Have an iPad-related Question? Check Out Our New ‘Ask the Expert’ Column. By Juli | January 22, 2013 | 5 comments We spend a lot of time on our iPads here at PadGadget, testing out apps, playing games, and discovering new tricks. As a result, we are essentially iPad experts, and now we want to share that knowledge with you. Each week we will be accepting questions from you, our readers, which we will answer in this new column. You can ask us anything, from how to use a feature on your iPad, to the best apps for a certain task, and anything in between. Looking for the perfect app for note taking? To start things off, I will answer a sample question that I have heard multiple times from my own friends and family: How do I set up iCloud on my iPad? The answer is simple, luckily, because Apple makes this experience pain free. Apple gives you the option to turn on iCloud when you set up a new device, but you can also activate it in the Settings menu.
iCloud is useful for syncing Apple apps like Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Safari, Notes, and Passbook. Apple Offers Free Manuals and Guides for Using Your iPad. How To Make It More Difficult for a Thief To Turn Off Location Services on the iPad. Over the last few years there have been numerous happy ending stories about lost / stolen iPads and iPhones recovered thanks to Location Services and the Find My iPhone app within MobileMe. The app is now free as well, so it’s a great tool to have just in case your iPad or iPhone is ever misplaced or stolen. In order for Find My iPhone to work, Location Services must be turned on on the missing device; and many people have pointed out that a tech-savvy thief might quickly turn off the service once they get their hands on your iDevice.
Luckily, there’s a way to make that a much bigger challenge for a thief, and it’s simple to implement. To make life a whole bunch harder for a thief who wants to turn off Location Services, you can use Restrictions from within the Settings app. Here’s how: – Launch the Settings app. – Go to the General section and look for Restrictions on the right hand side. . – Once you enable restrictions, look at the second section listed – Allow Changes. Patrick Jordan. How to Update Your iPad to iOS 5 - Cautions and Directions. A few students in my online Master Class and several participants in recent workshops did not yet update the operating system on their iPads. They were still running iOS 4.3 instead of iOS 5. So I decided to offer a set of directions to guide them and others through the process.
Update the iTunes Program First First update iTunes on the computer you’ll sync with. iTunes should prompt you if your version is out of date. If not, look for Check for Updates inside iTunes. Install the iTunes update. Restart your computer and then reopen iTunes. Back Up Your iPad Connect your iPad to your computer via USB. You should sync your iPad with only one computer (one iTunes collection), so use the computer where you originally connected your iPad. If you’re on the correct computer, you should get a prompt that your iOS is out of date. Make sure your iPad is selected under Devices in the left column, then click the Sync button. iTunes will make a backup during the sync process. How to Change the Apple ID (iTunes Account) on Your iPad. To purchase or get free iPad apps from the App Store, you need to have an Apple ID or what we can also call an iTunes Store account.
The Apple ID is an email address. You may need to use two different accounts on your iPad. For example, if you are a teacher, you might have a personal account and a school account, and need to track the apps you get under each account. That way, apps purchased with the school account belong to the school and the ones you buy with your personal account belong to you. Here are the directions for changing the Apple ID on your iPad. Go to the App Store on your iPad. Scroll down until you see the Apple ID in the lower left. Tap on the ID. Sign in with another ID. Mr. T's iPad Resources #ipadchat.