1. Tap the App Store icon on your Home screen.
2. You see the Featured, New apps. Drag the In the Spotlight section left and right to see other featured apps.
3. Tap the left and right arrows in the New and Noteworthy section to see more apps.
4. Scroll down to see more apps, such as Staff Favorites.
5. Tap What’s Hot to switch to Featured, What’s Hot.
6. Tap Top Charts to see the top paid apps and top free apps.
7. Tap Categories to see a list of app categories.
8. Tap any category to go to the page of featured apps in that category.
9. Tap an app to read more about it.
   

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   Sometimes, There Is a Free Lunch
   Not all apps cost something. Many are free. Some of these free apps are light versions trying to entice you to purchase the more full-featured app. Others use advertising to pay the bills. Some are free simply because they are ads themselves—the brand they represent is giving away the app to help build recognition and good will.

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10. The app’s page displays screen-shots, other apps by the same company, and user reviews.
11. Tap on the price on the left under the large icon to purchase an app. It changes to a Buy App button. Tap it again.
12. The app starts installing, and you can watch the progress from your Home screen.

1. Tap and hold an icon until all the icons start to jiggle.
2. The icon you are holding is a little larger than the others. Drag it and drop it in a new location. To carry the icon to the next page of apps, drag it to the right side of the screen.
3. Delete an app from your iPad by tapping the X at the upper left of the icon.
   

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   Deleting Is Not Forever
   If you sync your iPad to iTunes on a computer, you do not delete apps forever. All apps remain in your iTunes library on your computer unless you remove them from there. So you can get rid of the app from your iPad and find it is still on your computer if you want to select it to sync back to your iPad.

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4. To stop the jiggling, tap the Home button.

Go Further

WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?

Here are a few more tips that might make your app housekeeping easier:

• You can release an app and then grab another to move it. If the apps still jiggle, you can keep moving app icons.

• You can drag apps into the dock along the bottom where you can fit up to six apps. Apps in the dock appear on all pages of your Home screen.

• You can drag an app to the right on the last page of apps to create a new page of your Home screen.

1. Connect your iPad to your computer and launch iTunes.

2. Select your iPad in the left sidebar.

3. Choose the Apps tab on the right to see a representation of your iPad Home screen. On the far right you can see each page of the Home screen. On the left is an alphabetical list of apps you have on your computer. If a check mark is next to the app, that app is set to sync to your iPad.

Following are some of the things you can do to rearrange your apps:

• Click the pages to the right to jump around to the different pages of your Home screen.

• Double-click the app on the left to jump to the page where the app is located.

• Click and drag an app around on a page just like you would on your iPad.

• Drag an app to a page in the list on the right to move it to another page.

• Hold down the shift key, and click multiple apps. You can then drag the whole selection to another page.

4. From the list on the left, uncheck any items that you don’t want on your iPad.

Use Sort and Search

If you have a lot of apps, it might be easier to sort them by category or date. You can use the pop-up menu at the top of the left column for that. You can also type in the search field. You don’t need to type a complete name. You can also use terms like “game” or “news” to search for apps and narrow down the list a bit.

5. Go to page 1 of your apps and move any apps off of the page that aren’t the default iPad apps that came with your iPad. Move them to page 3.

6. Go to page 2 of your apps and move everything except iBooks, the iWork apps, and your most critical use-all-the-time apps.

7. Starting with page 3, create sets of apps on each page that match a theme: communications, games, photography, and so on.

These last three steps are just a suggestion. You can arrange things differently.

1. Check out the featured apps in the App Store, but be wary because they tend to be heavy on apps by large companies with well-established brands.
2. In iTunes on your computer, find an app close to what you want, and then check out the Customers Also Bought section.
3. Look for trial versions, which often have names with “Lite” or “Free” at the end. Search for the name of the app and see if another versions turns up.
4. Read reviews, but don’t trust them completely. Casual users are not always the best at providing balanced reviews.

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USING RESOURCES OUTSIDE THE APP STORE

Many good resources for finding apps aren’t part of the App Store. Following are a few suggestions:

• Search using Google. For example, if you want another spreadsheet app, search “iPad App Spreadsheet.”

• After you find an app that you want, try another Google search using the name of the app followed by the word “review.”

• Find sites that feature and review apps. Many are out there, but be aware that some sites are paid by developers to review an app, so the review might not be the most objective.

• The author provides a list of recommended apps at http://macmost.com/featurediphoneapps.

Go Further

Four types of apps are in the store from an iPad-owner’s perspective. A few are iPhone/iPod Touch only. Avoid those, naturally. The majority are iPhone/iPod Touch apps that also work on the iPad. These apps appear in the middle of the screen or scale to double the size. Some might work better than others on the iPad.

You can also find apps that work only on the iPad, which are listed in iTunes separately from the iPhone apps.

There are apps that work on the iPhone, but on the iPad they scale up to full resolution and work just like an iPad-only app. These apps are listed on both the iPhone and iPad sides of the App Store.

1. To enlarge the app, tap the 2x button at the bottom-right corner.
2. If the app looks blurry when it’s enlarged, tap the 1x button to return to normal size.

1. Check in the app to see if you can contact the developer. For example, in the Draw app, an i button brings up a window for providing feedback.
2. Tap that the Bugs? Feature Request? Feedback? button (or a similar button in another app) to email the developer right from the app.
3. If you don’t find a way to contact support in the app, launch the App Store app and search for the app there.
4. On the left you usually see links to both the developer’s website and App Support. Try the website first to see if there is a forum, documentation, or even a FAQ.

1. In the App Store app, search and find the app you want to talk about.
2. Tap Tell a Friend.
3. A new email message opens, with the subject and body all filled out. It even adds a large app icon.
4. Using iTunes on your computer, you can click the Menu button next to the Buy App button to bring up a pop-up window, and then tap Tell a Friend in the popup window.
5. Copy the link to include in an email or blog post.
6. Share it on Facebook or Twitter.
7. Purchase a copy of the app as a gift for a friend.

Family Sharing

When you buy an app, it can be put on any iPad (or iPhone/iPod touch if it works there, too) registered to your iTunes account? So if you share an iTunes account with your entire family, you can share your apps as well. No need to buy them again for a second iPad.