There is a lot more to your iPad than just watching movies, playing games and surfing the internet on the go. Besides these features, there are several ways to tweak your iPad to enhance your experience and make your tasks easier. We have a compiled a list of handy features that could help you get a better taste of what your iPad has to offer.

Customize Your iPad Background:

Choosing the colour of your smart cover is not the only change you can make to your iPad. If you want to change the background of your home screen or lock screen, you can select a custom picture in ‘Brightness and Wallpaper’ from the left-side menu.

Using Spotlight Search:

Your iPad experience will be incomplete unless you use the wonderful apps available at the Apple Store. Once these apps start accumulating, browsing and searching for them becomes annoying. However, you can use the Spotlight Search to locate the app that you want to use instead of going through several pages for it. To access it, go to the first page of your home screen and slide your finger across from left to right.

Switching Between Open Apps:

Multitasking on iPads and notebooks is as important as food and water these days and it is likely that you will have several apps running in the background. Switching between the apps on the iPads is not as easy as just clicking on the taskbar but various shortcuts exist. The best being that you are able to use your five fingers to switch apps by swiping them from left to right. If you want to view the apps that are running currently, swipe your fingers to the top.

Using Keyboard Shortcuts:

If your iPad is running the latest iOS released, iOS 5.0, then you can save customizable keyboard shortcuts for later use. This means that you no longer have to write long phrases over and over again as your iPad will help you to type those using smaller phrases. In order to do so, go to Settings, General, Keyboard and Tap ‘Add New Shortcut’. Enter a phrase, for e.g. ‘For your information’ and then enter its corresponding shortcut, for e.g. ‘fyi’. Tap ‘Save’ once you have finished entering. The next time that particular shortcut is typed, your iPad will suggest you to change it to the longer version.

Theft Protection:

Most probably, this is a scenario that none of us will be willing to consider as we all love our iPads and take more care of them than ourselves. However, they can be very easily misplaced or stolen and some of us have extremely sensitive data that has to be stopped from leaking out. You can set your iPad to erase all the data on it after ten failed pass code entry attempts. The option of Erase Data is available under Settings, General, Pass code Lock.