It’s time once again for Apple’s ‘Back to School’ moment. Students heading towards their next career milestone look forward to this every year and the company doesn’t disappoint.

Be it the iPad or the Mac, there is something or the other waiting for students. Offers continue till September 30. Consider this offer: Buy eligible Mac or iPad, with an iPad you get Apple Pencil or with a Mac you get AirPods.

Before you log in to find out more about what’s on offer, let’s explore how you can get the most out of your Mac.

Some useful tips to get the best out of your Mac include organising apps with Stage Manager, the ability to have multiple desktops and hot corners (turn on shortcuts by taking cursor to the corner of the screen).

Here are some of our favourite productivity tools:

 Create text shortcuts: If you repeatedly type the same lengthy phrases, you might want to create a text shortcut. This can be done by entering your Keyboard settings from the System Preferences application. Then click the Text Replacements button.

 Video conferencing (Zoom, FaceTime and so on): Use Reactions, Presenter Overlay and other effects when video conferencing on Mac.

 Widgets: Personalise your desktop with widgets. Place them right on the desktop, interact with them with just a click, and through the magic of Continuity, use iPhone widgets on Mac.

 Web apps: Save your favourite websites to the Dock for easy access. Access them in a streamlined format for simplified browsing, switch between them like you do with other apps, and get notifications and badging.

 Quick emoji selection: Pressing the globe icon on your Mac keyboard pulls up a lightweight emoji picker that shows emoji relevant to the word you just typed.

 Notes: Review PDFs and scanned documents right in your note. PDFs and document scans are presented full width in your note, making them easy to view.

 Linked Notes. A new option to add links makes it easy to link one note to another. Quickly find and create links to notes and websites. Try typing “>>” for a shortcut to create links while writing in your note. You can even create a new note from the one you’re in and have it automatically linked.

AI-related features include Visual Look Up (find recipes for similar dishes from a photo. Pause a video and click on the sparkling info icon to look up any object that appears in frame), support for cloud-based AI solutions, enabling you to run powerful productivity and creative apps that tap into the power of AI, such as Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 Canva, and Adobe Firefly, and 3P AI examples (enhancing photos in Pixelmator Pro, remove background noise from a video using CapCut).

There is also plenty on the table when it comes to Continuity (Mac + iPhone), like Air Drop, Instant Hotspot, phone calls, Continuity Camera, AirPlay to Mac and AirPods functionality (moving between Apple devices using the AirPods).

What about the meeting of the Mac and iPad? You can use the iPad as second display. To find out more, visit www.apple.com/in-edu/store.