Your iPad is your friend, but maybe you don’t know how to take advantage of that friendship just yet. It’s important to learn all you can. Daily use of the iPad becomes second nature when you use the great suggestions in the article below.
Keep track of how much you are spending on iPad apps. Because your credit card is on file with the iTunes store, it is not hard to go overboard buying apps and then get a nasty credit card statement shock. You should monitor the spending and limit the time to a strict deadline.
Mute Button
Did you accidentally start an app that is noisy? You are able to mute volume right away by simply pressing and holding the – volume button until sound is off. If you need a mute button, change your settings so your lock orientation button becomes a mute button.
You don’t have to tap the camera roll icon that’s in the bottom-left of your screen to see a video or photo you’ve just taken. Instead, you can use one finger to swipe to the right, and voila, there is your picture or video. To view previous photos you have taken, just keep swiping to the left.
To keep your personal data secure in case you are concerned about unauthorized access you can configure your password so that all data will be deleted after a specified number of unsuccessful tries. This will help to delete all data after a certain amount of attempts.
People often make mistakes when typing on tablets, which leads to interesting typos in the resulting messages. However, you can use speech dictation as an alternative. Double click the home button and tap the microphone icon. Once you’ve finished with your message, tap the icon once more to have your words converted into text.
If you are in the habit of reading the instruction manual for everything that you buy, you need to know that the iPad’s manual is only available via download. Apple changed to a downloadable version to stay green.
Shortcuts make sending messages much faster. For instance, tapping your space bar two times when you type a sentence can add a period with a space after it. Therefore, you don’t have to manually do this yourself, which will help you save time.
Create FaceTime phone contacts, as well as emails. Your FaceTime will include the emails you saved into your iPad, but you should add more contacts. Go to the settings of your iPad and add the email addresses and phone numbers you want to see on FaceTime.
Do you dislike when you surf with your iPad and can’t tell what will happen with a hyperlink? You can easily solve this. Even though you are unable to hover over the link as you would with your computer, you are able to touch the word and hold it. This will reveal its URL.
The cloud function is great to use if you love to play around on the internet. In this way, you can store information and save iPad hard drive space. Store your content on the device and iCloud if it is very important to you.
Multitask your web browsing experience using tabs. You do not have to close a webpage when you click on a link that opens another. If you hold on the link, an options menu will appear. Next, open up the link with a new tab. This will let you keep the page you are on and open a new one.
Take control over all of your notifications. Having many apps means you will receive alerts all the time. You can control these under Settings, and Notifications. This allows you to disable alerts from apps where instant notification isn’t necessary. This way you’ll only be alerted to things that you consider most important.
Do you feel your eyes getting tired when reading books on the iPad? You can fix this by lowering the brightness of your screen when you read. The brightness adjustment can be made through the Settings menu or via the iBook application using a graphical slider.
Join an iPad forum online. You are able to learn a lot from people who can do this differently. You can also share your iPad knowledge with others. You can go to this forum if you have any issues and get some pretty fast help.
Do you dislike Google search on your iPad? Switching to another is easy. Go to Settings, choose Safari, then choose Search Engine. Pick out a new engine for searching from the list that appears. You will be given an option to use Bing, Google or Yahoo.
You will notice that the calendar option on the iPad does not permit swiping. Using the navigation bar, pick the date instead. You’ll notice that blue marks the current day.
Did you wish you could connect an iPad to your TV? You can do so by using an adapter that you can purchase separately. Look for an Apple VGA adapter or a digital AV adapter. Either will work for your purposes.
Has your iPad started to slow down and become a bit clunky when loading applications? Have you cleared out old data and yet it’s not getting any faster? Think about putting pictures and media in iCloud to free up more space. The extra free space that you gain should help you to regain the speed that your iPad once had.
Now that you’ve read this article, you should know more about using your iPad for daily business. It is a powerful and useful little gadget. When you are using your iPad again, remember these tips.
