Turning Your iPad On and Off
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Turning Off Your iPad
The main difference between turning your iPad off and putting it to sleep is that
turning the iPad off conserves more battery power. The drawback is that if you turn
the iPad off, it takes a few seconds longer to start up again when you need it.
When your iPad is on, you can turn it off by following these steps:
1. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button until a red “slide to power off” arrow
button appears at the top of the screen.
2. Slide the red arrow button to the right (or tap Cancel if you don’t want to
turn off your iPad after all).
Putting Your iPad to Sleep
After you’ve turned on your iPad, you can change it from on to sleep mode to
conserve battery power while still being able to access your iPad the moment you
need to use it again (rather than waiting for it to boot up).
At a glance, you cannot tell whether an iPad is turned off or in sleep mode. If
you press the Home button and your iPad turns on, then you’ll know it was asleep.
If you press the Home button and nothing happens, then you’ll know that it’s
turned off. You’ll have to hold down the Sleep/Wake button to start it.
To put an iPad to sleep that is already turned on, press the Sleep/Wake but-
ton. The screen darkens.
Q NOTE: If you have a Smart Cover, just use it to cover your iPad’s screen to put
the iPad to sleep.
Putting Your iPad to Sleep Automatically
Since sleep mode is critical in conserving your iPad’s battery, you may be happy
to know that if you leave an iPad on, it will put itself into sleep mode after a fixed
period of time. To change this fixed period of time, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap General. The General settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 1-2.
3. Tap Auto-Lock. The Auto-Lock settings screen appears, as shown in
Figure1-3.
4. Tap one of the available options: 2 Minutes, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Min-
utes, or Never.
5. Press the Home button to return to the Home screen.
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