Download and install apps on your iPad

Buy, download, and install iPad apps

You are ready to start loading your iPad with all the cool programs, games, and utilities you can fit onto it.

Get apps in the iTunes Store. Click the App Store link on the main Store page and browse away. When you find an app you want, click the Free App or Buy App button to download a copy of the program to iTunes. You can see all of the apps you've purchased by clicking the Applications icon in the iTunes Source list. When you finish shopping, connect the iPad to your computer, and sync them up.

Get apps on the iPad. When you have a Wi-Fi or 3G connection, tap the blue App Store icon on the Home screen and study away. At the top of the Featured screen, you can see what's new and hot - or what the iTunes Genius thinks you might like. At the bottom from the screen, you see a list of the most downloaded apps and apps listed by category.

Whenever you find an app you would like, tap the Free App or price button; the second turns into a Buy Now button, so hit that. Type in your Store name and password, and the download begins. After the program finishes loading and installing, tap its icon to launch it. Download times vary by app size. For instance, the beautiful interactive textbook pictured here, The Elements: A Visual Exploration, is really a honking 1.74 gigabytes - so provide time.

Uninstall iPad apps

Not every app is really a 5-star winner. One may turn to be different from what you envisioned when you bought it, or not live up to your expectations in other ways. Or maybe some of those bigger games and programs are just taking up too much of your limited iPad real estate. And some apps may even be buggy and crashy, and perhaps you want to just remove them instead of waiting for the developer to post an update. Here are two ways to uninstall an app:

Remove apps in iTunes. Connect the iPad to your computer, and then click its icon in the iTunes Source list. In the main iTunes window, click the Applications tab. In the list, turn off the checkboxes next to the apps you want to remove and then click Sync to uninstall them. The removed apps stay in your iTunes library, but you won't be carting them around on the iPad until you select them here and resync.

Remove apps on the iPad. Press and contain the unwanted application's icon until it wiggles as well as an X appears in the corner. Tap the X, confirm your intention to delete, and wave goodbye to that app. Press the Home button to return to business as always.

Search for iPad apps

Just like you can buy apps on either your computer or tablet, so you can search for apps or specific kinds of programs with iTunes or even the iPad. This function comes in handy if you don't know the exact name of the app you seek, or want to throw a few keywords to the Search box and see what comes up. Here's how to search:

On the computer. The upper right corner from the iTunes window has a nice little Search box. When you are in your library, typing keywords into the box brings up is a result of your own collection. But when you search with the iTunes Store selected in the Source list, your results range from apps, games, music, along with other items for sale in the online store. If you don't immediately see what you want, click the Power Search button in the top left corner to get some search boxes that let you narrow your results even more.

On the iPad. Tap the Search icon (m) at the end of the App Store screen to summon the virtual keyboard. Type in the keywords for that app you seek and tap the Search button in the keyboard. The iPad matches that which you type as you go and presents a list before you finish. In any of these situations, just click or tap the app name to get more details about the program from its page in the App Store.

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