Ipad will not turn off when charging

Turn it off AFTER the charger is connected. This is the way that it was designed to work.

deggie, that may be true w/the iPad charger but many people use multiple chargers for convenience (I have one at each of several locations from several iPods and other devices and hate lugging the original iPad charger - it stays home).
In sleep mode the lower wattage chargers can take hours and hours to charge but charge much faster when the iPad is fully powered off. So many of us would like to be able to know for sure that it is powered "off" and not just asleep.

Whatever happened to simple on/off switches??

They went out with transistor radios, dial telephones, and stop buttons.

I'll have to try charging mine with an iPhone charger but I still can't see why their would be that big of a difference between sleep and off. I bought a second charging kit for mine, it really isn't that big.

I cannot shut off the iPad while it is charging whether I try one off/on cycle or five cycles. It behaves differently than my iPhone which will power on when the charging cable is plugged in but will shut down when I press the off button.

I haven't tried my iPhone charger or through USB charging on my Mac. My wife uses the iPad so she doesn't always have access to other means of charging. All in all it charges very slowly and having it off would only improve the charge time.

Either my iPad can't do what others can or they are mistaken (or there are some bugs as yet unknown or that Apple isn't copping to).

I'm glad I was able to offer what I think may be a reasonable suggestion for this behavior. When this first happened to me I must have tried 10 times or more to power the iPad off without success. I really thought that there may have been an issue with my iPad.

I would be curious to know if other users experience this just for my own edification.

Not true,
Mine does the same thing. Just hold the power button down for about two seconds, the red slider "slide to power off" will come on. Do this. It will pop up again, sometimes showing a "battery level" indicator in the center of the screen. Do the power button thing again, slide the red slide again. This time it should stay off. Occassionally (based on input voltage?) it will require a 3rd cycle of the power button to do this.

I find that when I do get it actually powered down, not asleep, it will charge alot faster. It then takes about 2-3 seconds to come back on later.
Unfortunately, the only way to know if you were succesful is to see if the battery charged during that time period! A solid "off" switch would be nice!

"Seems like a lot of effort for little return."

Perhaps you do not understand the issue. It's not the length of time it takes to charge, it's the fact the iPad has changed it's behavior, for no apparent reason. Or, the iPad is not operating in it's intended manner. Obviously something is wrong and people would like to understand what.

Here's a rundown of my day. My Razr has been charged by my iPad charger since April. As of today, the iPad's charger can no longer charge the Moto. Later I went to charge my iPad. Normal sequence is to plug it in then turn it off. It's turned off since the first day I had it. Today, no way. It cycles back on within seconds of turning it off. I have tried the few suggestions posted to no avail.

If any of you have a second iPad charger, as well as the iPad's inability to shut down after being plugged in, please see if the problem persists on both chargers. This may be a charger issue as, in my case, the charger is the only common link between my devices and it's seems too coincidental that both devices would begin to operate abnormally, with a charging related issue, on the same day. I'm on the road and only have the one iPad charger with me.

I posted this on a previous thread a couple of day ago. I don't know exactly how the iPad is supposed to behave, but I was able to experience not being able to shut the device off completely after having done so for weeks. For me it seems to be related to how low the battery is ....

I experienced this very "bug" last night when I started to charge my iPad. I had never run the battery down to 15% prior to last night. When I plugged in the charger, it would restart, I would turn it off and then it would restart. I repeated this process four or five times and then I finally decided to simply put the iPad to sleep while it was charging, before I turned in for the night.

When I woke up this morning to a 100% charge I decided to try to repeat the process. I unplugged the iPad from the charger, turned it on and then turned it off again. Then I plugged the charger back in, the iPad turned on and then I turned it off and it stayed off this time.

My suggestion is that it may be that the iPad is supposed to behave this way when the battery power drops below a certain percentage. I too became a bit concerned at first as I had never experienced that before. Now that the iPad is behaving "normally" again, I am assuming that the device is built to continue to restart while recharging when the battery drains to a low level.

Mine is working fine, no worries and all is good. Happy holidays!

Demo, thanks for confirming my thoughts. Last night I let the iPad's battery run completely down and let it sit on the charger over night. It's now working fine again. It does appear that when the battery get's too low, the iPad will not turn off while charging.

This exact same 'problem' has been periodically discussed in these and other fora all the way back to, ohh, April or so,with the exact same conclusion reached — when charging using the provided charger the iPad will not stay off until the level of charge rises above low-power levels.

While the trick discussed earlier with the mute switch worked, I wasn't convinced. I found out that I had my notifications turned "on" for my CNN app. After turning that setting to "Off" in the set tins app, the Ipad turned off totally. Just another thought to try.

Occasionally my iPad will turn itself on after I've powered it down/turned it off. This runs the battery down--slowly--but I'd rather it remained off. Today for the first time, it's not staying off while charging. I am charging from my home outlet as always. One person posted that this occurs when his orher iPad is below 20% charged. I began recharging at about 25% charged.

You can't, just let It go to sleep.

I have had that same issue too, I have noticed it will not shut off when charging and the battery is below 20%. It seems to shut off if it is over that amount.

Seems like a lot of effort for little return. Mine fully charges in 3.5 hours, sleep mode takes just a minuscule more amount of power than off.