Turning Off Push Accounts

One handy feature of the iPad is the push account. If you have a supported email account, your email server can deliver new messages to your iPad automatically so you receive the information almost the instant someone sends it to you.

Since a push account requires that your iPad periodically contact your email account over the Internet, it uses energy. If you don’t need or care to receive email messages as quickly as possible, you can turn off the push account by following these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.

  2. Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars. The Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 2-1.

  3. Tap Fetch New Data. The Fetch New Data settings screen appears, as ...

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