iPad 3 white dot on start up screen not dead pixels?

Anto2012-

I'm not sure what the little dots are, but I see that when I have Apps on more than one page of the Home screen, there are more dots near the bottom of the screen. It appears that the dot that is brighter indicates which page you are looking at. If you only have one page of Apps, then there is only one dot with something like a tiny magnifying glass on its left.

If you swipe to the right, you bring up the keyboard for the search function. When you swipe back to the left, you can see that the magnifying glass is bright, and then see it jump back to the right-hand dot.

At least that is what I observe on my iPad 2!

Fred

It's certainly not normal. That doesn't happen on either of my iPads. Have you tried rebooting the iPad? It might no tell, but it will not hurt anything either.

Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.

If the dots continue to appear, you might want to take it to an Apple store and let a genius have a look. I would hate to think that the problem could get worse, so I would want someone to look at the device.

Anto-

Since I do not see an Apple logo when I turn mine on, I assumed you were talking about the page swiping!

When you first turn your iPad on (awaken it), you see a picture that is defined at Settings-Brightness & Wallpaper-Wallpaper. That picture probably has the dots imbedded in it. If you change the picture, the dots should go away.

If you really mean turning on the iPad from having been turned completely off, I do not see any dots on the screen, just the Apple logo. You might have bad pixels in that case!

Fred

Well if the Apple Genius said its normal, then I guess all is well. I don't see that behavior on my iPad, but I'm glad that you got it all sorted out.

My new iPad (4th Gen) does the same thing when I boot it up. I usually see 1 or 2 white little flashes or dots for a split second and they go away.

I do have the same dilemma... I just got my ipad4 replaced recently and I noticed when I boot it up, I usually see 1 white flashes or dots for a split second and they got away also. Is it normal? I dont want to go again to them if incased they will replace it again I dont wanna wait another 1 month for it to be replace... 😟 this is so frustrating because instead that Im using my ipad it was in the apple store and they checking on it.. 😟 (sob)

Hey anto....even I have the same issue on my ipad 4 which I got a month back......surprisingly none of the apple store guys ...as well as the support/helpline people don't have any clue....although this string of discussion started by u has certainly helped me to not worry about it .......thanks.....