Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
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Set Home Screen
makes the wallpaper decorate only your Home screen.
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Set Both
makes your image the wallpaper for both the Lock screen and the Home
screen.
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Cancel
takes you back to the thumbnail page without changing your Home or
Lock screen.
Sounds
Consider the Sounds settings area the iPad's soundstage. There, you can turn audio alerts on or off
for a variety of functions: ringtones, text tones, new e-mail, sent mail, calendar and reminder alerts,
Facebook posts, and tweets. You can also decide whether you want to hear lock sounds and key-
board clicks.
You can alter the ringtone you hear for FaceTime calls and the text tones you hear for iMessages,
and visit the iTunes store to buy more text tones or ringtones if you're not satisfied with those that
Apple supplies, for 99 cents and $1.29 a pop. (Mac owners can create their own by using Gar-
ageBand as can folks who use GarageBand on an iPad. And the app is now free for folks who pur-
chase new iOS 7 devices.) To set a custom tone for individuals in the Contacts app, tap the Edit but-
ton and then either the Ringtone or Text Tone option.
To raise the decibel level of alerts, drag the volume slider to the right. Drag in the opposite direction
to bring down the noise. An alternative way to adjust sound levels is to use the physical Volume but-
tons on the side of the iPad for this purpose, as long as you're not already using the iPad's iPod to
listen to music or watch video.
You can enable and disable this feature with the Change with Buttons switch, right below the
volume slider.
Exploring Settings in General
Certain miscellaneous settings are difficult to pigeonhole. Apple wisely lumped these under the
General settings moniker. Here's a closer look at your options.
About About
You aren't seeing double. This section, as shown in Figure
15-9
, is all about the About setting. And
About is full of trivial (and not-so-trivial) information
about
the device. What you find here is
straightforward.
