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What does the update icon (round swirling symbol) in the top right corner mean. What does it indicate…? From right to left in the top right corner there’s the battery icon, battery percentage, Wi-Fi icon, and the the update icon in question. It’s not showing when I’m inside an app, but when I’m back at the app overview screen…
iPad Pro 12.9-inch, 2nd Gen, Wi-Fi
These are the symbols appearing on an iPad status bar:--> Learn the meaning of the iPad status icons – Apple Support (UK), and/or:--> Turn a Focus on or off on iPad – Apple Support (UK)
If that "update icon" is not among the ones listed on the two pages above, please take a screenshot and post it here, so that we can see it:--> Take a screenshot on your iPad - Apple Support
Regards
Giulio
These are the symbols appearing on an iPad status bar:--> Learn the meaning of the iPad status icons – Apple Support (UK), and/or:--> Turn a Focus on or off on iPad – Apple Support (UK)
If that "update icon" is not among the ones listed on the two pages above, please take a screenshot and post it here, so that we can see it:--> Take a screenshot on your iPad - Apple Support
Regards
Giulio
The pinwheel that you see at top-right of the screen is a network activity indicator. This indicator can be expected to appear whenever a process/App is accessing your WiFi network and the internet.
Sometimes a background network process can “get stuck” and cause the this indication to appear unexpectedly - or to persist for extended periods. The simple solution is to restart your iPad; whilst the indication may initially appear again for some hours while background processes “catch-up”, normal performance should return quite quickly.
To restart your iPad:
Update icon
