iPads are incredibly diverse and offer many capabilities. Thus, they are extraordinarily popular. Their breakthrough technology requires a bit of teaching before you’re prepared to handle this device on your own. Reading this article will help you to use your iPad well. Continue reading to learn great information.
You can easily add Google Calendar to the Calendar app. Just go to the Settings menu, click on Mail, then Contacts, and navigate to Calendars. Choose the option to add another account before pressing Other. Select Add CalDAV Account, and enter your login info for Google.
It is not necessary to go through a long drawn out process to send pictures. You don’t have to send them via email attachments anymore. Just go to your photos, choose the on you want to share, click on the arrow in the upper-right corner, and choose ’email’ photo for an easier way to send.
Does your iPad continually ask you to join different networks? This prompt can be totally eliminated by checking your device settings. Select Wi-Fi, and from there, you can turn off this feature.
Try to keep track of what apps you leave running when you are not using them. Lots of iPad applications can work in the background as you complete other tasks. To take a look at all running apps, double-click the Home button. The apps you have running are going to show up near the screen’s bottom. Swipe down to get rid of the bar when you are done.
If you’ve ever been interrupted by your iPad at a bad time you likely want to know how to silence it quickly. Press volume down for a few seconds to mute quickly. You can also set another button to do this in the Settings menu.
You can change alert notifications that you get for Wi-Fi networks with ease. You will find an option that says to ask if you want to join networks. Choose that and you’ll quit getting bothered by the invites that are incoming.
You know your iPad has a tiny camera image in the bottom left of the screen, but you do not actually have to tap this to view the most recently taken video or picture. Just do a one-finger swipe to see your photo or video. Previous photos of yours will show to the left.
Change your settings so that you can preview more than two lines of an email in your inbox. Go to mail in settings and then preview. If you select five lines, you will be able to get a good idea of what your emails are about before you open them. This will allow you to see more of your message for quicker skimming.
Unless you have a lot of time to recharge your iPad, avoid using an iPhone charger. The two devices both operate at different wattages – the iPhone at 5 watts and the iPad at 10 watts. And their chargers follow suit. You will not be able to charge your iPad as quickly if you are using your iPhone charger. Charge your iPad with an iPad charger.
Many people find it difficult to type on tablets, but it gets easier with time. You can utilize the speech recognition abilities of the device. Just double click your home button and you’ll then want to tap on the microphone icon. Dictate your text and click the icon a second time when you are finished.
The email app will show you the first two lines of an email’s text unless you change this setting. It can help for you to see more lines before you open up the email. You can do this by choosing the mail icon in settings. Open the mail tab in the settings app, then navigate to Contacts > Calendar. Once there, choose the number of lines to preview using the “preview mail” option.
Download the manual onto your iPad if you need it. Apple is not providing a manual with every product to encourage customers to download a manual rather than wasting paper.
Shortcuts make it far easier for you to send messages. For instance, hitting your space bar two times as you type automatically inserts a period and a space. You won’t need to labor over your messages using this method.
To add your Google Calender to your Calender app, you’ll need to go into your Mail, elect Contacts, and then choose Calenders. You select Other after tapping the Add An Account icon. Tap on the CalDAV Account and then just enter the information for Google. Then you have to go from the settings app to the calendar app. You should all be there.
If you want to browse a new web page without losing track of what you were browsing before, use the tabbed browsing feature. While browsing in Safari, hold down the link and a menu will pop up. This menu gives you the option that will allow you to open a new link.
Are you annoyed by the battery charge display? If so, then it’s possible to turn this off, and it’s quite simple. Begin by entering the menu for your Settings. Select General and then Usage. Under this menu, you can easily switch off your battery percentage display.
It is possible to easily change the default search engine from Google to your preferred search engine on your iPad. If you prefer Safari, choose Safari from the Settings menu. From here, you can change your search engine preference to Yahoo, Bing, etc. if you wish.
There is an easier way to open your favorite websites than tapping the bookmarks icon. Within the iPad you can, simply by enabling the bookmarks bar. Search out Safari within the Settings menu. Change the Always Show Bookmarks to On and you’re done.
Now you know why iPads are so popular. In order to take advantage of what an iPad has to offer, you have to learn all you can about it. Using all these tips will make you an iPad master. Have fun!