Spinning wheel icon
Spinning Wheel Icon Next to Wi-Fi on iPad continuously rotating on my IPad, how to get rid of that.
iPad Air, iPadOS 14
This is simply a network activity indicator. A background process (or App) is accessing your WiFi network. Network access doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem.
Perhaps you iPad is retrieving of synchronising email, synchronising to iCloud - or automatically backing-up to an iCloud backup.