Is your iPad frozen? The iPad occasionally stops responding for various reasons. If you experience this, try these tips to resolve your issue:
Try restarting your iPad. To do this, simply press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until a red slider appears; then slide the slider. To turn back on, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
If tip above does not work, try resetting your iPad. To do this, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time until you see the Apple logo.
If above tips do not work, the issue could be that the battery is fully depleted. Plug it into a wall outlet for a while and see if your battery holds a charge. Please note that it can take up to 20 minutes of charging before the iPad will start up.
If you are still having problems, try connecting the device to your computer and launch iTunes. Then select Restore.
Related: iPad troubleshooting, How to fix your iPad problems
My Ipad not booting showing Itunes logo, was trying to update the software. what do i do?
worked for me thanks
I have another IPad Air 2 and it froze on the home screen so I can’t do anything except talk to Siri and try to restart it. When I hold the on off button it shows the slider and I can’t slide it. When I talk to Siri I ask her to take me to an app that on that iPad and she asked me for my password and when she shows me the keyboard for typing in my password I can’t type it in. Someone PLEASE help
Pressing button in the middle does nothing. When top sleep/walk pressed red slider screen appears. If I press cancel the screen goes blank. If red slider pressed iPad turns off. This is all that’s happening every time. Please help. iPad bought in jan 2013.
have to tryed ejecting ur ipd ona computer and restoring . it then back up to ivoud . then all wil be fine
All fixed after restarting the Ipad Mini Thanks Apple!!! I now can get back to Minecraft PE!!!
Frozen 20 minutes don’t turn off not responding to any off your suggestion . Less then a year old.
ThaNKS IT WORKED MINE WAS FROZEN ALSO….
Nothing is working for me,it doesn’t show up on iTunes,doesn’t work when I charge it for more than an hour!!!! Help me please!!!!!
Nothing is working for me,it doesn’t show up on iTunes,doesn’t work when I charge it for more than an hour,and it doesn’t work when I hold the sleep/wake and home butting help me please!!! I bought this with my own money I don’t want to have to rebye it
iPad Frozen for hours — none of the suggestions work,
Thanks!!!! this worked!
My ipad was working fine yesterday and all off a sudden It froze so I pressed the sleep home button and it wouldn’t respond what do I do?
Same thing happened with me happened this morning so not fare I can’t use it know I need to fix it it is the same what happened to you on my iPad mini
Resetting worked ! Thanks!
The home button nd the touch of my up as isn’t working!
Can u expect some solutions!?
*I pad
My ipad.is not working I did loke yo said but it didn’t work each time i put in the charge it gives a blue light than its turns off again
My ipad air was changed for a new one at your apple store in stratford last week
but not it keeps going to a all red screen and switching off
it then starts again then red screen again and off
Plz answer cos if my parents know that I broke it they will kill me
my Ipad has a voice telling me that the curtain is down? what is this and how do I get it backup? all I have is a black screen and this voice? help please
My iPad screen is black and when I press the turn on. Jetton it won’t turn on it is still black but when I hold the home button Siri comes up so it can’t be no battery I also tried holding the home and silent but it still did not work what do I do???
THATS WHAT MINE IS DOING! I dont know what to do
Hold the power and home button till the apple comes up
holy sheet thank u
My iPad was not responding at all. I plug into computer and opened iTunes. My iPad was showing so I tried running update. I was then able to press the Wake button & home button at same time and it came on! All good now!
Thank You! I was surfing a lot of sites to find this easy solution…
It’s simple! I was suffering from the same problem as well. But I myself found a good solution. Here it is….
1) Connect Ipod/Ipad to Itunes on the computer.
2) Go to Organize> Folder & Search Options> View> Show Hidden Files & Folders.
3) Now open My Computer. Select your device and open it.
4) Go to Ipod/Ipad_Control> Device>
5) In Device folder you can see _Locked file. Just Delete it.
6) Now Disconnect the device and Enjoy…
will apps,pictures, and etc. not be deleted?
is organize located in Itunes? i cannot find it in Itunes the organzie where is it located all I can see is organize library
I was minimizing the screen shot and iPad 2 froze, both buttons do not respond. Fully charged battery, no black screen, only half minimized screen. Will not reset, no apple logo, no slide bar, do you have any suggestions, please?
this acctually works thank peps
Im so thankful of your advice, i thought my ipad is going to fuck up hehehe
I dont know what to do. When i go to turn on my ipad it lights up but the screen stays black. I have tryed all of these things but it doesnt work. I dont have an apple store near me either
Is frozen white my I pad for the last 2 hrs
I tried to reset my iPad Air and it frozed. What should I do???
Thank you. My ipad froze up and I tried holding both buttons down as you suggested and it worked. Very grateful for the help.
Me to
YES IT DID THANK YOU VERY MUCH THANK THE LORRDDD
Thank you for the help …saved my day
My iPad won’t sence my touch, randomly it does this atleast 2 times a week, I’m getting very frustrated to the point I want to smash it to pieces with a hammer! Wtf do I do?! I’m loosing my patients!!!!!
Just replaced screen on iPad now nothing is working done full restore and only Sri is working anyone help??
I tried to update a game and then it froze.Thank you so so so much. I had no clue what to do. It worked wonderfully. Will doing this hurt anything on the iPad?
I was using my iPad then it suddenly froze when then I pressed de sleep button then it turn black but when I press de home button siri answers what should I do
I was using my iPad mini as it was charging (at about 68% charge) in the wall, left it for a few minutes, then when I went to use it again the screen was black, it was off. I left it charging hoping it would eventually come back on and it didn’t I tried turning it on using the button at the top – didn’t work. I tried resetting it by holding the home button and the power button at the top – didn’t work. I tried plugging it into my macbook, but it doesn’t show up in iTunes at all and still won’t respond when I try turning it on/resetting it. I’ve had this iPad mini for just over a year and have never had a problem with it. I use it almost daily. What is the problem? How do I fix this?
My iPad suddenly went black with 65 percent power. Dose not appear to charge. Appears dead what can I do
Hi all,
I bought my Ipad Air 2 in January 2015. Last night i plugged it to charge, when i woke up this morning, the IPAD was completely dead! Black screen, inresponsive, wont turn on. I tried a different charger and plugged it to a different power socket, same result. Please advice.
Thanks
Good tips. Thank you. I tried restarting (hold sleep/wake button) several times. No luck. I tried resetting (hold sleep/wake button and home button simultaneously). No luck. After reading your article, I decided to try resetting again, except this time I held and held and held the sleep/wake button and home button. It took almost thirty seconds, but the Apple logo finally showed up. I let it go. It took almost 60 seconds to restart. Some process must have been eating up all the processor’s time, but it seems to be working fine now. So, again, thanks.
Iused iPad mini at evening. Put it into charger. In the morning it didnt start at all. Backside was warm like 50′ c. Battery dead? Battery life has been going down fast.
Thanks SERHAT KURT,
Issue: IPAD FROZEN, NOT RESPONDING, HOW TO FIX
I Try this tip:: If tip above does not work, try resetting your iPad. To do this, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time until you see the Apple logo.
It worked.
3/16/2015
thanks for your idea my ipad is now safe
My iPad has a white box on screen stating
iCloud backup
This iPad hadn’t been backed up in 27 weeks. Backups happen when this iPad is plugged in, locked, and connected to WIFI
Now, my iPad is always connected to wifi, I always slide the lock as it asks when I plug it in .
It will not let me shut the system down. I can’t do anything!!!!
Can someone help me out?
iPad won’t turn off hold both buttons it switches between home and search about every 10 seconds What can I do?
I had iPad (32GB) purchased from cousin. It was not reset when I purchased it. I later purchased iPad2 (64GB). I do serious work on it (iPad2) and don’t want my daughter messing things up, so I left her the iPad (32GB). It came to a head when the memory became full and I also could not upgrade the iOS. I could not delete my cousin’s pictures, music, films and games (because I don’t have his password). I gave it to him recently to reset. He did, but I haven’t been able to restart it. When I connected it to my PC (Lenovo Core 13), 3 ports out of 4 report that the USB malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it. The 4th port says nothing and the iTune logo and USB cable images remain on the iPad’s screen. I’ve tried all the combinations of HOME and RESET botton options, nothing works. Pls help.
I was fully freaking out and going into panic attack mode! It wasn’t working, the regular stuff was not responding and then I tapped it on the back while it was upside down and pretwnded like I was taking a screen shot but holding both buttons down. IT CAME BACK ON! This was after a full day of not working! Thanks so much for the help!
It worked!!!
my iPad has a glitched front screen and is frozen need help
i ment to say front screen is frozen
I have tried these steps numerous times and did the update through iTunes. Now it just shows the apple on the screen and won’t restart. Occasionally if I do the hard reboot, the home screen will flash and then it disappears quickly and it is back to apple. I don’t want to do the restore with iTunes because I don’t want to lose my files. I have tried the update through iTunes and was very hopeful, but still no luck. Please help.
Worked first time *****
Ok so im stuck on siri my home button in the middle is doing nothing my sleep button will not let me restart it just turns black thing is siri works fine i just cant press anything on my screen like its not responding to touch how can i fix this myself i have a windows xp
My i-pad isn’t working now. I was trying to update my i-pad to iOS9, it’s an i-pad 2. And after a successful download, it requested for and upgrade and the screen just goes blank. Its all white and frozen. Presently my i-pad isn’t working.
I reset my settings on ipad2 after iOS 9 because running very slow. Well it got to the logo and about 5% on the progress bar and just hangs there. I hooked it up to the computer and performed an update. Everything normal here but it goes back finishing the reset and shows logo with progress bar again and cannot get past 5%. I hope I don’t have to restore it since u have funeral pics in it not backed up. Any suggestions
I was doing the IOS update and my ipad got frozen. After about 30 minutes, I tried turning it off and back on. Is now stuck on the iTunes icon screen with an icon of the power cord. Opened iTunes on my computer, plugged usb into computer, then held the home button and plugged into ipad. ITunes does not recognize my ipad. Tried using find my ipad on my iPhone, but it says the ipad is offline. I have tried numerous times using the home button and the power button at the same time. Always comes back to the iTunes icon screen. Any suggestions of anything else I can try?
My iPad does the same thing. Did anyone help you on this?
thanks helped me alot
OMG thank u so much!!!
Thank you holding the two buttons together worked.
Thankyou for all your help it worked!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you. It worked.
I was using my IPad around 12:00 P.M. I turned it off and went to eat some lunch when I came back and turned it on I couldn’t slide to unlock so i tried to turn it off by holding the sleep button and power it all the way off but it wouldn’t even respond to slide the power button off. I have owned this IPad for roughly around 2 years and it worked perfectly till now so if someone could please help me it would be very well appreciated.
My ipad air is dead. Tried all the suggestions re holding buttons etc. Nothing! Just a black screen.
My ipad mini ‘s right side is freezing,no matter how many times i restored it,It didnt work,what should i do!!?? Pls oh pls
None of the suggestion works for me. I hold both button, does not work. I connect to my laptop and turn on the itune, Nothing shows up about the ipad. I charge it for an hour. It does not work. Help me what to do.
Thanks it worked, by holding sleep/wake and home button at the same time….
Thank you so much..
It was worked for me….
I was playing Minecraft and my iPad mini froze and I tried to power it off and it didn’t work it has been like this for 24 hours and when I finally am able to turn the screen on I can only slide up and down and I can’t use any apps at all I got it on Xmas in 2014
I pad 2 froze so pressed on/off and home buttons together. When to blank screen then shows iTunes logo and lead.
This doesn’t help its frozen will not move at all
Work for me thank u…
my i pad is enabled ? i cant restart it. it wanted password after update.i gave them .it did not match.now it is totally stopped .please help?
Apple iPad air frozen with an iTunes logo and arrow , happens when Up dating I don’t even use iTunes . Any help.please
My iPod isn’t turning on , and the apple logo isn’t coming up . I tried holding down the home button and on/off button but it doesn’t work , please help
I accidently hit the home button twice and now I have this weird voice that keeps repeating the date or some other phrases. I can’t access the main screen I have turned it off and back on and the ‘voice’ is still there and I can access anything. Please help!
Thanks, Hold down the Home and Power buttons at the same time works fine.
my I pad is frozen it says it is charging but its not. before it froze it wouldn’t let me go into apps or send messages and its not turning on or off. I got it Christmas 2016.
it worked! thanks alot. I tried resseting it by pressing the sleep/ wake and home button at the same time, but it took alot longe rthan usual. try pressing it down for about 30 seconds. Maybe this will help.
This morning suddenly our ipad stopped responding. We Tried to force restart , didn’t work.
We were thinking to take our ipad to apple store . Or else thinking to wait till it totally shuts down.
But while searching i found ur post. 2nd step worked for us. Thank you