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Your iPad should be your buddy, and you will find out how much of a friend it can be. You should spend some time learning about your iPad to understand all of the things that it can do. Read on to understand the best ways to make good use of your iPad every day.

view site… You can easily see what apps are running on your iPad. Many of the apps the iPad runs are able to stay in the background when you're doing other things. To take a look at all running apps, double-click the Home button. These active apps will show up at the very bottom of your display in a bar. When you are finished with this area, swipe down and the bar will be gone.

Would you like to see more than 2 lines of text when previewing an email? In the mail section, you can adjust this with the preview setting. You can adjust this to 5 lines. By doing this, you can see as much of an email as you want, which will speed up the process of viewing emails.

If you want to prevent anyone from stealing your information stored in your iPad, you can change the settings to delete all information after many failed password attempts. This will erase everything on your phone if someone has not figured out the code after 10 tries.

Change your settings so that you can preview more than two lines of an email in your inbox. Open the settings app, then choose "mail" on the left side. Next, tap on the "preview" setting. Changes this setting to display up to five lines. It will be easier to go through your emails if you can eliminate the unimportant ones right away.

You can access your running apps more quickly and easily. Press the home button twice and a bar will appear with all the running apps. This single trick is a great way to save time as opposed to needing to scroll through every screen.

If you would like to include your Google Calender on your iPad's calender app, go to mail, then contacts and then calenders. Choose Add An Account, then Other. Pick the CalDAV icon and enter your personal Google Calender information. Then, get out of the settings app and tap the calender app. Now, all you need ought to be there!

Muting your iPad can come in handy when needed. The original iPad did not have a simple mute button. When the 4.3 came out they did add the ability to mute using the lock switch to silence the iPad. Now all you have to do is press the volume-down key and hold it for a few seconds.

Your iPad is defaulted to show the first two lines of an email in preview. This way you can screen your emails. Go to 'mail' under 'settings'. Got to Mail and choose Contacts. After that choose Calendar and change the options for previewing mail.

Your iPad will come preloaded with apps that you may never use. Many of these apps cannot be deleted. Create a folder for these apps and place it toward the bottom of your home screen. This will your main page to only have the things you use often.

If you want to let your children use your iPad, you need to adjust the parental settings to block mature content. Go to the menu for settings and set up filters for mature content. This can block anything that you would not want your child to see.

The iPad is an incredible device that allows you to do a lot of things. If you know what you are doing, it can be very satisfying. If you don't, it can be very frustrating. You've found some helpful tips that can boost your experience. Try a tip or two and enjoy your iPad.