How to Replace iPad Pro 10.5” Touch Screen and Digitizer Assembly

Tools required:

Phillips screwdriver

Hard plastic triangle plectrum

Spudger

Tweezers

Steel pry tool

Hot air gun

 

Step 1: Tear down and separate the iPad Pro 10.5 touch screen and digitizer assembly

 1.1 Turn off the iPad, hot air gun blowing on the screen edge to soften the frame adhesive glue, then use a thin steel pry tool to make a gap between the screen and the frame

 1.2 Use hard plastic triangle plectrum to slice around the gap slowly, you may need three or more plectrums here

 1.3 When the display screen is separated, slowly pry up it from the frame on the top side

 1.4 Hold the screen with a hand, loosen the two screws on the metal bracket, and then remove the metal bracket which covered on the flex cables with tweezers

 1.5 Disconnect the four flex cables when the bracket is away, and then you may take down the display screen assembly

 

Step 2: Replace iPad Pro 10.5 LCD touch screen and digitizer assembly

 2.1 Take down the home button from the old display screen

2.11 Tear up the small piece of black tape on the home button with tweezers

2.12 Release the connector by slicing out the flex cable with spudger

2.13 Disconnect the two adhesive gobs with spudger which is for holding the home button and touch ID, pry it up from the front panel. Be careful and don’t damage the flex  

2.14 Remove the home button and the touch ID assembly from the screen with spudger   

 2.2 Install the home button and Touch ID assembly on the new screen, connect the bracket back to fix the home button

 2.3 Connect back the home button flex cable with tweezers and paste the small piece of black adhesive back

 

Step 3: Reinstall the iPad Pro 10.5 screen and reassemble the device

 3.1 Attach a new black adhesive frame sticker around the new iPad screen and digitizer assembly

 3.2 Connect the four screen flex cables back

 3.3 Cover the metal bracket back for fixing the flex cables and screw back the two Phillips screws

 3.4 Gently and slowly attach the display screen on the frame, slightly press each corner and the edge, and make sure there are no gaps

 3.5 Turn on the device and check the new-replaced screen about the touch sensitiveness and App response. All process is done!

 

Note: the whole process will be a little complicated for someone who not familiar with mobile device repair. We suggest you go to the Apple authorized service center or the repair shop if you are not confident about yourself. Just be patient and careful if you are taking the process on it.

 

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9 Features You Should Know About iPadOS

The iPadOS launched in October this year. This new operating system is special developed for iPad. Just as the same features of iOS 13 to iPhone, the iPadOS provides us nine useful features to us, which might not be known for everybody. Let’s see what these features are.

 

1. Quick screenshots: Use iPad pencil to scrap from the left corner to center on the screen, you could make a quick screenshot.

2. Floating keyboard: Pinch in or long-press on the keyboard dismiss button to select the floating option, you can activate the floating keyboard. You can drag the floating keyboard anywhere around the iPad screen. Quick-path typing is also working on floating keyboard.

3. Overhauled home screen: Swipe over to the right and on the widget, select "Add to Home Screen." You can fit more icons on the ‌iPad‌'s Home screen, and the Today view widget can now be permanently positioned on the Home screen when the ‌iPad‌ is in landscape mode. You can also get to the option from the Edit interface of the widget, and if you pin favorites, those widgets will always display first.

4. New gesture: You can swipe up and down to view the website page as fast as you want, and move the cursor anywhere in the text paragraph freely. Double-tap is for sentence selecting, triple taps for paragraph selecting. Pinch-in is for copy and pinch-out is for paste. Three fingers swipe for undo or redo.

5. Slide over for improvement: You can drag apps into Slide Over on the left or the right side of the screen, and you can open multiple Slide Over apps. Swap between them with a swipe, and swipe up and hold to get to an interface where you can see all of your open Slide Over apps and close the ones you don't need.

6. Multiple windows: You can use two windows reparative on the screen to work or transferring documents.

7. Multitasking notifications: When the new message-in window pup-up on the screen, you can drag it to the right to open it as a reparative window side by side

8. App expose: Long press on the App and select Show All Windows, you will see all the open windows.

9. Mouse support: The iPadOS have Bluetooth mouse connection support. Go to Settings >> Accessibility >> Touch >> Turn on “Assistive Touch”

 

These are the 9 features about iPadOS. You will find it a handful if you have installed this new system on your iPad. Furthermore, we suggest you learn something about iPad maintenance if you are using an iPad now. You may also check some iPad parts in our store, such as for iPad 10.2 LCD screen and digitizer assembly with flex cable replacement here. Any questions about iPad parts, please feel free to contact us.

 

16 Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts for Pages on iPad

The Apple iPad supports external keyboard connection for typing. If you get accustomed to iPad and physical keyboard, you will have to know some keyboard shortcuts so that you could make your work efficient and quick. Here we make a brief on 16 useful keyboard shortcuts, and we hope these tricks would be useful to your further work.

Here are 16 Pages Keyboard Shortcuts for iPad:

Create New Document – Command N

Open Document / Go to Documents – Command O

Find – Command F

Show / Hide Word Count – Shift Command W

Show / Hide Ruler – Command R

Add Comment – Shift Command K

Increase/decrease font size – Command +/–

Bold – Command B

Italic – Command I

Underline – Command U

Copy Style – Option Command C

Copy – Command C

Paste – Command V

Cut – Command X

Navigate Document – Arrow Keys

Close Pages and return to Home Screen – Command H

Most of the keyboard shortcuts shown above are identical on the Mac, so if you use Pages on iPad and Mac you’ll find them quite applicable. No matter you are using keyboard case, Bluetooth keyboard, or other external keyboards for connection, these shortcuts will be helpful to your work. On the other hand, we suggest you learn some iPad maintenance knowledge, iPad repair and iPad replacement parts as well. If you have any other tips and tricks about iPad, please leave your commands below. We are glad to talk about it with you.