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Apple Investigating iPad mini 6 Charging Issues After iPadOS 15.5 Update
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Maybe they need to look into why 15.4 caused my iPad to overheat and kill itself. It was working just fine before the upgrade then it went into an uncontrolled overheat and became a brick. from a perfectly working iPad to a completely dead brick... from an update!!! That's F'd up.
It really only happens after heavy use when it's kinda warm (barely) and usually only takes one reset but sometimes arbitrary number (disconnecting) chord doesn't matter (only used block and chord from box). Also I have 5g so maybe that's why there's devices not affected, or just that most people don't have use cases that push the A15 hard enough to warm device enough to trigger glitch. Also there's a glitch when working normally since day one regardless of ios that it you reset it while charging it will increase charge level 3-5% immediately, which is just kinda silly and not replicated in my iphone 13 mini.
Apple is investigating user reports that the iPad mini 6 may stop charging after being updated to iPadOS 15.5, according to a memo sent to service providers and obtained by MacRumors.
In the memo sent to authorized service providers, Apple said that it's aware that some users may report the latest iPad mini as unable to charge after updating to iPadOS 15.5. Apple is advising that service providers and retail staff inform customers to restart the device as a temporary fix while the investigation is ongoing.
Crucially, Apple explicitly notes that a hardware replacement of the iPad or its battery will not solve the problem, confirming it's purely a software issue. Apple is currently beta testing iPadOS 15.6, which may solve the problem when it's released to the public.
Several iPad mini 6 owners have reported charging issues after updating to the latest iPadOS update on the MacRumors and Apple Support forums (1, 2, 3, 4).
Article Link: Apple Investigating iPad mini 6 Charging Issues After iPadOS 15.5 Update
Which I gotta say is rather surprising from the company that made iphone 7 which ran hot enough to melt ice on contact while downloading/streaming - Qualcomm version I think the one that had the grey out blue tooth brick-glitch when ios 11.3 came out.
Maybe let users downgrade from a ******/buggy iOS version to a more „stable“ version?
Pixel 2 used to burn up too but it would crash constantly under those conditions, I guess these were the pre-throttle days, but man that iphone was ridiculous the download speeds were better than I'm getting now on 5g (used to put it in the freezer to keep it going on big jobs lol).¹
I’m glad I didn’t update yet in that case.
While it’d be easy to point fingers at their QA department for not finding this, or their coders for introducing this bug, software bugs can be frustratingly random with seemingly unrelated parts of a program still affecting each other.
The fact that it doesn’t affect every user, and seemingly not every affected user in a consistent way, suggests that this might be quite hard to track down or even reproduce.
While it’d be easy to point fingers at their QA department for not finding this, or their coders for introducing this bug, software bugs can be frustratingly random with seemingly unrelated parts of a program still affecting each other.
The fact that it doesn’t affect every user, and seemingly not every affected user in a consistent way, suggests that this might be quite hard to track down or even reproduce.
I’ve heard this from people having updated older iPhones to 15.5. Not from iPad mini 6 users so far.
Also, in case apple people read this, jelly scroll is bs, the real design defect is the iphone 4 power button, which is always in the way when in landscape and inexplicably placed given prexisting solutions involving the upper right hand (portrait) side of device. Finally, you should unlock these chips so they can be connected to cellular plans, there absolutely no reason why anyone needs an iPhone 13 with this device, so instead of thinking of the few people like me forced to buy both think of the inumabrable people buying crapsungs etc that would be owning the mini 6 which is best device (in spite of ergonomic flaws) you ever made.
Apple is investigating user reports that the iPad mini 6 may stop charging after being updated to iPadOS 15.5, according to a memo sent to service providers and obtained by MacRumors.
In the memo sent to authorized service providers, Apple said that it's aware that some users may report the latest iPad mini as unable to charge after updating to iPadOS 15.5. Apple is advising that service providers and retail staff inform customers to restart the device as a temporary fix while the investigation is ongoing.
Crucially, Apple explicitly notes that a hardware replacement of the iPad or its battery will not solve the problem, confirming it's purely a software issue. Apple is currently beta testing iPadOS 15.6, which may solve the problem when it's released to the public.
Several iPad mini 6 owners have reported charging issues after updating to the latest iPadOS update on the MacRumors and Apple Support forums (1, 2, 3, 4).
Article Link: Apple Investigating iPad mini 6 Charging Issues After iPadOS 15.5 Update
This happened to me a few times and I just restarted it. I was able to charge after that. I knew it had to be due to the update because I was just fine prior to it.
Apparently they did. I haven’t seen it on my model, and when I was in the store looking to purchase, the issue had disappeared from the display models. I can verify that I did initially see it in earlier models. I think they updated the software somehow to fix it.
That's hardware, as intended and within satisfaction of Apple's. Basically those who can only afford iPad mini should be satisfied with jelly scrolling. Tim Cook's advice would be "Don't be poor and buy the M1 iPad Pro."
I think the point is that if an OS update thats been out for nearly 2 months is having an issue with a currently sold device, it isn't stable.
No, but I think I had it with my iPad Mini 5 yesterday. So maybe the issue isn't isolated only to the Mini 6 and is hitting some other devices just not in the same numbers....? I thought maybe my charging cord was dying since I've had it for a while. But worked fine after a reboot.
Glad it is not a hardware issue. Hopefully a software fix is coming real soon.
Apple is investigating user reports that the iPad mini 6 may stop charging after being updated to iPadOS 15.5, according to a memo sent to service providers and obtained by MacRumors.
In the memo sent to authorized service providers, Apple said that it's aware that some users may report the latest iPad mini as unable to charge after updating to iPadOS 15.5. Apple is advising that service providers and retail staff inform customers to restart the device as a temporary fix while the investigation is ongoing.
Crucially, Apple explicitly notes that a hardware replacement of the iPad or its battery will not solve the problem, confirming it's purely a software issue. Apple is currently beta testing iPadOS 15.6, which may solve the problem when it's released to the public.
Several iPad mini 6 owners have reported charging issues after updating to the latest iPadOS update on the MacRumors and Apple Support forums (1, 2, 3, 4).
Article Link: Apple Investigating iPad mini 6 Charging Issues After iPadOS 15.5 Update
Mine started failing a few hours after the update. First thing I noticed was I lost Ethernet connection, next I noticed no external monitor support. Finally realized it was not charging. No amount of restarting fixed it.
It sat unused in my desk for almost a month, and yesterday, when I went to the Apple Store to ask for a new one, it worked again. 🤦🏽♂️
same experience, I was thinking the worse (something like a burned charing port), after restarting it was charging again
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that's a hardware thing, it's imposible to fix unless Apple change the screens for other type