The iPad is an amazing creation, but you may not be aware of all of the things that it is able to do. You should spend some time learning about your iPad to understand all of the things that it can do. Keep reading for some useful tips and tricks that will help you use your iPad.

With the default setting you can see the first two lines of any emails before you open them. You may want to have more text available to preview. Just visit SETTINGS and tap MAIL. Choose Contacts>>Calendar, and then select the number of lines you’d like to preview for Mail.

To include Google calender events on the iPad, select Mail > Contacts > Calenders. Select Add An Account. When prompted for the type, choose Other. Tap the Add CalDAV Account icon and put in your Google information. Then navigate out of settings and click on the calendar application. You should now be set to go.

Open new pages with tabs in order to keep them open. When using Safari, simply tap on the link and hold it until you see a pop-over menu appear. Here, you can choose to open the link in a tab.

Do you want to eliminate the battery charge level from your iPad screen? If you want, you have the power to turn that off. First enter the Settings menu. Go to your General settings and locate Usage. In Usage, you are able to turn off the battery percentage icon.

This a useful trick if you need to mute the sound of your iPad quickly. All that you need to do is hold the lower volume button for about two seconds. This is a lot quicker than going through the settings. When ready for original volume level, simply hold the button down again.

Now that you have read this, you should be more aware of how to use an iPad every day. You will find a wide variety of daily uses for this powerful, easy to use device. Remember what you have just learned, and start maximizing your iPad usage.