If you have an app that STAYS black [which means the iPad has made room for it, but has NOT downloaded and installed it], then MDS Tech might ask you to “do the dance”. Here are the steps:
Double-click the home button. Swipe up on ALL the apps you have running.
Hold down the power button on the top until the “Swipe to turn off” slider appears onscreen.
Swipe the slider to turn it off.
WAIT TEN INTERMINABLE MINUTES. While you are waiting, work on your homework…or ask someone what “interminable” means.
Start your iPad up.
Go to the black app.
If it has the name of the app, click it. That should change to the word “Waiting”.
Wait.
Wait some more.
Wait even longer.
Let MDS Tech know when the app installs.
You can also do this at home, as long as your iPad on is on wireless network.
If the iPad Guy has asked you to swap out your iPad, here is a list of things you need to do on your OLD iPad before turning it in.
If you can’t – because the screen is too damaged, etc. – then it’s possible you MIGHT lose some data. At the very least the process will be more inconvenient [as opposed to catastrophic].
Settings –> iCloud –> Backup. “BACKUP NOW”. Wait for it to complete – it will take a while.
Notability –> Settings [gear icon on the front screen]. Make SURE AutoUpdate is turned ON.
Drive –> Look inside the notability folder, make sure your latest notability stuff is there. Look inside the “Google Photos” folder – make sure your pix are there. If they aren’t, then manually copy them up to that folder [Plus icon, bottom right, select Photos album, click on the pictures that are missing, click the Blue Checkmark to start the upload.]
Once this is done we can start working on your replacement iPad.
Before you send that email to The iPad Guy telling him that you’d like to have either of these apps, make certain you have enough space on your iPad.
Garageband takes up 1.5 gig, and Numbers about .5 gig.
How to check:
Settings –> General –> About
What to do if you are short on space:
Delete pictures/videos in the Photos app – and then empty the album “Recently Deleted”
Go ahead and do the system update that you’ve been putting off [Settings –> General –> Software Update]
If you have a gazillion unread emails, go into Settings –>Email, and delete the account. Then set it back up [HINT: Google account]. This will NOT delete the emails, just the copies that were sitting on your iPad.
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