iPad mini For Dummies, 3rd Edition

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Synchronicity: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPad mini

In This Chapter

• Getting your head around iCloud
• Starting your first sync
• Backing up your mini
• Disconnecting during a sync
• Synchronizing contacts, calendars, email accounts, and bookmarks
• Synchronizing music, podcasts, videos, photos, books, and applications
• Synchronizing manually

We have good news and . . . more good news. The good news is that you can easily set up your iPad mini so that your contacts, appointments, reminders, events, mail settings, bookmarks, books, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, photos, and apps 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 ...