Chapter 20

Getting the News You Need

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Reading the news

Bullet Selecting Favorites

Bullet Exploring channels and topics

Bullet Finding news

Bullet Saving and sharing news stories

The News app is a news aggregator, meaning that it gathers news stories that either match your news reading habits or match the channels and topics you’ve selected. You can choose which news sites are your favorites, search for news on a particular topic, and save news stories to read later. iOS 12 also introduces a new sidebar to News, which makes it even easier to browse news sources, find articles, and more. In this chapter, you get an overview of all these features.

Read Your News

Whether kicking off your day or calling it a night, reading the news is a great way to catch up on world, national, and local events. Here’s how to get the latest scoop on your iPad:

  1. Tap the News app icon to get started. The first time you open it, you’ll be asked a few questions to set up the app — customization of notifications and ...

Get iPad For Seniors For Dummies, 11th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.