Q: iPad Pro 9.7 Random Restart

I Think Apple has no idea how to fix it and instead is issuing replacements as a stall tactic. This is ridiculous.

Have you tried the update released today?  9.3.3 was released today for iPad Pro 9.7".

MY iPad is on 9.3.2 and when I checked it said it was the latest update. I will keep checking they may be releasing the update in waves. 

You will need to download it from developer.apple.com

Is that release a beta?

I honestly don't think the swaps are a stall tactic, I just think that is the "genious" SOP - they tell u to restore, then swap it out if that doesn't work.  Apple has always been secretive about bugs, which I think is a terrible tactic - although in this case since the reboots have failed to make a wave in the mainstream media I guess it has worked.  If they had officially acknowledged a flaw it would have been all over.  I hope 9.3.3 fixes the bug and is OTA soon.

Yeah it's a developer beta, but I was hoping someone that was having the issue would try it out and see if it fixes it.  My iPad Pro 9.7 has always worked fine and still does under the 9.3.3 dev beta.

The descriptions of the problem vary enough that nailing down why this happens isn't trivial. It took them a number of weeks to solve the early MacBook sudden shutdown problem - turned out to need a firmware upgrade to turn the fan on. In this case, my iPad shuts down usually 1x or 2x a day but it's almost always a "short shutdown" that takes only a few seconds. But the difference to me as a user is that iOS saves the state of each app so I haven't lost anything on a restart, except generally my place in Mail or maybe I need to load a Safari tab.

I agree it sounds like a very strange issue, almost like a rogue piece of code in the CoreOS that is implementing some code from the 12.9" iPad Pro running in the 9.7 without accounting for the 2GB vs. 4GB LPDDR4 RAM difference, causing a crash when it overflows or when it tries to read from an address that doesn't exist.  But the problem isn't affecting all users which is what makes it strange.  I haven't had the issue with mine, and the new beta fixed the one minor hiccup I was having, so who knows.  It's the nicest tablet I have seen or used.  I was just hoping they nailed down this one issue with the 9.3.3 release to make it the killer tablet that I have seen it as.

Just a simple "we know, we're working on it" would already suffice to make this a killer tablet.

Question: How in the world can it be a software issue if not everyone is experiencing this issue?

Computers are complex devices, despite the apparent simplicity of an iPad.  For me, the issue happens about once a week.  There is probaby a magic combination of a specific set of variables thar causes it.  I have posted a similar theory to the one above that it is a memory handling issue as when mine does it I get a jetsam event usually revolving around VM-pagefile errors.  Given that many users have had the same errors across multiple copies and that it always seems to occur during app switching points to a software rather than a hardware flaw - hardware flaws tend to be more random, and cause a complete reboot of the device rather than a springboard restart.

My iPad Pro 9.7 has not rebooted at all since I disabled Safari using the restrictions settings. So no reboots for 2 days with Safari gone.

I suspect their is an issue with the app. Sean

THe newest beta does not fix it. Just ceashed after updating two days ago.

Apple doesn't know what the issue is or how to fix it, so they are just hoping it goes away in ios 10. In the meantime we're stuck with a +$1000 device that randomly reboots.I've never been so dissapointed with any purchase in my life.

Thanks for the great news!! This will never be fixed. We have ourselves a 1000 lemon. Class Action lawsuit,,,