Lesson 5 Customizing General Settings for Your iPad

This lesson explains how to use the iPad’s General Settings to manage the overall system, including storage, international and language settings, restrictions, additional keyboards, and more.

Managing iPad Settings

Settings often hold many secrets to getting a device to work well and to fit the way you use it. The iPad’s settings, however, are somewhat different than the settings on other computing devices, with much less under the control of the user than on other systems. With the iPad, you are unable to set the system font or the size of displayed characters. (Though you can, in some cases, zoom.) Neither data files nor program files are directly accessible. In this sense, the iPad is much ...

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