Chapter 15
Tweaking Settings
IN THIS CHAPTER
Modifying your Apple ID settings
Configuring settings for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular connections
Customizing your iPad’s display settings
Messing around with the settings for notifications, location, and Control Center
Make sense of your iPad’s most useful settings
When you liberate a new iPad from its box and turn it on for the first time, you run through a short series of screens to configure a few settings, and then you’re ready to go. One of the perks of getting an iPad is that you can be up-and-surfing (or whatever) in just a few minutes.
However, the cost of that short on ramp is an iPad configured by Apple to suit the most common users. Yes, that mercifully brief setup procedure enabled you to customize your iPad a bit, but those options are just a few of the hundreds of settings offered by iPadOS via the Settings app. Yep: hundreds.
Sure, tons of those settings redefine the word esoteric and should come with a “For geeks only” ...
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