The iPad is a polarizing device. Some people think it’s a fundamental lifestyle tool, while others believe it to exist solely for amusement. If you know you want to learn more about the iPad, keep reading these tips.

You can get to all of your active apps easily on your iPad. Press the Home button twice and a bar with the running apps will appear. If you tap on a app in the bar, you can quickly switch to it. To make the bar disappear, simply swipe the screen downwards.

You can easily see the video or picture you just took without clicking the camera roll. Swipe to your right using a finger, and there is your video or picture. To look at your previous pictures, swipe your finger to the left.

If you need to charge up in a hurry, do not use an iPhone charger on the iPad. Your iPad doesn’t have the same wattage as your iPhone which is 10 watts as opposed to 5 watts on the phone. Charging with an iPhone charger will take far more time. You would be better off using the one that came with the iPad.

Your iPad is defaulted to show the first two lines of an email in preview. You can change this to see more, if you so desire. To change this, head to iPad Settings and press on Mail. Go to Mail, Contacts, and Calendar to adjust Preview Mail Options to add more lines.

You are able to send messages more effectively this way. If you double tap the space bar, you’ll get a period followed by a space, for example. You can save time by doing these things automatically instead of manually, so that you can easily send messages to more of your friends.

No matter how you use the iPad, there is always more that can be done with it. This is just the beginning of using an iPad. Learn more, and you will find out more all the time.