iPad dropped, now with red screen/background

Thank you this worked. I wasn't sure if it would because our screen was mainly green. But did and YOU ROCK!

18 inch drop on hardwood with screen up worked. Percussive maintenance with a very expensive item. My engineer husband says to me "Don't do that again!"

Slapping the back of my iPad2 worked for me too 🙂

My iPad 2 display turned pink and fuzzy after getting roughed up in the overhead bin of an airplane (note to self not to store it there again!). After reading many of the responses I locked the screen and slapped the back several times to no avail. I then dropped it about 12 inches onto a carpeted floor and bingo! It worked! Thanks to all of the helpful advice on this forum 🙂

TThis is an amazing trick to fix this problem!

thank you so very much, it worked perfectly!

Yeh it worked. Fantastic.

HOLY COW the gentle twist fixed the screen. AMAZING-thank you!!!!

Excellent advice. This happened to a friend of mine, I showed him the discussions and he tried it in front of a friend of mine and myself.

It was more like ' burping a baby' or giving a 'slap on the butt' of a petulant child. Sure enough the iPad came to its senses and worked beautifully.

Thank you. It also reminds me of what we used to do to a TV many decades ago. Who would've thought it! :-)

OMG, it's funny, but it worked. my iPad was gone red too. Then I raised the iPad about two feet up from the floor and dropped it down, repeated twice and I rurned on the iPad it was perfectly all right.😁

After a bad day, involving a fruitless discussion of chevrons and the like, my flatmate dropped her iPad. A few tears and a chocolate soya milk later, all hope was lost. Then I searched for "iPad red screen, clumsy" and came across this thread. Suffice to say, she is now happy, nay, ecstatic. Bash the ******.

Im so glad i found this post! It only took 6 taps for me, i am still in disbelief that tapping it changed the color problem. Thanks!

Thanks Jim

First I dropped it and it wouldn't turn, finally got that resolved, then the coloring was bad, but thanks to you that issue is resolved also.

Just wanted to let Jim71 and everyone else with the same concerns that his suggested fix is still good 5.5 years later. I have a IPad 2 with an Otterbox case that was not dropped but squeezed between a couple of books in a backpack flying from Washington State to Japan and back again that developed a wispy reddish to pinkish reticulated (web-like) pattern mixed in with the normal bluish background. I moderate tap on the back is what it took to dislodge the foreign body from the IPad screen! 🙂 Thanks again for this original post.

So this is more or less a permanent fix providing one is careful with the iPad going forward?

The reason I ask is that I've just successfully slapped 2 school iPad2s back into service and want to get a feel for if they'll hold up. FWIW, they'll both be in OtterBox type cases when they go back out, and one will go to a teacher but the other will go back to the First Grade iPad pool. What do you reckon the chances are?

Thanks to the OP, BTW, for such a wonderful suggestion!

I'm now 4 for 4, but I needed to find a new technique for the two where slapping until my left hand went numb didn't work:

Take the iPad and hold it an inch or two above a hard surface, like a table-top or desk, so that the long edge closest to the headphone jack is parallel to the table's surface. Then bang that edge of the ipad semi-gently against the table top repeatedly until the picture clears.

Wonderful stuff!