10 Things You Can Do With the Freeform App in iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 - MacRumors

Apple with iOS 16.2 and iPadOS 16.2 is introducing the Freeform app, which is designed for brainstorming ideas, creating sketches, and collaborating with others connected projects. Freeform is fundamentally a blank canvas that you tin usage for anything.

In this guide, we've highlighted the assorted tools that you tin usage with the Freeform app connected the iPhone and the iPad.

Shapes

There are hundreds of pre-designed "clip art" shapes that are disposable successful Freeform, crossed the pursuing categories: Basic, Geometry, Objects, Animals, Food, Nature, Symbols, Education, Arts, Science, People, Places, Activities, Transportation, Work, and Ornaments.

You tin stack aggregate shapes connected apical of 1 different with layering, alteration the color, gully implicit them, resize them with resistance and driblet gestures, interruption the constituent pieces isolated and manipulate the design, adhd assorted borders, radical them together, set opacity, and more. There are a immense fig of tools for moving with shapes for your projects.

Images, Scans, and Documents

The Freeform app supports each kinds of documents. You tin adhd photos and videos straight from your Camera Roll successful the Photos app, oregon instrumentality a photograph with your ‌iPhone‌ oregon your ‌iPad‌.

‌Photos‌ and videos that you adhd to your task tin beryllium resized with resistance and driblet gestures, cropped, viewed successful full, and layered with different images and shapes.

You tin scan documents utilizing the ‌iPhone‌ oregon ‌iPad‌'s camera successful either colour oregon achromatic and white, adhd assorted documents from iCloud Drive, oregon adhd immoderate nexus from Safari. Links and files are shown successful small card-like tiles and tin besides beryllium rearranged connected the canvas with resistance and driblet gestures and layered implicit shapes, images, and different files for a ocular look astatine your documents you've added.

Stickies

With the Freeform app you tin adhd integer post-it notes, oregon Stickies arsenic Apple calls them. The Stickies are fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic the Stickies app that is disposable for Mac. You tin alteration the colour of Stickies, choosing from 1 of seven, and adhd text.

On an ‌iPad‌, you tin usage an Apple Pencil to constitute straight connected 1 of the Stickies, but if you usage typed text, you besides person assorted formatting options disposable similar bold, slug lists, antithetic font sizes, and more.

Text Insertion

Using the substance box, immoderate typed substance tin beryllium inserted anyplace connected the Freeform canvas. Text tin beryllium arsenic agelong oregon arsenic abbreviated arsenic you want, and each of the modular formatting options are disposable for changing font, color, size, and alignment, arsenic good arsenic adding styles similar bolding and underlining.

Freeform has the aforesaid acceptable of drafting tools that you mightiness beryllium acquainted with from Markup. You tin gully with a digit connected the ‌iPhone‌, oregon connected the ‌iPad‌, with an ‌Apple Pencil‌. There are pens, markers, and crayons to take from, each with adjustable opacity, color, and enactment thickness.

You tin besides entree an eraser, a prime instrumentality for targeted selections of items connected your canvas, and a lasso capable instrumentality that fills lines that you draw.

Colors

Freeform has enactment for a immense scope of colors. You tin prime a elemental colour from a grid, take a colour from a spectrum interface, usage sliders, oregon manually benignant successful colour hex codes for a circumstantial shade. Favorite colors tin beryllium saved to the bottommost of the interface, and opacity tin beryllium adjusted for immoderate colour arsenic well.

An eyedropper instrumentality is disposable to lucifer immoderate colour that's already connected the canvas.

Object Movement

Any entity successful a Freeform papers tin beryllium rapidly rearranged and resized with resistance and driblet gestures. Tapping provides an interface wherever you tin nonstop an entity to the "Back" oregon the "Front" for layering purposes, but determination are nary existent layers to enactment with.

Objects tin beryllium locked successful place, duplicated, and constrained oregon unconstrained successful proportion, utile if you privation to alteration 1 magnitude and not another.

File Management

Freeform boards tin beryllium saved arsenic a PDF papers oregon printed out, and they tin besides beryllium saved to apps similar Files and Dropbox. You tin besides email, text, and different stock links to boards with others.

Multiple Boards

You tin person aggregate Freeform boards, which tin beryllium viewed arsenic icons oregon a list, and sorted successful assorted ways specified arsenic by sanction oregon date. Groups are disposable to signifier a ample fig of boards, and determination are besides abstracted sections for Recents, Shared, and Favorites.

Collaboration

Freeform has been designed arsenic a collaboration tool, and you tin stock Freeform boards with different ‌iPhone‌ and ‌iPad‌ users. All Freeform committee participants tin enactment connected the aforesaid board, adding images, texts, links, and much for radical brainstorming sessions.

Changes made to Freeform boards are synced for each users successful existent time, though it is worthy noting that collaboration has not yet been afloat fleshed retired during the beta investigating process.

Availability and Device Compatibility

Apple's Freeform app is disposable connected the ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌, and Mac. It requires iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, oregon macOS Ventura 13.1 to work, and it is simply a standalone app that volition not beryllium disposable connected devices not capable to tally these updates.