Crash course in using the new ipad

BLUEBIE

Hi I have bought my daughter the new ipad for her birthday, complete techno phobe, can someone quicklyu run through the pointers for me to get going? She went on something last night which required my card details for apps etc is the necessary, how do you send photos etc?

Thanks

b

mikey72

BLUEBIE wrote: »

Hi I have bought my daughter the new ipad for her birthday, complete techno phobe, can someone quicklyu run through the pointers for me to get going? She went on something last night which required my card details for apps etc is the necessary, how do you send photos etc?

Thanks

b

Card details are a bad idea. You need to get the ipad back, and create a new apple id without a payment method. Set up a hotmail id for her, go to the apps store from your pc, and try to download a free app, it'll ask you to create a new id, or use an existing one. Create a new one, then you can select none as payment. You can then swop the id on the ipad settings from the old one with your card details, to the new one without. Far safer.

Lifeforms

mikey72 wrote: »

Card details are a bad idea. You need to get the ipad back, and create a new apple id without a payment method. Set up a hotmail id for her, go to the apps store from your pc, and try to download a free app, it'll ask you to create a new id, or use an existing one. Create a new one, then you can select none as payment. You can then swop the id on the ipad settings from the old one with your card details, to the new one without. Far safer.

That's only in the case of your daughter not being trustworthy, aka you suddenly find there's a bunch of purchases on your card because she's either done it, or just not realised she's paying for something.

I'd suggest her own apple ID, as above pretty much, but you could start her off with an Itunes voucher card. Say £15 and tell her to spend wisely. That way there is no payment linked to it, but she can get paid apps, or music, or anything she wants with it upto a limit. Then she can buy more gift cards herself, or get them as gifts in prezzie times.

Incidentally if you look around the forums for the itunes thread, it often tells you where you can get the vouchers/cards for less than the advertised cost (ie a £15 one that costs £12.50) You input the code numbers to the itunes account, which gives credit.

googler

You can send photos to others by browsing the photo in the Photos area, and selecting the Send icon (arrow leaving a box) at top right.

This gives you the option to e-mail it, as long as you've linked an e-mail account to the pad, to message it to someone else who has apple messaging enabled, or to tweet it.

What did you anticipate that your daughter would use the pad for?

If you go into any large high-street newsagent, you'll find a brace of magazines dedicated to helping folks make the most of their iPads, Macs, etc. Perhaps one of these may be worth a fiver or so to get you and her started?

BLUEBIE

Thanks for this so I tunes vouchers can be used for other things other than just i tunes?

I bought it for fb, teenage stuff really :-)

xx

Lifeforms

Yeah, now what I am not sure about is the newer (to me atleast) app gift cards. Whether they genuinely are just for apps, or can be used on music, vid etc too.

I'd stick with the itunes specific one, they can be used all over, so from ebooks, music, albums, videos, tv shows, and apps too.
But I wouldn't give her free range to a credit/debit carded account. You have to work on the basis of no refunds, so be certain if you do pay for something. (there are random cases of refunds, I even got one myself, but generally not done). It's also not instant receipts. Some of my receipts for items comes a couple of weeks after I buy it.

Oh and accidentally deleting it off the ipad (finger held down on icon, till it shakes, and hitting the X on it) doesn't mean it's deleted forever. You can redownload it, and if it's a paid app/in game paid app it'll come back as that.

I would probably also look for a reasonably rugged case too.

Mista_C

I set up an Apple ID for each of my kids with the 'None' payment option. If they want any Apps then can ask me and I go use my ID to 'Gift It' to them. I pay, they can download it and no messing about with iTunes vouchers.

buyitall

If you live near an Apple store, I would recommend signing up for one of their iPad workshops. They are free of charge, last about an hour or so. You take your own iPad and someone goes through all the features. You don't need to have bought the iPad from an apple store, you just sign up online and turn up on the day.

Lifeforms

Mista_C wrote: »

I set up an Apple ID for each of my kids with the 'None' payment option. If they want any Apps then can ask me and I go use my ID to 'Gift It' to them. I pay, they can download it and no messing about with iTunes vouchers.

It's not really messing around when you buy, scratch, enter, press ok?
BUT by shopping in the offers of less than the actual price card, you get more spend for your money, which makes MSE sense really.

Mista_C

Lifeforms wrote: »

It's not really messing around when you buy, scratch, enter, press ok?

Compared to click and buy/gift? Before you can click and buy with the gift cards you've got to first go and buy one or wait for one to be delivered. Once that's done then you basically do the same as me. I consider additional steps messing about.

BUT by shopping in the offers of less than the actual price card, you get more spend for your money, which makes MSE sense really.

Can't argue with that

Lifeforms

To be fair most places sell them, where you'd be in anyway. Supermarkets, likes of argos, comet, currys etc. So it's prolly not an extra visit, just locate them where you're already at. Even home delivery free from various places means it's not going out to get. Which does remind me to seek out the thread concerned and top up myself