It’ll be fun, they said. It just works, they said. And to be fair, the iPad is a spectacularly intuitive and user-friendly computing device. But even the iPad has its moments of head-scratching bafflement, and we all have to start learning somewhere.
Over the following pages we explain the basics of iPad ownership. It should be perfect for the beginners and the newcomers, but we think everyone will find something here they didn’t know before.
How to turn it on
An iPad has very few buttons: there’s the Home button on the front, below the screen; the power button, at the top right; volume buttons, on the right-hand edge; and possibly a mute switch, next to the volume buttons.
If the iPad is only in sleep mode, you can wake…