How To Increase Battery Life On Your IPad

Technology has really taken off in the last several years. Computer have gotten smaller in the home, and portable devices have gotten even smaller and more useful. The iPad is one great example, and the ideas presented here will help you get the most from this remarkable device.

There is an easier way to view the video or picture you have just taken besides the film icon in the bottom corner. Try swiping your finger to the right to see your video or picture. After this, swipe left to see older content.

Typing on iPads is something that requires getting used to. Alternately, you can use the speech dictation feature of iPad. Push Home twice and then hit the microphone. When you finish talking, hit it again and you will see it as text.

The iPad shows the first two lines of an email by deafult. It can help to see more content before opening it. Navigate to Settings and select Mail. Under Mail select Contacts, then Calender to change the Preview mail options for more lines.

If you want to browse a new web page without losing track of what you were browsing before, use the tabbed browsing feature. When you're in the Safari browser, tap the link and hold it until the menu for options appears. This menu gives you the option that will allow you to open a new link.

Want to know how to locate an iPad if it gets lost? You can go to iCloud from Settings. There, place in your ID. Look then to the bottom area of the page to turn on "Find My iPad." When your iPad disappears, you'll be able to track it on iCloud.com.

If you need to mute your iPad's sound in a pinch, use this handy technique. Just hold down the volume button for two full seconds. This is quicker than adjusting the volume repeatedly. To restore your volume, hold down the volume down button again.

If you bought the iPad for your child and are concerned about them seeing mature content, you can change the settings to block that kind of content. There is an option in the settings that lets you block this kind of content. You can restrict mature films, bad language, and inappropriate content.

You can copy and paste text on your iPad. Tap on the section of text that you want to reproduce and choose the select function. If you tap once more, you will be presented with the option to copy. Finally, to paste the text, hold at the target location and choose "paste" from the popup menu.

The iPad comes with a few apps that you're probably not going to want to use. Many of these apps cannot be deleted. You can put them in a folder and location where they won't be in your way. That allows you to concentrate on what you want.

Computers no longer fill a room, now they can be held in your hands. When deciding to choose the iPad, make sure you make the decision to keep discovering everything it offers. The tips above are there to get you started, but there is so much more to learn.