Originally Posted by
Middle_Seat
The iPad, like the iPhone, has a sort of home page where you see a lot of icons that represent apps. I (and everyone else I know) tap an icon and the corresponding app launches.
When my mom taps an icon, at least half the time the keyboard appears. She has to swish to the left to get back to the home page.
I have watched this up close several times, and I can't figure out what she is doing that brings up the keyboard. Any ideas??
that's the spotlight search page, where you can search for apps, email, notes, songs, etc.
it is logically to the left of the first home screen (there can be multiple pages of apps). if you press the home button when you're on the first home screen, it will slide over to the spotlight page. press it again and it goes back to the home screen.
what she is probably doing is tapping an icon but missing it just enough so it hits the background instead of the icon, with the tap having enough side movement to be taken as a swipe (and it doesn't appear to need all that much). with only one page of apps (until you download more), a tap with a leftish movement won't swipe the other direction.