2018 iPad Pro + Multitasking = Crash?

[suderman]

I have the 2018 12.9” iPad Pro 1TB. This has 6 GB of ram, right?

About once a day, I get the black screen of death, with the white spinner. It only takes a few seconds, but then all my apps are closed, tabs have to reload, etc.

This happens when I’m multitasking for web dev work (multiple browsers, terminal, image editor, text editor, etc), so I’m wondering if the machine is just overtaxed and ran out of memory? If so, I’m surprised because this iPad has the most memory available, and despite that, iOS is supposed to have better memory management. I shouldn’t have to manually close apps.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

[A.R.E.A.M.]

12.9 1TB LTE SG launch day (ATT) production run tablet. Using cat6e daily 6-9 hours. Email, internet, YouTube, pdf doc reader, chrome and Firefox running a live website that deals with updating content in the background, with Apple Music playing background also. No crashes. Maybe its the type of programs you are using (e.g. terminal) that could be memory heavy.

 

[dsampley]

I have the same model and have had some random times where I get the white spinner. I have not been able to determine anything consistent that would be causing this.

 

[mofunk]

I would take it back to Apple and have them run a diagnostic. Could be that the iOS didn't mount properly? This should fix the problem. I've had that happen with my MBP before especially after an update. My IPP I can't say its done that but I've seen occasionally an app would quit on me.