Tips and Tricks

How to remove apps from your iPad

Your iPad can be a key player in helping your job-site run smoothly. But sometimes, a finicky app can cause the performance of your device to suffer. We’ve already gone over how to close an app on your iPad, but sometimes that’s not enough. It might be best to remove the troublesome app and reinstall… Read more

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How to manually adjust brightness on the iPad

The iPad does a pretty nice job of adjusting the brightness as you move between lighter and darker rooms, but no system is perfect and lighting on a job-site can change pretty quickly. For the times when you’ve got a different idea of how bright your screen needs to be, there’s an easy way to… Read more

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How to use keyboard shortcuts on your iPad

Keyboard shortcuts are some of the most useful timesaving tricks the iPad has to offer. They’re great for when you don’t want to sound like a tween, but would rather not take the time to spell out “talk to you later.” You may have already encountered a few of the shortcuts that come standard on… Read more

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How to take a screenshot

TruQC takes the effort out of sharing vital job info, but there may come a time when you’ll need to take and share a screenshot. A screenshot is a picture of exactly what you see on your screen – even the top-row items like battery life and network status. It’s perfect for sharing a problem you’ve encountered…… Read more

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How to update our industrial painting quality control app

TruQC is frequently updating its job-site documentation software to ensure it’s up to the quality standards that you, the user, specify. Missing out on these updates and improvements would be like showing up to work with half your toolbox. It just wouldn’t get the job done. When updates become available for your existing iPad apps,… Read more

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How to split the keyboard on the iPad

The iPad keyboard makes jotting a quick note or entering a few data points pretty simple. But typing longer emails or reports while holding the device can become uncomfortable with the standard keyboard configuration. Thankfully, the iPad allows you to split the keyboard for easier, thumbs-only typing. Splitting the keyboard moves the keys to the… Read more

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How to close your job-site documentation app

You probably have a lot of apps on your iPad – ones for everything from staying entertained to ensuring quality control standards are met on your industrial painting job-site. More than likely, one of them will eventually go on the fritz and start affecting the performance of your device. When an app either crashes upon opening or… Read more

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How to use multitasking gestures on the iPad

It’s almost as if field management systems and the iPad were meant for each other. Job-site documentation calls for multitasking, and the iPad, well, it was built for it. When you’re switching between apps to stay on top of everything that comes across your “desk”, iPad multitasking gestures make it easier to move between screens… Read more

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Examining our quality control app: cloud storage

You’re on an industrial painting job site, carefully working on your quality control documentation, and someone tells you to access a file to check on a few updates. Lucky for you, your company uses cloud storage, so your access point is only a couple of swipes of the iPad screen away. For programmers and developers… Read more

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How to auto sync TruQC on your iPad

Part of the beauty of the cloud-based job-site documentation and quality control software that TruQC offers is syncing. While minimizing paperwork in the field is great in and of itself, allowing everyone to access the same, up-to-date data is even better. To auto sync, simply swipe down from the center of the top of the… Read more