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Chirping noise coming from iPad 2

Just recently I have noticed that my iPad 2 is emitting a fairly loud chirping noise. Sounds like a bird or crickett. The sound is emitted in two discreet bursts. You can easily hear it across a fair sized room. It is unlike the high chirping noise I have read about, and heard, on the iphone which is a more prolonged single high pitched noise. I know the noise occurs when the iPad is not plugged in to its AC adaptor but is sufficiently charged. It may also occur when plugged in. Not sure. The noise is very internmittent and is not predictable. For example... it does not happen everytime I use a certain app or enter my password.

MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.8), iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod, Airport Extreme, Apple TV

Posted on Sep 27, 2011 12:51 PM

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Oct 3, 2011 12:32 PM in response to Chris CA

Chris, Excellent suggestion.


BTW, I actually brought up this Chirping behavior in my AP Physics class today as trying to track down an explanation for the Chirping involves many investigative tools used by scientists. It was actually quite amazing how "into it" the kids were. One student suggested that I remove 5 apps at once to shrink down the time to find the offending app...if indeed it is an app. Then another student suggested I remove one Folder of apps at a time as a Folder has apps of similar natures. For example, remove the Folder that has all my Clock/Timing apps as it is a more likely suspect. (I actually tried removing that particular folder and the chirping continued.) But, still...out of the darkness of this Chirping confusion has come some quality opportunities for my students to practice the scientific method.


From the Dark Side into the Light we go.

Sep 27, 2011 1:54 PM in response to paulcb

Hi pauclb, I thought about that too. But when I went to Settings>General>Sounds the ringtone was set to "Piano Riff." The only apps I have set notifications on emit a "ping" sound. Not this double chirping noise. There is a ringtone called "Crickett" or something like that, but it sounds a little different than my chirping sound. The only place I could see where you could actually set the iPad 2 to emit a specific sound was with ringtones (my iPad is 3G enabled). Unless I am missing something I didn't see any user controlled way to change the sound the iPad 2 makes when a new e-mail, notification, or calendar event comes in. As far as I can tell, the noise the iPad makes for those events is that ping noise.

Sep 27, 2011 5:29 PM in response to Demo

Hi Demo! Yeah, no editing functionality. Crazy! Well, I tried out your suggestion, but the sound for calendar alerts is not my chirping noise. The chirping sound is more "shrill and penetrating." But, you just taught me something I didn't know...how to sample all those alert sounds. I really thought you may have had something there as I have the First Class Client App running on my iPad 2 with all notification types on. Recently this app started to support punched through calendars and I thought that maybe my noise was connected to that. Alas, no go. Good luck with your Steelers this year. :-)

Sep 29, 2011 9:37 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

This is probably a ridiculous long shot, but I just had my latest double chirping noise performance from my iPad 2 and noticed that the cell strength icon said "searching." Is it possible that 3G capable iPads are set to emit this chirping noise when they lose a cell signal for longer than a preset amount of time? I get terrible AT&T reception where I live. Usually, I can get a weak EDGE signal, but have noticed of late that the best signal strength I can usually get is one little bar...or none at all.

Sep 29, 2011 10:00 AM in response to Mr. Luigi

I don't have the 3G version. I have WiFi only. You do bring up an interesting point. Perhaps that is the reason you get the chirping sound. But someone with a 3G would have to confirm.


We all hate the inability to edit on this site with the iPad. It makes no sense to me. Apple did not build/design this forum site. It is the product of Jive Software (?) or something like that. One would think that they would make sure that this forum is compatible and works fully when using the iPad.


Any time you type the ampersand in a post on this site using the iPad, that symbol shows up. You are doing nothing wrong.

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