Tips and Tricks on the iPad

I know this is a VERY short post but the other day I was working with a few students and they had no idea about these simple tricks to do on the iPad. I thought I should post a few of my favorite tricks or short cuts on the ipad. It’s important to remember we need to teach our students to use this tricks to make lifelong learning easier. Recently one of  my AP students shared with me that their mom’s ipad app froze and he showed her how to unfreeze the app and force close it. He said his mom was shocked he knew how to do it. It was the highlight of my day because something that we specifically learned in class the day before was being applied outside of school. 

 

Remember the Multitasking Gestures:

  • Four finger swipe to return to Home screen
  • Four finger swipe up to reveal multitasking b
  • Four finger swipe left or right to switch between open apps

Bookmark Favorite Websites to Home Screen: While in Safari, load up your favorite websites and tap on the box with an arrow in it, alongside the URL Bar. Select “Add to Home Screen” and give each site a short name so it doesn’t abbreviate itself. Make a whole folder full of your favorite websites bookmarks.

 

Copy and Paste Text from One App to Another

Just tap and hold a word, then use your finger to drag to select more text, and then Copy it. Go to the other application, tap and hold in the input box, and then use Paste. Easy!

Want to select a whole paragraph the easy way? Just tap it 4 times to highlight the entire paragraph, then use Copy.

 

Quickly Mute the Sound

If you want a quick and easy way to mute the sound, all you need to do is hold down the volume down button for 2 seconds.

 

Rearrange Your Application Icons

Just tap and hold the icon, and you’ll be able to move it around to a different spot.

 

How to Force Your Ipad to Restart

Just to ease your mind – forcing your iPad to restart will not cause any loss of data – with the possible exception of any work you were doing at the time the iPad and/or App froze, forcing you to reboot it.

  1. It’s actually very easy, once you know how to do it. Click and hold down the Sleep/Wake button (located on the upper-right corner of your iPad). While you’re holding down the Sleep/Wake button, hold down the Home button as well (located on the front of your iPad at the bottom).
  2. Hold down both buttons until your iPad powers off. It will reboot and start again with a small silver Apple image on the screen. It takes about 30 seconds for the iPad completely start up.

Type Faster with Double Spaces

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, and even Android devices.

 

How to Lock Your Ipad

Adding a 4 digit pin code to your iPad will help you keep it secure – especially if it’s lost or stolen. It would be bad enough to lose your iPad – but it would be much worse for the person who finds your iPad to be able to access your personal information (photos, notes, email, calendar etc). This brief tutorial will show you how to secure your iPad by requiring a pin-code to be entered before you can use it.

  1. Start out by selecting Settings from your home screen
  2. Select General from the left column of the Settings screen, and then Passcode Lock from the right column.
  3. Tap the Turn Passcode On button.
  4. You’ll be prompted to enter a 4 digit numerical pin, and then again for confirmation.
  5. If you want an extra level of security, you can turn Erase Data on. Warning: if you enable this feature, all of the data on your iPad will be completely wiped if the incorrect pin is entered 10 times in a row. By default, this setting is disabled.
  6. Now each time your iPad is turned on, you’ll have to enter the 4 digit pin in order to access any of your content.

Take a Screen Shot on the iPad 

  1. Click the Power button on the top right corner of your iPad, and while holding it down, click the “iPad Button”.
  2. You’ll see the screen ‘flash’ white and hear a camera ‘clicking’ sound. Now open the Photos app on your iPad.
  3. You’ll the screenshot you just took as a thumbnail. Tap that photo to view the screenshot.
  4. The easiest way to transfer a screenshot to your PC or Mac is to email it to yourself. To do so, tap the “arrow” button on the upper-right corner of the screen while you’re viewing the screenshot.
  5. Select Email Photo
  6. Mail will automatically open with the image attached to a message. Just fill out the address you want to send it to, give the email a subject and enter any info you want in the body of the message. Then click Send.

Create Folders on your iPad

Folders are a feature first introduced to the iPad with the release of iOS 4.2. This guide will show you exactly how to create and use them.

  1. Start out by deciding which Apps you want to put into your new folder. I decided to group all of the Twitter apps on my iPad into one folder, so that’s what I’ll use in this example. Tap and hold down the first App you want to add to the folder, then drag-and-drop it onto another App you want in the same folder.
  2. A new window will pop up with a “name” section for your new folder (see image below). If you want to change the default name of the folder, tap the small x in the Name field.
  3. The keyboard will pop up and you can now give your folder a custom name.
  4. Tap anywhere on the screen to complete the naming process. Now continue to drag other Apps onto this new folder to add them to it.
  5. Once you’re done, click the Home button on your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. Now you’ll have a new folder icon. Tap it.
  6. The folder will expand and display each of the Apps you placed into it. That’s it –you’re done!
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