iPad Tip 52 - Add Quick Photos and Videos to Messages

Messages has been able to handle images and videos since the days of iPhone OS 3, but it took Apple until iOS 8 to get it right. Tap the camera icon and you’ll instantly get access to your entire photo library without needing to leave the composing window. You’ll also have the option to take and add a new photo or video to the message you’re composing.

iPad Tip 51 - Save Web Images

Save Images while Browsing the Web

Want to save an image that you find somewhere? Just tap and hold on an image on any web page, and you’ll be prompted to save the image.

iPad Tip 50 - Battery Hogs

You can track the battery usage of each App making it easy to identify power hogs. Click Settings > General > Usage > Battery Usage to view Apps that may be sucking too much life. The figures show the percentage of use by each App when your device is not charging.

iPad Tip 50 - Battery Hogs

You can track the battery usage of each App making it easy to identify power hogs. Click Settings > General > Usage > Battery Usage to view Apps that may be sucking too much life. The figures show the percentage of use by each App when your device is not charging.

iPad Tip 49 Text Shortcuts

There’s a great but little used feature in iOS called TextExpander that let’s you create shortcuts for words or phrases you commonly use.

For example if you type “omw” it auto corrects to “On my way”. You can add to this system with your own abbreviations: Go to Settings > General > Keyboard then click on the “+” in the upper right corner. Works when Texting, Facebook and Tweeting.

iPad Tip 48 - Set Security

How to Set Security of your iPad: You can limit access to your iPad apps so that people can't go into places that they are not supposed to. To do this go to the Settings and under General option go to Restrictions. When you tap this for the first time it will ask you for password. Enable Restrictions and give a password. From here you can allow or disallow various apps of your iPad

iPad/Phone tip 47 - Delete Old Messages

Auto Delete Old Messages.

By default the Message app in iOS keeps your messages forever. This permanent storage can gobble up a fair sized chunk of storage. You now can manage how long messages are kept: from Settings > Messages > Keep Messages, toggle the option you want: 30 days, 1 year, Forever.

iPad Tip 46 (and iPhone) Customize Mail Swipe

Mail has enhanced swipe gestures for quickly dealing with messages by swiping left or right on them. You can customize these options via Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Swipe Options. You can choose from None, Mark as Read, Flag, and Archive. For Swipe Left, your choice appears in the list of shortcuts that swiping partway reveals, but swiping all the way deletes a message.

iPad Tip 45 Add a Calendar

Want to add your Google (or other) Calendar to the iPad's Calendar app? No problem. In Settings open Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Add an account and tap on Other. Tap on Add CalDAV Account and enter your Google Account credentials (the Server is www.google.com). Exit the Settings app and tap on the Calendar app and all your events should appear. By default all calendars are displayed, but you can tap on the Calendars button to choose which ones are shown.

iPad Tip 44 - Sharing Information

This tip has been updated, see Tip 130.

In apps that support AirDrop, you can share a photo, video, or document with people nearby. Tap the share button, then tap the person you want to share with.

iPad Tip 43 - Wake Up Music

Wake up to your favorite song! First set an alarm by tapping on the Clock app, then tap on the Alarm, select Edit, tap on the left pointing arrow, tap on Sound, scroll all the way up to Pick a song, then tap back and Save.

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iPad Tip 42 - Searching

From the Home screen swipe down from any spot below the status bar opening Spotlight Search. Type your text, the search starts immediately, tap on the result you want or scroll down for more found search. You can toggle on/off and sort the list order of found items by going to Settings > General > Spotlight Search.

iPad Tip 41 - Preview More of Your Mail

The iPad's Mail app defaults to previewing two lines of each email before you tap on it. Sometimes however it would be handier to be able to see more of an email before loading the whole thing in, especially if you are on a slow connection. To do this open the Settings app, then tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars and change the Preview options to add more lines.

iPad Tip 40 - Back it Up

Make sure your iPad's data is properly backed up. When you're connected to your Mac or PC, open up iTunes and right-click on your iPad in the Devices list and select Back up. You don't need to worry about Apps you've downloaded or any purchases - videos, music - they're always available to you from Apple. Content you've created, such as photos and videos is what's important and at risk of loss when the iPad dies. You can also use an offsite service.

iPad Tip 39 - Need a Real Keyboard

Use an Apple keyboard ... or not. Missing a real keyboard? Any Apple Wireless Keyboard will work with the iPad. In fact, your iPad will work with any Bluetooth keyboard. Some iPad cases have a keyboard built in, which can be handy.

iPad Tip 38 - Clear Safari Browsing History

Need to cover your tracks online? You can delete your Safari browser history in a flash. Just open the Settings app, then tap Safari and tap on Clear History. Note you can also wipe your Cookies and clear your Cache here too. There's also a Private Browsing mode you can turn on, so your history won't be tracked. Turn this on in from Safari, tap the History icon, then tap Private.

iPad Tip 37 - Quick Safari Scroll

You can jump up to the top of any web site - indeed any list - by tapping on the top of the title window. It's much faster than scrolling by hand.

iPad Tip 36 - Delete All

Passcode Denied…

If you're carrying around sensitive data, you can now enable a feature that'll erase all the data on the device if someone inputs the incorrect passcode 10 times. Navigate to Settings > General > Passcode Lock > Erase Data.

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iPad Tip 35 - FaceTime

Once you've started a video call, you can move the picture-in-picture window that shows you by simply dragging it around with your finger.

iPad Tip 34 - Control Notifications

By going to Settings > Notifications, you can decide which apps can pop up alerts, which have notifications at the top of the screen, and which appear in Notification Center. This means you can make sure that noisy apps don't clog things up for you, and you notice the important things. Turning them off will also help to preserve battery life.

iPad Tip 33 - Home Sharing

Turn on Home Sharing in iTunes (Advanced menu) on your computer and on your iPad (Settings > Music/Video and enter your Apple ID). Next, launch the Music or Video app on your iPad. In the Music App, tap the "More" button at the bottom, find the little house with "Shared" next to it. Tap on that and then on one of the Shared Libraries. It might take a few seconds to update, but then you can listen to all of that Library's media on your iPad. For video, tap the Shared tab at the top of the screen. Enjoy!

iPad Tip 32 - Create Folders

This one is pretty basic: to create a folder all you need to do is tap and hold on an App until they all start to jiggle, then drag the app over another icon and release.
Your iPad will create a folder with both the Apps in it. The folder will be named according to the category of the Apps it contains, but you can rename it as you like. How many Apps can you have in a folder and how many folders can you have? Read it here - http://tinyurl.com/pttk6fs

iPad Tip 31 - Access All Open Apps

Double-clicking the Home button shows you all the Apps that are running on your iPad in a bar along the bottom of the screen. To switch to a running app just tap on it here in this bar. Just swipe the screen downwards to remove this bar. Swipe upwards to close the App - remember open Apps may be the cause of short battery life.

iPad Tip 30 - Customize your Triple Click!

You can activate voiceover, invert colors, set the screen to grayscale, zoom, switch control and assistive touch by customizing the triple click of your home button. Head to Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut and you can customize the triple click.

iPad Tip 29 - Be All Thumbs

I have seen some really fast typing done by all thumbs but the iOS keyboard doesn’t quite facilitate that for most people. However, you can split the keyboard into two halves and move it around on your iPad screen. Simply press and hold the keyboard icon on the lower right side of the keyboard and choose“Split” and it will separate into two halves. You can stick it back together by pinching it together or by pressing and holding the keyboard icon. Your other choice is to“Undock” or“Dock”which means you can move the keyboard anywhere on the screen or move it back. You can also use your thumbs to "pull" the keyboard apart.

iPad Tip 28 - Get Social with Siri

Did you know you can have your personal assistant, Siri, post to Facebook or Tweet for you? You can say“Post to Facebook: I love Capitol Macintosh” or say“Tweet: CapMac has sweet iPad tips!"

iPad Tip 27 - Connectivity: WiFi Security

Since the release of the iPad, many iPad owners have been experiencing WiFi connectivity issues, especially to networks that use WEP security. Since many routers and access points (such as the Sprint OverDrive mobile hotspot), use WEP security by default, it poses a problem for access on the iPad.

If you are having problems connecting your iPad to your OverDrive or other router via WiFi, you might want to check your router settings and select WPA/WPA2 as the security protocol.

iPad Tip 26 - Quick Numbers

Rapid Numbers

Just touch the number key [.?123], slide up to the number or punctuation/symbol character you want, and let go. It?s great if you just want a single number or character in between typing a lot of letters.

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iPad Tip 25 - Quick Capitalization

Quicker Caps

To get quicker caps (capitalized characters), instead of tapping shift and then the letter, just
touch shift and then drag you finger to the letter and release. The closer the letter is to the shift
key, the faster it is.

iPad Tip 24 - Easy Email

Copy/Paste Pictures to Email

I was baffled by this issue at first thinking the only way to send a picture was to use the send
options in the Photo app.
Just tap and hold an image until you get the copy option. Copy it, load your email app, and
paste it.

iPad Tip 23 - Port Doesn't Charge?

USB Ports That Don't Charge

Many USB ports don't have enough power to charge an iPad when the iPad is on. Try turning the iPad off and then giving those low-power ports another try. It's likely that they will then be able to charge your iPad.

iPad Tip 22 - File Sharing

Desktop to iPad File Sharing

If you're wondering where Pages, Numbers and other Apps that save files store and manage the synching, look closely at the iTunes Apps tab (on your computer) when you plug in your iPad. Scroll down and
you'll see the File Sharing. Check out the apps that utilize fie sharing and the actual documents. When you're ready to sync your files, use the Add.. button to add your files and work with
them on the go.

iPad Tip 21 - The Big Picture

Get the Big Picture!

To take a screen shot push the power button and the home button simultaneously for just a second. You can also use this trick on your iPhone. On the iPad, however, that screen shot is at 768 X 1024 resolution making it a lot more useful than the tiny iPhone shots.

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iPad Tip 20 - Video Zoom

Two-Finger Zoom for Web Video

When you encounter a video on a Web page that the iPad can play, touching it with two
fingers and expanding (the opposite of the pinch gesture) zooms the video to full-screen mode.

iPad Tip 19 - Interactive Spell Checker

Interactive Spell Checker

The iPad includes a built-in spell check feature that acts the same as the one in Mac OS X. If
you misspell a word, it appears with a dotted red underline. Tap the word to view suggested
spellings.

iPad Tip 18 - Thesaurus

Replace Includes Thesaurus

When you select a word, the familiar pop-up options appear: Cut, Copy, and Paste. The iPad
adds a new option: Replace. Tap it to view alternate spellings or corrections.

iPad Tip 17 - Better Zooming

The Zoom accessibility option that's in the iPhone OS is even more helpful on the iPad than
on a smaller device because of the additional screen territory. You can turn this on from Settings
| Accessibility | Zoom by flipping Zoom to On.

The Zoom screen explains the three options: double tap with three fingers to zoom in; drag
with three fingers for panning around the screen; and use three fingers to double tap without
releasing, and then drag up or down to zoom in or out.

iPad Tip 16 - Access Alternate Characters

Access Alternate Characters

Touch and hold a character on the onscreen keyboard to view related characters. For example, holding the E key brings up accented E characters, or holding the $ key brings up other currency symbols. Have some fun and check them out, there are a number of keys; Y, U, I, O, !, & just to name a few.

iPad Tip 15 - Curly Quotes

Curly Quotes
There are many variations of quotes and finding them in iPad's keyboard can be counter
productive.
Just tap and hold any quotes key and you get a selection of possibilities.

iPad Tip 14: Easy Apostrophe

Easy Apostrophe

I use apostrophe's all the time; see I just used one. But this is a key that's not visible on the
integrated virtual keyboard so it's a huge hassle typing them.

Press and hold the comma key. A pop-up variation appears with an apostrophe, and it even
appears highlighted, which means you don't have to move your finger to select it. Simply tap,
hold for a moment, then release to create the apostrophe.

iPad Tip 13 - Lock Rotate

Lock Rotate

This may not qualify as much of a secret, since Apple promotes the feature, but in my early
experience, it's terrifically useful. Flick the switch above the volume controls to lock screen
rotation. The iPad is quite sensitive to orientation, and rotates its screen with little provocation.
Locking rotation means sticking with the view you're in, even as you shift position, or place the
iPad flat on a surface.

iPad Tip 12 - Better Battery Life

Better Battery Life

The iPad battery can last for up to 10 hours, but you can squeak out a bit more usage. Drag the brightness slider (under Settings, Brightness) as low as you can stand, turn off both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (under Settings), don't play and videos or music, and avoid gaming apps.

Turn off or decrease the timing for data fetching. Data that is updated regularly includes email notifications and RSS feeds.

Turn off Location Services. Active use of maps and other location services will drain battery life. If left on, Maps updates continuously, something that you don't need draining your battery.

iPad Tip 11 - Web Pages as Apps

Web Pages as Apps.

Instead of using bookmarks to get back to frequently visited web pages, consider creating
desk-top icons for those most important pages.
In Safari, tap the Add Bookmark icon (+), select "Add To Home Screen", and then tap the
Add button. An icon shortcut to the page will be added to your desktop.

iPad Tip 10 - Find Apps Quickly

Find Apps Quickly

Now that you have many dozens of apps on your iPad, it's sometimes difficult to find that app
you want quickly.
Double tap the home screen button and type the first few characters of the app name.
Chances are good it'll be right there. Tap on it and you're running it.

iPad Tip 9 - Organizing Apps

Organizing Apps

Most people think that organizing apps on your iPad (or iPhone) must be done on the device.
This isn't true - you can use iTunes to drag and drop app icons wherever you want.
Connect and select your iPad, then select the Apps tab and drag icons from the top window
frame to the frame where you want to place any given icon.

iPad Tip 8 Faster Sentence Ending

Faster End-of-Sentence
Instead of typing a period at the end of each sentence, just double-tap the space bar. It will
enter a period followed by a space. The same trick works on the iPhone.

iPad Tip 7 - Preview Mail

By default, iPad's email app is configured to show only 2 lines, probably a hold-over from
iPhone, but impractically small for iPad.
Go to Settings | Mail, Contacts and Calendars and select "5 lines" under Preview. Also, while
you're at it, you might want to update your Push email from "Manual" if you like to have your
messages waiting when you open the Mail app. Note - push features tend to drain battery power
a bit more quickly.

iPad Tip 6 - Switching Keyboards

Switching Keyboards

Most of us assume you need to disable your Bluetooth keyboard to get the virtual keyboard to
come up. This is not true - simply hit the eject button on your Bluetooth keyboard and iPad will
launch the internal keyboard.

iPad Tip 5 - Fast Scroll

Fast Scroll to Top
You're reading a very lengthy web page and realize you want to get back to the top. Few
people realize that a double tap on the bezel above the browser (the title bar) is possible and will
instantly scroll to the top.

iPad Tip 4: Screenshot

iPad Screenshot
Many people don't realize you can do this on any iOS device: screenshot anything you're
looking at with a simple button combination.
Push the top (power) and home buttons at the same time for about a half second. The screen
image will be stored in your photo library.

iPad Tip 3: Import Books

You don’t need to get your eBooks from the iBooks bookstore - you can download ePub
formatted books from any source and install them to your iPad.
To install an ePub formatted ebook into your iPad via iTunes, drag and drop the ePub file
into the iTunes Books folder and then sync your iPad.
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iPad Executive Tip 2

Quick Select-All
As we know, copying text is simple - double tapping a word. Getting a whole paragraph is
done by dragging the little blue numbs, right? Wrong.

Speed up the process and avoid dragging those little nubs around by tapping any editable text
four times. This will highlight the entire paragraph.

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This is a really handy tip - performing a soft reset - i.e., a reboot.This will be extremely useful
in those rare cases when your iPad freezes or you’re struggling with a new iOS update.
Hold the top (power) and bottom front (home) button for about five seconds and your iPad
will restart. Similarly, to force-quit any application, hold the home button by itself for a few
seconds.

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