![]() But the desktop browsing feature of Safari in iPadOS 13 suggested that limitation would finally be a thing of the past.īeyond wonky webpages, I was pretty confident about the rest of the requirements. Every time I tried to picture being in school with an iPad, I’d flash back to all the times I’d tried to get something done on my own iPad only to find a webpage that simply wouldn’t work right, or wouldn’t provide a fully functional desktop version to an iPad. The arrival of iPadOS 13 was actually the thing that tipped me over into believing that it really would be perfectly reasonable to take an iPad to school as your primary device. Up until this year, I’d have said it would have required a serious commitment on the part of the student, a clear-eyed acceptance that they’d be wrestling with incompatibilities and might find themselves in the computing lab resorting to a Mac or PC if they just couldn’t get it to work. As a part of the yearlong college admission process, I kept wondering whether an incoming freshman could survive at school with just an iPad (and an external keyboard, of course). This fall my daughter went off to college. (For the record, I recommend the MacBook Air.) ![]() ![]() Things are different these days: every college student is coming to campus with a smartphone and some kind of computer. When I went off to college in the fall of 1988 I took an enormous Apple IIe, monitor, and printer with me. Not sure about how realistic this demo room in my daughter’s dorm is, given that I had that Raiders of the Lost Ark poster on my dorm wall, too. Note: This story has not been updated since 2020. With iPadOS 13, the iPad seems safe for college students If you use the Photos app and want to know about the new curated Photos interface, improved search, how to assign names to faces, the state of the art of designing and ordering printed books, improved editing tools on iPhone and iPad, memory movies on the Mac, and a lot more, it’s in the book. Yes, there are a couple Apple Watch and Apple TV screenshots, even.)Īnd of course, everything had to be updated for iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and Catalina. (This book began as a book about Photos for Mac, then added sidebars about iOS, but this year I’ve overhauled the whole thing to treat all of Apple’s platforms equally. This edition is a pretty big update that finally treats the iPhone, iPad, and Mac versions of Photos as peers. You can buy it for $15, upgrade from older versions for $5, or buy a bundle with Jeff Carlson’s excellent new Take Control of your Digital Photos for $20. The latest edition of my ebook, Take Control of Photos, has just been released.
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