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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Keeping in touch by email

 Equipment needed: An iPad with a connection to the Internet (through Wi-Fi or mobile communications) and an email address, if you already have one.

 Skills needed: Experience starting apps (see Chapter 3) and using the iPad keyboard (Chapter 4). Familiarity with the Contacts app (see Chapter 5) and experience using email on an iPhone or other smartphone may be helpful, but are not essential.

In this chapter, you find out how to send email messages to your friends and read their replies. If you've used email on your computer or an iPhone, you'll find it easy to adapt to using the iPad, especially now that you're an expert on the iPad keyboard. Before you can start emailing, though, you need to set up email on your iPad. We talk you through the steps to do so.

If you haven't used email before, you're in for a treat! The iPad makes it easy to keep in touch with friends and family by sending them messages they can read on their computers, their smartphones or their own iPads. With email, messages wait until somebody picks them up, so your friends don't have to be using their computers at the same time you're writing to them. It's a bit like sending a letter by post: Messages are delivered and sit in the email box in the same way that letters sit on the doormat ...