I have a weird icon on my ipad "desktop." It is a grey gridded square with an X through the middle and a series of concentric circles superimposed over that. If I press and hold it down, it will jiggle, but it doesn't have an X in the corner that will allow me to delete it. It doesn't seem to be anything I can open. Any ideas what this is and/or how I might get rid of it?
iPad mini Wi-Fi, iOS 7
I'm getting this too on my iPhone 5S. I've hidden it away in a folder for the timebeing. Have tried restarting, syncing with iTunes and signing out of my Apple ID in the appstore but it won't go away.
Anyone else have any ideas?
That is probably an App that was updating and got stuck. Either you lost WiFi or lost your App Store connection.
Try going into App Store again and see if it will restart. (or complete)
Have already tried that a number of times.
No apps in the appstore need updates.
OK - then try a reset of your phone (no data will be lost)
Hold the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time until the Apple logo appears, then release both buttons. Allow the phone to restart and the see if the problem is still there.
Tried that 5-6 times too, still doesn't go away either.
Here's what I've tried:
I managed to solve this in the end by doing the following:
The app in my case was a game called Pivvot and I believe it got stuck as I was tranisitioning from an area of 4G connectivity to a wifi enabled network. It downloaded successfully but there was a duplicate copy represented by the blank grid icon that got stuck in that "waiting" state.
Hope this helps anyone else.
weird icon
