Apple shares all the Mac and iPad tips for students who will be returning to university or Grande École in September 2022. The Apple brand is also taking the opportunity to relaunch its devices for students. Discover these hacks that will change your life while you study!
Gain productivity with the Mac
The MacBook Air was redesigned this year by Apple. This device is truly designed for creativity and productivity. It is particularly a perfect tool for students who need a powerful computer capable of lasting a whole day.
Here are some tips for being more productive with your Mac, starting with Spotlight, a search bar that allows you to find your documents, or even specific data in a document, but also to obtain targeted information from Wikipedia, carry out conversions or many more or less complex calculations.
With Siri, improved year after year, a student can also easily obtain information about their documents or control their computer, their travel, their software. With Continuitythe information you search for with Siri can easily be found on your iPhone or Apple tablet, saving you time to go to the library for example!
Apple even went further with Universal Ordera device that allows you to use your iPad as a second screen for your MacBook or to retrieve documents, images or illustrations directly from your tablet. The latter can also be entirely controlled by the computer.
Additionally, the Apple equivalents of Word (Pages), Excel (Numbers) and PowerPoint (Keynote) are available 100% free to all Mac users. Apple has designed flexible and intuitive software capable of producing documents that can easily be converted to Word format, for example, to collaborate with friends who have a PC.
The iPad Air, the solution for those on a limited budget
With recent updates, Apple is bringing the iPad closer and closer to a MacBook, with the benefit of a much more affordable price for students on a budget. The entry-level version is in fact offered at €699, with power that can compete with Chromebooks. Furthermore, for students on a more restricted budget, the 9th generation iPad can also be an excellent choice since it is priced at €389.
One of this tablet’s productivity tricks is widgets, which allow you to access certain application features directly from the home screen. This allows you to display, at a glance, all recently opened documents or even timers to organize review sessions.
The other novelty from Apple, developed in recent years, is Concentration. This mode allows students who want to concentrate, to study for example, to mute notifications from certain applications and certain contacts. If you only want to have messages from your parents and avoid being disturbed by invitations from your friends, you can temporarily hide them to better concentrate. Apple also allows you to create personalized concentration modes that even completely hide certain applications, to prevent you from having fun instead of studying!
The iPad stands out as the good compromise between the iPhone and the MacBook, allowing for example to serve as a support for a presentation by displaying notes and future slides, or as a PowerPoint broadcaster.
Finally, with the Apple Pencil, students can also take notes directly on their tablet, by hand, but also make annotations on PDFs or websites. These handwritten notes can be directly transformed into computer text. It is even possible to create mind maps directly from the applications provided with the iPad. Finally, you can go further and transform the Apple tablet into a real computer using a keyboard and a trackpad.
The return of Back to School, Apple’s offer for students
Are you a student and thinking about buying an Apple product? The brand has just relaunched Back To Schoolan operation that allows you to benefit from small bonuses for the purchase of a tablet or computer. So, if you get an iPad, you’ll get a free pair of AirPods Pro. This is also the case for purchasing a MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air.
Another measure implemented by Apple: the student discount. If you are already in higher education, you can log in with the address of your establishment to obtain a 10% reduction on new Apple products, ranging from tablets to MacBooks. This will allow you to make a nice update to your equipment for the start of the school year!
