iOS 11 Dock Floating Problems On iPad Air 2

Started doing it on my iPad Air right after I upgraded to IOS 11. Still doing it after the 11.1 update. It was not a graphic issue before until IOS 11, it needs to be looked into and a patch made, c’mon Apple please!

This was my initial best guess after some trial and error.

I contacted the game maker in question and basically got an FU it isn’t us.

However after uninstalling their game... ahem.... My Singing Monsters... haven’t had the problem since.

I didn’t even blame them, I suggested it was just as likely their ad server or server provider but nope.

If any of you are using ad driven games start troubleshooting there.

On my iPad 2 the dock floats up in portrait mode. Slides to the left in landscape mode. Sometimes it gets smaller than normal. But, 2 days ago, it started disappearing altogether. iOS 11.1.2 Restarting and quick reboot will provide a temporary fix, but there should be a permanent solution.

This problem occurs several times a day. Restarting is not an option. Nor is the original poster the only guy who has this problem, as you can now see on three pages of posts.

Where is the “not helpful” button? I would click it for this “Top response”.

Same issue for me ipad pro 10.5, latest os.

Someone above was on to that i might be related to "ads". This seems like the trigger for me as well.

Scenario:

1. Started a game without ads (Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes). No issue with dock having moved when exiting app.

2. Started a game with ads (June's Journey), watched ad, dock had moved when exiting app.

3. Restarted ipad.

4. Started game with ads, watched ad, dock had moved when exiting app.

Speculation

Seems unlikely that the sandbox nature I imagine apps/games have in ios that they are able to be causing issues in the gui of the os. More likely some video drivers in the os itself being used by different games that needs some work. Maybe resolution related. But that's why you make the big bucks to sort out.

/Dissatisfied

Several users mentioned they also experienced this problem and they seem to have connected it to gaming issues especially June’s Journey. I also play that game and maybe the latest game update last week created the issue...

My girls have a bunch of kids games that have ads pop up all the time. Everything worked fine until our iPad Air upgraded to IOS11. If it is true that ads from apps or games are the issue, than it is a glitch or exception in IOS11 from the ads maybe that is causing it. We upgraded from the last version in IOS 10 to 11 and have had this happen ever since.

I’ve been having a similar problem. My doc disappears. It always happens when I quit an ad driven game. I hadn’t realized that could be the problem until I read this thread. Nice to know I’m not going crazy.

I've been dealing with this issue as well since iOS 11 update and I agree, Apple's response of the "reboot" is far from an acceptable solution.

Just adding a little information to those that went down the in-game ads track - I was doing some scouring of the inter-webs the past week to see if I could find some semblance of hope to correct this as it is the most annoying of issues. Some other folks have narrowed it down to not specifically in-game ads per-se but anything that changes the resolution of the screen (most of the time this is in-game ads). So, while uninstalling and removing said culprit apps would "fix" the problem - Apple, you approved them to be in your ever so "prestigious" store. This requires a fix and sooner rather than later. It's unacceptable and quite frankly ridiculous that something like this made it through your QA.

I have the same problem and I am worred about the fact that this problem is occurring more often. It seems that the only solution is to restart my iPad Pro.

At the moment I have to restart almost every day, not fun at all.

Same problem here on wife's brand new iPad Pro 10.5" Plus she was seeing it on her old iPad Air 2 before we switched to the new one. Have not yet tried any of the solutions mentioned in this thread, but seems like this is something Apple is going to need to address soon.

Hi,

Have same/similar problem on an iPad Air where the dock is aligned to the right or left of the screen and usually cuts off some icons so they can't be clicked...

http://i64.tinypic.com/mkkozd.jpg

Hopefully Apple is aware..

Done.

Trying to identify the cause of the problem by finding a common denominator, I use very little of my ipad and usefully I've only used an app daily, it's the SUP (car race) game. Does anyone else also play this game?

My iPad had same problem. It start problem from yesterday and I was iOS 11.2.1 and then I restore my iPad iOS 11.2.2 and it was okey for 12hours and after it start same problem.

Can’t fix that issues. Apple must do something about this.

Apple need to fix this issue.

In my iPad Air 2 it doing now always and can’t fix it by doing restore iPad by itune dfu mode.

I was ios 11.2.1 and there start this issues and I restore to latest iOS 11.2.2 and it just fix for 12hours and after again iPad fked start doing this.

iOS 11 fully ****

Apple need to allow us to use ios10 and ios11 need to fix fully.