can use this while another app is on the main screen, and then copy some data from the app that's open, like the URL of a website. One other new improvement is the ability to easily bring up a Quick Note by swiping up on the screen with the Apple Pencil, giving you a way to easily sketch a note or write down an idea. You can tag people into documents, see a revision history and more. The iOS Notes app has turned into Google Docs, by the sounds of it. On iPhones you have to swipe to the end of your home screens to get to the app library, but on iPads you can also bring the thing up easily from any page via the dock. It also sorts your apps into categories, so this is a good way to keep all your tools organized if you're a disorganized person, and file your apps by their function or frequency of use. iPadOS 15 App LibraryĪn iOS 14 feature that we're finally getting on iPadOS is the App Library, which is a menu where you can list all your apps on a separate screen, much like the app drawer on Android. Two examples shown were a Photos app that shows you snippets of the pictures you've taken, and a Files widget that's pretty big, so you can see lots of files at once. There are also widgets for more apps than before, including new widgets for the App Store, Find My, Game Center, Mail, and Contacts, and widgets now come in different sizes than they did before. That's changed in iPadOS 15, so you can put widgets wherever you want. That wasn't the case for iPhones, and it made the iPad widgets hard to use. Widgets were added in iOS 14, but they were locked to the home screen in a panel on the left. Below we've highlighted the key changes coming to your iPad. Lots of the new iPadOS 15 features are actually features of iOS 14 that have received a rejig. The same is true of all the iPadOS 15.x releases, so all of those devices will also be able to get iPadOS 15.6. So what does that mean? Well, all the iPads listed below: iPadOS supported devicesĪpple confirmed iPadOS 15 will come to 'iPad mini 4 and later, iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and all iPad Pro models'. If you're not yet up to date then head to Settings > General > Software Update to grab the latest available version of iPadOS.

That might well be the last update we get before iPadOS 16. Since then, we've seen a variety of smaller updates, with iPadOS 15.6 - a July 2022 release - being the most recent.
