iPad Mail, Contacts, Calendars Settings

For the social and organizational parts of your brain, iPad makes available Mail, Contacts, and Calendar apps; the settings for these apps are covered in the following table. You access the settings listed here by tapping the Settings app icon on the Home screen and then tapping Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Setting	Description
Add Account	Add and manage e-mail accounts.
Fetch New Data	Turn on/off the feature to push new e-mails, and contacts and calendar info for Microsoft Exchange and MobileMe accounts to you automatically.
Show	Set how many recent messages to show in Mail.
Preview	Set how many lines in e-mail messages are to show in the Inbox preview.
Minimum Font Size	Specify minimum font size for e-mails.
Show To/Cc Label	Turn display of To/Cc label on or off in e-mails.
Ask Before Deleting	Turn on to display a confirmation dialog before deleting e-mails.
Load Remote Images	Control whether images on websites will be displayed; displaying such images can allow a site to gather some information about you and your iPad.
Organize by Thread	Turn on a feature to organize e-mail messages among the same group of correspondents so those messages appear together in a subfolder.
Always Bcc Myself	Turn on to send a copy of every e-mail to yourself. (This is in addition to saving a copy in the Sent folder.)
Signature	Change the signature at the end of all your messages. (“Sent from my iPad” is the default message.)
Default Account	Specify which account other apps use by default when you share data from them via e-mail.
Sort Order	Specify sort order for contacts (first/last or last/first names).
Display Order	Specify display order for contacts (first/last or last/first).
My Info	Associate your iPad with a specific contact.
New Invitation Alerts	Turn on alerts when you get a new invitation in Mail.
Time Zone Support	Turn on time zone support to show event data and times in your time zone; set your time zone.
Sync	Control how far back in time events are synced via iCloud or when you connect to your computer and iTunes.
Default Alert Times	Set up how far ahead you should be alerted for various events such as birthdays and all-day events.
Default Calendar	Choose whether to use the pre-installed Calendar program or a calendar synced from your computer, managed in iCloud, or synced from a services such as Gmail or AOL.

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