iPad Pro 12.9” not responding to touch intermittently

rbrylawski wrote:

I too hate it when people channel Mr. Jobs. He certainly had his share of mistakes. Let us never forget "You're holding it wrong!"

The world and particularly Apple owes a debt of gratitude to Steve Jobs, but he was not perfect nor was everything he made perfect or without issues.

Yes.

A brilliant person with brillant, ahead of his time ideas, but just like all of us in this world, he had his flaws and eccentricities, too!

But his ideas, products and philosophies concerning Apple still endure to this day.

Oops! I responded to the wrong thread. I had two issues happening with my iPad 11. 1) Half the screen was not responding and 2) Sidecar wasn’t working. My reply was in regards to the latter. My apologies.

Another mistake Mr. Jobs made was not initially shipping the iPad with its own, unique native built-in, calculator app.

As such, this oversight has endured for nearly 10 years and with third party software calculator makers filling tne void for many years now, a native Apple iOS calculator app for iPad is now such a low to non-priority for Apple.

I do not know what is involved with designing a nice, native calculator app that is fitting for iPad, but I think it should have happen when iPadOS redesign when it launched this past September.

If Mr. Jobs WOULD have been still with us in 2011, he WOULD HAVE push all of the iOS teams to have made sure the next model iPads and next version of iOS had a native calculator app for iPad.

Mr. Jobs would have gotten all the iOS teams to get that native iPad calculator app into iOS and into iPads.

But he’s gone and Mr. Cook didn't push for this in later iOS versions and so a Apple native, unique built-in iOS calculator app for iPad has just lanquished and lanquished and, pretty much, died with him.

Kinda of sad that.

As we’re all joining-in to pick “off topic” holes in Apple, a further enduring gripe is the Calendar widget. On iPhone, “All Day” events are shown - but for iPad, these events are not shown in the widget - and no amount of configuring or workaround will ever show them.

So, for iPad, to see All Day events you can’t see All Day events in the Calendar widget or the Today view. On iPhone, you can!

Thanks Apple 🙂

i’m still living with this awful screen issue. My mint condition iPad Pro second generation 12.9 is just terrible to use unless it’s with the pencil. It’s so frustrating trying to use my finger to do anything, scroll, onscreen type, click links. I’m still so so so very disappointed in the this product. I’m running iOS 13.3. What’s worse, I can’t even resell it because i know I’ll just be passing this very expensive problem along to someone else. I know apple would have a serious expense if they decided to make this right for all of us, but with their market cap being so strong you’d think they would come up with something for all of us ‘high-end’ iPad users. It seriously makes me consider a competitor product for table/laptop needs.

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I am not so sure Apples cares about this issue or the right people know about it. When I provided feedback and specifically mentioned it to the tech support person (and the dude in the closest Apple Store), they clearly didn't care at all.

Dear Apple,

Id gladly give you mine to troubleshoot if you give me a loaner. Let’s get to the bottom of this or maybe you already know and aren’t going to publicly acknowledge it. I don’t know. PM me, let’s make a deal and figure something out.

Iam having the same issue with my iPad Pro 2017 but it happens a lot more now then it used to sometime it’s unresponsive enough we’re I can’t touch any of the apps on home screen so it’s basically just a brick at the time that happens and other times only one side of screen is responsive but other side isn’t which makes it annoying to use on screen keyboard

Exactly how mine acts is how described above, thought i was on to something by turning the brightness down, seemed to get better for awhile, maybe I was just thinking it was cause I just want it to work right, but ultimately it is acting the same, heck even writing this it has stopped responding several times.

I’m not trying to be funny, but I’m looking for my best option to offload my excellent condition 2nd gen 12.9” iPad Pro WiFi+VZW with 256gb. I have an Apple Pencil and Apple Smart Keyboard to go along with it. My email is engraved on the back.

any thoughts on the best place/price to get some money back? It just sits on the shelf because of this problem. I want to get rid of it no hassle.

Those are forum hosts, not people who care about your message. The forum hosts are only tasked with removing posts which violate terms of use and suggesting what you did in Apple's house is against the terms of use. Cognizant Apple employees are NOT on this forum.

Your comments got deleted by the Apple Support Community staff of moderators that monitor and moderate all user posted content here 24/7 for any violations of the Terms of Use of these communities.

No one from any Apple product teams reads nor participates in these user to user support communities.

Your post was deleted because it violated the terms of use of the user to user support communities.

That is all.

No cognizant Apple products teams/employees are here.

You have a good point. I had an iPad Air 2 with no problems. I updated it with the new ipad air (3rd gen) late 2019. The touchscreen probs on this ipad are exactly as people are discussing in this thread.

So my older Ipad Pro 2nd gen is now showing the same problem, it started immediately after i updated to 13.3.1. Never had this issue before on that IPad, only on the 3rd gen IPad. Great job, Apple......this must be software related.