As with any iPhone, the iPad user has the option of setting a passcode that one must use to access the contents of the device.  The default passcode setup is a four digit code which is accessed by selecting the settings icon and then General > Passcode Lock.

Once this window is open there is option to turn the passcode off or on and to set or change the passcode by selecting “Simple Passcode” from the second set of fields.

iPad Passcode Lock Window Set for Simple Passcode

But, did you know you can choose to have a more complicated passcode?  

If you have selected “Turn Passcode On” from the first set of options and turn off “Simple Passcode” from the second set of options, you will automatically get a Change Passcode window, wherein you can enter any passcode you want to use, in any combination of letters and numbers.

Creating Your Own Passcode

Once you have entered it, reentered it and clicked the Done button, the more complex passcode will be in place.  Let’s see your grandkids get past that!

Click The Done Button To Finish the Process

When Auto-Correction is turned on (Settings > General Keyboard > Auto-Correction) your iPad2 will try and help you by correcting what it thinks are typos. If you hate and despise that feature you can turn it off following the trail noted above. 

But if you have a kinder, gentler nature and choose instead to add words to the iPad2 dictionary you do so automatically every time you reject words the iPad suggests. Tap a word to reject the correction and add the word to the keyboard dictionary. So the first time I typed Gravley for my name and it suggested Gravely I gritted my teeth and kindly and gently added Gravley to the dictionary so I would not have that problem any more.

Deep Dark Secret

So, about that deep dark secret. My twin is a connoisseur of shoes. She probably has 90 pairs. To me a shoe is something that keeps my feet from touching the hot sidewalk, necessary but unpleasant. But I am a connoisseur of purses and by extension for iPad cases and bags. I see unusual or beautiful ones and my eyes get glassy. When I get fantastic ones to review I am delighted. When someone else finds one that I have not seen I get jealous and when they say they got it on sale I weep.