Unusual iPad behaviour...

[Manlove]

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.

[Manlove]

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.

[Manlove]

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!

[Michael]

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!

[Manlove]

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!

[DP]

Obvoiusly, the problem was that "behaviour" was misspelled...

[Manlove]

"Obvoiusly"!

[Article Accelerator]

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)

[Carm]

Have had to reboot a few different iOS devices. Lock screen not responding, frozen home screen, etc...

[silvarios]

AA is on fire today. Beating me to all the posts. That's right, SpringBoard and yes, it can occasionally can crap out.