My ipad screen has turned to green!!!!

Just another vote that this actually worked. I placed mine face down on a hard surface and gently applied pressure across the back with my forearm. After doing this for a few minutes the display was restored to normal.

Tried the reset after my screen went green and was flickering. The reset didn't work & found this page, banged the ipad a few time on the back (with the case on it) & it worked screen gone back to normal! What a great suggestion, saved me money ✋

I had the same problem and start laughing while reading all the people hitting the iPad.... Then i tried and it worked..

Turn iPad on

Hold it at the bottom with both hands

Give a quick knock on the table with the upper right corner

Back to normal.. ;-)

We sitting here reading these posts...I am laughing so hard as my husband taps the back, taps the left corner and Shazam! It worked...he is now reading his newspaper and eating breakfast happily! Technology at its finest!

i find that if i place my device carefully underneath my cars rear tire and back up over the iPad several times back and forth it solves the issue and any future issues. I think because the car is a Prius it some how intuitively knows via Siri, that both device and car are electronic and designed to co habitat.

So beware Surface and Google users...Apple is still waaayyyy ahead of the game!!!!

I try to power off knock the back of the ipad few time and power on the ipad, didn't work for the frist time!! Try power off and knock it again, power it on, I can't belive it work for me for the 2nd try!! Thank you!!

I thought for certain this "hit it" solution was a joke. I dropped it on purpose so that it landed flat on it's back from a height of 2 feet or so... Bloody **** it actually worked! Green screen gone!

Absolutely unbelievable! My parents had the green screen, I reset, restored, shut on and off. Found this thread and laughed at the hit. Told my dad what I was about to do and when I powered it on, it worked!!! Unreal!

I wouldn't have believed this either but it works. This is the second time I have had this issue. The first time the iPad2 was under warranty so I just got a new one. This time I had nothing else to lose by trying this "fix". There must be a connector whose pins face the front or back of the iPad. In portrait mode, I hit the upper third middle of the iPad against my knee, going a little bit harder each time and it fixed it. It was maybe three tries more or less but I think the key is to just do it starting off gently and working your way up. It's a terrible design because it clearly happens frequently.

Well I'll be ******! Yes, the three slaps worked for me too! I placed a thick magazine on my desk, I placed the ipad glass down on the magazine, I slapped the ipad with my palm once in the middle and not feeling like I had done enough I took both ands and gave a big smack across the entire back (after all the tech at the genius bar said it was obviously failed hardware and that it would cost me $250 for a replacement!) I then turned it over and to my amazement there was the apple logo as the ipad was already booting up and now works fine again!

left my ipad in the car for like a week, took it out the screen had gone green but could still see, i read this comment knocked my ipad 3/4 times on the back and the screen came back to normal. To my suprise it does actually work, thanks!

I did exactly what you did and it worked for me. I was so angry because I paid £200 to Apple 3 months ago for getting a replacement. This time I had to pay £25 for opening an incident and then other £200 for getting a new one. Totally crazy!!!!

First time, got a replacement because of the earphone socket. Now, I was not willing to pay Apple more money because of their fault when creating the device.

Thanks for this, a strong bang on the back and it came back to normal.

Thanks to everyone's replies, I was able to fix my school-issued iPad tonight. I let my second graders use it today, and when I got home it was green! I was sure it had been dropped and ruined! I read the posts while my 16 year old banged away! Thank God!

Thanks, I used this trick with a (hard) piece of plastic, tapping the iPad on the back 6 times semi-hard at the edges.

The taps were approximately located at "one third to one forth of the short side from the edge of the longest side". So not in the center.

My ipad 2 fell on the carpeted floor. It didn't look damaged at all, but the screen was all green and fuzzy. I tried hitting the back and corners, but that didn't work. I then gently dropped the sides on the counter, and eventually the screen returned to normal. Apparently the first fall must've loosened something (it was a fall of about 2 feet), and the banging returned it to normal. I had to do this several times, but it eventually worked.