iPad dock hidden on home screen iOS 11

As a follow-up....It's been about 3 days since I used Mscreant's suggestion to take everything out of the dock, restart and put everything back in. This didn't correct my problem. But here is what has:

I was able to identify my offending App, which wasn't that difficult as it always happened right after I used that App. It was NOT, as some suggested, the App that puts a "recently used" timer icon on my dock. But, it IS an App that organically opens in 'portrait' view, but I use it in 'landscape' view, so it is always "forced" to change orientation. (I did not try playing the game in the portrait orientation). What I DID do was to delete the offending App, "hard restart"ed my iPad (with iOS11.2.4) and then downloaded a clean version of the App.

This has solved my issue and as it turns out, it is NOT an Apple issue!

Been testing this workaround for 2 weeks, seems to stick:

move all icons out of the dock to a folder

hard boot the ipad

play your games from the folder, do not launch from home screen or dock

put icons back on the dock that do not play embedded video - I am pretty sure my culprit is AB2

since doing this, 2 weeks, the issue has not represented.

that being said....APPLE FIX THIS

If you go into display and zoom and standard click standard then back to standard that fixes it also but it will come back and you hav to do it again????

I’m cautiously optimistic that iOS 11.3 finally fixed this. Updated yesterday and have not been able to reproduce the issue since.

I have not experienced the issue anymore on my iPad MinI 4th gen since installing the 11.3 update.

This is just a workaround for the iPad until the bug is fixed by Apple:

1. go to settings—>General—>Multitask & Dock
2. go down to Dock
3. Slide option to Disable (should not be green) “Show Suggested and Recent Apps”

Yes it is a pain to not have recent apps there but for me it is more painful not having the dock.

you can always ask Siri to “open app Xxx“ or you can manually search for apps. Not sure how long it will take for Apple to fix the iPad issue but at least there are some things we can do to still be functional.

Turning off the recent apps does not fix the floating dock. It is a step towards removing the little alarm clock on app icons in the dock.

But as has been stated MANY times in this and other threads, the floating dock is a known glitch in iOS11, and one that Apple has apparently had a hard time tracking down. It will probably ONLY be fixed in an iOS update, but there is no idea when that may be coming.

Beyond that this is a user to user tech support forum, folks are not speaking to Apple here. So your cries of frustration don’t go where you want them to go to. If you want to send your frustration to Apple, send them some feedback and let them know just how many people are having this issue

Product Feedback - Apple

iOS 11.2.5 seems to solve this for me

Makes does the same ever since I updated iOS. I restart it and it resolves it but then it goes back to the dock either moving up the screen or vanishing completely in portrait mode or it is half off the screen left or right in landscape mode. Getting quite fed up with this lastest iOS on iPad and iPhone as it’s so bug ridden.

Hi ArberyT. I guess it worked for the OP who marked the reply.

Please report it to Apple at this link: Feedback - iPad - Apple.

Meanwhile, try to avoid those apps that change the screen resolution, games maybe.

I’ve also noticed if my dock messes up it’s after an in app ad

Some of those come in ‘wrong’ in that if you have your iPad in landscape mode (wider than it is tall) and some ad comes in in portrait (taller than it is wide) it may mess up your dock.

Arbery I can feel your frustration but we’re all just users like you. We have no control over the issue nor the ability to fix it beyond suggesting work arounds to tide you over until Apple fixes the issue.

disabling the recent apps bar seems to actually fix this problem. did this about a week ago or so and had no issues since.

How do I fix this? I brought it up from the bottom but cannot get it to move below the little dots and stay. Do you have any advice on how to do this? I am trying to drag it off the screen as you stated in your second paragraph.

I have the same issue with my IPad Air 2 anytime I switch from portrait to landscape mode on the screen. I have issues with programs such as Apples own News just flipping back to the home screen when it apparently feels like it, because there is no set pattern. I have issues with the home button not responding to touch recognition. My iPhone 6s does not recognize the touch on the home button either. All these problems started at the introduction of X. It has been the most frustrating experience dealing with Apple on these issues. My IOS is up to date. Each time I update in hopes that the issues will be resolved. Each update has been a bitter disappointment.

This isn’t a solution, the problem resurfaces after using the iPad for a bit.

I usually use my iPad after restarting it, but hey, if you just restart your iPad and the only thing you do is to stare at it - than I guess yes, this solution works.