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Chapter 7
What You’ll Be Using
To customize your iPad’s Home screen, you need to use the following:
> The Home button
The Settings app
> The iPad’s USB cable
iTunes on your computer
Rearranging Icons on the Home Screen
You might find yourself using the Calendar and Music apps every day but rarely
using the Contacts or Notes apps. To make it easy to access the Calendar and
Music apps, you might want to put these icons in the corner of the screen and
buryseldom-used app icons in another pane that’s out of sight. There are two
ways to rearrange your Home screen: directly on the iPad or through iTunes on
your computer.
Rearranging Icons on the iPad
The fastest way to rearrange icons on your Home screen is to manipulate and
move those icons directly on your iPad. To rearrange icons on the Home screen,
follow these steps:
1. Press the Home button. The Home screen appears. (Skip this step if the
Home screen is already visible.)
2. Tap and hold your finger on the icon that you want to move to a new location
until all the icons on the Home screen start wriggling, as shown inFigure7-1.
3. Drag the icon to where you want to move it. When you move an icon in
between two other icons, those two icons glide out of the way. You can
nowdrag any app to a new location.
Q NOTE: Remember, the Home screen actually consists of multiple panes. To
move an icon off one pane and onto another one, slide your finger to the left
or right of the screen until the other pane appears.
4. (Optional) Tap the close button of any app icon that you want to remove
from your iPad. It’s the little X in the upper left. The close icon appears only
on apps you can remove, such as iBooks. This close icon does not appear on
built-in apps like Safari or Notes that you cannot remove.
5. Press the Home button to stop all the Home screen icons from wriggling.