iPad All-in-One For Dummies. Nancy C. Muir
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Название: iPad All-in-One For Dummies
Автор: Nancy C. Muir
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Зарубежная образовательная литература
Серия: For Dummies
isbn: 9781118944424
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Figure 1-4: Wear your iPad with style.
Chapter 2
Getting Started with iPad
In This Chapter
▶ Discovering what’s in the box
▶ Getting your first look at the gadget
▶ Charging the battery
▶ Powering on your iPad and registering it
▶ Using the touchscreen
▶ Getting familiar with the split keyboard
▶ Making sure your operating system is up to date
▶ Discovering Multitasking Gestures
▶ Taking a first look at iPad’s camera
▶ Understanding how to customize the Side switch
▶ Becoming familiar with the status bar
▶ Using Control Center
▶ Locking your iPad, turning it off, and unlocking it
After you get your hands on an iPad, you should explore what’s in the box and get an overview of the buttons and slots you’ll encounter – luckily, there are very few of them.
You also need to get comfortable with the touchscreen. If you have a smartphone or computer with a touchscreen, you’re ahead of the game here, but even if you do, you should take a little time to get comfortable working with using the iPad screen.
iPads (with the exception of the original iPad) have two cameras and a customizable side switch. In addition, iPad has native printing ability, all of which I introduce you to here.
Finally, after a tough day of playing with your new gadget, you need to know how to put it to sleep. I cover all these iPad basics in this chapter.
Exploring What’s in the Box
When you fork over your hard-earned money for your iPad, you’re left holding one box about the size of a package of copy paper. Here’s what you’ll find when you take off the shrink wrap and open the box:
✔ iPad: Your iPad is covered in two plastic sheets that you can take off and toss (unless you think there’s a chance you’ll return it, in which case you might want to keep all packaging for 14 days – Apple’s return period).
✔ Documentation (and I use the term loosely): You find a small, white envelope under the iPad itself, about the size of a half-dozen index cards. Open it, and you’ll find
• A single sheet titled iPad Info: This pamphlet is essentially small print (that you mostly don’t need to read) from folks like the FCC.
• A mysterious label sheet: This contains two white Apple logo stickers. (Apple has provided these for years with its products as a form of cheap advertising when users place stickers on places like their computers or car windows.)
• A small card containing the actual documentation (sort of): This displays a picture of the iPad and callouts to its buttons on one side, and the other side contains about three sentences of instructions for setting it up and info about where to go online to find out more.
✔ Lightning to USB Cable: Use this cord (see Figure 2-1) to connect the iPad to your computer, or use it with the last item in the box, which is the power adapter.
✔ 10W USB Power Adapter: The power adapter (see Figure 2-1) attaches to the Lightning to USB Cable (or the Dock Connector to USB Cable) so that you can plug it into the wall and charge the battery.
Figure 2-1: Some pretty simple gadgets for power and USB connections.
That’s it. That’s all there is in the box. It’s kind of the typical Apple study in Zen-like simplicity.
Taking a First Look at the Gadget
The little card contained in the documentation (see the preceding section) gives you a picture of the iPad with callouts to the buttons you’ll find on it. In this section, I give you a bit more information about those buttons and some other physical features of the iPad. Figure 2-2 shows you where each of these items is located.
Figure 2-2: There are probably fewer gizmos to get used to on an iPad than on the average cellphone.
Here’s the rundown on what these things are and what they do:
✔ (The all-important) Home button: On the iPad, press this button to go back to the Home screen to find just about anything. The Home screen displays all your installed and preinstalled apps and gives you access to your iPad settings. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, press the Home button, and you’re back at home base. You can also double-press the Home button to pull up a scrollable display of apps called the App Switcher so that you can quickly move from one to another or quit apps that you don’t want or need to have running. (Apple refers to this as multitasking.) If you press and hold the Home button, you open Siri, the iPad voice assistant. Finally, on recent iPad models, the Home button contains a fingerprint reader used with the Touch ID feature.
✔ Sleep/Wake button: You can use this button to power up your iPad, put it in sleep mode, wake it up, or power it down (more about this in the final section of this chapter).
✔ Lightning connector: This is where you plug in the Lightning connector at the USB end to the power adapter to charge your battery or use it without the power adapter to sync with your computer (which you find out more about in Chapter 5 of this minibook). Also use this slot for the Camera Connection Kit or to connect various AV adapter cables.
✔ Cameras: iPads (except for the original iPad) offer front- and rear-facing cameras that you can use to shoot photos or video. The rear one is on the top-right corner, and you need to be careful not to put your thumb over it when taking shots. (I have several very nice photos of my thumb already.)
✔ Side switch: In case you hadn’t heard, the iPad screen rotates to match the angle you’re holding it at. If you want to stick with one orientation even if you spin the iPad in circles, you can use this little switch on the iPad mini 3 to lock the screen, which is especially handy when reading an e-book. (Note that some apps can override this functionality if they require СКАЧАТЬ