I got an ipad mini for my birthday. I’m liking it so far, but I have a few questions. Can I hide the dock and bring it up when I need to use it? In the messages app, how do I move between several open conversations? When accessing the app switcher, how do I move to the control center? All help is appreciated, thanks advance.
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iPad help
Hiding the doc: you can hide it by pressing the Home Button, it will remain open but it will be in the background. To bring it back up, hit the home button again. Sorry but I don’t have a clue as to how you move from one message to another. If you want to bring up the control panel, swipe up on the clock and the control panel will appear. To be a bit more per Syse; if you slide three fingers up poured on the time-not the clock, you’ll get the control panel to show up. To be more precise; slide three fingers up words on the time, not the Clock app, and the control panel will appear. In order to get the control panel off, all you need to do is hit the home button. Hope the info helps and good luck.
Using iPad Mini
I hold my iPad Mini in the horizontal direction with home button on the right. In Messages there is a list of conversations on the left side of the screen. I move through this list by tapping twice on one then swiping right or left to move down or up the list. When I'm on the one I want I double tap it and that conversation is then the one on the right side of the screen for reading and replying to. For control center I press home button twice to get app switcher and also control center on the right side of the screen. Voiceover reads everything I touch on control center. Double tap to activate or deactivate. Press home button for both app switcher and control panel to go away. About the dock, I do nott know how to make that disappear.
sounds seem to decrease in volume
An issue I just noticed with the ipad is sounds seem to decrease in volume when voiceover is talking, and voicover seems to decrease in volume along with the sound. Even after I've turned audio ducking off, turned voiceover off and back on, and restarted the device, the problem continues. I'm running the latest iOS. I don't think this should be happening on a brand new ipad, and is there any way this can be fixed?
control center
I use my ipad in landscape with my home button to the right. You don't have to swipe on the clock. Go up to the status bar and just put your finger on 1 of the items up there. You don't need to tap it. Then swipe up with 3 fingers. The easiest way to do this, is to push the home button twice.
I don't think you can make the dock disappear. I have a mini 4, and I bove it! Good luck!
Sounds
In settings, under sounds, the first option is change with buttons. Turning this off supposedly keeps system sounds where you set them regardless of settings you make with the physical volume buttons. That might help with the Voiceover volume going down along with whatever you are turning up or down using the volume buttons. As for sounds decreasing in volume when Voiceover is talking, turning off audio ducking should remedy that so I don't know whats going on there.
I've tried both of these
I've tried both of these settings, with no results.