# Sudden mildly odd iPad behavior: anything to be concerned about? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 3, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117 "2016-04-03T19:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117/1 "2016-04-03T19:45:40Z")
I have an iPad 2 that’s about… three years old? Something like that. Anyway, I’ve noticed lately that when I open the cover and wake it from sleep, the wifi indicator is greyed out, disappears entirely for a second, then reconnects. I’ve never seen it do that before; it’s always woken up with the connection it slept with. Could this be at all indicative of any kind of problem? ---
**Author:** ![dizzee\_dee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@dizzee\_dee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dizzee_dee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117/2 "2016-04-04T03:18:49Z")
Probably your last update f@cked with your iPad. I haven’t had an update in the last 2 years that hasn’t had a problem. A few of them have rendered my iPad unusable for a few days. The bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117/3 "2016-04-05T23:11:29Z")
Looks like the problem isn’t recurring so far after the latest OS update, so it appears the above was correct. 🙂 It also seems to have fixed the crashing in another app after update, so I guess it was important. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117/4 "2016-05-13T04:53:37Z")
Bumping to sigh and note that I have not one, not two, but THREE apps crashing on startup now. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![dizzee\_dee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@dizzee\_dee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dizzee_dee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117/5 "2016-05-14T05:28:19Z")
Maybe disable them from launching at start up. ---
**Author:** ![andrewm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@andrewm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewm)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117/6 "2016-05-14T11:43:14Z")
There’s no such thing as as apps that launch on OS startup on iOS. The OP means the apps crash when he tries to open them. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-mildly-odd-ipad-behavior-anything-to-be-concerned-about/751117/7 "2016-05-14T20:21:28Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Bumping to sigh and note that I have not one, not two, but THREE apps crashing on startup now. Sigh. Email the developers if they are listed as iPad 2 compatible but still crash.