iPads provide many hours of use. You can do everything from type documents, record yourself singing, draw, and nearly anything else you can think of. However, if you don’t know all it has to offer you are missing out. Read below to figure out how you can get the most out of your tablet.

Streaming, gaming, or music can cause battery life to deplete faster. One way to extend the life of your battery charge is to adjust the screen brightness. You are likely to discover that maximum brightness settings are unnecessary for effectively using your iPad.

Buying apps can be like buying drugs, so budget accordingly. iTunes makes it simple to just click and buy once you have entered your credit card or gift card information. Because of this, ensure that you don’t spend more than you have.

If you’ve ever been interrupted by your iPad at a bad time you likely want to know how to silence it quickly. Press and hold the button used to turn down the volume, and the device will mute automatically. If you use mute often, you can set your lock orientation button as a muting alternative.

Having your iPad chime every time you get an email can quickly become annoying. You can turn this notification off. Just go to Settings then General. Select Sounds. Within that option, you can turn the sound off or adjust it to be less annoying and suit your needs better.

If you want to let your children use your iPad, you need to adjust the parental settings to block mature content. This can be done through the settings on your iPad. You can block any material that has been labeled as having adult content and bad language.

Text can be copied and pasted on your iPad. Tap the text and hold down on it if you wish to copy it. A menu will pop up allowing you to select that sentence. Tap the screen again (the text should be yellow) and hit copy. Paste that text by just tapping, holding, and choosing Paste.

There is more to the iTunes Store than music and apps! One great feature is iTunes U (the ‘U’ is for university). There are many educational podcasts and you can learn a lot.

Shutter Button

Holding your iPad on its sides when shooting photographs is comfortable for many. That could make your shutter button move, resulting in wobbling while taking the photo. Instead, set the lock to freeze its orientation. It ensures the shutter button is simple to reach. After you snap your photo, use your editor feature to shift your images or videos.

Lots of folks get annoyed by the battery charge icon on the screen. Luckily, it is easily removed. Simply go into the Settings menu, tap on General, and look under Usage. This option will give you the ability to erase this percentage indicator. If, for whatever reason, you want to put it back on, follow the same steps.

Google Maps offers a Street View feature. Complete a search on the map and you will see a red pin appear. Touch the pin and then chose the icon that looks like a person and you will have street view.

Have you had the desire to take a screenshot? Well, it’s really quite simple. Hold down the home and sleep buttons together. When you see a flash, you will know that a screenshot was taken. It’ll save automatically, then you can find it in the Photos app.

Be sure to set up “Find My iPad” so that you can find the iPad if you misplace it. This tells you the precise location of your iPad and gives you the option of deleting sensitive material contained on your device. While this probably seems like a pain, you will be thankful that you did this should you ever misplace it.

Make sure your browsing history is clean before you let someone else use your iPad. You would hate for someone to see a website that you intended to remain private. If you open Safari, it will automatically revert to your previous page, so change it if it’s of a personal nature.

Start locating your bookmarks with ease! You can simply keep the bar for bookmarks open. In your Safari settings, choose the option to always keep your bookmarks bar on. You stay away from all the clicking by doing this instead.

External Keyboard

You may wish to purchase an external keyboard to use with your iPad. If you type a lot on the iPad, whether documents or email, an external keyboard may save tons of time. They generally connect wirelessly with your iPad and you can find them affordably online, too.

Do you hate scrolling while you are surfing the web on the iPad? Simply tap the bar at the apex of the page to return to the beginning of a web page. This is faster than scrolling. This works in most apps.

You don’t need an extra machine for downloading pictures from your camera onto your iPad. All you need to do is pull your SD card from the camera and plug it straight into the iPad’s new SD-card reader. You can work directly with your images and other files without extra software installations because the device now acts as a storage disk.

If you use your iPad to watch a lot of videos, think about getting a long power cord. This will allow you to charge the iPad while you watch videos, saving the internal battery so that it is fully charged when you are away from the house.

When you have small children in the family, get to know your way around the parental control system. Try clicking on ‘enable restrictions’ when you go under settings, and you can get rid of any content you do not want kids to see. When it comes to your child being online, parental supervision is vital.

Now that you’ve read this article, your iPad should be a far more useful gadget than it was before. Just use what you learn and the iPad will astound you. And, spreading the knowledge to others will make you feel great as well.