To wake the iPad from its power nap, quickly press the button again. You may also need to wake your iPad if you leave it untended for more than a few minutes, because it goes to sleep all by itself to save power. To change its nod-off settings, see General. Why does the Home screen lock itself? The buttons on the right edge of the iPad control the audio for movies, music, and other apps that make noise.
Here they are, from top to bottom:. Side Switch. Slide the button up to restore your alerts. Choose Mute to go back to the way things were. If you use the side switch to mute your iPad, you lock the screen by double-clicking the Home button, swiping right-to-left in the panel of apps that appears, and tapping the Screen Orientation Lock.
If you use the switch to lock the display, you mute the iPad by turning the volume all the way down, as described next. Press the bottom half of the switch to lower the volume. The iPad displays a little volume graphic onscreen so you can see where you are on the Relative Scale of Loudness. The outside of the iPad sports two jacks where you plug in cords.
Headphone Jack. You can plug in any pair of earbuds or headphones that come with the standard 3. Add Earbuds and Earphones has more on that. Dock Connector. You plug the provided USB cable in here to connect your iPad to your computer for battery-charging, as well as for music, iBook, and video fill-ups from your iTunes library.
This thin port has been a fixture on iPods since , which means that certain accessories, like stereo-audio docks meant for an iPod, may work with your iPad—so check the tech specs before you buy anything new. Want to listen privately on your iPad? Back in the old days, the only headphones you could get came with a cord attached, and those still work just fine.
But if you want to free yourself from wires while you lay back, relax, and listen to a Bach cello suite, get a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones that connect wirelessly to the Bluetooth chip inside your iPad.
Then, your only entanglement will be mind with music. Pretty much any pair of headphones or earbuds with the ubiquitous 3. Why, yes, you can use the familiar white earbuds from your iPod if you want.
Just be sure to push the plug firmly into the jack so it fully connects. To get them to work, you need to pair your headphones with the iPad. Pairing means introducing two Bluetooth devices so they can communicate with each other; you only have to do this the first time you use the two devices together. Turn Bluetooth on. If the headphones require a passkey listed in the manual , the iPad keyboard appears so you can type it in.
Once paired, the iPad screen says Connected next to a headphones icon, and the sound now plays over your wireless connection. The Home button handles a few tasks. Since the iPad displays only one program at a time, you also use the Home button to switch from one app to another.
You could be waist-deep in a Keynote presentation, for example Create Presentations in Keynote , and want to watch an episode of Glee. Press the Home button to close Keynote and automatically save your file and go back to the main iPad screen, where you can tap the Videos icon to get to your shows. While your iPad displays only one program at a time, it can run several apps at once, a process known as multitasking.
The Home button is your ticket to switching among these active apps, too flip to Use the Home Button to Switch Apps for more. See Chapter 6 for more on that as well.
Games Chapter 9 that incorporate the gyroscope functions can be even more thrilling to play since they move with you. These include personal-organization tools like Calendar, Contacts, and Notes; a Maps app so you can find your way around; FaceTime for video chat; YouTube for web videos; Camera and Photo Booth for picture fun; Game Center for games; and a Videos app to play movies you store on the iPad.
Once you start adding programs to your iPad, you may find the Home screen getting a little crowded. Want to rearrange your icons? Press and hold one for a few seconds until all the icons start wiggling. As shown at the right, use your finger to drag them around to new locations—or off the edge of one screen and onto the next.
Press the Home button to stop the Dance of the Icons. Even with a generous 11 Home screens, some app-loving folk can quickly fill them all with icons.
In addition, some people might prefer a tidier way to group their apps, rather than dragging them around to different pages. You can group up to 20 apps in a single folder—which looks like an icon with little icons nestled inside it right. Putting apps in folders saves screen space and keeps common ones corralled. To create a folder, press and hold an icon until it wiggles, and then drag it on top of an icon that you want in the same folder. Tap the screen to close the folder.
To get to an app inside a folder, tap the folder to open it, and then tap the app. Later forget where you stashed an app? Type in an app name to search for it, and then tap the app open from the list of search results.
If you change your mind and want to pull an app out of a folder, press and hold its icon to start the Wiggle Dance. Now you can drag it out of the folder and back to its place on the Home screen proper. To get rid of a folder , press an icon to get them all wiggling. Drag all the apps out of the folder and back to the Home screen. When you take out the last app, the folder disappears. Putting apps in folders helps you organize your iPad.
Who wants to go all the way out to the Home screen for that? Fortunately, the iPad iOS 4. When you do, a row of icons sprouts from the bottom of the screen below. Tap one to quickly switch to it. Turn on Pandora, check your sports scores, or do whatever you wanted to do. When you finish, double-click the Home button again. When the row of icons appears, tap the one for the app you were initially using to get back to it. Tap it to remove the app from the recently used list—but not from the iPad itself.
Press the Home button when you finish. In addition to displaying your most recent apps, the Home button double-click offers another time-saver. Instead of flicking right to left to see the recent apps, flick left to right to find the music playback controls. That locks the iPad into portrait mode no matter which way you hold it—until you tap this icon again to unlock the screen.
Wait for the file to download. When the file lands on your hard drive, double-click the iTunesSetup. If you use a Mac, double-click the Install iTunes. You may need to restart your computer after you install iTunes. The hardware and operating-system requirements needed to run iTunes are listed below the Download Now button. Odds are you had that iPad out of its box about 5 seconds after you got it, running your hands over its smooth edges, admiring its tapered thinness and high-gloss screen.
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