Tips For Making Your Ipad Work For You

TIP! When you use your iPad for listening to music, playing games, or streaming movies, your battery life will be significantly decreased. You can help your battery charge last longer by adjusting the brightness of the screen.

Nearly everyone agrees that an iPad is an amazing concept and has improved millions of lives. To get the most out of your iPad, you should try to take some time to learn about what it can do. Continue on to learn helpful hints to make your iPad usage the best it can be.

TIP! When the iPad freezes up, do a soft reboot. Hold both the home and power buttons to get your device to reload.

You can quickly get access to all the apps that are running on your iPad. All you have to do is quickly double click your Home button. Just click the app you wish to switch to, if you so desire. In order to get rid of the bar, swipe downwards on the screen.

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TIP! “Ding!” Does the chiming of your iPad whenever you receive another email drive you crazy? This can be turned off! First you need to go to Settings>General. Select Sounds under the General heading.

VPN networks are perfect for accessing remote servers. To make a VPN connection, go to Network and turn on the VPN feature. You will be able to put in a server address and then your user name. If you are unsure of your server address, contact your network administrator.

TIP! You can change the default search engine if you are not fond of Google. To change it, you’ll need to open the Settings menu, tap on Safari, and then tap Search Engine.

You can do a soft reset in order to reboot a frozen iPad. Simultaneously hold down the Power and Home buttons for several seconds. This will cause your device to restart. If you wish for an app to be forcefully closed, hold your home button down for a couple of seconds.

TIP! Is it annoying to press the bookmarks icon each time you need to go to your favorite sites? You should activate the bookmark bar. Go to Settings, Safari, and then select Always Show Bookmarks Bar and turn it to On.

You don’t need to click the camera icon on your screen to view your photos. All you have to do is swipe the screen right and your video or picture will appear. Previous photos of yours will show to the left.

TIP! If you need to mute your iPad’s sound in a pinch, use this handy technique. Just hold down the volume down button for a couple seconds.

Most tablet users do not enjoy typing on their device, even though they eventually get used to it. Fortunately, you can choose to have your iPad dictate what you say instead. Just push the home button twice and then tap on the little microphone that you see. Once done talking, press it again and you’ll see what you said.

TIP! There is now an easy way to mute your iPad. Originally, the mute button was not on an iPad.

Many people that have used an iPad know that it can be very useful and of high quality. In order to get the most out of your experience, you should take time to understand everything that it is able to do. Review these tips to see how to tap into an iPad’s full potential.