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At the bottom of the iPad screen are the final five icons, sitting on the left side of a special shelflike area called the dock.

Suggested apps appear on the right side of the dock. These are apps you’ve used recently or apps that are open on your iPhone or Mac. In Figure 1-4, for example, the three suggested apps (from left to right) are App Store, Settings, and iTunes Store.

The icons on your dock are special because they are available on every Home screen.

By default, the five icons on the left side of the dividing line on the dock are as follows:

 Messages: The Messages app is a unified messaging platform for all Apple devices. You can exchange free, unlimited text or multimedia messages with any other device running iOS 5 or later or Mac OS X Mountain Lion or later. Find out more about Messages in Chapter 6.

 Safari: Safari is your web browser. If you’re an iPhone or Mac user, you know that already. If you’re a Windows user who hasn’t discovered the wonderful Safari for Windows, think Internet Explorer or Edge on steroids. Chapter 4 shows you how to start using Safari on your iPad.

 Music: This icon unleashes all the power of an iPod right on your iPad so you can listen to music or podcasts. You discover how the Music app works in Chapter 7.

 Mail: This app lets you send and receive email with most POP3 and IMAP email systems and, if you work for a company that grants permission, Microsoft Exchange. Chapter 5 helps you start emailing from your iPad everyone you know.

 Files: This app (if enabled in Settings ⇒ iCloud ⇒ iCloud Drive) contains all documents you’ve saved to your iCloud Drive. Apple apps as well as many third-party apps know how to use it.

Feel free to add icons to or remove icons from the left side of the dock until it feels right to you. You can even remove the default apps Apple included. To add or remove dock icons, press and hold down on any icon and tap Rearrange Apps on the menu that appears. Your app icons will begin wiggling. Tap and drag a wiggling app icon to move it to or from the dock. When you’re satisfied, press the Home button to exit wiggly mode and save your arrangement.

You can add many app icons to the dock. The first 12 will line up in the dock as you add them. If you add a 13th app to the dock, the number of recent and suggested apps on the right side of the dock will be limited to 2. And if you want still more apps on the dock, go to Settings ⇒ General ⇒ Multitasking & Dock and turn off Show Suggested and Recent Apps by tapping the toggle and turning it from green to white. You can now add up to 15 apps to the dock.

Two last points:

 Notifications keep getting better with the updated iPadOS. We wanted to mention them even though they don’t have an icon of their own. You hear much more about notifications in Chapter 12. To see them now (we know you can’t wait), swipe from the top of your screen to the middle to make them appear. Then swipe from the bottom to put them away again. This gesture works anytime — even when your iPad is locked. If it’s locked, you’ll see your most recent notifications when you swipe down. Then swipe up to see your older notifications.

 We’d be remiss not to mention the even more useful Control Center, with controls for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio playback, and more, all available from any screen in any app. You discover much more about Control Center in Chapter 14, but if you can’t stand the suspense, put your finger in the top-right corner of your iPad screen and swipe down to check out Control Center (and then tap the Home button or swipe up from the bottom to put it away).