iPad Pro for Beginners: The Unofficial Guide to Using the iPad Pro (5 page)

Next, it will ask you to move and scale the photo; to move the photo, just tap and hold and move your finger; to scale the photo (i.e. make it bigger or larger), get two of your fingers, put them on the middle of the screen and pinch them in or out.

When you are satisfied, tap the Set Lock Screen (when you first wake your tablet up and it says “Slide to Unlock”—that’s your lock screen), Set Home Screen (that’s the place where all of the icons are), or Set Both.

Your tablet now should have its first custom wallpaper!

Sense we’ve already seen how to open up the Internet browser (Safari), let’s look at that next. If you are using the iPad Pro, LTE you are already paying for a data plan, so chances are you’ll want to take full advantage of the Internet.

There’s a good chance you are using a carrier that doesn’t have unlimited web surfing—this means if you use the Internet
a lot
, then you will have to pay extra. What I recommend is using Wi-Fi when you have it (like at home). So before we go back into Safari, let’s look very quickly at how to enable Wi-Fi.

On your Home screen, tap the Settings icon.

The second option in the Settings menu is Wi-Fi—tap anywhere on that line one time.

Next, switch the Wi-Fi from off to on by swiping or tapping on the Off.

Your Wi-Fi network (if you have one) will now appear. Tap it one time.

If there is a lock next to the connect, that means the Wi-Fi access is locked and you will need a password to use it. When prompted, type in the password and then tap Join.

You will now connect to the network. Remember that many places (like Star Bucks, McDonalds, Target, Nordstroms, Lowe’s—just to name a few) offer free Wi-Fi as a way to entice you into the store and get you to stay; take advantage of it and save data usage for the times you need it.

Let’s see how Safari works.

Remember how I said technically you didn’t close Safari? Let’s open it a different way. While Settings is still on your screen, press the Home button quickly two times; this brings up what is called “Multi-Tasking.” You can double tap the Home button anytime a program is open to bring up this menu; this let’s you quickly toggle between programs. If you want to close any of those programs, just swipe up across the one you want to close.

Tap the Safari icon one time and Safari will once again launch. You’ve already seen how the address bar works. Look to the right of it; see the box that says “Search”? That’s how you can search for anything on the Internet (think of it like a Google, Bing, or Yahoo! search engine in the corner of your screen—in fact that’s exactly what it is, because when you search, it will use one of those search engines to find results).

On the top of the screen, you’ll see six buttons; the first two are a back and forth button—that makes the website go either backwards or forwards to the website you were previously on.

The first button on the far side, is a button that let’s you share a website, add it to the Home Screen, print it, bookmark it, copy it, or add it to your reading list.

That’s great! But what does that mean? Let’s look at each button on the menu:

1. Social Button – Mail, Message, Twitter, Facebook are the Social Buttons; pressing any of these will share the website you are looking at with whatever button you press (Message, FYI, is text message)
   
2. Add to Home Screen – If you go to a website frequently, this can be very convenient. What this button does is add an icon for that webpage right to your Home screen; that way whenever you want to launch the website, you can do it directly from the Home screen.
   
3. Print – If you have a AirPrint compatible printer, you can print a photo, document or webpage directly from your tablet.
   
4. Copy – This copies the website address.
   
5. Bookmark – If you go to a website often (but don’t want to add it to your Home screen) then you can bookmark it; I will show you this in more detail in just a moment.
   
6. Add to Reading List – If you have a bunch of news stories open, you can add them to a Reading List to read later (even if you are offline).
   

The next button over (it looks like a book) is the bookmark button.

Let’s go back to the bookmark button and see how that works.

When you add a bookmark (remember you do this from the previous button—the middle one), it will ask you to name it. By default it will put it in the general bookmark tab, but you can also create new folders by clicking on “Bookmarks.”

Now you can access the website anytime you want without typing the address by tapping on the Bookmarks button.