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iPad for Beginners by Papercut Ltd

This guide book is the first and only choice if you are a new adopter and want to learn everything you'll need to get started with your new Apple tablet. This independent manual is crammed with helpful guides and step-by-step fully illustrated tutorials, written in plain easy to follow English. Over the pages of this new user guide you will clearly learn all you need to know about out of the box set up, getting to grips with the more advanced features and discover a huge array of amazing apps. With this unofficial instruction manual at your side no problem will be unsolvable, no question unanswered as you learn, explore and enhance your user experience.

 
 

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The Touchscreen Clever Gestures

Your iPad's touchscreen knows when you have more than one finger touching the screen at once. This makes all sorts of useful gestures possible, such as rotating, pinching, spreading and more. Here's how they work.

Touch

To activate items such as applications, to use the on-screen keyboard, or to press on-screen buttons, touch them with your finger. The touchscreen is sensitive to the tiny electrical charge in our bodies, so you don't need to press hard.

Touch and Hold

You can touch and hold an item on the screen by placing your finger it and not lifting that finger until an action occurs. This action depends on what you're touching; it could be a menu opening or an icon lifting off the screen and showing it's able to be moved.

Double-tap

Tap quickly twice on a web page, map, a photograph or other screen to zoom. Double-tap a section of a web page in the browser to zoom fit it to the width of the screen. Double-tapping a piece of on-screen text can highlight a single word too.

Swipe or Scroll

Menus and web pages you access on the iPad often require you to scroll. For example, in Photos, you swipe to scroll through your pictures. To swipe or slide, quickly move your finger across the surface of the screen, without pausing when you first touch it.

Drag

To drag items around the Home screen, touch and hold an item for a moment and when the pop-up menu appears, drag it into the required position without lifting your finger. Then to drop the item into that location, simply lift your finger. This works for dragging other items around the screen too, for example, reordering lists.

Twist to Rotate

In the Photos app, you can rotate a picture by placing two fingers on it and twisting them left, or right. The picture then follows the rotation of your fingers, turning clockwise or anti-clockwise. You can combine this with the pinch and spread gesture to zoom into, and out of the photo, while you rotate it.

Access Control Centre

To access the Control Centre, swipe in from the top right of the screen with a single finger. To get rid of it again, swipe diagonally towards the top left corner.

Opening the Search Screen

On the Home screen, place one finger on the screen and swipe down. The Search Screen opens and you can do a system-wide search across your iPad.

Pinch and Spread

To pinch or spread, place your thumb and forefinger on the screen and bring them together or move them apart. It's great for zooming into and out of photos and Maps.

Open Dock

To open the Dock, when in an app, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Make it a small swipe, or you activate another feature. Close the Dock by swiping it down.

Gestures for iPads with No Home Button

Swipe Up for Home Screen

On previous iPads, you could get to the Home screen by pressing the Home button. As the latest iPad Pros don't have a Home button, a new gesture is required. Simply swipe up from the bottom of the screen and the Home page is revealed.

Accessing Siri

Siri is another feature that previously required the Home button, so needs a new method of activation on the FaceTime iPa. Press and hold the Top button until Siri appears. When you're done, tap the Side button again to close the feature.

Restart Your iPad

Holding the top button now gives you Siri, so to restart an iPad with no home button you must press and hold both the top button and the volume-down button. This familiar screen appears, from where you shut down your iPad with the slider.

Swipe for the App Switcher

You can no longer access the App Switcher with a double-tap on the Home button, for obvious reasons. The other two methods outlined above work instead; pinch with five fingers or swipe up from the bottom of the screen until it appears.