How to Drag and Drop on the iPad
Dragging an object like a file or a photo from one spot to the next is as easy as moving your finger, but when you take into account multiple items and apps, you may need to lay the iPad on a table or your lap and use both of your hands. Here’s how to move photos, links, and text between apps on an iPad.
How to Drag and Drop Using Multitasking
Not every app on the iPad supports multitasking features like Slide Over and Split View. But you can drag and drop between two compatible programs without having to close either of them. Here’s how.
What Is Drag-and-Drop on iPad?
Drag-and-drop on the iPad is an alternative to cut and paste. When you move a file from one directory to another on your PC, you’re using your mouse instead of menu commands. Apple devices support a universal clipboard. So you can copy a picture from the Photos app to the clipboard, open the Notes app, and then paste it into one of your notes. But on the iPad, you can open the Photos and Notes apps side-by-side and drag photos from one to the other, which makes the process smoother. More importantly, you can pick up multiple pictures and move them all at once to the destination app. The feature also makes sending images to an email quick (and something that copying and pasting can’t do). You can even choose photos from multiple sources. So you can pick up an image in the Photos app, open Safari to add a picture from a web page, and then open your Mail app to drop them into a message.
