Hints For Making Your IPad Even Better

Without a doubt, iPads are fun to use and extremely popular. The key to getting the most out of your iPad and utilizing it to its full potential is properly educating yourself on the device and its many features. This article is loaded with iPad tips and advice. Read on to learn more.

If you use your iPad to store sensitive information, you can turn on a feature that will delete all this data in case a wrong password is entered ten times. Go to your settings, tap on general and select the pass-code lock feature. Use a password you will not easily forget.

Do you get irked each time you get a message from your iPad wanting to know if you want to join a new wifi network that it has just picked up? This feature can be turned off in your settings. Go to the tab for Wi-Fi and turn off the last option if you wish to not have any more notifications.

Be aware of any apps that constantly run on your device. Most of the time, an application can remain open while you surf the Internet or attend to other business. To take a look at all running apps, double-click the Home button. The apps currently running will appear in a bar at the bottom of your screen. Swipe your finger in a downward motion to close the window.

Did you accidentally start a noisy app? You are able to mute volume right away by simply pressing and holding the - volume button until sound is off. If you need to mute often, you can set your lock button to mute, too.

If you go to Settings and Notifications, you can choose which apps you want to have pop up alerts, which apps you want to have notifications near the top of the screen, and which apps you want to appear in your Notification Center. Doing this can help you prevent noisy apps from clogging up your notifications. This also ensures that you will just notice the important apps.

When web browsing privacy is important on your iPad, turn on private browsing. Sometimes the things you are searching for or looking at are highly sensitive or personal, so much so that you dont want a history. Thats ok, the iPad has you covered. You can turn on private browsing from the Safari menu in settings.

If you have some recently purchased apps from the app store you want to hide, its quite easy! Open up the App Store and click on the purchased tab on the bottom of your screen. It should give you a list of apps and choose the one you wish to hide. Swipe over the app or right over it, and it should now grey out over the installed button. A red button will pop up and you will now have the option to hide the app.

Do you want your iPad to help you avoid traffic jams? You can do this with your Maps app. There is a page icon on the bottom right of the screen. Touch that and select Traffic. This will cause the iPad to download traffic data from the Internet. Now you will see green (normal), yellow (slow) and red (stop-and-go) notations on the map.

As was mentioned in the opening of this article, iPads are amazing devices that offer a number of fantastic benefits to users. In order to get the most out of your iPad, however, you must take the time to educate yourself on all of its functions and features. By using everything youve learned from this article, you can take full advantage of our iPad.