There is a new blue symbol .. (sort of like something is syncing) to the left of my wireless signal on top right of my iPad (10th generation). It has 18.3.1 IOS. I’ve never seen this before this morning. I’ve read on this forum others having it and contacting Apple support but nothing seems to be determined. I’m concerned that it just suddenly appeared. Please help. Suzette
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iPad, iPadOS 18
First, unless you've jailbroken your iPad, there are no viruses that can infect it. Second, the symbol means that your iPad is syncing information.
New Symbol on IPad top right near battery… - Apple Community
As to why it's not documented, I can't answer that.
The blue spinning gear icon is a background transfer, such as a Safari file download, or a background data sync operation. This icon first arrived in iOS and iPadOS 18.2, if not earlier.
There’s a recently-added USB-C hub icon:
And a new blue icon for Voice Control:
Apple’s iPhone and iPad doc has yet to catch up with these three changes.
I did turn my iPad off and on and it disappeared but I don’t like odd and unusual things showing up lol…want to make sure it’s not a virus or such.
Is Location active?
Status icons and symbols on your iPhone - Apple Support
On occasion, there have been a few other icons not shown on that list.
If your icon is unlisted, please post a (cropped) screenshot showing the icon in the menu bar:
Take a screenshot on iPhone - Apple Support
Describe this symbol, what does it look like?
Otherwise, a screen shot would be helpful to see what you see.
click here ➜ Take a screenshot on iPad - Apple Support
With that said, pretty much anything you see at the top bar should be fine and not in any way malicious on an iPad.
Thank you.. not jailbroken.
Youngbloodsuz wrote:
Thank you.. not jailbroken.
Glad to hear that!
New blue symbol appearing on iPad after iPadOS 18.3.1 update
