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Faculty, iPads, Student

My iPad is in the wrong time zone!

If your iPad clock is a few hours off [it thinks it’s still in California…], here’s how to bring it to Eastern time:

  • Settings–>Privacy
  • Locations Services –> Turn ON

This will let the iPad figure out where it is.

While you are there, the iPad Guy suggests you make these changes:

  • System Services:
    • Leave these ON:
      • Compass Calibration
      • Emergency SOS
      • Find My iPad
      • Setting Time Zone
      • WiFi Networking
    • Turn these OFF:
      • Homekit
      • Location-Based ANTHING [Alerts, Ads, Suggestions]
      • Frequent Locations
      • Product Improvement – all 3 OFF
    • Status Bar Icon ON

These will extend your battery life and better protect your privacy AND reduce some annoyances.

It will take a while for the iPad to update the time.
Want to speed up the process?

  • Settings –> General –> Date&Time
  • Turn “Set Automatically” Off
  • Change “Cupertino” to “Atlanta”
  • Then you can change the “Set Automatically” back on if you want to.

 

 

Faculty, iPads, Student

IOS 10 – make the home button friendly again

NOTE: this is only applicable to those who have Air2 iPads AND have setup your fingerprints to open up your iPad.

If you miss just resting your finger on the home button to unlock it (as opposed to having to press home)

Here is how to re-enable touch to unlock

Many users were taken aback by the way iOS 10 handles unlocking the device by requiring a press on the Home Button. Devoted iOS fans will be happy to hear that this feature can be reversed to the iOS 9 behavior.

To reverse this behavior and go back to the iOS 9 unlocking behavior of just resting your finger on the Home Button Touch ID sensor, follow these steps.

Open the Settings app.
Select General | Accessibility.
Select the Home Button option.
Enable the option for Rest Finger To Open.

 

(taken from http://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-overlooked-features-of-ios-10/)