This is a question I see come up a lot in iPad and iOS forums: how to change your location for iTunes and the App Store. Luckily, it’s very easy to do – right on the iPad itself. Here’s how:
– Open the Settings app on your iPad.
– Tap on the entry for iTunes & App Stores in the left sidebar – as shown above.
Want to know how big your iCloud backups are? Or how to manage iCloud storage and backup right on your iPad? This is easy to on the iPad.
Here’s how:
– Open the Settings app.
– Tap on the entry for iCloud in the sections listed in the left sidebar. You’ll see the iCloud screen shown above.
– Then tap on the Storage and Backup bar, just above the Delete Account bar at the bottom of the page.
Here’s a neat and simple little iOS 6 trick I learned this morning that offers faster access to your email drafts in the iPad Mail app:
Tap and hold on the Compose button at the top right of the Mail screen. Below the New Message button you’ll see a listing of your previously saved drafts, with the most recent one shown first.
This is much easier than navigating to the Drafts mailbox in the Mail app.
Hat tip to Jesse Hollington at iLounge for sharing this handy tip.
Storage space is often at a premium on our computing devices, and especially on our mobile devices. The iPad is no exception and if you own one for long enough you’ll likely have at least one occasion where you need to look at managing and freeing up storage space.
When this occurs, it’s very useful to know exactly what is taking up space on your iPad. In the past I’ve posted on how to see how much space is being used by each of your iPad apps. For many of us it can also be very handy to know how much space is being used by photos on the iPad.
Fortunately this is just as easy as seeing apps’ space usage, and you go to the same place to check on this. Here’s how:
– Open the iPad Settings app
Keeping the iOS (operating system) software up to date on your iPad is nearly always a good idea. Each major update to iOS (those that are .0 updates) brings a wealth of impressive new features to the iPad. The ‘point updates’ (5.1 or 6.0.2 for example) tend to offer important bug fixes, security patches, and general performance enhancements.
It is now very easy to update your iOS software right on the iPad itself, with no need to connect to a computer. But … in order to be able to do a wireless, over the air update to iOS you need to already be running at least iOS 5.0. If you’re not yet running iOS 5 then you won’t see the ‘Software Update’ section in the General section of the Settings app, which is where new updates are shown and installed from.
A quick way to check which version of iOS your iPad is running is to go to Settings > General > About and look at the ‘Version’ field. If it shows anything lower than 5.0 then you will need to update via iTunes on a computer one time before being able to do over the air updates in future. Here’s how you go about this:
– Connect your iPad to a PC (Windows or Mac) with iTunes installed, via USB and your sync/charge cable. If you are prompted immediately to update your iOS software you should choose to Cancel and not do that right away.
