Creating ipad a custom home screen - ipad tutorial part 3

Creating IPad a Custom
Home Screen–
IPAD TUTORIAL PART 3
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When you first start your iPad or iPad mini (and each time you
press the Home button), the Home screen appears. You use this
screen as the launching pad (so to speak) for all your tablet
adventures.
Using the Home screen requires almost no training: just tap the
app you want and it loads, lickety-split. It’s perfection!
Oh, but things are never as perfect as they appear, are they? The
following suggestions should make the Home screen features
easier to use:
1. When you hold your iPad or iPad mini, the icons in the left and
right columns are a bit easier to tap because they’re easily
reachable with your thumbs.

2. If you have more than 20 icons, they extend to a second (or
third, or fourth) Home screen. If the app you want isn’t on the main
Home screen, you must first flick to the screen that has the app
icon (or tap the dot for the screen you want), and then tap the
icon.
3. If your icons extend onto multiple Home screens, the four icons
in the Dock area appear on every Home screen, so they’re always
available.

NOTE :
How do you end up with more than 20 icons? Easy: the App Store. It’s
an online retailer devoted solely to apps designed to work with your
tablet’s built-in technologies: Multitouch, GPS, the
accelerometer, wireless, and more. You can download apps via Wi-Fi
or a cellular connection if you have a cellular iPad or iPad mini (and
the app is less than 50MB). On the Home screen, tap the App Store to
see what’s available.

You can make the Home screen more efficient by doing three
things: Moving your four most-used icons to the Dock, moving
eight other commonly used icons to the left and right columns of
the main Home screen, and making sure any icon you tap
frequently appears somewhere on the main Home screen.
You can do all of this by rearranging the Home screen icons as
follows:
1. Display the Home screen.
2. Tap and hold any Home screen icon. When you see the icons
wiggling, release your finger..

Pairing or unpairing iPad
Follow these general steps to pair your iPad or iPad mini with a
Bluetooth device:
1. On the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Bluetooth. The Bluetooth screen appears.
3. If the device has a separate switch or button that makes it
discoverable, switch it on or press it. Wait until you see the device
name appear in the Bluetooth screen.

3. Tap and drag the icons into the positions you prefer. To move an
icon to a different screen, tap and drag it to the left edge of the
current screen if you want to move it to a previous screen, or to the
right edge if you want to move it to a later screen. Next, wait for the
new screen to appear and then drop the icon where you want it. You
can also include a maximum of six icons on the Dock.
4. Rearrange the existing Dock icons by dragging them left or right to
change the order.
5. To replace a Dock icon, first tap and drag the icon off the Dock to
create some space. Then tap and drag any Home screen icon into the
Dock.
6. Press the Home button to save the new icon arrangement.

The best way to make the main Home screen more manageable is to
reduce the total number of icons with which you have to work. This
isn’t a problem when you’re just starting out with your tablet because
it comes with a limited number of apps. However, the addictive nature
of the App Store almost always means that you end up with screen
after screen of apps. The iPad or iPad mini lets you use a maximum of
11 screens. If you fill each screen to the brim — that’s 20 apps per
screen — you end up with 224 total icons (including the four Dock
icons). That’s a lot of icons.
Creating an app folder to your iPad

Now, when I tell you to reduce the number of icons on the Home
screens, I don’t mean that you should delete apps. Too drastic!
Instead, you can take advantage of a feature called app folders.
Just like a folder on your hard drive in which you can store multiple
files, an app folder can store multiple app icons — up to 20, in fact.
This enables you to group related apps together under a single icon.
This not only reduces your overall Home screen clutter, but it can also
make individual apps easier to find.
Here are the steps to follow to create and populate an app folder:
1. Navigate to the Home screen that contains at least one of the apps
you want to include in your folder.
2. Tap and hold any icon until you see all of the icons wiggling.

3. Tap and drag an icon that you want to include in the folder, and
drop it on another icon that you want to include in the same folder.
Your iPad or iPad mini creates the folder and displays a text box so that
you can type a name for the folder. The default name is the underlying
category used by the apps. If the apps are in different categories, your
iPad or iPad mini uses the category of the app you dragged and
dropped.
4. Tap inside the text box to edit the name if you want, and then tap
Done.
5. Press the Home button to save your new icon arrangement.

Drop one app icon on another to create an app folder.

Use the following techniques to work with your app folders:
1. Add another app to the folder. Tap and drag the app icon and drop
it on the folder.
2. Launch an app. Tap the folder to open it and then tap the app.
3. Rename a folder or rearrange apps within a folder. Tap the folder
to open it, and then tap and hold any app icon within the folder. You
can then edit the folder name, and drag and drop the apps within the
folder.
4. Remove an app from a folder. Tap the folder to open it, tap and
hold any app icon within the folder, and then drag it out of the folder.

Do you visit a certain web page all the time? You can set up a
bookmark to that page in the Safari browser, but an even faster way to
access it is to add it to the Home screen as a web clip icon. A web
clip is a link to a page that preserves the page’s scroll position and
zoom level. For example, suppose a page has a form at the bottom. To
use that form, you have to navigate to the page, scroll to the bottom,
and then zoom in to see it better. However, you can perform all three
actions — navigate, scroll, and zoom — automatically with a web clip.
Follow these steps to save a page as a web clip icon on the Home
screen:
1. Use the Safari browser to navigate to the page you want to save.
2. Scroll to the portion of the page you want to see.
Adding a Safari web clip to the Home screen

3. Pinch and spread your fingers over the area on which you want to
zoom in until you can comfortably read the text.
4. Tap the Actions button (the one with the arrow) at the top of the
screen. Safari displays a list of actions you can perform.
5. Tap Add to Home Screen. Safari prompts you to edit the web clip
name.
6. Edit the name as needed. Names up to about 10-14 characters can
be displayed on the Home screen without being broken. The fewer
uppercase letters you use, the longer the name can be. For longer
names, you see the first and last few characters (depending on the
locations of spaces in the name), separated by an ellipsis (...). For
example, if the name is My Home Page, it appears in the Home screen
as My Ho...Page.

7. Tap Add. Safari adds the web clip to the Home screen and displays
the Home screen. If your main Home screen is already filled to the
brim with icons, Safari adds the web clip to the first screen that has
space available.
A web clip has been added to the Home screen.

NOTE :
To delete a web clip from the Home screen, tap and hold any Home
screen icon until the icon dance begins. Each web clip icon displays an
X in the upper-left corner. Tap the X of the web clip you want to
remove. When you see the confirmation message, tap Delete and
then press the Home button to save the configuration.

If you make a bit of a mess of your Home screen, or if someone else is
going to be using your iPad or iPad mini, you can reset the Home
screen icons to their default layout. Follow these steps:
1. On the Home screen, tap Settings to open the Settings app.
2. Tap General. The General screen appears.
3. Tap Reset. The Reset screen appears.
4.Tap Reset Home Screen Layout. Settings warns you that the Home
screen will be reset to the factory default layout.
5.Tap Reset. Settings resets the Home screen to the default layout, but
it doesn’t delete the icons for any apps you’ve added.
Resetting the default Home screen layout

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