1. Tap the Settings icon on your Home screen.
2. Choose Brightness & Wallpaper from the Settings on the left side of the screen.
3. To choose an Apple-supplied wallpaper, tap Wallpaper or choose a photo album and skip ahead to step 10.
4. Tap an image icon to select it. You see a full view of the image.
5. From this full view, choose Set Lock Screen to set this image as the background of your lock screen.
6. Choose Set Home Screen to set this image as the background for your Home screen.
7. Choose Set Both to make the image the background for both screens.
8. Tap Cancel at the upper-left corner of the screen to go back to the picture icons.
9. When viewing the list of icons, tap the Back button at the top of the screen to go back to the previous screen.
10. Tap a photo icon to view that photo from your photo album.
11. Use the buttons described in steps 5, 6, and 7 to set this image as a background.

Adjusting the Wallpaper Image

You can touch and drag in a photo to move to other areas of the image, so you can choose the part of the image you want as your wallpaper. You can also pinch to zoom in and out on your photographs.

1. Tap the Settings app on your Home screen.
   

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   Why Am I Missing Space?
   Notice in the example here that the capacity of the iPad is shown as 29.0 GB. However, that particular model is advertised as a “32GB” model. The discrepancy between the two is because of space used by the operating system and other system files.

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2. Tap General from the list of settings on the left.
3. Tap About, the first button at the top of the list of General settings.
4. See how many songs, videos, photos, and apps you have.
5. See the total capacity of your iPad and the amount of space available.
6. The version number tells you which version of the iPad operating system you are running. Check this to make sure you are running the latest version of the iPad OS.
7. The model number tells you exactly which iPad you own if you happen to get it serviced, or perhaps to report a bug to a third-party app developer.
8. The serial number, Wi-Fi address, and Bluetooth address are unique to your iPad. Apple may ask for your serial number if you are sending your iPad in for repairs. The wi-fi number is what you need if you are asked for a “MAC address” or “Ethernet address” for your iPad

Another Model Number?

If you tap the Regulatory button on the About screen, you are taken to another screen that lists another model number for your iPad. For the original iPads, this is A1219. When you are buying third-party accessories for your iPad, the specifications for those accessories may say “compatible with model X.” In that case, X may represent either model number.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Tap General from the list of settings on the left.
3. Tap Sounds.
4. Slide the volume control left and right to adjust the overall volume of the alert sounds.
5. Switch New Mail alert on or off to control if a sound plays when new mail arrives in the Mail app.
6. Switch Sent Mail sound on or off.
7. Switch Calendar Alerts on to allow audible alerts for calendar reminders to play. You can specify whether a specific event sounds an alert when you create that event in the Calendar app.
8. Switch the Lock Sounds on or off. When this setting is on, a sound plays when you unlock the Lock screen.
9. Switch Keyboard Clicks on or off.

What? No Custom Sounds?

The initial version of the iPad OS doesn’t enable you to set custom sounds for any alerts. Hopefully at some point we can change these sounds or even have them reflect different properties of mail messages and calendar events.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Tap General from the list of settings on the left.
3. Tap Passcode Lock.
   

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   Even More Security
   To lock your iPad automatically when you aren’t using it, choose Auto-Lock from the General Settings and set your iPad to automatically lock at 2, 5, 10, or 15 minutes. You can also choose to never have it auto-lock. Of course, you can manually lock your iPad at any time by pressing the Wake/Sleep button at the top.

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4. Tap Turn Passcode On.
5. Type in a four-digit passcode that you can easily remember. Write it down and store it in a safe place as you can run into a lot of trouble if you forget it.
6. You will be asked to reenter your passcode.
7. Tap the Require Passcode button and choose the delay before a passcode is required. If you choose anything other than Immediately, then someone else using your iPad can work on it for that period of time before needing to enter the code.
8. Turn off Picture Frame to remove the Picture Frame slideshow button on the Lock screen.
9. Turn on Erase Data if you want to erase the iPad data after 10 failed passcode attempts.
10. Press the Wake/Sleep button to confirm your new settings work. Then press the Home button and Slide to Unlock. The Enter Passcode screen displays.

You Forgot Your Passcode?

Well, it wouldn’t be secure if there were a way to get around the passcode, so you’re out of luck until you can connect your iPad to your Mac or PC and use iTunes to restore it. Hopefully, this never happens to you.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Tap General.
3. Tap Restrictions.
4. Tap Enable Restrictions to turn restrictions on or tap Disable Restrictions to turn them off.
5. Type in a four-digit code and then reenter the code when prompted. Remember this code, or you can’t turn off restrictions.
6. To remove the Safari, YouTube, and iTunes apps from your Home screen, turn the switches to off.
7. The Installing Apps switch prevents new apps from being installed.
8. The Location switch turns off location-based functions of all apps.
9. Use Allowed Content to determine whether In-App Purchases of paid app content, such as game levels or magazine issues, are allowed.
10. Pick which country’s rating system to use from the Ratings For submenu.
11. On the last four items, choose the highest level of rating that a piece of content can have for it to used. For instance, under Movies you can choose to allow only PG-13 or lower. You can also choose Allow All Movies or Don’t Allow Movies.

SETTINGS NOT REMEMBERED

It would be nice if you could just switch Restrictions on and off, so you could hand off your iPad to Junior after quickly turning them on, but the settings are reset each time. So if you want Junior to watch only PG-13 movies, you have to turn on Restrictions and set the Movies rating each time.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Tap General.
3. Tap Home.
4. Tap Search to make a doublepress of the Home button take you to the Search screen instead of the Home screen.
5. Tap iPod to make a double-press of the Home button open up the iPod app.
6. Turn on the switch iPod Controls to make a double-press of the Home button display the various iPod controls and song information in a small window while music plays.
7. The iPod button in this special window launches the iPod app.
8. Use Search Results to decide what sort of content to show on the Search screen and to re-order the content of the search results. For instance, you can uncheck Audiobooks if you never want to see audiobooks show up when searching.
9. You can also re-order the content of the search results. Touch and drag the three lines to the right side of each item to move them up and down relative to each other.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Tap General.
3. Tap Date & Time.
4. Set the 24-Hour Time switch to your preference.
5. Tap the Time Zone button and then enter the name of your city, or a nearby city, to set the zone.
6. Tap the Set Date & Time to bring up date and time controls.
7. Tap either the day or the time at the top of the control to switch the bottom of the control to the correct interface. If you choose the time, you can set the hour and minute. If you choose the date, you can set the month, day, and year.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Tap General.
3. Tap Keyboard.
4. Turn Auto-Correction on to have mistyped words automatically corrected.
5. Turn Auto-Capitalization on to automatically make the first character of a name, or a sentence, a capital letter.
6. Turn Enable Caps Lock on or off. By default this is off. When Caps Lock is enabled, you double-tap the shift key to lock it.
7. Turn on the “.” Shortcut if you want a double-tap of the spacebar to insert a period followed by a space.
8. Use the International Keyboards button to choose a different keyboard layout. In addition to keyboards commonly used in other countries, you can switch to a Dvorak keyboard or one of several other alternatives to the traditional QWERTY keyboard.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Tap Safari from the list of settings on the left.
3. Select which search engine to use. Google is the default, but you can also choose Yahoo!.
4. Adjust your AutoFill settings for filling out forms on the Web. Your iPad can pull from your contact info in the Contacts app or from data you previously filled in on the same or similar Web pages. Set Names and Passwords to true to have Safari remember your username and passwords for some websites.
5. Choose whether to show the bookmarks bar all the time or only when you have saved bookmarks in the bookmarks bar.
6. Fraud Warning checks websites against a public database of websites to avoid. I recommend leaving this switch on. If you try to follow a link to one of these sites, you get a warning and a chance to change your mind before loading the page.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Choose iPod from the list of settings on the left.
3. Turn Sound Check on or off to play your music at approximately the same volume level, even if the song files themselves are louder or softer than each other.
4. Use EQ to select an equalizer setting. You can select from an equalizer setting according to the type of music you listen to, or settings like “Spoken Word,” “Small Speakers,” or “Bass Booster.”
5. Tap Volume Limit to set a limit on the maximum volume.
6. To set a Volume Limit, simply move the slider.
7. Tap the Lock Volume Limit to set a code required to change or remove the Volume Limit.
8. Enter a four-digit code and confirm.
9. Switch Lyrics & Podcast Info on or off. When this is on, you can tap the album artwork while a song or podcast is playing in the iPod app to see the information stored in the file, such as podcast summaries and information, song information, or lyrics.

1. Tap Video.
2. Adjust whether a video starts playing where you left off or at the beginning each time.
3. Turn Closed Captioning on or off.
4. Tap Photos.
5. Set the slideshow preferences: how long to play each slide for, whether to repeat, and what order to play the photos.

Adding More and More Apps

The Settings app adds new pages as you add new apps to your iPad. Some third-party apps do not add a component in the Settings app, so don’t be alarmed if you don’t see an app you added in the Settings list.