USB Support Is Added To The New IPadOS Announced At WWDC 2019

Apple has renamed the iOS for the iPad as iPadOS.

What is iPadOS exactly?

The iPadOS makes iPad more powerful and capable with new enhancements to Slide Over and Split View, Apple Pencil, text editing, keyboard, and more.– according to Apple

What’s the Function of USB Support IPad

Apple announced its new iPadOS during its opening keynote at the WWDC 2019, which draws much attention of the public. What’s the main change in the new iPadOS? Definitely, it’s the USB support iPad. The adding of thumb drive support actually changes the way how people communicate with their iPad. With a new iPadOS, users can make it easy to access files by connecting a USB thumb drive or an SD card directly.

How to fix when your USB flash drive is not recognized?

After connecting the USB thumb drive/SD card to your iPad, you can see it directly in the Files app. Your thumb drive/SD card will appear in the Locations sidebar within the app. You can import the files straightway in to apps like Adobe Lightroom and you can zip or unzip a file conveniently with the new feature.

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It’s a sweet design for mobile photographers; they are allowed to import images and videos directly so as to speed up the workflow, so they can use the iPad as an on-the-go alternative to their MacBook (MacBook is dead? Don’t worry!).

Main Features & Improvements of the New IPadOS

In addition to the support for USB thumb drives, there are also a lot of new features and improvements included in the new iPadOS.

• The new USB flash drive support allows you to connect USB drives and SD cards directly.
• The home screen of the system has been redesigned (there are more icons per page, so it is denser than before).
• The multi-tasking feature has been improved (in an open application, you can have multiple windows and the views are split; there are also new link previews if you press and hold it).
• The practicability of the device for professionals has been improved.
• The new iPadOS gives support for the SMB file sharing natively.
• It also gives support for the iCloud folder sharing (not just files).
• The new operating system of iPad allows you to transfer files easier than before via the Files app.
• The new Files app offers you the column view, which is similar to the Mac operating system.
• The browsing of the new iPadOS is getting closer to a desktop-class level.
• The compatibility of the new OS is better; the iPad with new OS will be more compatible with the web-apps, such as Squarespace and Google Docs.
• There are new keyboard shortcuts (it supports for 30 keyboard shortcuts) and a download manager for the Safari in new iPadOS.
• The new custom font support has been added to new iPadOS (the font libraries are available in the App Store, you can download them anytime).
• New three-finger gestures are designed to copy, paste, and cut. You can also undo the operation by a three-finger swipe.
• The latency of the Apple Pencil has been decreased from 20 milliseconds to 9 milliseconds. So if you are using a digital stylus to interact with your iPad, it will become more responsive.
• The action of integrating the markup to the system allows you to annotate easily on a screenshot or an entire document.
• The PencilKit API is now available for many of the third-party applications.
• The keyboard mode layout is more compact: the size of the keyboard has been reduced to occupy only a little space on the screen. So you can get access to more content on your home screen.
• …

Releasing the new iPadOS with so many features is indeed a wonderful action to improve the iOS experience. With an iPad installed with such new OS, anyone can get his work done efficiently.