The Videos App is not working.
When I start it up I just get a black screen. No controls, video or audio.
I have tried restarting the App, the iPad, and even performed a full restore of the iPad from my laptop this morning.
... Still no success.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?
Does anyone have a solution?
Brad Micallef
iPad 2, iOS 4.3.3
Try searching for the name of one of your videos on the iPad's spotlight search screen - swipe your first homescreen to the right, type in it's name, and if it finds it tap on it to see if it plays.
If that doesn't work then try closing the Videos app completely : from the home screen (i.e. not with the Videos app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Videos app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
A third option if the two above don't work is a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.
Try searching for the name of one of your videos on the iPad's spotlight search screen - swipe your first homescreen to the right, type in it's name, and if it finds it tap on it to see if it plays.
If that doesn't work then try closing the Videos app completely : from the home screen (i.e. not with the Videos app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the Videos app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
A third option if the two above don't work is a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.
Wow, great trick!!!
Simply searching for a video, then playing free'd everything up.
Now tqhe app launches normally, and plays videos again too :-)
Thx man!
thank u so much took the second option before it worked thank u again
Fantastic, I'd tried the 2nd option before, but tries the first option with no luck and then the second option straight after and everything is working fine again! Many thanks!
Mike
thanks Brad..... 🙂
This happened to me twice and I reset everything but it happened again. I figured, it's obviously not the system since the other programs are working fine so I just downloaded another video player from apps store. I got flex player and it's working great for me. I'm just wondering why apple couldn't solve this problem with their own video player since I gathered from the forums that this has been happening with the iPad ever since.
Thanks for that, resolved our problem as well 🙂
I'd like to add that not only did I solve my problem but now I don't have to convert videos since my player can play different formats.
IPad 2 Videos App not working
