iPad For Dummies, 10th Edition

Chapter 3

Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPad

IN THIS CHAPTER

Getting your head around iCloud

Synchronizing contacts, calendars, bookmarks, and more

Synchronizing music, videos, photos, and more

Synchronizing manually

We have good news and … more good news. The good news is that you can easily set up your iPad so that your contacts, appointments, reminders, events, mail settings, bookmarks, books, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos are synchronized between your computer and your iPad (or other iDevices). And the more good news is that after you set it up, your contacts, appointments, events, and everything else we just mentioned can be kept up to date automatically in multiple places — on one or more of your computers and iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices.

Here’s more good news: Whenever you make a change in one place, it’s reflected almost immediately in all the other places it occurs. So if you add or change an appointment, an event, or a contact on your iPad while you’re out and about, the information is automatically updated on your computers and ...