Tips To Make Your Ipad Work For You

By Abbey Deromer


The iPad is so new that it can be hard to know all it does. Don't let it just become an app and gaming machine. Your iPad is capable of so much. Read on to learn more about what your iPad can do.

Using your iPad to watch films, play music and play games can significantly shorten the life of the battery. Adjusting screen brightness can help to lengthen your battery life. You will probably find that you do not need to use the brightest possible setting to enjoy your iPad.

You can easily see what apps are running on your iPad. Many of the apps the iPad runs are able to stay in the background when you're doing other things. If you would like to view the current apps that are running, double click the Home icon. This will show you the current apps at the bottom. Swipe your finger in a downward motion to close the window.

If you have safety concerns should your iPad fall into the wrong hands, set the password to delete your personal data if someone enters the wrong password over and over. All of your data will disappear if someone makes ten failed attempts to enter the password.

A lot of people find it hard to type on tablets, but it gets easier the more you do it. Alternately, you can use the speech dictation feature of iPad. Hit the home button before tapping on the small microphone. After you finish dictating, tap the microphone icon again, and you will see the text version of your dictation.

Most tablet users do not enjoy typing on their device, even though they eventually get used to it. There is a solution to this in the form of speech dictation on your iPad. Click the Home button two times and then touch the microphone. Dictate your text and click the icon a second time when you are finished.

You will find that iPads now have an easy way to be muted. As you might know, previous iPad versions did not have this capability. Previously, you could use the lock switch to either mute the audio or lock the orientation. Now, you can quickly mute your iPad by holding the "down" half of the volume button.

If your children regularly use your iPad and you don't want them exposed to pornography and violence, enable the parental controls. Under settings, you can limit how much mature content they can see. You can restrict mature content, including anything that has nudity or bad language.

Isn't it irritating when you encounter a hyperlink on your iPad, and you are unable to determine where it will take you? Here's an easy tip to solve this problem. Since hovering over a word isn't possible, you'll need to press and hold the hyperlinked word. That will show you the URL from the hyperlink.

Your pages can be synced with iTunes to share documents with a Mac or PC. Sharing the documents you have isn't that big of a deal anymore because there's the ability for iTunes to work with any platform. Also, you can track and view your PDFs with ease.

What you've read makes the iPad truly appealing. You'll find that they improve everything you do daily on your iPad. Keep this article handy for future reference.




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