You want make better use of your iPad, but often the new features might be confusing. Don’t let it just become an app and gaming machine. The iPad is a fabulous device. This article offers you lots of great advice.

Your iPad can easily copy, cut, and paste text similar to a home computer. Tap the text you wish to copy, hold, then choose select to select the words you are interested in copying. Tap once more after the text appears in yellow highlight. Then select Copy. You can then paste your text by tapping, holding and selecting Paste.

Turn down the brightness for extended battery life. This is especially beneficial if you are on the go and are expecting an important email or message. On the Home page of your iPad, you can change the screen’s brightness by adjusting the setting that shows as a sun icon.

You can shortcut to your most used apps. Double click the Home button, and they appear in an instant at the very bottom of whichever screen you are currently on. When you use this trick, you’ll save time as compared to scrolling screen-to-screen.

Try using street view on the Google Maps app. Search for a destination and look for a red pin to show up on the map. Then, press the pin and choose the person icon so the Street View option loads.

Want to save an image you find online while surfing on your iPad? It is very simple to do. Tap where you want on the image and hold it. A prompt will appear that will give you an option to save. This saves a local copy of the image so you can retrieve it later, even if you’re offline.

Would you like to see PDFs on your iPad? You can do this by emailing the file to yourself and selecting to send the file to iBooks. Another option is to use the iTunes app on your desktop or laptop by syncing your iPad.

Would you prefer not to use Google with your iPad? Just change it out for a different one. From the Settings menu, choose Safari and then choose Search Engine. Choose the search engine you want from the list of installed engines. You will be presented with the options of Google, Yahoo or Bing to use.

You don’t have to send pictures like you used to ever again. You don’t have to send them via email attachments anymore. Simply open your photo album, select one, open up the settings tab and select “email photo.”

Accessing your iTunes library on your iPad is simple. If you have songs stored on iTunes, you can play them right from the cloud. This can be done through enabling “Home Sharing.” Next, visit your existing music app on iPad. Click More followed by Shared. Then you can listen!

Do not dismiss the iPad’s cloud function if you are always connected online. This is a wonderful way to keep information without storing it on your device. Use the cloud service as well as the device for storing important documents.

Have you ever mistakenly opened a noisy app? It is easy to mute the volume on the iPad. All you have to do is hold down the volume-down key until it turns off. If you mute often, you can set your lock orientation button as a tool to mute.

To view running apps, simply double click the home button. You will then see a bar that has icons for each app that is running. Pressing an icon will allow you to access an app. This will help you to compartmentalize all of your applications.

There are two ways to show a PDF. You can sync through iTunes, or send the file through email. Either way works well, so try both and see which you prefer.

If you ever need to mute the sound on an iPad, you should try this tip. Just hold the – volume button for a few seconds. Doing this is more efficient then pressing it multiple times. Hold it again to return your iPad’s sound back to its previous level.

The quickest way to paste and copy on the iPad is to tap and select the needed text and hold your finger on it for a few seconds. After clicking copy, you can go into another application and place your finger down where you would like the text to go. A menu comes up and you can press paste. For a whole paragraph, you will have to tap four times.

You can reset your iPad if you see that it is frozen. Simultaneously hold down the Power and Home buttons for several seconds. Wait for your iPad to reboot. If you would rather just close down the application that you are in, push down on the home button instead.

Does the battery icon annoy you? The removal process is actually incredibly easy! Just go to settings, then click the general tab, and choose usage. This is the location to turn off the icon. To revert this action, just go back to the same settings menu and move the slider to “on.”

iPads are great for music, but are you familiar with podcasts? There are a variety of radio applications with shows as short as few minutes and others lasting up to a few hours. If music is failing to hold your interest, see if podcasts are for you. Since podcasts encompass a wide variety of topics, you’re sure to find one which interests you.

Folders are available in today’s iOS. Just tap an app and hold it until it wiggles, then drag it over the app you wish to pair it with. The result will be a folder containing both of your apps together. You can rename these folders.

Now that you have learned more about the iPad, you’ll be able to use it more efficiently. It really is amazing how much the iPad can do. Read on to learn about the most recent iPad information. There is always something new to find in the iPad ecosystem to keep you on the cutting edge.