You might find yourself using the Calendar and iPod apps every day but rarely using the Contacts or Notes apps. To make it easy to access the Calendar and iPod apps, you might want to put these icons in the corner of the screen and bury seldom-used app icons in another pane that's hidden out of sight. There are two ways to rearrange your Home screen: directly on the iPad or through iTunes on your computer.
The fastest way to rearrange icons on your Home screen is to manipulate and move those icons directly on your iPad. To rearrange icons on the Home screen, follow these steps:
Press the Home button. The Home screen appears. (Skip this step if the Home screen is already visible.)
Press and hold your finger on the icon that you want to move to a new location until all the icons on the Home screen start jiggling.
Drag the icon to where you want to move it. When you move an icon in between two other icons, those two icons glide out of the way. You can now click and drag any app to a new location.
(Optional) Tap the close button of any app icon that you want to remove from your iPad. It's the little X in the upper left.
Press the Home button to stop all the Home screen icons from jiggling.
If you have a lot of apps stored on your iPad or want to move app icons from one pane to another, it's much faster to do it through iTunes instead. Not only can you use your mouse (or laptop trackpad) to move icons across multiple panes faster than you could do this on your iPad, but you can also see thumbnail images of each Home screen pane, which makes it easier to see the arrangement of all your app icons at once.
To rearrange icons on the Home screen through iTunes, follow these steps:
Connect your iPad to your computer through the USB cable.
Run iTunes on your Mac or PC.
Click the name of your iPad under the Devices category in the iTunes window.
Click the Apps tab and make sure a check mark appears in the Sync Apps check box. The right side of the screen displays your Home screen panes as shown in Figure 6-1.
Drag any app icons to a new location using the mouse.
(Optional) Using the mouse, point to any app icon that you want to delete. A close button appears in the upper left corner of that app. Click this close button to remove the app from your iPad.
Click Apply.
