Introduction to Tablets: iPad
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THE HOME
SCREEN
On screen, you’ll see a number of app icons. These
are graphical images that represent each app. You
could see an envelope icon for your email program,
a speech bubble icon for your messages, a camera
icon for taking photos and so on.
Once the iPad is switched on and unlocked, you
should find yourself at what is called the
Home
screen. This is where you launch your apps.
Apps are mini programs that add functionality, such
as a calendar, clock, game or web browser. The iPad
comes with a number of free apps pre-installed, and
you can also download new apps from the App Store
onto your iPad. There are more than 1 million apps
designed specifically for the iPad available on the
App Store.
SUBJECT
TIME
USING INBUILT APPS
15 minutes
Too many apps?
One special thing about the
Home
screen is that you have more than one.
If you have so many apps installed on your iPad that their icons can’t fit on the
one screen, extra icons will appear on secondary (and tertiary, and quaternary
and so on) Home screens.
To access additional
Home
screens you use the swipe gesture, anywhere on the
Home screen. Swipe left to go to the next Home screen, swipe right to go back.
The iPad Home screen
