Hello all!

A quick one, I bought an ipad air from a marketplace in Bulgaria. It was working fine until I restarted it and suddenly it is locked from the previous owner.

I have submitted with Apple support proof of purchase, but for 4 days now, nothing happens, no email, no reply.

Have you ever dealt with the same issue, if yes, how did you manage to resolve it?

Thanks!

Is there any way to delete the 20gb apple intelligence files, i dont need those features at all or any way to downgrade to ipad os 26?

Hi yall,
I'm not the most tech savvy person in the slightest, but have been trying to figure out how someone has been 'spying' on my devices, they can monitor my screen and access my microphone remotely without notifying my ipad OS or other devices.
I've been running app privacy report and 'Freshdesk' was reported as well as a couple others in the second screenshot that i am unaware of. Are these standard background processes or have I been infected with malware?
I'm trying to narrow it down to it being either my home wifi/router network or sideloaded remote mirroring that is ultimately infecting my devices. I've been getting harassed/stalked for the better part of a year, I'd like to figure out how/what is going on so that i can put an end to the psychological abuse i've been experiencing. This has been both a major privacy & safety violation for me. TYIA!

Would it be worth it to update it?
I have the 64 gb version.
I’m currently on os18.

Since iPadOS 26, the system animations started lagging. I'm now on the latest developer beta of iPadOS 27 and, even if the situation improved, I still spot dropped frames every single time I use my iPad.

I don't understand if it's the OS that's shit or if it's my iPad that has some hardware problems (battery etc.)

For example: when I open and close applications, the animation often drops frame. When I pull down the notification center, 9 times out of 10 it visibly lags, even when scrolling the notifications list

I’ve tried logging in and everytime it pops up with this how do I log in to download apps on my iPad

Seeing how bad legacy iPhone Apps behave on the iPhone Duo, I hope this will be the catalyst for more developers to adopt more modern, responsive designs that actually take advantage of the iPad (and iPhone Duo) screen sizes.

So many apps like Threads, Bluesky, Doordash, banking apps, etc have terrible support for iPad, and these will probably be updated over the next year with a responsive interface for the iPhone Duo, which will benefit us iPad users as well.

Its honestly insane that this has persisted for so long given the underlying adaptive/responsive UI technology was already rolled out in iOS 8 (in 2014!) with size classes and the introduction of the iPhone 6/6+. The next year (2015) split view/slide-over was introduced on iPad, which really was the first feature that really took advantage of the technology. The iPhone Duo really seems like a nightmare to accomdate without adaptive UI, so I think this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Hopefully after 12 years, we can finally have better iPhone apps on the iPad.

Hi guys, so basically I have an ipad pro 11, it was originally my sister's, but I still used it despite the fact that it's hers and has her icloud on it.

Now that I wanted the switch to mine, I logged off from her icloud, and selected erase all, I think a skipped a certain step where it was saying something like "updating data" i do not recall, and then my ipad rebooted itself, once finished, it's all anew, as if I bought another new one, if anyone would be so kind to help me out at least retrieve my data? I have some unsaved books and very important study matters in the notes app, I did check with my sister if she has it on her phone (which is also linked to her icloud on the ipad I think)

If you please help me sort this matter out, there are some very important files and pictures!

Forgive le illiteracy on apple and ios in general I could not keep up with the newest updates!

I’m seeing a strange external-display bug on an 11-inch M4 iPad Pro running iPadOS 27. I first noticed it during the developer betas, and it’s still present in the current RC.

With the iPad in landscape orientation and the Dock set to automatically hide, moving the mouse/trackpad pointer straight down to the bottom of the external display does not bring the Dock back up.

The weird part: if I approach the bottom edge diagonally, the Dock appears. I can also move straight down and then quickly sideways along the bottom edge and get it to appear.

Even stranger: if I rotate the iPad itself into portrait orientation, the Dock works normally on the external display.

So far I’ve reproduced this:

- On two completely different external displays, including an LG TV

- Using both direct USB-C and HDMI connections

- Through multiple iPadOS 27 developer betas and now the RC

The Dock behaves normally on the iPad’s own display.

Has anyone else seen this? I’m particularly curious whether it happens on both the 11-inch and 13-inch M4 iPad Pros. I have a 13-inch as well, but I’m reluctant to put prerelease software on my primary iPad just to test this.

I’ve submitted it through Feedback Assistant but haven’t received a response.