iPad tips and tricks
Get comfy, it’s entertainment time!
The iPad isn’t all work, work, work. There’s plenty of ways to relax with your Apple tablet, or to get the adrenaline flowing with a fun game or an exciting movie.
Do you do Wordle? Every day, The New York Times nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html. Plenty of other newspapers and media organisations offer daily crosswords or puzzles. When you find one you like, you can launch it from the Home Screen as if it was an app. Just open the web page in question, tap Share and choose ‘Add to Home Screen’. You can read ebooks on your iPad, using Apple’s own Books app (bundled with iPadOS) and the free Amazon Kindle app, which is ideal if you also have a Kindle device. offers a different Wordle puzzle. Try it yourself at
You can explore augmented and virtual reality environments too. Look out for games like Smash Tanks and (of course) Pokémon Go!, which superimpose graphics onto the real world as viewed from the camera.
And for the ultimate virtual pet, check out AR Dragon com). It’s free, with extra items available for in-app purchases.
Great for gaming
There’s some awesome games on the iPad, from simple puzzlers that use the touchscreen to console-quality offerings such as the recent Hitman: Blood Money — Reprisal. You can pair console controllers with your iPad too, for an even better gaming experience. These can be Xbox, PlayStation or other Bluetooth gamepads, and all you have to do to pair them is put the gamepad in pairing mo
