iPad 4th Generation & iPad Mini Portable Genius

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.

Acknowledgments ix 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