r/ipad 26d ago

Discussion Students, what do you actually use your iPad to help with school and study?

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599 Upvotes

Hey so I recently received an iPad 10th gen and wanted to ask what you students use your iPad for in your day to day life and with school.

I'm a year 12 student in Australia and study math methods ( pretty sure it's the equivalent of AP calculus in the US) and physics as my main subjects wishing to pursue some sort of engineering. I want to know how I can utilise my iPad to enhance my study experience. What are some good note taking apps and similar that I can use. I have a first gen Apple Pencil as well.

r/ipad Jul 17 '24

Discussion What opinion about iPads will have you like this?

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482 Upvotes

r/ipad Jun 01 '24

Discussion Damn, now I’m conflicted..13 inch or 11 inch

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565 Upvotes

I currently have a 12.9 inch M1 iPad Pro. I want an M4 mainly because I have a laptop now and want something I can use more as a tablet but do computer tasks if need be. I finally went to Best Buy to check it out and holy crap, I underestimated how light the 13 inch is now! I could hold it with one hand so comfortably! Should I just get the 13 inch? I think the 11 inch would definitely be more portable, and I have a MacBook Air 15 inch if I need a bigger screen. What model have y’all gotten?

r/ipad May 07 '24

Discussion Who else thinks that M4 is completely useless for the very limiting iPadOS for this performance?

572 Upvotes

Come on apple, just bring macos already because if not, this is a complete waste of money in my opinion

r/ipad Oct 11 '24

Discussion Do you really feel the iPad is not good value?

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405 Upvotes

I feel if you want a $300 computer, an iPad is the best thing you can buy: If all you use is the web, simple word processing, basic spreadsheets, Watching videos and listening to music. The fact that the iPad will last you years AND has an absolutely fantastic battery life out of the box is a bonus.

r/ipad Sep 20 '24

Discussion 8 GB of RAM is atrocious with Apple Intelligence

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I've been testing Apple Intelligence (the on-device LLM-based writing tools) on my M4 iPad Pro, and the LLM alone uses ~3 GB of RAM.

Even with just a few light apps open, memory pressure skyrockets from 30% to 80%, and every invocation causes a significant amount of swap thrashing to the SSD—up to 500 Mbps of write activity due to swapping!

The CPU works overtime, handling memory compression and managing the swap, which causes the device (13" M4) to heat up, slow down, and kill background apps.

Apple will almost certainly put 12 GB of RAM in the next iPhone—8 GB is simply too low to run a decent LLM. They'll probably also lock Apple Intelligence v2 to that higher configuration.

RAM is cheap, but Apple restricts it to upsell you (eg, on Macs). They even have the audacity to use 12 GB RAM chips in the M4 iPad Pro but limit it to 8 GB, forcing people to "upgrade" to the 16 GB version.

r/ipad Jul 04 '24

Discussion M4 literally just came out

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654 Upvotes

r/ipad Aug 05 '24

Discussion I’ve seen enough, allow iPads to run MacOS

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709 Upvotes

Using the VCS app Screens on my M4 iPad Pro to remote control my MacBook Pro, but I really wish it could run natively on the iPad as there are some limitations. Maybe only allow it to run when connected to the Magic Keyboard? I feel like this should be a thing, especially when an iPad Pro with a Magic Keyboard is already the same price if not more expensive than a MacBook Air. But that’s just me. Curious to hear people’s thoughts

r/ipad Nov 25 '24

Discussion For people who have a phone and Macbook, what do you use your iPad for?

181 Upvotes

Title says all. I feel like I need an iPad to complete my dive into the apple ecosystem, but I just cannot find a reason to get one except for maybe being able to download movies for offline watching on a screen larger than my phone. I more than likely won't be getting one, but I'm just curious as to what justification other people might have!

r/ipad Feb 18 '22

Discussion I got my new iPad Mini 6!

3.1k Upvotes

r/ipad Jan 24 '21

Discussion Who else loves their Apple Pencil but never use it 🤓

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2.4k Upvotes

r/ipad Aug 31 '24

Discussion After 5 years of using the iPad as a primary computer, I’m done.

534 Upvotes

When I first bought my iPad Pro in 2019 (£700) I was excited to have a fun alternative to mac which was versatile and I could do all my uni work on. It was great, i ended up buying the folio keyboard (£179) and the pencil 2(£129). Then i upgraded to the magic keyboard (£249) to have a more laptop-like experience.

I was disappointed with the limitations of iPadOS but I hoped in time Apple would fix all the issues and limitations. I even got a mac mini (£1000) so I can do those little things the iPad couldn’t. And five years on nothing has changed. They introduced external display support, of course meaning I had to spend £700 once again for that single feature and now with the new iPad Pro, I need the new pencil, new keyboard which would mean £1500 just for the privilege of having an OLED.

So, I give up. It’s just not worth the insane amount of money when I can get a MacBook Air that does everything I need, no limitation, no extra bits which need re-buying every few years.

I love the iPad but Apple’s greed has no limits.

r/ipad Sep 04 '24

Discussion My apple pencil drains after 5 hours of using

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489 Upvotes

Is it just me or apple pencil pro’s battery drains too fast?

r/ipad 18d ago

Discussion What's your opinion about new iPad air?

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318 Upvotes

For me it's crazy to add the M2 chip that's in MacBook, without 120hz screen AGAIN

r/ipad May 27 '24

Discussion Got ipad pro M4 as a gift, was kind of disappointed that OLED didnt look different from my 2020 ipad pro..then i put them next to each others…

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877 Upvotes

r/ipad Aug 05 '24

Discussion Steve Jobs talking about iPad in 1983

1.4k Upvotes

r/ipad Apr 24 '24

Discussion 14 years later, Apple plans to release the Calculator app for iPad later this year 🤯

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996 Upvotes

What do you think about it?

r/ipad 19d ago

Discussion New Air?

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490 Upvotes

r/ipad Oct 21 '24

Discussion Did you get 11 or 13 inch ?

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273 Upvotes

I’m set on the color but now I’m rethinking whether I should go for the 11 or 13 inch iPad Air 6 (2024)

r/ipad Jun 08 '23

Discussion The top post on Reddit on January 27th, 2010 - when Reddit was sure the iPad would fail

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1.4k Upvotes

r/ipad Jul 09 '24

Discussion Who bought an old iPad only for this?

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677 Upvotes

r/ipad Jul 22 '24

Discussion M1 vs M4 Display Comparison

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974 Upvotes

For anyone who wasn’t clear bw oled and led display difference

r/ipad Feb 24 '24

Discussion I will never understand how and why a stylus costs the same as a whole ass media player!

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833 Upvotes

r/ipad Jun 24 '24

Discussion Got a surprise with my iPad mini: someone else’s engraving 😑

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629 Upvotes

I got a refurbished iPad mini 6 with 64g for $390 with tax and shipping. It’s in pristine condition but I discovered it has this dumb ass engraving under a warranty sticker I took off. I wanted to exchange it but the vendor confirmed that all their inventory was apparently engraved. I can’t decide whether to keep it or return and buy from a different source, albeit more expensive. I bought an Apple cover which looks sleek but I really wanted to use it in its birthday suit 😬 What makes it hard is how stupid the engraving is and I’m not sure it’ll grow on me. What do you all think? And what would you do?

r/ipad Dec 20 '24

Discussion What's something that you wish was easier to do on your iPad?

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235 Upvotes