You may think you have heard everything there is to hear about the iPad. Some consider it a futuristic tool, while others feel like it’s a toy for kids. If you are in either camp, you will soon find that it is both. Read the article below to find out how.

To you find it annoying when your iPad asks if you want to join a detected wifi network? This feature can be turned off under your settings. Go to the tab for Wi-Fi and turn off the last option if you wish to not have any more notifications.

Watch what apps you have running. A lot of iPad apps are designed to run as background processes. To see the things that your iPad is running, double click the Home button. The more you have running, the more battery you’ll use, so close those you don’t need. To make the bar disappear, swipe downward.

There are alternatives to viewing pictures if you do not want to click on the camera roll icon. Just swipe the screen to the right and your content will appear. To see the other photos, keep swiping left.

Do not use the charger for your iPhone on your iPad if you do not have a lot of time. Your iPad doesn’t have the same wattage as your iPhone which is 10 watts as opposed to 5 watts on the phone. It takes much longer to fully charge the iPad with a iPhone charger. Use the original charger instead.

Your iPad’s default setting lets you see two lines of a new email prior to you selecting it. You may want to have more text available to preview. To change this, navigate to the mail tab of the settings menu. Go to Mail, pick Contacts and then tap Calender. Then, preview mail options to change the lines.

Do you like Google as your search page? If not, you can change it pretty easily. Access Safari and then Search Engine from the Settings menu. If you’d rather use Yahoo or Bing, this is where you’d make those changes.

There is a way to keep your kids safe as they surf on the iPad. To do this, just go into settings and find the mature content option. You have the option of blocking anything that is labeled as “adult.”

It’s simple to copy some text and paste it elsewhere on the iPad. Tap the text and hold down on it if you wish to copy it. A menu will pop up allowing you to select that sentence. If the text has a yellow highlight, you’ve done it correctly. Choose “copy” to save the text to the clipboard. To paste the text, tap, hold and choose Paste.

iPads come with apps many don’t ever use. The catch is that not all of the pre-loaded apps can be deleted. However, you do have the option to move these unwanted apps into a single folder, which can then be stored out of the way. This ensures your home screen is full of apps you actually need.

Running Apps

Want to see all your running apps? All you have to do is tap the Home button twice. A bar with all your running apps will appear and you will be able to tap on the app you want to access. This lets you keep an eye on what’s running on your iPad and close unneeded apps to free up RAM.

Use tabs to multi-task your experience with web browsing. There is no need to abandon your current site simply to visit a link. If you hold on the link, an options menu will appear. Then, it is possible to visit your link though a totally new tab, which keeps the old one open too.

Do you find your eyes straining when reading on your iPad? Reduce the brightness to ease the strain on your eyes. You can go to the setting for brightness and lower it in both the Settings and the application itself.

Join an online forum for iPad users. It’s possible to learn a lot from people who are using the iPad in many different kinds of ways. You can also give others information about uses you have found for the iPad. You can go to this forum if you have any issues and get some pretty fast help.

If you need to read a PDF on your iPad, there are two ways to do it. Send it to yourself through email on your device or open it up in iTunes. You can give both methods a try and choose the one you prefer.

Want to navigate between your apps without having to navigate to the home screen? All you have to do is double-tap Home, and all running apps will pop up. Simply tap the application that you want to open up. Returning to previous apps is as simple as repeating what you just did.

Did you wish you could connect an iPad to your TV? There is an adapter you can use to do this with newer TVs. You’re looking for the digital AV adapter or the Apple VGA adapter. Either of them work perfectly.

Is your iPad screen getting scratched? You need a screen protector! It can keep your screen protected from damage.

Is your iPad getting slower, causing your apps to not load as fast? Have you deleted all the things you no longer use on your iPad, but it’s still slow? Start storing less important data or pictures on the cloud. This gets your iPad back up to speed.

It does not matter if the iPad is only a gaming system or something stronger, you can get more out of it if you wish. The above article is simply a small part of what you should know about using the iPad. Keep learning, and you’ll know it all in no time.