Unidentified Icon on iPad Menu Bar

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irayspot Author

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Unidentified Icon on iPad Menu Bar

Can you tel me what is this icon and what it mean?

iPad Pro 5th gen, iPadOS 18.5

iPad Pro, iPadOS 18

Posted on Jun 10, 2025 6:48 AM

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irayspot Author

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Jun 10, 2025 10:17 AM in response to LotusPilot

Ok, I fond what it was (I always have to ask before I find !!). I could reproduce it, by downloading a file from Safari. The menu bar Icon appear while I was downloading and disappear after. Hope this help someone else. Thanks for the responses.

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LotusPilot

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Jun 10, 2025 7:49 AM in response to irayspot

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:

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Katana-San

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Jun 10, 2025 7:34 AM in response to irayspot

Hello~ That symbol would seem to indicate something is in the process of syncing.

~Katana-San~

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