How to turn your old iPad into a digital picture frame

If you have an old member And You are interested in making some of the thousands of pictures in your iCloud account, this guide is for you. Instead of buying a new digital image frame, you can turn your retired iPad into a dedicated photo display without any effort. You will need to change some settings, download the photo frame app and decide how you want to present your new display – which can be as easy as the stand use or as complicated as the drill is removed and editing the analog frame. How (and why) your old iPad is in the digital picture frame.

Apscalid iPad compared to digital photo frames

There are some clear advantages to an original digital image frame: the necessary software is already there, it is ready for display, complete with the frame and meted display, and, as a unitansker, it will not display Gmail notifications on your images. But for most smart frames, the resolution is at the top of 800 pixels by 1,280. Even the resolution of the standard iPad (9th general) from 2021 is 2,160 via 1,620. In addition, your old member is already yours. The cost of a decent digital frame will be about $ 100. And, since your iPad is certainly not a single intended device-it can take a fee time call or play an event of it Poker face If needed.

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How to change your old member into a digital picture frame

I thought I would be able to use appleBullet -in software to make the pictures of the pictures so easy, but the experience was not exactly what I was looking for. Playing a slide show inside the photo app does this as a memory, is completed with music, and there is no way to close this music (though you can silence it). You can loop a memory, but you can’t random the pictures and the interval between the pictures is too small (nothing less than ten minutes feel like you blink another screen). Therefore, with the length of a good Display Yi display to convert an iPad to a random, always and silent digital image frame, you will find better luck with the third party app.

I tried something and my favorite Photo frames compatible by re -frame ($ 10, lifetime access) It doesn’t have a ton of features – no transitions, no photo effects, no time and date overlines options and it will only access photos from your photo app – but it works best to make photos on an iPad.

This allows you to watch the watch break from 10 seconds to 24 hours and a qualified program is a sleep function so it does not smile pictures in your room’s 3am false. If your iPad is based on a picture different, it shows bilateral pictures (ie, two portraits with each other if your iPad is in the grounds of land or in two stacked horizontal pictures if your tablet is vertical). A clean white border is around the image of each division. Photos of the full screen go to the edge. The pictures are a bit cut to fit, which means they may lose some details around the borders, but I think its effect is more attractive than blurred edges or black bars. The two-up solution is how the digital photo frame, Aura Corver, pose our top, handle photos with the proportion of various aspects-but you can’t set this device in a portrait format.

Liveframe There is another option and access to lifetime it is actually cheaper at $ 5. It has more features like transitions and image filters, but at the same time there is no option to keep two pictures like in the frame again. Instead it can fade the edges, add bars, or increase the image (by disgusting). I also experienced many defects with the app and found the navigation more difficult. I also tried Digital Photo Frame Slide Show But, at $ 30 a year, it is very expensive for my taste and does not have sleep.

How to prepare your own iPad of Photo Frame mode

First Step: Create an album

Most photo display apps will draw from the albums you choose in the photo. You probably already know how to create a new album, but there are two elements to consider when you create one for the digital photo frame app on the iPad. All instructions are for iPados 18. If you are working with an older version, the steps may be slightly different.

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1. Open Photo And tap the side bar icon in the upper left corner.

2. Under albums, tap + New album At the bottom of this list.

3. Give the album some memorable name, as you have to look for it in the photo frame app. Tap Make an albumThen Blue Plus sign.

4. If you just want to add (or most) a specific orientation (landscape or image), tap the top/bottom arrow icon to the bottom left of the popup menu.

5. Tap See optionsThen Aspect ratio grid. It will show the shape of every icon so you can only easily choose what you want. You can also use See options Menu to zoom on thumbnails to get a better view of each photo.

6. Select and tap the pictures of your choice Add In the upper right

Second Step: Adjust your iPad settings

Adjusting some settings will ensure that your iPad keeps playing all day, free of interference. Playing only the digital photo frame app should be enough to prevent your iPad from darkness, but when the app kicks the sleep mood, your iPad can be auto -lock, which you need to unlock in the morning so that the app can start backup. You would also like to make sure that your slide show is not interrupted by other apps.

1. Turn off the auto lock: Tap open settings, display and brightness, tap on the auto lock, never select. You may find a warning that this setting will affect the battery life, but since your iPad will be plugged in, it will not be a problem.

2. Turn off all notifications: You will need to close notifications for every app on your iPad. Settings> Notifications> Go to the notification style, allow notifications for each app. Note: The use of dust dust focus will enable DND on all your connected Apple devices, unless you remove the share in devices in Settings> Focus. But it is still a better option to turn off the information.

Third Step: Don’t let the Randoz go to your goods

Since you might want to show your new picture frame somewhere that people can see, someone is at risk of trying to use your iPad. To prevent this, you can use a qualified leakage feature called Guide Axis. Apple designed it so that parents could hand over their child to their child without access to additional apps. We are re -introducing it to Photo Frame Security so that anyone can avoid going to your home screen or elsewhere. People can still tap on the screen to use the photo frame app control or you can completely disable the touch.

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1. Enable the directed access: Tap open settings, leakage then guided access. Set up an unlock code, then never set the display auto lock.

2. Activate Directed Access: When the image frame app is playing your slide show, click the Triple Side button. A brown circle will appear, tap on the X to close it.

3. Enable or disable the touch: If you still want to allow others to use functions inside the photo frame app, toggle the touch option. If you do not want a response to touch the screen, turn it off. To access the Options menu, click the Triple Side button and enter your own code. Tap options in the lower left corner.

4. Note: Directed access through the side button is turned on and off, so this option will not be possible if you decide to put your iPad in a frame. Instead of resetting your iPad and setting it up with a new Apple ID connected to family sharing that allows A access to A Joint Photo Library.

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Place your new digital photo frame on display

It can be as easy as you find your choice and call it one day. Called an Etsy seller The frame of the event Customs frames for the iPad. They are not cheap, everyone goes for about $ 100, but it’s one of the only companies that I find that actually offers specific size related to model and breed. I also considered it Snapfloot folio from maftAs I was affected by other brand -affected accessories. If you are clever, you may be affected by this person Instructions And make your own frame with a physical media picture frame. Personally, I just got a right-angle USB-C cable and I trapped my member in a broken stand that I already had. The pictures are enough.

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