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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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Aug 21, 2016 7:22 AM in response to whsalumni

My battery is now 49% the usage is only 6 hr 31 mins do you think it is normal? Because before I bought my iPad Pro 9.7, I used iPad mini 2 and I feel that the battery last longer than this iPad Pro 9.7 and the brightness is only 50% after I finished typing this it goes down to 48% with the usage of 6 h 34 mins standby 24 hr 37 mins

Aug 23, 2016 11:06 AM in response to camhabib

I got a new iPad Pro 9.7 about a month ago and random restart on the first day. I blew it off at first, then it keep doing it. I googled it and found this article, so I chat online with tech support and they had me reset all settings. Next day it did it again so I made appointment at Apple store and they did a full fatory reset. Next day it did it again, so I called them and now they want me to connect to iTunes tonight and reset it again. I did it it on video and I offered it to tech support and they said no. I think I need a new iPad.

Sep 2, 2016 7:51 PM in response to camhabib

I Have the Same problem on brand new 128G wifi.

went and replace it, full restore...and sure enough it keeps,doing it.

it happens when I switch apps, close one using gesture.

its not a complete reboot, I see the apple logo and it's back pretty quick.

happens to me about once a day, just like the pervious did.

had Air 2 before...don't remember it ever did thIs. And yeah I'm on 9.3.5.

THough it it did that on previous version as well.

Sep 12, 2016 6:52 PM in response to toastitute

some have posted that it's still not working with new iOS, but I've been running it for weeks, and it fixed mine. I've been complaining about the restarts since day one(check previous posts), when I bought my iPad (launch day). For me iOS 10 finally fixed it, still no excuse for having like this for 6 months. Hopefully its fixed for good, fingers crossed. I was almost scarred to jinx it and post that it's finally fixed, but it has been for a few weeks now.

Sep 13, 2016 12:23 PM in response to whsalumni

Okay so, I've been checking this thread for quite a while - since I started getting these "Springboard" crashes when switching apps. Always seemed to be related to having Safari open. SO Safari with some tabs, then other random apps. At some point I was getting 2-3 springboard crashes per day. Very quick, just show the logo for a couple of seconds, then back to the pin pad. iOS 9.3.4 did not fix it, then I went to 9.3.5. I remember for sure that I have tried setting up Safari in different ways, and at some point I just disabled the Javascript engine (and I have continued using Chrome for stuff that required JavaScript)


So thing is, the crashes stopped. I hadn't have one for like weeks. Then I went back, and re-enabled Javascript in Safari. This was 2 weeks ago. No crashes whatsoever, ever since. The "bug298" that we all see in "diagnostic and usage", also called the "JetsamEvent", is common to ALL devices. Just went into an Apple store in Manchester and quickly checked almost all the devices: ALL had "bug_type":"298" events in the logs. I checked current iPhone models, the 12.9 inch iPad pro, the small iPad Pro, iPad minis. All had this in the logs, several times. I am still getting them daily, but hadn't had a crash ever since.


I am hoping it was, in fact, iOS 9.3.5 that fixed it. Dont' know. The crashes did not come back after I re-enabled JavaScript in Safari, so it was just a coincidence, it seems.


Now with all that being said.. I am waitign to see what iOS10 brings to my iPad Pro 9.7. - because if there are ANY reports of the springboard crash again, I am staying on 9.3.5. O.o


My device is a 128 gig iPad Pro 9.7in, WiFi only, model MLMW2B/A.

(edit: first I wrote "128 megabyte".... LOL .. you can tell I'm from the 80's 😀 )


Cheers and yeah.. first ever post in here 🙂

iPad Pro 9.7 Random Restart

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