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Troubleshooting Your iPad
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Resetting and Erasing Your iPad
If you plan to give away or sell your iPad, you may want to wipe out all your data
and return your iPad to its original factory condition (minus any minor blemishes
you may have made on the iPad’s case while using it). To reset and erase your iPad
completely, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap General. The General settings screen appears.
3. Scroll down and tap Reset. The Reset settings screen appears.
4. Tap Erase All Content and Settings. An Erase iPad dialog appears, asking
for confirmation before resetting and erasing your iPad.
5. Tap Erase or Cancel.
Resetting the Keyboard Dictionary
As you type on the virtual keyboard, it gradually learns and adapts to the words
you use most often. As you type part of a word, the virtual keyboard will display
the words you’ve used before.
Of course, after the virtual keyboard’s dictionary gets trained to display
certain words, you may change your writing style, so the keyboard dictionary may
start suggesting words that you don’t want to type. To avoid this problem, you can
reset just the keyboard dictionary settings by following these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap General. The General settings screen appears.
3. Scroll down and tap Reset. The Reset settings screen appears.
4. Tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary. A Reset Dictionary dialog appears, asking
for confirmation before resetting your keyboard dictionary.
5. Tap Reset or Cancel.
Resetting Location Services
If Location Services is turned on, your iPad can identify its current location.
When you use certain apps, such as the Maps app, a dialog may pop up asking
whetheryou want to use your current location in the app.
After you allow apps to use your iPad’s current location, they will eventually
stop asking for permission to use your current location again. However, if you pre-
fer having a dialog alert you when your iPad is trying to identify its current location,
you can reset your iPad’s location warning by following these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap General. The General settings screen appears.
3. Scroll down and tap Reset. The Reset settings screen appears.
4. Tap Reset Location Warnings. A Reset Warnings dialog appears, asking
whether you want to reset location warnings to the factory default settings.
5. Tap Reset or Cancel.