How Do you Fix It? Your iPad Is Frozen or Not Responding

Restart or force restart your iPad
Place on a charger and let iPad to charge, without any work, for at least one hour
Close all open apps and restart
Reset All Settings
Restore iPad

iPad Frozen Tip #1: Restart

Try restarting your iPad. To do that, press and hold this button Sleep/Wake when the iPad freezes until a red slider looks on the screen. Slide the slider to trigger the shutdown method.

To switch back on, press and hold the button Sleep/Wake until the Apple logo appears.

Are you using iOS 11+?

For peoples using iOS 11 and above, there’s another way to shut down using a software command.
Go to Settings > General
Scroll down and choose Shut Down
Slide to power off

iPad Frozen Tip #2: Force Reset

If the first tip didn’t work or your iPad keeps freezing, try resetting your iPad–also called a Hard Restart or Force Restart.

To fix restart your frozen iPad or iPhone device:

On an iPhone X Series, iPhone 8, or iPad with no Home Button: Press and fast release that Volume Up button, press and release the volume down. Next, press this power button on the side and top of the device to the Apple logo appears
On an iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Volume Down buttons for at least 20 seconds till you see the Apple logo
On an iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad by Home Button, and iPod Touch: Press and hold both the buttons Sleep/Wake and Home for at least 20 seconds until you look at the Apple logo

Some of our readers suggested that performing tip#2 on older iPhone or iPad models asked them to hold the two buttons below for about 30 seconds.

So if the first time leaves and your iPad is yet locked up, try it again with a 30 second hold.

Home Button Not Working?

Please wait until the battery is completely discharged and then plug it in to reboot
Or restart utilizing Assistive Touch for a virtual home button

iPad Frozen Tip #3: Charge

If the over tips don’t work, the issue could be that the battery is completely depleted. Plug it into a wall outlet to a while and look if your battery holds a charge.

Please see that it can take up to 20 minutes of charging before this iPad starts up.

Ideally, plug in your device and get it to charge for up at least 1 hour!

Don’t See The Charging Screen?

If, in an hour, you don’t view the charging icon on your screen or you view the connect to power screen, check this charging port on your iPad, USB cable, and power adapter
- Make sure everything is plugged in securely, free of debris, and not damaged
- Try an other cable and power adapter

iPad Frozen Tip #4: If possible Close Apps

An extra tip that often works is stopping all your open apps and then restarting.

How To Close Apps on iOS Devices: iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch

Double press this Home Button or swipe up the Home Gesture Bar
The action should open the app switcher
Swipe up off this top of your screen entire the app shows till you only view your Home Screen
Restart your device

iPad Frozen Tip #5: Reset Settings

Sometimes some random setting is getting in the process, so let’s reset all these settings back to factory defaults.

How To Reset All Settings at an iPad

That is normally the last resort as it resets everything your personalized features back to factory defaults
Go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset All
The resets to default everything in Settings, including notifications, alerts, brightness, and clock settings like wake up alarms
Resetting all settings, including reverts whole your personalized and customized features like wallpapers and accessibility settings back to factory defaults.
Performing this action is not impact any of your device data, including photos, documents, texts, and another files
You want to reconfigure these settings once your iPhone and iDevice restarts