iPad and iPad Pro For Dummies. Bob LeVitus

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      4 When you’re happy with your settings, tap Print.

      If you display the preview pages while a print job is underway, the Print Center icon appears with all your other recently used apps. A badge indicates how many documents are in the print queue, along with the currently printing document.

      Proactive search

      Using the Safari browser (see Chapter 4), you can search the web via Google, Yahoo!, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. If you’ve added a foreign language keyboard, other options may present themselves. For example, with a Chinese keyboard enabled, you can summon the Baidu search engine.

      You can search also for people and programs across your iPad and within specific apps, using a combination of Search and Siri. We show you how to search within apps in the various chapters dedicated to Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and Music.

Searching across the iPad is based on the powerful Search feature familiar to Mac owners. Search can search for news and trending topics, local restaurants, movie times, and content in Apple’s own iTunes Store, App Store, and Book Store.

      Moreover, with Siri teaming up with the Search feature, you’ll also see circled icons representing the contacts you engage with the most, the people you are next scheduled to meet, as well as eateries, shops, and other places of possible interest nearby.

      Searches are also proactive, meaning that the device gets to know you over time and makes suggestions accordingly. It attempts to read your mind. The tablet might surface the News app, for example, if it learns that you turn to it every morning (while enjoying your coffee). Or if you’re in a particular area, you may see the news that’s trending in your location.

      Here’s how the Search feature works:

      1 Swipe down from the center of any screen to access Search.A bar slides into view at the top of the screen.

      2 Tap the bar and use the virtual keyboard to enter your search query.The iPad spits out results the moment you type a single character; the list narrows as you type additional characters.The results are pretty darn thorough. Say that you entered Ring as your search term. Contacts whose last names have Ring in them show up, along with friends who might have done a trapeze act in the now defunct Ringling Bros. circus. All the songs on your iPad by Ringo Starr show up too, as do such song titles as “Ring-A-Ling,” from the Black-Eyed Peas if that happens to be in your library. The same goes for apps, videos, audiobooks, events, and notes with the word Ring. You’ll see web and App Store references as well.

      3 Tap any listing to jump to the contact, ditty, or app you seek.

      

At the bottom of the Search results list, you can tap to move your search query to the web (using your designated search engine). You can search the Maps app too.

      You can enable Suggestions by choosing Settings ⇒ Siri & Search to summon results from the web, iTunes, the App Store, movie showtimes, nearby locations, and more. A separate switch lets you enable Suggestions in Look Up when taking advantage of the Look Up feature.

The Incredible, Intelligent, and Virtual iPad Keyboard

      As you know by now, instead of a physical keyboard, several virtual English-language or (depending upon what you chose during setup) foreign-language keyboard layouts slide up from the bottom of the iPad screen, including variations on the alphabetical keyboard, the numeric and punctuation keyboard, the more punctuation and symbols keyboard, and the emoji keyboard.

Indeed, the beauty of a software keyboard is that you see only the keys that are pertinent to the task at hand. The keyboards in Safari, for example, differ from the keyboards in Mail. In Mail, you’ll see a Return key (and the @ symbol when typing in an address field). The similarly placed key in Safari is labeled Go, as shown in Figure 2-8.

      FIGURE 2-8: The keys on the Mail (top) and Safari (bottom) keyboards.

      

See the little gray letters and numbers at the top of most keys in Figure 2-8? If you swipe down on one of these keys instead of tapping it, you’ll get that second character instead of the main one. Try it!

      Before you consider how to use the keyboard, we want to share a bit of the philosophy behind its so-called intelligence. Knowing what makes this keyboard smart can help you make it even smarter when you use it. The keyboard

       Has a built-in English dictionary that includes words from today’s popular culture. Apple uses machine learning to quickly identify new trending words, too. Dictionaries in other languages are automatically activated when you use a given international keyboard, as described in the sidebar “A keyboard for all borders,” later in this chapter.

       Adds your contacts to its dictionary automatically.

       Uses complex analysis algorithms to predict the word you’re trying to type.

       Suggests corrections as you type. It then offers you the suggested word just below the misspelled word. When you decline a suggestion and the word you typed is not in the iPad dictionary, the iPad adds that word to its dictionary and offers it as a suggestion if you mistype a similar word in the future. Actively decline incorrect suggestions by tapping the characters you typed as opposed to the suggested words that appear. This helps train your intelligent keyboard.

       Reduces the number of mistakes you make as you type by intelligently and dynamically resizing the touch zones for certain keys. The iPad increases the zones for keys it predicts might come next and decreases the zones for keys that are unlikely or impossible to come next. Cool!

      Anticipating what comes next

The keyboard takes an educated stab at the next word you mean to type and presents what it surmises to be the best possible word choices front and center. Say you’re in the Messages app and the last message you received was an invitation to lunch or dinner. Above the row of keys on the iPad keyboard, you’d see buttons with three word suggestions: Dinner, Lunch, and Not sure (as shown in Figure 2-9). If one of those was the appropriate response, you could tap the button to insert its text into your reply.

      A KEYBOARD FOR ALL BORDERS

      Apple expanded the iPad’s reach globally with international keyboard layouts for dozens of languages. To access a keyboard that isn’t customized for Americanized English, tap Settings ⇒ General ⇒ Keyboard ⇒ Keyboards ⇒ Add New Keyboard. Then flick through the list to select any keyboard you want to use. Up pops the list shown in the figure, with custom keyboards for German, Italian, Japanese, and so on. Apple even supplies four versions of French (including keyboards СКАЧАТЬ