How can I remove the blue gear icon in the upper right corner on iPad?
Hello, How to disable the blue gear icon on the iPad that appears in the upper right corner
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iPad Air, iPadOS 18
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The icon indicates that your iPad is synchronising with "something".
Yours is one of many reports seen in recent weeks. At present, pending confirmation by Apple, this appearance of the icon is believed to have some relationship to post-update synchronisation tasks performed by your iPad after updating to iPadOS 18.x - or the icon appears while a download is being performed as a background task.
Apple have not yet provided a definitive explanation.
Apple's documentation is often slow to catch-up with new features. Here is another status icon - that appears briefly when connecting some USB-C hubs - that Apple have yet to add to their documentation:
How can I remove the blue gear icon in the upper right corner on iPad?