Tip: If you’ve pressed the Home button down accidentally and—while you still have the button down—realize that you didn’t want to leave the app, keep holding it down while you count slowly to 3. Now release the Home button and you’ll remain in the app.

Manage Apps

Let’s talk about a few app housekeeping tasks that you may wish to perform, perhaps now, perhaps on a regular schedule, or perhaps only occasionally.

Update Apps

Your iPad apps will likely be updated occasionally—or even quite frequently—by their developers. If any updates are available, you’ll see a red badge on the App Store icon on the Home screen (Figure 101). And, if you open the App Store app, the Updates button on the tab bar will also have a red badge. The number in the badge indicates the number of updates available.