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Apple is introducing a new Apple Watch Pride Edition Braided Solo Loop, matching watch face, and dynamic iOS and iPadOS wallpapers as a way to champion global movements to protect and advance equality for LGBTQ+ communities. Learn more >
Apple is introducing a new Apple Watch Pride Edition Braided Solo Loop, matching watch face, and dynamic iOS and iPadOS wallpapers as a way to champion global movements to protect and advance equality for LGBTQ+ communities. Learn more >
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Introducing the iPad Pro with Apple M4 chip, the redesigned iPad Air in two sizes, and the all‑new Apple Pencil Pro. Watch the event >
Introducing the iPad Pro with Apple M4 chip, the redesigned iPad Air in two sizes, and the all‑new Apple Pencil Pro. Watch the event >
I’ve had my iPad mini for 4 years now and it looks like EVERY time I go on it it crashes, this is really annoying and it even got to the point today where it had to automatically restart. I have an iPhone 5 that I’m using right now and is much older but it works fine.
What the heck is going on?!
Have any of you tried a hard reset of your iPad by holding down both the Home and sleep/wake buttons until your iPad goes to black and restarts with Apple logo, then release the buttons?
How much free data storage space is left on your iPad?
iDevices need to maintain, at least, 3 GBs, OR GREATER, of free data storage space.
In Settings app, General settings panel, turn OFF Background App Refresh.
In Settings app, under General settings, Reset panel, at the right bottom of the list, Reset All Settings.
In Settings app (NOT from the iOS Control Panel) turn OFF Bluetooth when not using any Bluetooth devices.
Also, in general, if you want a faster IDevice, on all of my iDevices, I turn off most of the iOS motion graphics eye candy, by simply turning ON Reduce Motion in Settings app, General, Accessibilty settings.
Make sure you aren't running scads and scads of background apps in the iOS App Switcher.
If you are, you need to quit the bulk of these background running apps by tap and hold a finger on an app window in the switcher and slide your finger upwards to quit an app. You should be able to use more than one finger to quit more than one app window simultaneously.
Also, make sure you don’t have scads and scads of active website tabs running in the web browser.
If you do, greatly reduce the amount of active website tabs your web browser.
Tap on the link below to my iDevice/iOS performance/optimisation user tips link.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10344
Try all of these tips and leave each tip active together. Do not simply try every tip individually, expecting just one tip to be a performance “cure all”.
Many of these tips are designed to work together to improve overall iOS/iDevice performance.
Good Luck!
which iPad mini is it 1st generation ? or 2nd ?
when you said you had it for 4 years they do age and get slower over time I would backup via iTunes or icloud and wipe it and then restore from your backup see if that helps 🙂
My iPad is crashing WAY too much
