How to Find a Lost or Stolen iPad

Sadly there are many break ins and lost ipads or iphones, this is a great article to check out: 

Your tips and comments are most welcome as well!

101 iPad Tips & Tricks

Published

 5 years ago 

on

 04/13/2017

By

 Josh Smith

Use these iPad tips and tricks to do more with your iPad Air, iPad mini and every other iPad running iOS 10 or higher.

This list of over 100 iPad tips and tricks is broken down by tips to help you get started, use the keyboard better, surf the web on the iPad easier, sync your photos, data and calendars as well as get the most out of your iPad with entertainment apps and services.

Whether you just bought an iPad, or you’ve had one for years, these useful iPad tips and tricks will show you new ways to do more with your iPad. Most of these are already built-in to your iPad, but a few will require buying an iPad accessory, iPad apps or signing up for a service.

If you want to get to know how to use the iPad like a pro with useful shortcuts that will have you typing faster, being more productive and enjoying your iPad more, this is what you need to know.

for more info check out the URL of the above article at: https://www.gottabemobile.com/101-ipad-tips-tricks/

Apple and file format change!

 NEW FORMAT, WHO THIS?

Why Apple Switched from JPEG To HEIC For Their iPhone Photo Format

Apple Explainer Technology Video Apple Explained 2 weeks ago

The format for iPhone photos switched to HEIC since iOS 11. It's often caused problems for some users but Apple had to switch it up because their problems are bigger than an individual's problem.

I added this information here, I'll check my iphone soon, as well as watch the video.

Your comments are welcome regarding the above topic!

Backing up photos videos from your cellphone

At the end of December 2015 I got the new Apple iPhone 6s. It took me a while to get used to it. As I always had android Samsung cellphone and I was very comfortable with it. All my friends were raving about the Apple iPhone, so I decided to give it a try.

However, since then I hadn't backed up my digital files. I had tried to connect to my PC as I used to do with my Samsung and tablet, however I didn't get anything going alerting me about my files. It forced me to sign up with iTunes, which I disliked. Today I gave another try to figure out how to download my files. Bingo, I managed to find my files. I clicked on it and found the DCM folder where there were 3 files, within those folders there were total of 2136 files. It equaled to 4.47gb

As I always like to backup my files, I got my main Master external hard drive. I created a new folder there for my iPhone backups: "iPhone backups to May 16 2016" and there I quickly uploaded the photos. It took me a total of 30min to upload, pretty good. Then I had my second backup external hard drive, which is the Archival backup of the Master drive. That took only 6 minutes!

After all was archived in both locations, I deleted all the files on my iPhone.
I just check storage and iCloud Usage: storage and it shows I have used 6.6gb and available 4.8gb. I am supposed to have 16gb hmmm... where is the rest of the 5gb?
I believe the rest might be all those text messages, whatsup etc - got to go thru all that and get rid of.

June 1st we have a session on backing up photos. This seems to be a major issue.

Check the June 1st meetup session in Bayside at:
http://www.meetup.com/Bayside-Digital/events/231160721/?comment_table_id=465299839&comment_table_name=event_comment