iPad for the Older and Wiser: Get Up and Running with Your Apple iPad, iPad Air and iPad Mini, 4th Edition

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Managing your address book and birthday list

 Equipment needed: Your iPad and your address book (whether it's on your computer or scrawled in a beaten-up old paper notebook).

 Skills needed: Experience starting apps and using the iPad keyboard (see Chapter 4).

One of the most useful collections of information you can carry with you is your address book. If you remember a birthday at the last minute and have to write out a card in the shop, or just want to phone a friend for advice or a chat, you'll be pleased to have your addresses and phone numbers at the tip of your fingers.

The iPad comes with an app called Contacts, which is designed to help you manage your address book. It's a simple app, but it's powerful because it's integrated with many other apps. When you're sending email, you can use the details in your address book to save yourself from having to remember or type somebody's email address, for example, and the Maps app enables you to find directions to and from your friends’ houses quickly.

In this chapter, we show you how to manage your contacts on your iPad and how to use the Calendar app to view your friends’ birthdays month by month. Note that to make the most of the features that we outline here and in other parts of this book, we recommend updating to the latest ...