IPad Calibrate Screen pops up…

Ellenwood408 wrote:

My System Services, Compass Calibration has been off and I can’t get rid of my problem with both Wayfair and Zillow.

Are you using an iPad case that contains magnets of any kind? For example, a case with a screen cover that operates the auto-lock function? If so, this can seriously affect the calibration of the iPad fluxgate compass.

If used extensively indoors, the compass can lose its calibration. As an example, one model of iPad Pro that I regularly use for testing often loses compass calibration - sometimes presenting a reading as much as 90° from true.

Recalibration of the compass can help. Rather than list the steps here, this external link might be helpful with the procedure to recalibrate the iPad compass:

https://www.titanhst.com/improving-compass-accuracy-on-ios-devices/

In addition to the information within the link, you may find that several full rotations of the iPad in each of its three axis’ (X, Y and Z) will help with recalibration.

You can also prompt recalibration the compass by moving the device in an exaggerated figure-eight motion while in a horizontal plane.

Have you tried to do a force restart of the iPad? This can fix a lot of software glitches that are happening much like rebooting a computer when it has a small glitch. The iPad Mini 4 does have a home button so you can force restart it using this method:

Press and hold both the Home Button and the Sleep/Wake button until you see the Apple Logo. If you see a screen pop up with a slider “Slide to Power Off” just ignore this and continue to hold both buttons. Once you see the device power off, continue to hold until you see the Apple Logo. Once you see the Apple Logo you can release both buttons and allow the device to boot as normal. Once it has come back up it will be ready to go and you have successfully restarted it. Check things again and see if this has corrected your issue. If it is happening with just one app, then I would suggest force closing the App (double click the home button and slide the app off the screen) and avoid it for a little while and make sure that it isn’t still popping up this window.

If this corrects the issue and you haven’t run the app for a while, then I would try it again, if the window pops up again, then avoid using the app and get in touch with the app developer and let them know what issue you are seeing so they can use that to troubleshoot and correct the issue.

Had it , deleted app, reinstal, still flashy calibration, forced hard restart iPad, deleted app again, then open app, had to sign in to walmart, it stop on the calibration for iPad, let me do the roller ball twice around the circle, then went away . No more flashy calibration on walmart app. No doubt its a software issue. But it stopped FOR NOW.

I have tried every suggested fix. The only way that has worked for me is to turn off location services when using the app. No more pop-ups!

I've just been 2+ hours on the phone with apple support. This is an emerging issue and my call was escalated. Nothing worked. The hack actually prevented me from fully powering off the phone. It prevented a forced update via connection to the computer. The supervisor had me use up & down volume & power buttons to get my iPad 4 mini to power off. I always pressed the home button & power button to power off. Any way we tried so many things including turning the location services off as suggested in an earlier post. However, even though Apple has an update to address this, my iPad OS is 15. My ipad4 mini is too old and can't get the newer OS updates.The only solution for me is to delete the Walmart app from my ipad4 mini. No sweat. Going to Walmart.com and signing into my account on my iPad4 works with no issues. I hope this helps.

Rebooting did not help on iPad 9.7” 5th Generation. Toggling OFF “Privacy & Security, Location Services, System Services, Compass Calibration” was my only option.

Hello~ It looks like the compass recalibration to me …have you tried a forced restart?

Force restart iPad - Apple Support

~Katana-San~

We had good luck here. Performed the forced restart and when the “calibrate screen message” popped up while on Walmart app, we moved the ball around to calibrate and now it’s working fine. All good.

I have this same issue now while using my Quizlet app on my ipad 5. Had to delete the app.

This is happening on my iPad Pro. Driving me crazy. Seems it can’t be fixed. I find no solutions anywhere that work. I deleted the app from my iPad and now I’m only using it on my phone. Kind of sucks.

Wild guess: Do any of you have the Google Maps app installed on this iPad?

If so, remove that app, and see if this compass calibration prompt persists.

Log some feedback with Zillow, and with Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

This is probably an Apple bug, but the app developers have paths to log feedback with Apple, and can potentially also work around issues if Apple is slow to fix things.

My iPad Mini 4 just started doing this same thing when using the Walmart app or the Walmart website via Safari. Tried hard restarting the iPad, hard closing the app, deleting and reinstalling the app and none of those measures worked. It still persists with Walmart.

This how I resolved my problem on my apple 4 mini pad: go on the Walmart app & press BOTH your volume buttons & your power button,until you get the slide pop up screen, slide,then, press power button again , apple logo will appear, let it do its thing until your home page appears. Then delete Walmart app and reinstall. I have no more calibration wheel. Hope this helps you.

““Is this a "planned obsolescence" trigger?””

My question, also. Several people seem to think it’s only happening on Walmart app but then I see other apps named. My persistent little popup-headache isn’t picky. It pops right up on my HOME hen randomly throughout the day on different apps,,geeeze ,,, Apple, please say something about this issue. It held my tablet hostage today until I rotated 10 turns!