iPad Essentials

Before you start

Have your iPad unlocked and in front of you.

The metaphor to open with

If the iPhone is the tool belt you keep on you at all times, the iPad is the workbench back in the shop — bigger surface, better for laying things out and working for a stretch, but not something you carry in your pocket all day.

Walk-through

1. Same Home Screen idea, bigger screen. The icons, swipe-up-to-home, and Control Center all work exactly the same as the iPhone (Session 1) — nothing new to relearn, just more room to see it.
2. What the iPad is genuinely better for. Reading a longer passage, writing sermon notes with a real keyboard, video calls where seeing faces clearly matters, and looking at anything — photos, documents — at a readable size.
3. Split View — two apps at once. Swipe up slightly from the bottom edge and drag a second app from the Dock onto the side of the screen. Example: Notes on one side, a Bible app on the other. The single most useful iPad-only trick.
4. FaceTime. Open FaceTime, place a call to a contact. It uses the same Contacts list from your iPhone — no separate address book to maintain.
5. Apple Pencil, if you have one. Tapping the Pencil on a Notes page starts writing by hand — useful if you think better with a pen than a keyboard.

Try it together

• Open two apps side by side using Split View, unassisted.
• Place a FaceTime call to a real contact.

Before next time

• Use Split View at least once for something real — sermon notes next to a Bible app, for example.