So, you have now decided to get yourself a brand new iPad. This is not a transaction that you want to enter into lightly. If you want to truly benefit from owning an iPad, there is some information you may find useful. Read on to learn more.

If you use your iPad all the time to watch movies, listen to music and play games, the battery is not going to last very long. By tweaking the brightness of your iPad screen, you can make the battery last longer. You will discover that the brightest settings are rarely necessary.

Do you often accidentally open loud apps? Muting your volume is as simple as pressing and holding the volume button down. The lock button can be turned into a mute button as well.

A great way to keep pages open is to open new pages in a new tab. If you are using Safari, you can access this feature by tapping on a link and holding your finger there for a couple seconds till a menu of options appears. Here, you can choose to open the link in a tab.

Do you wish you could get to your bookmarked favorite sites quicker and easier? Within the iPad you can, simply by enabling the bookmarks bar. Go to Settings, Safari, and then select Always Show Bookmarks Bar and turn it to On.

There is now an easy way to mute your iPad. The original iPad didn’t have a mute button. The IOS 4.3 gave the choice of a lock switch to lock the iPad orientation or to mute the sound. Now, you can quickly mute your iPad by holding the “down” half of the volume button.

Apple’s iPad serves as a unique tool, and it can be useful for both pleasure and work purposes. However, it’s important that you learn all you can on using the iPad so that you can get your money’s worth out of it. Use these tips, explore the different apps you downloaded and you will be an advanced user in no time.