New iPad 2 Questions

[Gary S]

Hello Tecshsurvivors,

I got an iPad 2 for Christmas form my son (I knew buying all those computers for him to get through college would pay off some day).

He must have been playing with it before he wrapped it up. Anyways, when I go to update apps it says "enter password for Samuel Swiech" and I'd like to to have it say,

"enter password for Gary Swiech", me. I don't know much about the iPad and am just getting familiar with it.

He didn't register it, I believe.

How do I go about getting Sam's name off the machine and get mine on so I can do my thing?

TIA  

[george]

Not often I answer a request on TS , usually Paddy, Krissel, ABD and all the other experts have the answers and thankfully so.
Rhoda (my wife) has an iPad 2, if you go into settings and then general you will find an option at the bottom of right hand column listed as reset and in there is the option to reset to factory settings or it's equivalent.
Yikes ,hope I'm right
George

[Gary S]

Hello George,

It's good to see your happy face again!

Thank you very much for relating your wisdom to me.

I just down loaded the PDF manual and I know I'll start to get used to it.

My Son put some apps on too and there's a WWII fighter game that looks pretty interesting,
 
the only problem with the game is that it picks up the internet somehow and I get shot down very quickly!
 
It came in a nice leather Snugg case. I've got to get my coordination right on the swiping and typing with my thumbs.

This is going to be a riot!  

"64 and there so much more".........

Thanks again George!

[Paddy]

QUOTE(Gary S @ Jan 15 2014, 02:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hello George,

It's good to see your happy face again!

Thank you very much for relating your wisdom to me.

I just down loaded the PDF manual and I know I'll start to get used to it.

My Son put some apps on too and there's a WWII fighter game that looks pretty interesting,
 
the only problem with the game is that it picks up the internet somehow and I get shot down very quickly!
 
It came in a nice leather Snugg case. I've got to get my coordination right on the swiping and typing with my thumbs.

This is going to be a riot!  

"64 and there so much more".........

Thanks again George!

If you like Scrabble-type games, Gary, there is the enormously addictive QatQi (I feel like a crack dealer telling people about it... ). SpeedTiles is another one - I haven't played it yet, but the same friend who got me hooked on Qatqi told me about it. She also told me about Whirly Word, which is fun word scramble game and is my go-to game on my phone when stuck somewhere waiting for something.

Qatqi

SpeedTiles

Whirly Word

[rgray]

QUOTE(george @ Jan 15 2014, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not often I answer a request on TS , usually Paddy, Krissel, ABD and all the other experts have the answers and thankfully so.
Rhoda (my wife) has an iPad 2, if you go into settings and then general you will find an option at the bottom of right hand column listed as reset and in there is the option to reset to factory settings or it's equivalent.
Yikes ,hope I'm right
George

While it is definitely a good idea to do a reset when you first get a (used) iPad because it cleans house of all settings and allows one to establish their own identity with proper email and all. However you will have to repurchase apps under your own identity.

But such a radical cleansing is not strictly speaking necessary, but is IMHO a very good idea.

However........

All that is necessary is to go into the App Store, scroll to the bottom where you will see the currently used AppleID.  Click on that and you will get an option to sign out, which returns with the option to log in so you can use your own AppleID.

[Gary S]

Thanks,

I like those types of games Paddy, I will check them out as soon as I get this iPad set up.

I'm reading the users guide now. I haven't found settings yet. I know it was there on Christmas but Sam had a few pictures on it and he took these off

when he went home to Madison,WI after Christmas. I think it was an Icon of a persons head or something and he somehow deleted it or whatever.

I'll do some more reading and see if I can get it straightened out......

Until then, thanks for all your help to all of you.

[dboh]

Santa brought me an iPad mini, and my nephew "volunteered" to set it up for me. I had trouble following what he was doing and found my password and Apple ID weren't working, so my niece cleared settings (as explained above), and I started all over and did it myself. It's working perfectly now.

[Xairbusdriver]

"Starting over" with a clean/new iPad/iDevice is not quite the same as doing it with an old one which will probably have apps already installed. However, since those apps were downloaded by a different Apple ID, it may not be worth the effort to keep them. I think it can be done by logging out as yourself and back into the App Store with the previous owners Apple ID. Just a nuisance and you may end up forgetting that other ID. Most apps are pretty cheap and some of the old ones may not be of interest to you, anyway. My 2 cents would be to wipe and recreate your own stuff. YMMV. Enjoy your iPad! Make it your own!

[george]

is that not what I suggested?
G

[Xairbusdriver]

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is that not what I suggested?

Yes, George, but I tried to put it into English.

[Gary S]

Couldn't I plug the iPad into my iMac, back it up, and then disconnect it and reload the apps after changing the ownership at Apple?

[george]

Yes, George, but I tried to put it into English.

Jim,sure you did not mean "Americanees"

[rgray]

Yes.  It is possible to have multiple AppleIDs contribute to a singe iPad.  For example, I have US, Canadian and UK IDs because different national stores have different content due to the stupidity of the entertainment industry's insistence on geographic restrictions.

It requires a certain diligence to keep track of which store or ID you are in (or that was used to purchase an app) but it is not as egregious as ABD suggests above.  I have been doing this for some years now.  This year I was rewarded because a book I wanted was one of the 12 Days of Xmas was gifted in the British store but not the others!! ;-}

Only the original purchasing ID can update an app.

[Paddy]

QUOTE(rgray @ Jan 17 2014, 12:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes.  It is possible to have multiple AppleIDs contribute to a singe iPad.  For example, I have US, Canadian and UK IDs because different national stores have different content due to the stupidity of the entertainment industry's insistence on geographic restrictions.

It requires a certain diligence to keep track of which store or ID you are in (or that was used to purchase an app) but it is not as egregious as ABD suggests above.  I have been doing this for some years now.  This year I was rewarded because a book I wanted was one of the 12 Days of Xmas was gifted in the British store but not the others!! ;-}

Only the original purchasing ID can update an app.

I have both a US and a Canadian Apple IDs - mostly because when we moved I still had a lot of credit in the US store, and since then, occasionally there has been something in the US store that wasn't in the Canadian one. I buy iTunes gift cards in the US (or get my husband to do it since he's in the US on business a couple of times a year) as you cannot use a foreign credit card to buy stuff in any iTunes store. I agree with rgray - the restrictions are stupid, but all geared to getting more money into the hands of the content distributors - rarely the artists.

I wish I'd thought to download the 12 days of Christmas app for anything besides Canada! As it was, I think I downloaded all of two things this year - there were waaaay too many kid games!

Of course, now with the falling Canadian dollar, once I've used up my current US store credit, it may not be quite so attractive to buy things there unless the Canadian prices go up (which they no doubt will...sigh.)

[Xairbusdriver]

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Couldn't I plug the iPad into my iMac, back it up, and then disconnect it and reload the apps after changing the ownership at Apple?

It's been a while and I'm not sure I've even tried but the process is not simply backing up and reloading.

The point is, you cannot "change ownership" of the apps. You don't even change "ownership" of the iPad. You simply create different users, similar, but more restrictive, in some ways, than on your Mac. Assuming you want to leave the apps already on the iPad, you will simply sign out of the App Store and then sign in with your Apple ID.

Otherwise, unless an app restricts in some way, anyone using the iPad can use any of its apps. For example, some apps may require you to sign in with a password just for that app. That's the way 1Password operates; obviously, you wouldn't want any and everyone to have access to your password/CC info.

A minor problem may be that when you get a notification that an app can be updated, you may have to sign in as the original 'owner'. I'm not even sure how "Notifications" operate on your model, what OS version does it have?

Note: I guess I have a new definition for "egregious." I always thought that meant something was well above what would be called a "nuisance." OTOH, one man's nuisance may be another's major problem. Where I live, snow is a major problem, egregious, even. To Bob, up in MN, it would be just a nuisance. Which, I think, is the word I used.