iPad BasicsTonya Engst- P11: This ebook is for you if you’re on the cusp of buying an iPad, if you’ve just bought an iPad and aren’t sure what to do with it, or if you’ve had an iPad for a while, but feel that you’re missing out on certain basic functions. | 4. If you re asked for your iTunes password enter it. The iPad shows the Home screen with a gear spinning at the upper left. After a bit the screen s focus switches to a downloading app s icon. A status bar in the icon fills as the update downloads and installs. You can also download updates within iTunes 1. In the sidebar click Apps. 2. At the lower right of the Apps pane click the arrow that goes with an update notice Figure 23 or click Check for Updates. 13 Updates Available O Get More Apps I Computer t Figure 23 In iTunes with Apps selected in the sidebar you may see an updates notice like this one at the lower right of the window. Click the small arrow to the right of Updates Available to view your updates. If you clicked Check for Updates and you get a message saying that no updates are available then you re done. Otherwise if you get a message asking if you d like to view available updates click the View Updates button to display the My App Updates screen. 3. In the My App Updates screen To download all the updates click Download All Free Updates at the upper right . In most cases it s easiest to download all free updates in this fashion unless you re certain you don t want to update a particular app. To download an individual update click its Get Update button. 4. If you re asked for your iTunes password enter it. iTunes downloads your updates. Next time you sync your iPad any updated apps will transfer to the iPad overwriting the old versions. 61 Download from Wow eBook Share Apps You can share apps among any other iPhones or iPod touches that you sync from the same iTunes library that your iPad syncs to. So if you own an iPod touch there s no problem with sharing compatible apps between the iPod touch and the iPad. Or if your household has one computer two iPhones and two iPads all the devices can share the iPhone apps and both iPads can share the iPad-only apps. If you want to bring more than one computer into the sharing scenario I .
