Re: adjusting to iPad

[Mary Otten]

Hi Robin, Don’t feel alone. In the past, I had a full size iPad. I’m talking about the way past. The iPad one. And I’ve had a couple of iPad mini’s. I have one now. And I have decided that it’s really efficient for certain things and not for others. I sort of got used to the stuff on the left like when you go into settings and all the things are on the left and what you have selected, then the choice is for that are over on the right etc. But the one thing I really wish is that I could find the scroll bar. Opening email and having it open way down into some really old stuff is annoying. And finding that scroll bar is not easy. Not like on the iPhone where I know exactly where it is. Maybe using a keyboard and getting familiar with keyboard commands would help. But I do like the battery life. I like being able to use zoom. And because of the battery life, I like reading and stuff on the iPad. Save my phone for things where I really have to interact, which isn’t particularly fun on even the iPad mini in my opinion. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jan 25, 2023, at 6:38 PM, R Van Lant <vanlant2...@msn.com> wrote:  Hi, I bought a used iPad recently.  It’s primary use so far is for  my son to play Minecraft, but I won’t tell him that. It’s set up under my Apple ID  and I’m slowly setting it up to be a backup to my iPhone for some  things like reading audio books.  I’m definitely finding it harder to adjust to the layout than I thought. It came with some widgets on the home screen that I have never used on my phone and I still need to get a sense of how I want to organize it, given the larger real estate.  It also took me a bit to get used to Settings, were the menu is on the left and the options are on the right; that seems to mean the flicking left and right isn’t as reliable, as I have to get focus in the right place first.   Probably the biggest surprise is how different the keyboard is.  It took me a long time to find an exclamation point for a password I have.  I’m really surprised that the number and symbols keyboards don’t mirror the iPhone – or maybe it’s that I always use my iPhone in portrait mode and the landscape keyboard would be more  similar to the iPad.   I’m also finding it tricky to use control panel as I seem to get it open, then somehow touch the wrong place and close it.  Does control panel not fill the whole screen like it does on the iPhone?  Why did I just think it was a larger version of my phone?   Anyway, just looking for other advice on adjusting or switching between the two. My ego has taken a hit with this thing.   Robin   -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MW4PR14MB4716DA68F25392F308D372F5AFCF9%40MW4PR14MB4716.namprd14.prod.outlook.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list.   If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself.   Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com   The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/033A753B-146E-466E-8A97-9BCB5478C443%40gmail.com.