Smartphone & Tablet Productivity

Most of the time you can fix any minimal performance issues on your iPad but powering it down and restarting it. In some case you will need to reset the iPad to factory settings. You will want to back up your iPad before resetting. This video is shown using iOS 6, but it works the same in iOS 7. New video for iOS 7 coming soon!

If you have multiple e-mail accounts set up on your iPad (iPhone or iPod touch), you can set a “Default” account. This means that when you create a new message, it will send from the default account. When you Reply to or Forward a message, it will come from the account that the original message was sent to. This video is shown using iOS 6, but it works the same in iOS 7. New video for iOS 7 coming soon!

Since Safari is a full browser, and stores cookies, the websites you visit most often may act sluggish. Clearing the History and then clearing Cookies and Data, will help to speed things back up. this process works the same on the iPhone.

If you have a lot of applications and save a lot of pictures to your iPad, you may have a need to keep an eye on the memory usage. If you use Cellular data as well as the Wi-Fi on your iPad you may want to monitor the Cellular Usage so that you do not exceed your data plan for your cellular carrier (avoid unnecessary charges). This tutorial will show you how to monitor the Usage on your iPad. This process works the same on the iPhone. This process is shown in iOS 6, but works the same in iOS 7. New video for iOS 7 coming soon!