Tips to Extend iPad Battery Life

It‘s claimed that iPad‘s battery life can support ―up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music‖. Here are some useful but not happy tips to help you use your iPad a lot longer without having to plug in all the time.

 Turn off all apps and functions you don‘t use.
A lot of functions are turned on by default, so go to your settings and turn off everything you don‘t really use.
 Live streaming and downloads
Live streaming videos like youtube and download stuff from sites will significantly drain your battery power. Wait until you can get to a place where you can plug in to do those
 Screen Brightness
Turn down your screen brightness and lights. To do so go to Settings > Brightness & Wallpapers > Then drag the slide to the left.
 Stay away from games
Don‘t play games if you know you‘re going to use your iPad battery power for something else more important. That‘s a battery killer.
 Emails and Social Networks
You can check that facebook & twitter page later on your desktop or laptop. Oh, the emails. Do you have to check that now?
 Disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
But, no game, no Youtube, no Facebook, no Twitter, no email, why I use iPad?

Get Back a Deleted App

If you delete an app, either accidentally or because you don‘t think you will use it, you can always get it back one of two ways.
Way 1:
If you have synced your iPad with iTunes since downloading the app, it will be in the Apps tab of your iPad‘s screen in iTunes. Just recheck the box for that app.
Way 2:
Without tethering to your computer, just find the app in the iTunes App store on the iPad and download it again. You will see a prompt that you have already bought this app and an option to re-install it without having to pay for it again. It is a little nerve-racking, especially if the app is an expensive one. But don‘t worry so long as you are sure that was the app you deleted. 

Turn iPad caps lock on

You do this by double tapping the shift key on either side of the keyboard. This is on by default. If you need to type a whole word in caps this can be painful. You control that in the Settings as well. In Settings tap on General and Keyboard to find the item. Set Enable Caps Lock to ON.

Add Two More Apps in Dock

There are four default apps in your dock at the bottom of the iPad screen. But you can actually add two more. As you would move any app to a new location or screen, tap and hold one of the app icons till it starts dancing. Then move it on to the dock. 

Easy/Quick Mute

Unlike the iPhone, there's no dedicated mute switch on the iPad. There you are, in the back row of a funeral just minding your own business when, oops, you forgot to mute those YouTube clips on your iPad! However, you can still cut the sound in a hurry if you need to pretend you're doing something serious instead of watching the latest YouTube viral.
Apple decided to make the volume buttons do double duty. Tap them repeatedly and the volume will go up or down. But if you press and hold the volume down button for about two seconds, then you get a quick mute.

Shut Down Your iPad For Real

When you press the power button on the iPad it really just turns off the screen. That‘s why it comes on so fast. What you may want to do to conserve battery life or recover from a freeze is do a reboot.
To do this just hold down both the power button and Home button until the red slider appears on the screen. Slide it and the iPad will shut down. Give it a minute and then you can restart it by pressing the power button again. It seems to take a few seconds before it responds so be patient. And, to force quit an application, just hold the home button by itself in a similar fashion. 

Using the iPad Web Browser

The iPad comes with a web browser called Safari.It isn’t the only web browser you can use on your iPad, but it’s a really good one.

Safari is a lot like other web browsers you’ve probably used (in fact,if you’ve used a Mac,you’ve probably used Safari).Here’s what the buttons in Safari’s top bar do:

• Back/forward arrows—Tap the left arrow to go back to the last web page you were on.If you’ve already tapped that at least once,the right arrow goes to the next page.

• Bookmarks—This menu stores your bookmarks (more on them in “Making Bookmarks,”later in this chapter).You can store bookmarks in folders,change their names,and delete them by tapping this button and then Edit.

• Action box—This box contains all kinds of neat options—for making a bookmark,emailing or printing a page,and adding a shortcut to a page to your home screen (this is like a bookmark,except it lives on your home screen,not in Safari).

• Address bar—Shows the address of the page you’re on.Tap the address, tap the X at the end of the bar to delete the text all at once,and then type in the address of a new site you want to visit.

• Search box—If you want to search for something using Google or another search engine,tap this box,type in what you’re looking for,and then tap the Search button on the keyboard.

• New tab—If you want to go to a new website but still keep the one you’re looking at open,you need to open a new tab.Safari lets you open many websites at once,but since you can’t browse four or five at the same time,it hides the ones you’re not looking at.It lets you keep those hidden sites,and switch to them,by using tabs—little rectangles with the name of the hidden site on them.To open a new tab,tap the + sign.You can have up to nine tabs.Switch tabs by tapping the one you want to look at.

• Close tab—To close a tab and the site in it,tap the X on the one you want to close.

Zooming In and Out

One of the really fun things about controlling the iPad by touch is that you can zoom in and out of websites using your fingers.There are two ways to do this:

• If you want to zoom in on a part of a web page,just double tap on that section.That section of the page will zoom to fill up more of the screen. To zoom out, just double tap it again.

• You can also pinch your iPad’s screen for greater control.To do this, put your thumb and index finger (the one you point with) together and then place them on your iPad’s screen.Without taking them off the screen, slide your fingers apart toward opposite sides of the screen.The page will zoom in.To zoom out,put your thumb and index finger at opposite sides of the screen and then pinch together until they meet in the center.

Opening a Link in a New Tab

By opening a web page in a new tab, you can see the new page without losing the one you’re already on.To do this, open a web page in Safari and follow these steps:

1. Find a link you want to open and then tap and hold it until a menu appears.

2. When the menu pops up,tap Open in New Tab.When you do that,the new tab opens,but you stay on the page you were on.

3. To see the page that you opened in the new tab,tap the new tab.

4. To close either tab, tap the X.

Emailing a Web Page

 If there’s a web page you want to share with a friend,teacher,or family member, you can email them a link to it.A link is a shortcut that they can click to take them to their web browser and right to the page you’re sharing.To do that,go to the web page you want to send and then follow these steps:

1. Tap the Action box.

2. Tap Mail Link to This Page.

3. This opens the email app.Enter the email address of the person you want to send the link to.

4. The email subject is automatically filled in with the name of the page,but you can change it to whatever you want.Just tap on the subject line and make your changes.

5. If you want to write a message to send with the link,tap the body of the email and write your message.

6. Tap the Send button.This doesn’t email the entire website,but it sends a link to the page so the person can easily check it out.

Emailing on Your iPad 

Following these steps, of course, means you have to have email set up on your iPad.If you don’t,you can learn how to set up and use email in Chapter 5,“Talk to Me:Texting, Chatting,and Email.”

Printing a Web Page

Printing a page isn’t that different from sending someone a link.You have to have an iPad-compatible printer.If you do,go to the web page you want to print and follow these steps:

1. Tap the Action box so that a menu appears. 

2. Tap Print to access the print options.

3. Tap Select Printer in the Printer menu to choose an available printer (if your printer isn’t already selected).

4. Tap Print.

Making Bookmarks

Bookmarks are shortcuts that make it easy for you to visit your favorite websites without typing the address each time.With a bookmark,you go right to your favorite site with just a couple taps. To create a new bookmark, begin by going to the website you want to book- mark and then follow these steps:

1. Tap the Action box to open it.

2. Tap Add Bookmark.

3. Each bookmark is named after the page you’re bookmarking,but you can change that (a good idea, since sometimes those names are long).To do that,tap the X in the top section and enter something shorter.

4. If you want to put the bookmark in a different folder,tap Bookmarks and select one.

5. Tap Save.