iPad Mini going crazy!! Screen is moving and randomly selecting on its own.

This same glitching problem has been happening to my iPad mini for about a year now. I just took it into the only Apple Store in my area and the guy did a diagnostic test and said it did not show a hardware issue so he did a factory reset through iTunes. After the reset, he did another touch test and the iPad finally responded as it should. Well, things appeared to be fixed until I tried to use it at home; it started going nuts again. It's not under warranty anymore and I was told it would cost money for apple to replace it, but wasn't told how much. Guess I'll be going back to Apple tomorrow. Sigh .

Same thing just happened on my 5s that I just got today! It was fine for like an hour then just went nuts. I'm furious!!!!!

Had the same problem developed over the last few months. Very noticeable, though not only, when playing spider solitaire (free game) when it would start playing! Removing my moves and making new ones. Problem completely solved when I removed spider solitaire. Don´t have any downloaded games on my ipad mini. What a relief! Try it.

I'm not sure its to do with an app like spider solitaire, in fact a lot of us don't have it. if its just on a single app then delete it and re download. if it happens again tell apple and the app developer about what happening! however for people like me who have it when they just turn on the their i device, i still recommend going to repair it!

my ipad mini going crazy. it work itself and random application starting its own. and letters typing automatically. After restart ipad it work for 2-3 minutes and problem start again. anyone can help to sort out this trouble. its 2 years old IPAD.

Rebooted by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10 seconds kind of reboot? That didn't work? No cover or screen protector on the iPad that could be causing problems?

Have you closed all apps and then reboot/reset the iPad? I don't hold out a lot of hope that it will be this easy to fix, but it's an easy thing to try next in the unlikely event that some app has gone bonkers and it causing the problem.

In order to close an app - drag the app up from the multitasking display. Double tap the home button and you will see apps lined up going left to right across the screen. Swipe to get to the app that you want to close and then swipe "up" on the app preview thumbnail to close it. Close every app this way.

Reset 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 if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

If closing all of the apps and rebooting does keep things at bay for a few days, you might be a software issue that could be ultimately resolved by deleting the problematic app, if you can pin down which app it is. That might be easier said than done,

There have been other users that have reported "ghost touching" in other discussions, and in some cases (IIRC) it turned out that the iPads were defective and were replaced by Apple. I think that you owe it to yourself to take a trip to an Apple Store and ask them to take a look. Make an appointment with the Genius Bar and backup everything before you go in case they want to work one of their magical restores.

This started happening to me too a few days ago. I've tried rebooting and I just updated to iOS 7.1, but it's still hapenning.

Yes, I got the first iPad mini (original model non-retina) and about 10 mos later, it started to have this problem - tried resetting, clearing out all the Apps, etc...nothing worked. I went to the Apple store and within two minutes they replaced it with a new one (same model - non-retina). I considered that excellent service, the new replacement worked perfectly. Unfortunately it is now about 10 mos later and the new replacement is having the same problem. Neither unit had any water damage whatsoever, nor were they ever dropped - yet but both are having the same problem.

The original warranty has expired and so there does not seem to be any recourse from Apple. And if I pay for a repair - it seems it is likely to develop the same problem.

I read online that some people suspect that somehow condensation forms inside when the temperature changes from cold to hot and that is what is causing this problem. It was suggested in an online forum to try heating the unit under a blow drying - I guess to evaporate the moisture. That seems far fetched and very risky. I have not tried that and i do NOT recommend it. However, I guess if you are prepared to throw away the unit anyway, then it may be worth a final gamble.

I am curious if anyone had found a cause for this problem or a fix?

The real question for me is - should the next tablet I buy be an apple product or another brand?

i removed my screensaver and thought all was fine but the message i just wrote didn't post. ??

My ipad doing same thing, i have given it to Service Center, But they said, they have never seen such problem. But i have seen videos on YouTube, there are many ipad users suffering from same issue. Let's see what Service Center people will do now.

I have the same exact problem. It's really annoying when you are watching a home exercise video and suddenly the video switch to another video. Since it is still under waranty, I took it on the store where I bought it and at store the the ipad mini seems not feel showing off. But the store people are so nice, that they still send the unit to apple. They say It will take a month for them to return my ipad mini. I found this video on youtube that has the same problem as mine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCpNnsKYOxg

this is happening to me too but it is closing the apps and going into them at its own will. It is also clicking on random letters when I'm typing or when I'm trying to get into my password it drives me MAD