Easy Access to Photos with the Sidebar

In this video, we’re going to look at the new sidebar we have with the photos app; Apple introduced a new sidebar in iPadOS 14. Let’s take a look at this new sidebar in the Photos app.

Let’s go to my iPad. So I’m in my photos app here. I’m looking at my iPad in landscape mode. If we look over on the left, you’re going to see that we have a sidebar.

This is where I can go and select all of my different photos and videos. So if I want to view all of my favorite photos and videos, I tap on favorites, and now I’m viewing my favorite photos and videos. I want to see my recently deleted photos and videos. I tap on recently deleted and see those photos and videos.

I swipe up; I can see my different media types. So if I want to see all of my portrait photos, I can do that. I want to see all of my screen recordings. I can do that. I keep swiping up. I also have my shared albums, and then I have my albums. So these are all located in the sidebar. The sidebar can be hidden.

When we go up to the top left, you will see we have this icon here. I tap on it, and it hides the sidebar. I tap on it again, and to shows it, I can also, I’m going to hide this again. I can also go to the left edge here, and then I drag it out, and you’re going to see the sidebar. Now, this sidebar will be hidden again.

When I tap outside here, so I tap on it, and now the sidebar is hidden. If I want to show it all the time, what I have to do is I have to tap on the icon up here in the upper left-hand corner. And now it’ll show all the time. We can also edit the sidebar. If we go up to add it here, tap on it. While we’re able to do is edit our shared albums.

We can remove it any one of them by tapping on the red dot. And then I can also do that with my albums to remove any album. I tap on any one of the red dots with my albums. I can also reorder these. I take these three horizontal lines and slide them up or down to move that out of them.

We cannot do that with our shared albums. Once I’ve edited my albums. I go back up to done tap on it. And any changes will be applied to that sidebar. What about when we’re in portrait mode? Well, let’s rotate my iPad to portrait mode. You’re going to see that the sidebar is now hidden. So how do I get that sidebar while I go over to the left edge here, swipe over.

There’s my sidebar. It will disappear. When I tap on any one of these photos here, I cannot look at my sidebar all the time or have it always show when I’m looking at my iPad in portrait mode. The only way I can view it is by going to the left edge. Okay. And I am dragging it out to the right. And there’s my sidebar.

When I go back into landscape mode, I can now see my sidebar all the time, unless I want to hide it by tapping on this icon here. So that’s the new sidebar in the Photos app on the iPad. Again, Apple introduced us with iPadOS 14, and it gives us an easy way to select all of our different photos and videos.

We can hide the sidebar, or we can have it show all the time when the iPad is in landscape mode. If it is in portrait mode, we have to go over to the very left edge and swipe over to the sidebar’s right. We can also edit the sidebar, but we can edit our shared albums and our albums.

So that’s the new sidebar in the Photos app introduced with iPadOS 14 on the iPad.