If you've installed any apps on your iPad, you can always delete those icons and uninstall those apps. (You cannot uninstall any apps that came pre-installed on the iPad, such as Notes, Maps, or the Calendar.) You can delete apps from your iPad or using iTunes on your computer.
The simplest way to delete an app is directly from your iPad. To delete an icon and uninstall the app that the icon represents, do this:
From the Home screen, press and hold your finger on the app icon that you want to delete. Your apps will start jiggling. An X in a circle appears in the upper-left corner of your chosen icon. (If an X in a circle does not appear, that means you cannot delete that icon and uninstall that app.)
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Press the Home button if you suddenly decide you don't want to delete the icon after all. The X in the circle disappears from your chosen icon.
Tap the X in the circle. A Delete dialog appears as shown in Figure 12-5.
Tap Delete. Your chosen icon disappears from the Home screen.
Press the Home button to stop your apps from jiggling.
To delete an app by using iTunes on your computer, you need to connect your iPad to your computer and then do this:
Run iTunes on your computer.
Click the name of your iPad under the Devices category in the left pane of the Tunes window.
Click the Apps tab. The screen displays your Home screen panes with all your currently installed apps.
Move the mouse pointer over an app icon that you want to delete. An X in a circle appears in the app icon's upper-left corner.
Click this close button (the X in the circle). Your chosen app icon disappears.
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If you select the check boxes of apps displayed in the Apps tab of the iTunes window, you can re-install any downloaded apps back on to your iPad.