Category Archives: iPads

Tired of seeing Cupertino’s weather on your iPad?

Here’s how to change the Weather Widget on your ipad from Cupertino to something a LITTLE closer to home.

The Weather Widget on an iPad

Widgets are those blocks of info on your initial screen. You can add, move, delete, and even stack them [stacking means there are several widgets in the same block on the screen – you scroll through them to se the additional info.]

Start the process by pressing and waiting on the widget.

Long press on the widget

A menu will pop up.

The Widget menu

Click on “Edit Weather”.

Not exactly close to home, is it?

Click on “Cupertino”, and type “Macon” – or wherever you’d like to see the weather at a glance.

Pick the correct Macon from the list. Yes, there is more than one in the US.
Wonder if we’ll get some snow this winter?
Not today…. or anytime soon!

The same process is used to modify or delete the other widgets.

Click the “DONE” button, top right, to finish the job.

My tabs won’t load – nothing will work.

Some things to try when webpages will not load on your iPad, in no particular order:

1) Swipe out of ALL your running apps. Shut the iPad down. Wait 20 seconds. Start it back up again.
This is what we call the iPad Reboot Dance

2) Turn wi-fi off. Wait 20 seconds. Turn it back on again.

3) Your subscription to the network may have expired. Surf to a webpage you’ve never visited before [hamsandwichtees.com, for example]. That should trigger the login page.

4) Try a different web browser – you have three [Safari, Chrome, Firefox].

iPad is Disabled – what to do

What to do if your ipad is Disabled

Why this happens:
You typed in your passcode too many times

How to fix it:
Bring your ipad to the iPad office [or the ARC, if the office is unoccupied.] We will have to wipe it, which can take anywhere from a couple of hours to a day or so [depending on what else is happening tech-wise.]

Hopefully you setup your Notability backup to Drive correctly, AND your photos and videos are backing up to Drive as well.

HERE’S HOW to check that your backups are actually happening.