iPad Pro 9.7 Random Restart

Normally wouldn't think much of this but, I have a 2 day old iPad Pro 9.7 128GB that has restart on me twice so far. In the middle of using it, it will cut to the Apple logo on the black background for a minute before returning to the passcode screen. Oddly enough, it will accept Touch ID in place of a passcode, something it doesn't usually do when it loses power. Any idea on the cause or how to figure it out? I chatted with the tech support but they only help they could provide was to do a restore. I just performed it, but my concern is that I installed an app or enabled something causing the iPad to crash and it'll simply continue to do that due to the bad app.

Posted on Apr 13, 2016 9:38 PM

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Jun 29, 2016 4:50 PM in response to camhabib

I am on my third replacement iPad Pro because of this restart issue. The genius bar at my store knows nothing or will not disclose anything about this being a known issue. I have noticed that this reboot only occurs after I hit the home button while using Safari. Furthermore, it only seems to happen when I leave Safari via the home button while having three or more tabs open. I have since been very careful not to exit safari while having multiple windows open. I close all tabs before leaving Safari and have not had a reboot event since. This is clearly a non rigorous investigation by me...really just an observation by a frustrated user. Maybe some of you can experiment with this as well.

Jul 3, 2016 5:13 AM in response to journee8

HI,

My husband's iPad came in. He had it for a week. It didn't have the random restart issues. Instead it would not read the SIM card. Diagnostics showed numerous internal errors. Verizon and apple care could not fix it. So they gave us another one. This would be the fourth iPad Pro 9.7 256 gb wifi/cellular we've had in 3 months. Of course it crashed the first day we used it. The random restarts are back with a vengeance.


I Went to 2 Apple stores here in Chicago. The salespeople claim no one has returned any iPad pros because of a random restart issue. I find that hard to believe.

Jul 3, 2016 1:12 PM in response to Yamil

I just got off the phone with an Apple Senior Technical Support Advisor. He confirmed that they know about the issue, and there is a relation to the case where the reboot screen appears when starting an app (not leaving as it is here). The problem is limited to iPad Pro 9.7 only.

Further details were not shared, as that is classified (with my respect to that).

Just knowing the problem is recognised, makes me already feel better. I have high hopes it gets solved in later updates.


Meanwhile I'm walking the Tech's suggested path of eliminating all circumstantial causes, by performing a clean install via recovery mode, and not reinstalling my backup right away (to eliminate a cause in my setup).

Jul 3, 2016 1:39 PM in response to ashley1227

I am with you Ashley. I am using my 4ht IPad now and all of them have been defective. It is just not restarts, but ITunes not loading, Email not updating properly, etc. Apple had problems with IOS 7 doing random restarts and they should have learned from that. I agree that this is more than just a software issue and that is why this has not been resolved. It seems that the salespeople in the Apple Stores and some of the senior techs have not heard of this problem. HA!

Jul 5, 2016 7:07 PM in response to camhabib

Take this with a grain of salt, but I have reason to believe that Apple thinks this issue may have been resolved by iOS 10 beta 2. (Exact wording was seed 2 of Whitetail, if that means anything to you) It might take a bit but I am going to attempt to confirm. That being said, please don't anybody try the betas unless you are absolutely ****ing sure you know what you are doing. I don't want (digital?) blood on my hands.

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