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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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Posted on Mar 18, 2017 8:13 PM

My random restarts stopped with 10.2 but this ipad has multiple problems. The only things the techs can tell you to do is to factory reset. The problems keep changing. One time it was freezing and now pages in Safari turn white. Apple won't admit that these ipads are defective. They will do nothing except factory resets. How many times do you need to reset the iPad to get it to work for awhile until Apple admits there is a problem..They won't admit any of their products are defective.

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Jul 31, 2016 7:45 AM in response to camhabib

iOS 10 has mostly eliminated random restarts. Don't recommend the public beta for most users though each release is improving. Don't know how many public beta releases there will be but there was a huge jump from the first to second, both quashing bugs and optimizing performance. Restarts aren't a hardware issue.

Jul 31, 2016 9:02 AM in response to BeyondtheTech

BeyondtheTech,


I emailed Tim Cook in May and received a call from Executive Relations who connected me with a Special Senior Advisor. My IPads data was down loaded using my IMac. Also, I kept a log of the restarts. After the log was emailed to him I was told not further data was necessary and I would be contacted by him when he heard back from the engineers. I am still waiting. I think all this was an effort to appease me. It seems that many Apple employees have never heard about the 9.7 problems. All their heads are in the sand.

Now my private email keeps telling me that my settings are wrong and my email cannot be downloaded. I contacted their customer service and everything is set up perfectly. Once, again it is the IPad. I have an appointment with the "Genius Bar" today. Lets see how much a waste of time this is.

Aug 1, 2016 6:12 AM in response to ashley1227

Hi Ashley, I have no more issues with the restarting problems after I contact the apple support on chatting they help me with the step by step on opening general > settings and diagnostics and usage and they figured out for me what cause the battery to drain and iPad restart randomly after that they told me to reset network settings, after resetting the network settings battery seems normal again. Before it decreased 1% by 14 minutes and around 6 hours of usage I must charged it again but look at this screenshot after I made a complain to the Apple chat hopefully the random restart will not appear again *finger crossed* hope I can help you 🙂


before complaining to the Apple chat


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I didn't have the screenshot of it as low as 4% as my iPad Pro does random restart on 28%

and I lost the usage and standby data as -


After complaining to the Apple chat


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No random restart for a day after complaining it to the apple chat hopefully it will stay like this 🙂

Aug 1, 2016 6:33 PM in response to ashley1227

Ashley, I have my 4th Pro and it restarts the least of all. It seems to do it when I hit the home button. My IPhone 6 Plus also running IOS 9.3.3 has no problems. Why. Apple won't say. I saw one of the managers at my local Apple Store and he suggested I use gestures instead of the home button. I am trying to train myself not to touch the home button as an experiment. If it works it will be wonderful. Go to settings---multitasking---gestures and it will tell you how to do it. It is worth a try. Nothing else has worked.

Aug 1, 2016 8:18 PM in response to rexboe

Same here. All gone and I still have my original purchase. Thank you for all the security updates.


I tried reading all the security fixes in 9.3.3 and couldn't finish.


The jackers got right down to the kernel. I looked at the restarts as protection, a last ditch firewall.


I read incidia has a jailbreak for 9.3.3 finally. Huh. Finally! It was released a few weeks ago. If you ipad and phone users thought the restarts were an inconvenience, the new incidia has you install it, every time you restart. You are owned.


Plus, you drive the price up. More people needed, finding more hacks, because you give incidia your ID, personal info, password and machine. This time, down to the kernel.


Keep fiddling. I hope some day soon, any one who uses that stuff will just plain have to buy a new machine. No excuses. Warranty voided. Four replacements, what a joke. Refurbs. What did you hope to gain?

Aug 2, 2016 1:29 AM in response to camhabib

This is funny. An Apple advert for the iPad Pro 9.7 haha https://youtu.be/1zPYW6Ipgok

I no longer use mine after the reboots got worse using Public Beta 2.


Now the thing restarts at any time with any app. It is a paper weight next to my bed.

I would strongly advise schools and companies to avoid this iPad until Apple have fixed the problem.


You do not want an entire staff of people angry at the IT Department.

iPad Pro 9.7 Random Restart

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