iPad: Show more icons in the dock - how it works

By default there are four icons in the dock of your iPad. You can also have more displayed. And that's how it works:

How to get more apps in the dock of the iPad

Apple has put the Safari, Mail, Videos and iPod apps at your fingertips in the dock. If that's not enough for you, you can change the dock or even expand it.

• You press any app for several seconds until it wobbles.
• Now drag the app into the dock. You can define the arrangement yourself.
• So you get up to six apps in the dock

Another practical tip tells you how to hide apps under iOS 7.