Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Getting to Know Your Ipad 5 Chapter 1: Unveiling the iPad 7 The iPad: A Bird''s-Eye View 8 The iPad as a media player 8 The iPad as an internet device 9 The iPad as an e-book reader 9 The iPad as a multimedia powerhouse 10 The iPad as a platform for third-party apps 10 The iPad as a multitasking content production device 10 What do you need to use an iPad? 11 Touring the iPad Exterior 11 On the top 11 On the bottom 13 On the front and back 14 Status bar 15 Exploring the Home Screen and Dock 17 Exploring the Home screen 18 Getting to know the dock 21 Chapter 2: Basic Training 23 Getting Started on Getting Started 24 A Closer Look at Cellular Data on Your iPad 24 Turning On and Setting Up the iPad 25 Automatic setup 25 Manual setup 28 Locking the iPad 31 Mastering the Multitouch Interface 32 Training your digits 33 Navigating beyond the main Home screen page 34 Select, cut, copy, and paste 35 Multitasking 36 Splitting the screen 38 Picture-in-picture 39 Organizing icons into folders 40 Printing 41 Proactive search 41 Getting to Know the iPad''s Virtual Keyboard 42 Anticipating what comes next 44 Discovering the special-use keys 45 Choosing an alternative keyboard 46 Finger-typing on the virtual keyboards 47 Editing mistakes 49 Chapter 3: Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPad 51 A Brief iCloud Primer 52 Getting in Sync 54 Sync prep 101 54 Backing up your iPad 57 Disconnecting the iPad 58 Synchronizing Your Data 59 Contacts 59 Calendars 60 Advanced syncing 61 Synchronizing Your Media 61 Music, music videos, and voice memos 62 Movies 63 TV shows 64 Photos 64 Manual Syncing 66 Part 2: The Internet Ipad 69 Chapter 4: Exploring the Web with Safari 71 Introducing the Safari Web Browser 72 Exploring the browser 72 Blasting off into cyberspace 72 Zooming in and out of a page 74 Reading clutter-free web pages with reader view 75 Finding Your Way around the Web 76 Looking at links 76 Tabbed browsing 77 Wrangling tabs into tab groups 78 Doing the splits 79 Revisiting Web Pages 80 Bookmarking your favorite sites 80 Managing bookmarks 81 Saving a page to your reading list 81 Clipping a web page to the Home screen 82 Letting history repeat itself 83 Saving web pictures 84 Sharing Your Web Experiences 84 Launching a Mobile Search Mission 85 Private Browsing 87 Smart Safari Settings 87 Chapter 5: The Email Must Get Through 93 Prep Work: Setting Up Your Accounts 94 Getting started 94 Setting up an email account with iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL, or Microsoft Outlook 95 Setting up an account with another provider 96 Setting up corporate email 97 See Me, Read Me, File Me, Delete Me: Working with Messages 98 Reading messages 99 Threading messages 101 Managing messages 102 Searching emails 103 Dealing with attachments 104 More things you can do with messages 106 Sending Email 107 Sending an all-text message 107 Formatting text in an email 108 Sending a photo or video with an email message 110 Adding an attachment to an email message 110 Marking up an attachment 111 Saving an email to send later 112 Replying to, forwarding, or printing an email message 112 Settings for sending email 113 Setting Your Message and Account Settings 114 Checking and viewing email settings 114 Altering account settings 116 Chapter 6: Text Messaging 119 iMessage versus SMS/MMS: What''s the Difference? 119 Sending Text Messages 120 Sending a text message to one person 120 Sending group text messages 121 Adding voice to an iMessage 122 Massive multimedia effects 123 Memoji, a mouthful, but worth it 127 Animoji, too! 128 Apple Pay Cash, right in Messages 129 Being a Golden Receiver: Receiving iMessages 130 Changing some receive settings 131 Working with received text messages 131 Sharing received photos and videos 133 Smart Messaging Tricks 133 Part 3: Banish Boredom With the Multimedia Ipad 135 Chapter 7: Apple Music, Books, News, and TV+ 137 Introducing Your iPad''s Music Player 138 Listen Now: The Apple Music section of the Music app 138 Finding new music in Browse 139 Listening to human DJs in the age of streaming music 140 Managing music in the library 140 Working with playlists 141 Managing your own music with iTunes Match 142 Searching for music in the Music App 143 What about the iTunes Store? 143 Reading Just about Anything You Want on the iPad 144 Your personal library 145 Font and layout controls in Books 146 Searchable books 147 Bookmarks that don''t fall out 148 Highlights and notes 148 Buying books in the Book Store 149 Read books with your ears in the Audiobooks section 150 Searching the Book Store 152 Knowing What''s Happening with Apple News and Apple News+ 152 Tuning In to Apple TV+ 154 Chapter 8: iPad Videography 157 Finding Stuff to Watch 158 Watching shows with the TV app 158 Renting and buying at the iTunes Store 160 Watching your own videos 161 Are we compatible? 161 A moment for HEVC 161 Playing Video 162 Finding and working the video controls 163 Watching video on a big TV 164 Restricting video usage 165 Deleting video from your iPad 166 Shooting Your Own Videos 166 Going slow 168 Going fast 169 Editing what you shot 169 Sharing video 170 Seeing Is Believing with FaceTime 170 Getting started with FaceTime 171 Making a FaceTime call 172 Receiving a FaceTime call 174 Chapter 9: Photography on a Larger Scale 177 Shooting Pictures 178 Syncing pix 181 Connecting a digital camera or memory card 181 Saving images from emails and the web 182 Tracking Down Your Pictures 182 Choosing albums 183 Navigating your pics 184 Making memories 186 Live photos 187 A moment for HEIF 188 Searching for pictures 188 Sharing your photos 189 Admiring Your Pictures 190 Maneuvering and manipulating photos 190 Launching a slideshow 190 Storing pictures in the (i)Cloud 191 Editing and Deleting Photos 192 Editing photos 192 Editing live photos 194 Deleting photos 195 More (Not So) Stupid Picture Tricks 196 Entering the Photo Booth 199 Part 4: Putting the Ipad to Work 203 Chapter 10: Harnessing the Power of Apps 205 Tapping the Magic of Apps 206 Finding Apps in the App Store 207 Browsing the App Store 207 Playing in the arcade 208 Searching for apps 209 Finding details about an app 209 Downloading an app 210 Updating apps 212 Working with Apps 212 Check out App Library 213 Writing an app review 214 Taking an app off the Home screen 214 Deleting an app 215 Working with Widgets 215 Viewing your widgets 215 Adding a widget 216 Removing a widget 217 Chapter 11: Staying in Touch with People and Appointments 219 Working with the Calendar 219 Year view 220 Month view 220 Day view 220 Week view 221 List view 222 Adding Calendar Entries 223 Managing your calendars 225 Letting your calendar push you around 226 Choosing which calendars to display 227 Responding to meeting invitations 227 Subscribing to calendars 228 Sifting through Contacts 228 Adding and viewing contacts 229 Searching contacts 230 Contacting and sharing your contacts 230 Linking contacts 231 Removing a contact 231 Chapter 12: Indispensable Apps and Utilities 233 Jotting Things Down with Notes 234 Remembering with Reminders 237 Working with lists 237 Setting up a reminder 238 Viewing and checking off reminders 240 Loving the Lock Screen 240 Navigating Notifications 241 Taming Time with the Clock App 241 Seeing the time anywhere in the world 242 Setting an alarm 243 Timing events with Stopwatch 244 Starting a countdown timer 244 Controlling Smart Appliances with the Home App 244 Taking the Measure of Things with the Measure App 246 Sharing Your Internet Connection with Personal Hotspot 247 Dropping In on AirDrop 248 Chapter 13: Navigating the World 251 Mapping Locations 252 Mapping a location by searching for it 252 Dropping a pin 253 Looking around your destination 254 You are here: Mapping your current location 254 Putting a contact on the map 255 Mapping a.