IPad fried

All mobile devices have operational temperature limits.

And all mobile devices are made up of glass that can heat up mighty quickly in direct sunlight.

Whatever you purchase for your next tablet, keep it out of high outdoor temperatures and direct sunlight or the same thing that happened to iPad will happen to your next tablet device.

I guess this maybe was just a case of something else in the iPad going bad with iPad that the temporary overheat exacerbated.

Excessive internal heat of any computer or device, no matter how short the interval could casuse other issues.

So, your iPad could have suffered some other damaged from this temporary heat exposure.

I could have been any series of components that have been borderline functioning that the temporary exposure excessive heat sent over the edge to failure.

Without Apple actually telling you what actually happened to this iPad as a result of this temporary sunlight/heat exposure, we can only guess as to what actually happened to this iPad.

But it is a possibility that something else in that iPad may have catastrophically failed due to the temporary exposure of excessive heat.

Be Well..Stay Well...Stay Safe

Michel.

Keeping iPhone, iPad and iPod touch within acceptable operating temperatures

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201678

This definitely has something to do with hardware AND user accident/error!

How do you know how much time in full direct sunlight an iPad can take and function in?

How do you know, for sure, that it wasn't exposed to direct sunlight longer than just a mere 3 minutes?

A glass tablet does not take very long to heat up beyond normal operating temperatures, especially in open, bright sunlight.

I think you left that iPad out in direct sunlight for more than 3 minutes to get completely fried to the point of the iPad no longer functioning, at all!

iPads do not simply completely fail after only a few minutes of exposure to direct sunlight, unless it was an unusually bright and very warm day!

It should have come back to life after 30 minutes to an hour after some cooling down, in a cooler environment.

I inadvertently, left one of my older iPads out in direct sunlight a few years back, while working out a new arrangement for a very large vegetable garden on my family’s land.

I left it on a wooden table, out in the sunlight, for about between 7-10 minutes and returned to it with a large pop-up message stating that the iPad has exceeded its operating temperature limit and the iPad had froze up.

I took it out of the sun, into shade, turned it completely off and let it cool down and it came back to life after about 20-30 minutes, or so.

I own a lot of iPads.

All of them still on their original batteries and all of them still going after 10 years!

My over 4 years old iPad Pro models are all still going.

There is more to this story than you are admitting to or telling us or Apple.