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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