My technophobe friend loves her iPad! She wants to keep an aquarium app or a clock/weather app on while it's charging in her iHome dock. It keeps turning off on her. She says it's intermittent and unpredictable. We cannot find a setting to prevent it going to sleep. Is there a way to do that? How?
iPad 2
We set the auto-lock to never. That prevents the auto-lock screen from coming on but it does not prevent the iPad from going to sleep.
The display shuts off with auto-lock on never and it's not because the battery runs down since it's on a charger.
Is there another hidden setting or an app that prevents it from shutting down. I haven't tried keeping mine on yet but I can see at some point I'll want to have my photos on a slideshow and have it run for my entire work shift or longer. Is there a setting that determines how quickly the iPad goes to sleep if inactive or a way to prevent sleep mode?
Your iPad should not turn off with auto-lock off. I've used my iTouch 4G as an alarm clock and it's never turned off over an 10 hour duration, and the settings on iPads and iTouches are nearly the same.
And why do people feel like posting "Setting>General>Autolock>Never" again when several people have already posted it?
Thanks, that what I thought. I will experiment with mine and I've told my friend to keep hers on again too.
As for the cluster of identical responses: they came in instantly and simultaneously. They were all answering at the same time. I think it was just a matter of having several helpful people online at once and the fact that I failed to mention we'd done that already.
Thanks for being understanding about the pile on! 🙂
It won't hurt and it may help if you have your friend reset her iPad by holding the Home and power buttons down simultaneously until the silver apple appears.
Best of luck.
The only way that I know is Settings>General>AutoLock>Never.
Try. Settings - General - Auto Lock = Never.
Stedman
Settings>General>Auto-Lock>Never
Settings > General > Auto-lock > 2 - 5 - 10 - 15 minutes or never.
Best.
Setting>General>Autolock>Never
Look at the times the repies were sent... 1.26. 1.26. 1.28. 1.28.
MY iPad has no auto lock choice version 10.0.2
Hi. It's been moved to Settings > Display & Brightness.
Is there a way to keep iPad from going to sleep?
