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Unusual iPad behaviour... - Manlove - 09-02-2013
Hi, I (daughter) has a latest gen. 16GB iPad that developed an odd issue.
It was working as normal when we went out and left it charging. When we got back it had stopped responding to touch. Upon further investigation we found that we can bring up Siri by pressing the off-screen home button and then we can get to any app we know the name of and once in that app we can use it normally, but what we can't do is use the touchscreen when we are not in an app!?
We can get to settings via the Siri method and can change stuff once in there, but it is strange that the touchsrceen only works in an app and not otherwise...
any ideas?
Thanks.
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - Manlove - 09-02-2013
Bit more detail...
Once in an app (via Siri voice command) we can slide through to other open apps with the four finger swipe. It seems that the iPad's "finder" has crashed and is totally unresponsive.
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - Manlove - 09-02-2013
So it appears that resetting the iPad has fixed the problem, which seemed to be that the iPad "finder" or whatever it is called had locked up. I didn't know it could, so there you go.
Ta!
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - Michael - 09-02-2013
My dear wife, the technologist in the family, always tells me to reboot whenever some weird gremlin gets into my various devices. She is almost always right; of course, she's almost always right about everything!
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - Manlove - 09-02-2013
It was the first time an app (is the iPad Finder an app?) has crashed on me. But yes, sound advice...listen to wife...reboot!
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - DP - 09-02-2013
Obvoiusly, the problem was that "behaviour" was misspelled...
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - Manlove - 09-02-2013
"Obvoiusly"!
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - Article Accelerator - 09-02-2013
Manlove wrote: …the iPad "finder" or whatever it is called had locked up
On iOS devices, the equivalent to OS X's Finder is called SpringBoard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springboard_(iPhone)
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - Carm - 09-02-2013
Have had to reboot a few different iOS devices. Lock screen not responding, frozen home screen, etc...
Re: Unusual iPad behaviour... - silvarios - 09-02-2013
AA is on fire today. Beating me to all the posts. That's right, SpringBoard and yes, it can occasionally can crap out.