Take Control of Your iPad by Tonya Engst

Many humans can use the iPad good adequate, yet they are not having the superb event that they need to be. They promote themselves brief. they can not locate their stuff. They scroll after they might faucet. They post with a cacophony of noisy notifications. They pass over vital electronic mail messages. They watch video at the iPad once they may perhaps circulate it to an Apple television. They activate the incorrect settings for the incorrect purposes. they wish help... whether they do not notice that they do.

With 226 detail-packed pages, Take keep watch over of Your iPad is on an unstoppable quest to make your iPad event pleasant. It solutions the pesky questions, explains how issues paintings, and explores the intertwingled nature of Apple's apps.

Tonya walks you thru the total iPad experience:

• Understand your iPad: determine which iPad you are engaged on (in case you are supporting your neighbor together with his iPad and he is not sure). know about the elements in every one iPad version that make it specific.

• Power up and down: past checking out tips on how to function the facility change, know about turning your iPad on and off while it does not paintings how it may still and get recommendation approximately profiting from its battery life.

• Setup, setup, setup: easy methods to solution the questions requested through iOS's Setup Assistant, and get support with very important recommendations that the Setup Assistant does not conceal, together with protection, Bluetooth, tethering, backups, and notifications. locate special instructions for syncing in iTunes eleven, in addition to recommendation approximately integrating an iPad with prone comparable to iCloud, Google Contacts and Calendars, and Microsoft alternate. additionally, get aid with making folders and dealing with a tremendous domestic reveal cleanup.

• Learn the interface: examine find out how to permit your hands do the jogging while controlling your iPad, variety successfully at the iPad's digital keyboard, inform your iPad what to do with Siri, and dictate rather than variety. Get aid with the numerous how one can modify, mute, or another way block sound out of your iPad. tips on how to reproduction and paste, reflect with AirPlay, print, wrangle the multitasking bar, and extra. (Sorry, Siri and voice dictation do not paintings with the iPad 2.)

• Use Apple's apps: Take regulate of your iPad with ninety pages of setup instructions and utilization guidance for Clock, Notes, Reminders, Contacts, Calendar, Mail, Messages, FaceTime, iBooks, Newsstand, tune, iTunes U, digital camera, images, movies, Maps, locate My pals, and Safari. Phew! (And learn why you mustn't use Apple's Podcasts app for now, plus learn about locate My iPad and iOS's Twitter and fb integration.) (Although the publication specializes in Apple's apps, it does point out parts the place self sufficient apps are worthy considering.)

• There's an app for that! locate real-world recommendation on finding, deciding to buy, downloading, configuring, organizing, sharing, and deleting third-party apps.

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Connecting to a cellular network that’s not run by your carrier) can be ridiculously expensive, so keep this switch off unless you are certain that you need it. • Use Cellular Data For: Each of these switches can be turned off to limit the transfer of certain types of data to Wi-Fi only. That way, you can’t unwittingly chew through many megabytes of data just by saving a huge file into iCloud from Pages, downloading tunes from iTunes Match or any form of media via Apple’s Automatic Downloads feature, receiving a FaceTime video call, or adding an image-heavy Web page to your Safari Reading List (Figure 30).

Figure 14: Here is my Lock screen, customized with a photo taken at an orchard near my house. Notice the “slide to unlock” slider (bottom, center) and the Picture Frame button (lower right). You can customize the Lock screen in several ways: • Change the image: Tap Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper, tap the Wallpaper well, and select an image. In the preview that appears, at the top right, tap Set Lock Screen. 41 • Display notifications: Calendar alarms, reminders, incoming messages, and more can arise on the Lock screen with Notifications.

Control-click your iPad’s name, and choose Restore from Backup. 3. Choose a backup from the iPad Name pop-up menu, and then click Restore. After you’ve restored an iTunes backup, you should sync the iPad with iTunes once again in order to copy any apps and iTunes media back 49 to the iPad. Also, any non-media items that sync from iTunes (like contacts and calendars) must be re-synced: items that sync wirelessly over the Internet should roll in within a few minutes. Notifications Many iPad apps, whether from Apple or from another developer, can give notifications of timely happenings—for example, a reminder from the Reminders app, a turn that’s been taken in a multi-player game, a reply to your Facebook post, or an incoming email message.