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Paul McFedries is a Mac expert and full-time technical writer. He has written more than 75 books that have sold more than four million copies worldwide. His books include the iPhone 5 Portable Genius and Macs Portable Genius. Paul encourages all readers to drop by his website, www.mcfedries.com.
Introduction xx
Chapter 1
How Do I Start Using My iPad or iPad mini? 2
Using the Home Button 4
Working with the Sleep/Wake Button 5
Sleeping and waking the iPad or iPad mini 6
Powering the iPad or iPad mini on and off 7
Working with the Side Switch 7
Operating the Volume Controls 8
Getting to Know the Rest of the Tablet 9
Operating the Touchscreen 11
Navigating the touchscreen 11
Typing on the keyboard 12
Special keys 13
Editing text 13
Selecting, cutting, copying, and pasting 14
Using the suggestion feature 16
Chapter 2
How Do I Connect to a Network? 18
Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network 20
Making your first connection 20
Connecting to known or hidden networks 21
Stopping incessant Wi-Fi network prompts 22
Turning off the Wi-Fi antenna 23
Tethering to an iPhone Internet connection 23
Working with Cellular Network Connections 25
Tracking cellular data usage 26
Disabling data roaming 26
Turning off LTE 27
Turning off cellular data 27
Controlling cellular data usage 28
Switching Your Tablet to Airplane Mode 28
Connecting Your Tablet to a Bluetooth Device 29
Making your tablet discoverable 30
Pairing or unpairing your tablet 30
Making a paired headset the audio output device 32
Chapter 3
How Do I Configure My iPad or iPad mini? 34
Creating a Custom Home Screen 36
Creating an app folder 37
Adding a Safari web clip to the Home screen 38
Resetting the default Home screen layout 39
Working with App Notifications 40
Displaying the Notification Center 41
Customizing notifications 41
Configuring Do Not Disturb settings 43
More Useful Configuration Techniques 44
Changing the name of your tablet 44
Turning sounds on and off 45
Configuring the Side switch 46
Customizing the keyboard 46
Creating text shortcuts 50
Configuring Siri 51
Activating and using multitasking gestures 52
Protecting your privacy 52
Resetting the iPad or iPad mini 53
Configuring Your Tablet for Social Networking 54
Signing in to your Facebook account 55
Using Siri to update Facebook 55
Signing in to your Twitter account 56
Using Siri to send a tweet 57
Tweeting or posting from the Notification Center 57
Chapter 4
How Do I Keep My iPad or iPad mini in Sync? 58
Connecting Your Tablet to Your Computer 60
Connecting via USB 60
Connecting via Wi-Fi 61
Syncing Your Tablet Automatically 61
Bypassing the automatic sync 62
Troubleshooting automatic syncing 62
Syncing Your Tablet Manually 63
Syncing Your Tablet Via Wi-Fi 65
Taking Syncing to a Higher Level 65
Handling sync conflicts 65
Handling large tablet-to-computer sync changes 66
Removing and replacing tablet data 67
Merging data from two or more computers 69
Syncing media with two or more computers 70
Syncing Your Tablet with iCloud 71
Setting up your iCloud account on your tablet 71
Setting up iCloud synchronization on your tablet 73
Setting up iCloud synchronization on your Mac 74
Configuring iCloud on a Windows PC 76
Chapter 5
How Can I Get More Out of Web Surfing? 78
Touchscreen Tips for Surfing 80
Browsing Tips for Faster Surfing 82
Browsing with tabs 83
Working with iCloud tabs 85
Viewing a page without distractions 85
Working with bookmarks 87
Syncing bookmarks 88
Adding bookmarks 89
Managing bookmarks 89
Saving a web page to read later 90
Retracing your steps with the History list 91
Filling in Online Forms 92
Turning on AutoFill 94
Saving website login passwords 95
Getting Even More Out of Safari 96
Customizing security and
protecting your data 96
Deleting the History list 98
Deleting website data 98
Browsing privately 100
Tweeting a web page 100
Sharing a link on Facebook 101
Changing the default search engine 102
Searching web page text 103
Printing a web page with AirPrint 104
Searching the Web with Siri voice commands 106
Chapter 6
How Do I Make the Most of E-mail? 108
Managing your E-mail Accounts 110
Syncing your e-mail accounts 110
Adding an account manually 111
Specifying the default account 114
Temporarily disabling an account 115
Deleting an account 115
Switching to another account 116
Configuring E-mail Accounts 117
Leaving messages on the server 117
Using a different server port 119
Configuring authentication for outgoing mail 120
Configuring E-mail Messages 121
Setting the number of messages to display 121
Identifying messages sent to you 122
Creating e-mail VIPs 123
Formatting an e-mail 124
E-mailing a link 126
Creating iCloud message folders 127
Creating a custom signature 128
Disabling remote images 128
Preventing Mail from organizing messages by thread 129
Deleting Gmail messages 130
Configuring the Exchange ActiveSync settings 131
Controlling e-mail with Siri voice commands 133
Chapter 7
How Do I Manage My E-book Library? 136
Installing the iBooks App 138
Understanding E-book Formats 139
Syncing E-books 141
Syncing via iTunes 141
Syncing via iCloud 141
Managing Your iBooks Library 143
Browsing books in the iBookstore 143
Adding a PDF attachment to your library 145
Working with collections 146
Adding EPUB e-books to your library 146
Editing the library 147
Creating a custom e-book cover 149
Reading with iBooks 150
Controlling e-books on the reading screen 150
Formatting e-book text 151
Adding a bookmark 153
Looking up a word in the dictionary 153
Highlighting text or adding a note 153
Reading Other E-books 155
Reading Magazines with Newsstand 156
Chapter 8
How Can I Have Fun with Photos? 158
Preparing Your Photos with iPhoto 160
Organizing your photos 161
Adding names to faces 161
Mapping your photos 162
Syncing and Importing Photos 163
Syncing computer photos to your tablet 164
Syncing iPad or iPad mini photos to your computer 165
Preventing your tablet from sending photos to your computer 168
Syncing photos via iCloud 169
Importing photos from a camera 169
Browsing and Viewing Your Photos 170
Scrolling, rotating, zooming, and panning 170
Creating a custom photo slide show 171
Using your tablet as a digital photo frame 172
Creating a photo album 173
Streaming photos to Apple TV 173
Getting More Out of Photos 174
Adding an existing photo to a contact 174
Taking screenshots 175
Deleting a photo 176
Printing a photo with AirPrint 177
Editing Photos 178
Enhancing a photo 178
Removing red-eye 178
Cropping and straightening 179
Sharing Photos 181
Sending a photo via e-mail 181
Saving a photo from an e-mail 182
Posting a photo to Facebook 182
Tweeting a photo 183
Texting a photo 183
Saving a photo from a text message 184
Using the Cameras 184
Understanding the iPad or iPad mini camera features 185
Taking a wallpaper photo 186
Taking a contact’s photo 187
Chapter 9
How Can I Get More Out of Listening to Audio? 188
Preparing iTunes Audio for Your Tablet 190
Building a standard playlist 190
Building a Smart Playlist 191
Building a Genius playlist 193
Syncing Audio 193
Syncing music and music videos 193
Syncing music via iCloud 197
Syncing podcasts 198
Syncing audiobooks 200
Working with the Music App 200
Creating a playlist on your tablet 201
Creating a Genius playlist on your tablet 203
Listening to a shared iTunes library 204
Using AirPlay to stream audio from your tablet 205
Rating a song on your tablet 205
Getting More Out of the Audio Features 206
Redeeming an iTunes gift card 206
Using audio accessories with your tablet 207
Customizing the iPad audio settings 208
Controlling music with Siri voice commands 210
Chapter 10
How Can I Work with Video on My iPad or iPad mini? 212
Syncing Videos 214
Making a video compatible with iPad or iPad mini 214
Syncing movies 215
Syncing rented movies 215
Syncing purchased or downloaded movies 216
Syncing TV shows 217
Other Ways to Watch Video 219
Playing videos on your TV 219
Mirroring your tablet’s screen on your TV 220
Watching videos from a shared iTunes library 221
Customizing the video settings 222
Recording and Editing Video 223
Recording video with an iPad or iPad mini 223
Editing a recorded video 224
Uploading a video to YouTube 225
Video Calling with FaceTime 226
Configuring FaceTime 227
Initiating a FaceTime call 227
Disabling FaceTime 229
Chapter 11
How Do I Manage Contacts? 230
Syncing Your Contacts 232
Creating contact groups 232
Running the sync 232
Getting Started with the Contacts App 234
Creating and Editing Contacts 235
Creating a new contact 235
Editing an existing contact 236
Assigning phone numbers to a contact 236
Assigning e-mail addresses to a contact 237
Assigning web addresses to a contact 238
Assigning social network data to a contact 239
Assigning physical addresses to a contact 240
Deleting a contact 241
Getting More Out of the Contacts App 241
Creating or deleting a custom label 241
Adding or deleting fields from a contact 242
Keeping track of birthdays and anniversaries 244
Creating a new contact from a vCard 246
Sorting contacts 246
Working with Facebook contacts 247
Managing contacts with Siri voice commands 247
Chapter 12
How Do I Track
My Appointments? 250
Syncing Your Calendars 252
Getting Started with the Calendar App 254
Tracking Your Events 255
Adding an event to your calendar 256
Editing an existing event 257
Setting up a repeating event 257
Converting an event to an all-day event 258
Adding an alert to an event 259
Getting More Out of the Calendar App 261
Setting the default calendar 261
Creating a birthday or anniversary alert 261
Subscribing to a calendar 262
Controlling events with Siri voice commands 263
Displaying a list of upcoming events 264
Handling Microsoft Exchange meeting requests 265
Working with Reminders 267
Setting a reminder 267
Creating a new list and setting the default list 268
Completing or deleting a reminder 269
Setting reminders with Siri voice commands 269
Chapter 13
How Can I Navigate My World with iPad? 270
Finding Your Way with Maps and GPS 272
Getting info about a destination 272
Flying over your destination 274
Displaying your current location 276
Displaying a map of a contact’s location 277
Mapping an address from an e-mail 278
Saving a location as a bookmark 278
Specifying a location when you don’t know the address 279
Getting directions to a location 280
Getting live traffic information 281
Controlling Maps with Siri voice commands 282
Configuring Location Services 283
Turning off Location Services 283
Controlling app access to GPS 284
Enabling or disabling Location Services 285
Sharing Map Data 286
Tracking Your Events 255
Adding an event to your calendar 256
Editing an existing event 257
Setting up a repeating event 257
Converting an event to an all-day event 258
Adding an alert to an event 259
Getting More Out of the Calendar App 261
Setting the default calendar 261
Creating a birthday or anniversary alert 261
Subscribing to a calendar 262
Controlling events with Siri voice commands 263
Displaying a list of upcoming events 264
Handling Microsoft Exchange meeting requests 265
Working with Reminders 267
Setting a reminder 267
Creating a new list and setting the default list 268
Completing or deleting a reminder 269
Setting reminders with Siri voice commands 269
Chapter 14
How Do I Protect or Fix My iPad or iPad mini? 288
Protecting Your Tablet with a Passcode 290
Configuring Your Tablet to
Sleep Automatically 293
Backing Up Your Tablet 294
Configuring Parental Controls 294
Locating and Protecting a Lost iPad 296
Activating Find My iPad 297
Locating your iPad or iPad mini on a map 298
Using the Find My iPhone app 298
Locating your iPad using iCloud 299
Getting an e-mail message when your tablet comes online 300
Playing a sound on your iPad or iPad mini 300
Remotely locking your iPad or iPad mini 300
Remotely deleting the data on your tablet 301
General Troubleshooting Techniques 302
Troubleshooting connected devices 303
Updating the iPad or iPad mini operating system 304
Restoring data and settings 305
Taking Care of the Battery 306
Tracking battery usage 307
Extending battery life 308
Solving Specific Problems 310
The screen won’t respond to taps 310
The battery won’t charge 310
You can’t access a Wi-Fi network 311
iTunes doesn’t see your iPad or iPad mini 313
You have trouble syncing your tablet 313
Your tablet doesn’t recognize your SIM 314
An app is taking up too much space 314
Glossary 316
Index 320
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