The iPad has a great reputation as an amazingly innovative piece of technology. Keep reading to learn some great advice about maximizing the benefits of your iPad.
The iPhone charger was NOT build for the iPad. The iPad has a totally different wattage than the iPhone (10 watts compared to 5 watts). Charging your iPad with an iPhone charger will end up taking nearly twice as long. Use the charger that comes with your iPad for best results.
You can reboot your iPad when it freezes by doing a soft reset if it freezes. This will cause your device restart. If you want to kill a running process, hold your home button down for a couple of seconds.
You don’t need to press the film roll icon that’s found near the bottom left of the screen to see videos or pictures you just took. Just do a one-finger swipe to see your photo or picture you just took. Swipe in a continuous motion to see photos you took earlier.
If you iPad is set to default you will be able to see a few sentences of your email before you read it. It is helpful sometimes to get a preview of the email contact. Navigate to Settings and select Mail. Under the mail menu, choose Contacts, and then Calender. Change the Preview options for mail to More Lines.
A good way to keep pages open is to open new pages in a new tab. While surfing using Safari, hold down the link and a menu will pop up.
Do you get annoyed by seeing the battery charge icon on your iPad’s screen? This can be simply turned off so that it does not bother you. Begin by entering the menu for your iPad’s Settings.Look under General section to locate Usage.
Having your iPad chime every time you get an email can quickly become annoying. It is possible to shut this sound off. Go to the settings and tap on general. Once you get there, select Sounds. Within that option, you can turn the sound off or adjust it to be less annoying and suit your needs better.
To quickly copy and paste on an iPad, press and then hold text and simply choose Select. Then click Copy, go to another application, then press and hold again. A menu will come up that will let you can press paste. You can also highlight a whole paragraph; tap it around four simple taps.
Do you despise surfing on an iPad and not being able to determine the location where hyper-linked words lead? You can fix this problem on your iPad rather easily. Since you can’t hover over words like on a regular computer, touching and holding the word will work. This action will show you the URL that the linked word.
Go to your apps that you keep running quicker and easier! Press the home button twice and a bar will appear with all the running apps. The easy tip will save you quite a bit of time scrolling through pages and pages of apps trying to find the one you are looking for.
One great feature is iTunes U (U = university). This application has educational podcasts about all types of professoinal subjects and can be a great way to increase your know-how.
The auto brightness setting will help your battery life. The iPad knows when your room is bright or dark and will adjust the device’s brightness depending on the lighting conditions of the environment it is in. This setting will extend the amount of time that you get cordless use in a given day. You can find this in “Brightness & Wallpaper” within the brightness and wallpaper option on your iPad.
Are you afraid that the link you are about to click on in Safari is inappropriate? This is easily remedied. This will tell you the URL and you make it easier for you to decide if you want to visit that site. Doing so shows you the URL.
A forum is a hard time figuring out your iPad.There are many online sites devoted to this popular device that can help you to becoming an iPad whiz. Introduce yourself and check out the forum archives for an amazing amount of useful information to fast-track your iPad abilities.
You can use the iPad’s lock key silences your iPad or freezes your volume. Remember that earlier iPads are not offer this capability. You have this option if you have iOS 4.3 or greater. Holding the volume button will also give you to mute the ability to eliminate sound from your iPad.
Try to sync all of your pages with your iTunes and then you can share it with any operating system. It’s so simple to share to your iPad now. Things become even easier as you are able to email your PDF’s across the Internet and download them on a remote system.
Use tabs to do many different things in your experience with web browsing. You don’t necessarily have to leave the website you are currently on just because you want to follow links. Hold your link and a list of options. Then you can open it in a brand new tab, and the current page stays open too.
It is very easy to use the iPad to take a screenshot. Press down the Home button and Sleep together. You will then hear a click and see a flash on your screen. This indicates that it has taken a screenshot.
When using your iPad to take pictures, many people grasp the sides. If you do this, the shutter button will not be stable, and you might move as you snap your picture. To get around this issue, use the orientation lock instead. Doing so keeps the button right by your thumb. If you find that the picture came out with the wrong orientation, you can then fix it using your image editor.
Do you find reading books on your eyes?This can be resolved by lowering the screen’s brightness as you read.
Tap the home button twice to maneuver between apps. Click on the app you want to view. Do the same thing when you want to get back to where you originally were.
The iPad takes screenshots quite simply. Just press on Home and Sleep/Wake. You will see a screen flash and hear a click. This tells you that the screen has been captured. You can find your screenshots in your photos, where they are automatically saved for future use.
An iPad is amazing with all it can do. If you think this is something you will use every day, do take the time to learn more about what it can do for you. Apply the information obtained through above paragraphs and your time with the iPad will be far more natural and enjoyable.