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ios 8 ipad stuck in grayscale

I upgraded an Ipad Retina display to IOS 8 and now the whole thing is stuck in grayscale. Moving the grayscale button back and forth does nothing. Restarting it does nothing. It seems to be permanently in grayscale now. Ideas?

iPad 2, iOS 8, IOS 8 Bug

Posted on Sep 19, 2014 8:10 AM

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Posted on Sep 22, 2014 8:12 AM

Hello R3trop,



You may need to disable grayscale in your Accessibility settings.

See the screen in grayscale. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Grayscale.


iPad User Guide - Invert Colors and Grayscale

http://help.apple.com/ipad/8/




Cheers,

Allen

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Sep 11, 2015 8:28 AM in response to bobseufert

Thank you bobseufert. Tried everything else, and this worked!


bobseufert wrote:


Accessibility shortcut is at the bottom of the list on a iPad. You can set which features you want to be able to turn on/off when you triple click the home button. If you are having trouble turning grayscale off check the greyscale setting in Zoom. If you turn it on in Zoom you can't turn ir off with the regular setting.


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Re: ios 8 ipad stuck in grayscalein response to dogdriver

Accessibility shortcut is at the bottom of the list on a iPad. You can set which features you want to be able to turn on/off when you triple click the home button. If you are having trouble turning grayscale off check the greyscale setting in Zoom.

::: If you turn it on in Zoom you can't turn ir off with the regular setting.

:::


Grayscale setting? But I did not make any changes in settings... IPad Air display just went crazy.


Answer :::

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6543302

When I woke up this morning, the screen on my iPad Air screen was black and white, no colors. All text is black on white background, and all images, icons, web pages are monochrome. No colors at all. Just grayscale.

So, I tried to reset the iPad normally, by powering off, powering on, but nothing changed — still monochrome. No colors. Only grayscale. Next, a hard reset by holding down the home button while holding down the on off Button... Still the same, no colors. Just monochrome/grayscale.

I've checked the accessibility settings and everything else, nothing seems unusual. I've tried changing Settings... Accessibility... Grayscale... Tried that slider both ways, but nothing works. No colors. Grayscale only. Still the same after rebooting.

ios 8 ipad stuck in grayscale

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