iPad Pro screen unresponsive

My iPad Pro screen is often unresponsive to touch with screen and keyboard. Reboot does not seem to help.

Posted on Dec 3, 2018 6:10 AM

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Posted on Mar 9, 2019 4:55 PM

Do you use a glass screen protector?

Take it off.

These new iPad Pro models with the new liquid retina display do not like ANY type of screen protector on the screen.

Touch response is poor with any type of applied screen protector.

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Feb 1, 2019 2:43 PM in response to NAIGroup

FYI,


There is no one in ANY of these Apple Support Communities from any Apple product teams, here.

Cognizant or responsible Apple product teams, designers and engineers do not read, nor participate in these Apple technical support communities.

These are, largely, Apple product user to user technical support communities.

I and others, in these Apple product support communities, are simply Apple product users, just like you, that volunteer our own time and knowledge here.

Apple supplies these forums for users to work out their product issues with other users, but these community forums ARE monitored/moderated by Apple Staff, as well as Apple Community Support Specialists, assigned to these community forums, but I do not think any specific user posted info is ever passed on to who/mever the cognizant parties are who would need to know if there are any mounting issues with any Apple product or software.

These ASC ONLY moderators and staffers, due to Apple privacy policies, do not forward any info contained/obtained from ANY postings within these communities to any cognizant Apple staff, teams or individuals.


The only way to get Apple to, DIRECTLY, listen to you is to use their feedback portion of their website.

Mar 9, 2019 9:51 AM in response to calexj

Tried every single solutions the web had to offer, even edgy ones.... this is BS, either the iPad or ios is to blame ... turn this on , swipe this way , hold rhat way, reset .... all crap Apple has to come with a solution. Scroll up and follow instructions provided to notify Apple of the issue, don t just complain of it on forums it wont help. Notifying Apple will.

Mar 25, 2019 7:41 PM in response to MichelPM

Has Apple officially announced that this fix is in the upcoming release? I guess I can wait until the notification comes up, but I'm still very suspicious that this is a software issue (even iOS). 1. The problem only appears after a few months of use and then gradually gets worse. 2. The problem is scarce in the morning (or when one first starts using the tablet for the day) and gradually grows worse over the course of hours of use. 3. No troubleshooting step has fixed the problem, even temporarily, including a clean install of any version of the iOS. 4. Apple has been addressing this by replacing the units.


We'll see, I guess. I'm not hopeful.

Mar 25, 2019 10:07 PM in response to calexj

Apple routinely will either fix, change, remove things in an iOS upgrade/update with NO such additional notice of what they have done.

Especially so, if Apple removes or changes something.

Apple is quick to announce any new or fixed features in an iOS upgrade/update, but they are less than forthcoming IF they have removed/replaced or changed a popular feature or set of features.

Apple is notorious for not mentioning removal of any iOS features UNLESS it is a blatantly obvious change.

Apr 12, 2019 12:36 AM in response to DocKah

My iPad Pro screen is unresponsive. When I got it in Nov 2018 it was great. No issues!

In January my iPad Pro started to become unresponsive on occasions. Now it is all the time.

It has taken me several attempts to type this message. I finally did it by texting myself. The copied and pasted.

How do I fix the unresponsive iPad Pro which I paid a lot of hard earned money for or do I get a Samsung Tablet and throw this away? I’ve been a Apple owner and supporter since the iPhone 1.

May 3, 2019 3:45 PM in response to MichelPM

To clarify the incorrect statement regarding this “affecting a small minority”, that simply is not true. I have six, yes six, iPad pro’s and it happens with every single one of them. Two are the original model, two are the 2017 model, and two are the newest models just released. Every one of them experiences this issue. It is a statistical impossibility this is small in nature. For the original models - it began occurring about 2 years ago. With the 4 newer models - all purchased within the past 6 months - it is all the time. Apple has gone waaay down in quality, and its showing in their sales.

May 3, 2019 5:20 PM in response to midaroco

I have the original 2015, 12.9 iPad Pro.

It is still running iOS 10.3.3 and I am having no such touch screen issues, at all!

Two years, ago WAS around the time of iOS 10.3.3 and the introduction of iOS 11.

If your original 2015/2016 iPad Pros were having issues then, then this is some other hardware/software issue that you should have dealt with and brought into an Apple store for diagnosis and options OR contacted with Apple, directly by phone, in Cupertino, CA, about your older iPad Pro issues, IF your iPad Pro had extended two year AppleCare+ at that time.

There are still less than 1000 users with this non-responsive touch screen issue reported in these iPad support communities.

Much of this issue really became problematic with the introduction of iOS 12.

A very small percentage, indeed, of iPad Pro models affected compared with the millions of iPad Pro models sold over a 3-year period.

You are seriously exaggerating this issue.

May 3, 2019 6:01 PM in response to MichelPM

I'll sure try this when this one goes bad. If Apple knows this is a fix, why are they replacing people's iPads right and left? Seems odd. They've replaced mine twice, no questions asked (after "what's the problem," of course). I figure this one has another month or so before I start having trouble. If your fix works, I'm gonna LMAO. But totally worth a try. Thanks for posting.

May 13, 2019 4:41 PM in response to midaroco

Your assumptions are not being reflected in the total amount of posts being posted here in the “official” Apple iPad support communities.

If your scenario was true and accurate, we would be seeing thousands/tens of thousands of posts, A DAY, about this issue being posted here

This has not been happening here and is not the case and no where near those types of numbers.

Just because all of your devices have this issue doesn't mean this issue is widespread.

There are 3 years of iPad Pro models being affected.

That’s a WHOLE LOTTA of iPad Pro models.

The whole iPad Pro using community is NOT having this issue.

You are seriously overplaying, over dramatising this issue.

May 13, 2019 10:17 PM in response to calexj

Don’t tell me what to do or what or where to post.

I and a few other regular volunteer contributors field, at least, one or two of these unresponsive touch screen posts a day.

That is it!!

I've kept a reasonable tally here of all of the posts created by new users as they are all worded differently and the affected user count here is, now, closer to 900 users and getting closer to a 1000 user mark.

I have offered my help in all of these posts and post replies, unlike you.

Look for them.

Leave Apple feedback per many post replies here where I have linked the iPad feedback page and contact Apple directly in Cupertino, CA via the contact link I supplied in all of my same responses.

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