iPad for the Older and Wiser: Get Up and Running with Your Apple iPad, iPad Air and iPad Mini, 4th Edition

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Adding and managing apps

 Equipment needed: An iPad with an Internet connection.

 Skills needed: Experience using the iTunes Store (see Chapter 10) is helpful but not essential. Familiarity with gesture controls is helpful (see previous chapters).

So far in this book, you've discovered the many things your iPad can do using the apps that Apple installs on your iPad for you. That's only the start of the story, though. Thousands of programmers out there are constantly coming up with new apps that allow you to use your iPad in all kinds of imaginative ways. However obscure you think your hobby is, there's bound to be an app for it among the 375,000 apps designed for the iPad.

In this chapter, we show you how to download new apps to your iPad, how to remove them and how to organise them. We also suggest some apps you may want to try out.

Using the App Store

All the apps you add (download) to your iPad, including the free ones, come through the App Store, which is part of the iTunes Store. When you tap the App Store icon on your Home screen, you'll see a screen that looks similar to the iTunes Store for music and video (see Chapter 10).

You navigate the App Store the same way you navigate a web page (see Chapter 9). To see more offers, drag the screen upwards. To jump back to the top, ...