Installing (and Uninstalling) Apps
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Deleting an App from the iPad
The simplest way to delete an app is directly from your iPad. To delete an icon and
uninstall the app that the icon represents, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap and hold your finger on the app icon that you
want to delete. Your apps will start wriggling. An X in a circle appears in the
upper-left corner of your chosen icon. (If an X in a circle does not appear,
that means you cannot delete that icon and uninstall that app.)
Q NOTE: Press the Home button if you suddenly
decide you don’t want to delete the icon after
all. The X in the circle disappears from your
chosen icon.
2. Tap the X in the circle. A Delete dialog
appears, as shown in Figure 11-7.
3. Tap Delete. Your chosen icon disappears
from the Home screen.
4. Press the Home button to stop your apps
from wriggling.
Deleting an App Using iTunes
To delete an app by using iTunes on your computer, you need to connect your iPad
to your computer and then follow these steps:
1. Run iTunes on your computer.
2. Click the name of your iPad under the Devices category in the left pane of
the Tunes window.
3. Click the Apps tab. The screen displays your Home screen panes with all
your currently installed apps.
4. Move the mouse pointer over an app icon that you want to delete. An X in a
circle appears in the app icon’s upper-left corner.
5. Click this close button (the X in the circle). Your chosen app icon disappears.
Q NOTE: If you select the checkboxes of apps displayed in the Apps tab of the
iTunes window, you can re-install any downloaded apps back on to your iPad.
Running iPhone Apps on the iPad
If you have an iPhone and have already bought iPhone apps, you can install them
on your iPad too. Although you can run iPhone apps on the iPad, most iPhone
apps won’t use up the full screen of the iPad, as shown in Figure 11-8.
However, you can expand an iPhone app so it fills up the entire iPad screen.
Just tap the 2x button in the bottom-right corner of the iPad screen to blow up an
iPhone app.
To shrink an expanded iPhone app screen back to its normal size, tap
the 1x button in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
FIGURE 11-7: The Delete
dialog alerts you that
you are uninstalling
anapp.
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