iPad Tips & Tricks

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Quickly switch between apps

Drag your hand sideways using 4 or 5 fingers, to the left or right edge of screen.

TIP: Enable in Settings:

Tap Settings>General>Multitasking Gestures, and make sure this feature is enabled.

Switch between apps with App Switch

Press Home button twice quickly to view all open apps. From here you can switch between apps, and close any app by swiping upward.

Notice that most recent contacts appear above. Tap a contact's icon to communicate via imessage, Facetime, or phone.

Press Home Button2X (Quickly) to open App switcher

App switcher provides quick access to recent contacts

Spotlight search:touch your index finger on the wallpaper and drag downward to reveal a search box. Type search terms to search your entire iPad. Start typing and it begins searching for Apps, emails, contacts, appointments, music & more.

Flick index finger downward to open spotlight search.

Get back to the top of page quickly, without scrolling.

Tap the top of page with your finger and instantly you will be at the top of the page. Hint: To do this in Safari, touch your finger above the web address box. In Safari, tap once to reveal address box, then tap again to rapidly go to the top of the page.

Adjust Display & BrightnessGo to Settings>Display & Brightness to adjust brightness, text size, and to select or de-select Bold Text.

Text size can be adjusted more in Accessibility settings

Invert colors on your iPad and access others settings to customize your iPad user experience.

Go to Settings>General>Accessibility>Invert colors and toggle on to invert colors. Explore additional accessibility settings on this page available for enlarging & bolding text, increasing contrast, voiceover features & more.

Hide photos. Have photos on your iPad you would like to hide? Touch photo with your index finger and hold until the hide/copy option appears.

Straighten out a crooked photoOpen the photos app, select photo to straighten, tap edit in upper right corner, then select the crop function. A dial will appear that can be used to straighten the photo.

Straighten a crooked photo here.

Alternate ways to access Camera App

Bypass the lockscreen to use the camera:◦ Quick access center

Touch camera icon on lock screen; swipe upward

Display iPad control center: Swipe upward from bottom

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Alternate ways to snap a photoUse volume switch

Use volume control on headphones equipped with this feature

Use the timer feature

Tap screen to focus camera. A slider appears next to square and allows adjustment of exposure.

Adjust focus in camera app

Mark your favorite photosTap the heart icon to have quick access to all of your favorite photos.

Store your Photos in the iCloud photo libraryiCloud photo library became available with iOS 8.3 update.

Turn on iCloud Photo Library:goto Settings > iCloud > Photos, then turn on iCloud Photo Library.

Uploads photos less than 16 GB in size

Read more about iCloud Photos at: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264

Extend battery life per chargeTurn Bluetooth off, unless you are using it.

Reducing screen brightness also conserve Brightness conserves battery life. Go to Settings>Display &, and select screen brightness on a slider.

Consider setting screen lock to just 2 minutes. Go to Settings>General>Auto-lock

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Discover battery guzzling apps

Go Settings>General>Usage>Battery Usage.

What this really tells you is how you spend most of your time on the iPad.Battery usage information available for past 24 hours and past 7 days.

Charge iPad faster in Airplane ModeSelect Airplane mode from quick access center (swipe upward from bottom of iPad to access, or go to Settings, and in the top left hand column, toggle “airplane mode” to on.

Turn on Airplane mode in settings.

Keyboard tips & shortcutsUsing the virtual keyboard, hit the space bar twice to insert a period and start the next sentence.

Enable Caps lock, quickly tap the shift key twice.

Press and hold the exclamation point key to choose an apostrophe

When typing a web address into the address bar, press and hold the “.” To reveal a shortcut for the domain, i.e; .com, .edu, .org,

Enable Caps lock, quickly tap the shift key twice.

Press and hold the exclamation point key to choose an apostrophe

Tap the microphone key to dictate instead of typing.

Adding a keyboardAdd keyboard. So you can insert emoji icons, such as 😜 to add life to your messages,

go to Settings>General>Keyboards> and tap “Add new Keyboard” and you will see the numerous keyboards available to accommodate foreign languages, and emoji, of course. Now emoji’s are diverse with iOS 8.3. Select and hold. See more choices.

The Emoji keyboard is found here, after “Dutch.”

Press and hold to reveal keyboard shortcuts.When typing a web address into the address bar, press and hold the “.” key To reveal a shortcut for the domain, i.e; .com, .edu, .org

Keyboard shortcut example. Press and hold other keys. What happens?

Splitting the virtual keyboardSplit the iPad’s onscreen Keyboard to provide more onscreen space. Simply take both index fingers and push each half of the keyboard to the edges of the iPad screen.

Splitting keyboard is helpful is you type with your thumbs.

iPad cut & paste textiPad cut and paste shortcut: double tap on a word to select it. To select an entire paragraph, tap four times.

Quickly get a definition for a word. Tap and hold to select a word with your finger tip, then select Define to get a definition of that word.

Manage your email

Get notified when you receive a reply to an important email. In Mail app, go to the email, tap the flag icon above the message. Select Notify me… You will receive notifications when anyone replies to that email thread.

Delete, Archive, Flag MessagesIn the Mail app, swipe from right to left to reveal options to trash (or archive), flag, or more (tap more to reveal all options).

Swipe right to left

Shake iPad to undo last action...Shake to redoExample: recover an accidentally deleted email. Shake iPad, then tap “undo.” To re-do, shake iPad again (Carefully).

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Press and hold the Create new email icon to access saved drafts.

Tap trash can to delete a message

Set the timer in the Clock app to play music for a set period of time.

Open clock app, tap timer, tap the music icon, then select “stop playing.” Fall asleep to the music.

iPad clock app provides a world clock, watch, stopwatch & timer

Schedule “Do not disturb”Silence all calls and alerts when iPad is locked. Schedule “Do not Disturb “hours so you can sleep peacefully. Scheduled alarms will still ring.

Go to Settings>Do not disturb

Quickly mute your iPad: press and hold down the volume (decrease) button for about two seconds.Press and hold the decrease volume button

Note: iPad air Volume control has two buttons. Use press and hold the button for lowering volume.

Log into icloud.com

Log into your iCloud account from any PC connected to the Internet. Enter your Apple ID and Password. Your device’s location will be shown on a map. You can also play a sound to help you find your iPad.

Select find my iPad. Enable in Settings

View recent contacts in app.Engage app switcher by rapidly double pressing the home button. The contacts you communicate with most frequently will appear above the apps that are currently open.

Need to make a call from your iPad? Now you can make free calls though Facebook’s Messenger app using WiFi(or data plan.)

See what time a message was sent.

Improve the sound of your musicSet your iPad’s EQ to improve the sound quality of the music you play on your iPad. Go Settings>Music>EQ, then select the style of music you listen to most often.

Choose an EQ setting that matches the kind of music you listen to.

Name that tune, SiriWith iOS 8, you can now ask SIRI, “What is that playing?” (powered by the Shazamapp.) You can also ask SIRI to buy songs for you from the App store.

What you can ask Siri….• Schedule appointment

• Schedule a reminder

• Set an alarm

Siri is available on iPad 3rd Generation & up.

Enable SIRI hands free*.

Then you can say, “Hey SIRI” for assistance. Go to Settings>General>SIRI>Allow “Hey SIRI”Hands free is new to iOS 8. Otherwise, press and hold the Home button to engage Siri.*iPad must be connected to a power source.

Import mp3sYou can import music not purchased from iTunes into your iTunes your library.

To enjoy downloaded songs from Freegal into iTunes, open iTunes, select “Add File to Library” from the file menu. Select the mp3 file to add to your iTunes library.

Access Freegal Music and Mercer County Library’s Virtual Branch page at: http://www.mcl.org/databases/virtual.html

Family SharingShare purchases across multiple devices with Family sharing. To enable, Go to Settings>iCloud>Set up Family Sharing to get started.

Tip: Try using Siri for everyday tasks, such as scheduling reminders, appointments, or sending a text.Siri can help you learn to get more from your iPad. Here are some examples.

Safari Tips & Tricks

Discover the Share button with options for saving and sharing a web page.

• Pin page to home screen

• Bookmark webpage

• Add to reading list & make available offline

• Print

Tap the Share button to reveal sharing options, including “App Extensions” –the ability to share with popular apps.

Swipe this menu to the right to reveal the print icon.

Add bookmarks, Save to a Reading List in Safari

Note: pages saved to reading list are available offline.

To view your bookmarks and items saved to reading list, tap the book icon.

See & close open tabs easily by tapping this icon.

Surf the Internet with Safari, your iPad’s browser.

Remove Webpage clutter: tap this icon:

Tap this to just see text and photos. Works with webpages that support this feature.

Same web page, but easier to read. What a difference!

Easy Read icon shows only when web page supports dynamic text

See all your open tabs

…So you can easily close them.

Tap this icon, found in the upper right corner of your browser to see all open tabs.

Sources

Apple Inc. iPad Tips & Tricks: A collection of tips showing some useful features of iPad with iOS 8 https://tips.apple.com/en-us/ios/ipad (also available in Apple’s App Store—updated periodically with new tips). Accessed 7-16-2015

Apple Support, “iCloud Photo Library FAQ”https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264 Last modified: June 1, 2015, Accessed 7-15-2015

Apple Support, “Import music and video from a computer into Itunes.” https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20507?locale=en_US, Last modified: May 19, 2015. Accessed 7-16-2015.

Harwick, Tim. 20 Top iOS 8 Tips & Trickshttp://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/20-top-ios-8-tips-and-tricks-1274608 , published November 29, 2014. Accessed 7-15-2015

Miles, Stuart & Betters, Elyse. iOS 8.4 tips and tricks: See what your iPhone and iPad can do now http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/131012-ios-8-4-tips-and-tricks-see-what-your-iphone-and-ipad-can-do-now , published July 1, 2015. Accessed 7-15-2015

Tweedie, Steven & D’Onfro, Jillian, “15 Things you didn’t know you could do with your iPad.” http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-useful-ipad-tips-and-tricks-2015-4?op=0# , Published April 3, 2015, Accessed 7-15-2015