iOS 11 Dock Floating Problems On iPad Air 2

You are not alone. I hope they fix this. I can’t access the apps on the left of the dock when this happens, so I am forced to restart. I expected them to catch the bug and correct it in the last update, but no luck yet.

As you can see, not only is it floating in both orientations, it disappears altogether on one side.

This has started happening to me in the last couple of weeks. Yours seems to happen before the recent small & big updates to the OS. It's only fixable, so far, by restarting the iPad. I actually don't even see the dock in landscape, but here's what it looks like in portrait.

I’ve posted here previously and really want to nail this down. I’m running iOS 11.2.2 on an iPad Air 2, model MGKL2LL/A.

I went into Music, selected a playlist, then shuffle. I pressed the home button to return back to my main home screen and the dock was gone.

Before restarting I rotated my device in 90 degree increments clockwise and the device displayed the following:

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I then reset my device and dock appeared as normal, unfortunately now Bluetooth is activated.

I do not have this problem on my iPad Pro 10.5, sounds like maybe something didn’t quite install correctly when you did the update. Would suggest taking it in and having someone look at it at the Genius Bar, this isn’t normal and kind of hard to fix something on a small scale like this....There are bugs I’m sure that need worked out, but you should also post this on Apple’s Feedback Site, and let them know you’re having this problem as well, that way they can see it is an issue and look into it. On these forums, Apple does not monitor them nor do they read the posts left so if you don’t put it in the feedback section, they may not even know it is an issue.

Everybody, please file your complaints with Apple by posting at this link: Feedback - iPad - Apple.

See if you can identify an app that may be causing this, maybe a game that changes the video resolution.

Have you complained to Apple? Some of us have, though I’m not sure how many, as far as I’m aware, no one has received a reply, but the more people who complain, the better. If you haven’t, here’s a link. Feedback - iPad - Apple

Restart often fixes graphical issues such as this one.

Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

FWIW, yours is the first such report that you be seen.

Having the exact same issue. iPad Air 1. It has carried over from IOS 11 to 11.0.1, 11.0.2, and still on 11.0.3. A reboot fixes it - until tomorrow. Then it starts again.

my iPad Pro 10.5 doesn’t have this issue.

So some piece of code randomly didn’t install. OK. The same one for several of us... OK. so it couldnt be a bug. OK.

You do realize that if we didn’t get all the code, the verification would have failed?

It's a bug. There’s some condition like a setting that you have different that doesn’t trigger the bug. You’re lucky. Some of us have the bug. I assure you, we all got the entire download. Because it hasn’t affected you yet though, doesn’t mean we didn’t get all the code installed.

Just wait, I have a Pro 10.5 and I have been having the same problem.

its not a hardware issue it’s a software glitch in the update. 11.3 to be specific.

Rebooting 5 times a day is an old Windows solution not an iPad solution.

I’m having the same problem using an iPad Pro, the dock appears tiny to the right from one of the landscape sides, from the other it is gone, in both of the portrait sides it is giant and it continues off screen.

Another thing I noticed it is that sometimes while draggin apps it shows the icon in a different place, it follows my fingers movement, it is just not below it.

Also, sometimes, I rotate my ipad to landscape mode and it doesnt change the the screen orientation. Maybe it is all related

Problem exists on iPad Pro 9.7. Dragging icons are often offset from actual finger location. Rotating iPad shifts the dock to where only half of it is visible on the right side of the screen.

Restarting is not a solution, how about a patch?

I just chatted with Apple Support. I was told to try to reset all settings. No data loss but pain in the neck to have to recreate how I like things.

FYI problem started with IOS 11 and didn’t get fixed when 11.1.1 was installed.

“To Reset All Settings, go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings.”

Been using for about 90 minutes since reset. So far, so good. I’ll update tomorrow if it didn’t work.

Update to my post from yesterday. Reset of all settings was not the solution. Same thing happened again today. Rotate Lock was off at the time. I have to start paying attention to see if dock floats when Rotate Lock is on.

I got rid of the problem, i remembered that error started aproximatelly when i installed an game, and triggered some times after closing it. I deleted the app and it hasn’t happen again. Maybe this is just my case, the app was Sup, a racing game