Lesson 5. Customizing General Settings for Your iPad 2

This lesson explains how to use the iPad 2’s General Settings to manage the overall system, including storage, international and language settings, restrictions, additional keyboards, and more.

Managing iPad 2 Settings

Settings often hold many secrets to getting a device to work well and to fit the way you use it. The iPad 2’s settings, however, are somewhat different from the settings on other computing devices, with much less under the control of the user than on other systems. With the iPad 2, you are unable to set the system font or the size of displayed characters. Neither data files nor program files are directly accessible on the device at all.

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