If you know someone who owns an iPad you have surely heard alot about how useful and entertaining it can be. Learn all you can so you can take advantage of all it has to offer. The following article contains additional tips and tricks that will help you optimize your iPad experience.

If you plan to use your iPad to stream movies, play games or listen to music continuously, battery life may be shortened significantly. One way to make you battery last longer is to adjust your screen’s brightness. You probably won’t even miss using the brightest setting.

Keep track of how much you are spending on iPad apps. iTunes makes it simple to just click and buy once you have entered your credit card or gift card information. Therefore, it is important to monitor your spending.

Your iPad is defaulted to show the first two lines of an email in preview. It can help for you to see more lines before you open up the email. Go to ‘mail’ under ‘settings’. From Mail, choose Contacts, then go to Calendar where you can change the options to preview mail.

If you always prefer to read the owner’s manual for any new gadget, you will need to download the manual for the iPad. Apple doesn’t include manuals with their products in order to maintain a minimalistic image.

It is a pain when you get an email and your iPad chimes every time. You can turn them off. Go into your settings, then choose the general tab. Then select Sounds. Now you can disable the mail sounds or fix the level.

You may be full of awe and wonder the first time you use an iPad. If you want to find out all it can do, you might want to take time to learn all about it. If you use these tips you will be able to get a headstart on the use of your iPad.