Again, explain how "it's not a problem for me - mine is fine" helps determine why it bricked others' devices.
If you don't have the issue, and you post "mine is all well" ... doesn't help.
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Apple Pulls iPadOS 18 for M4 iPad Pro After Bricking Complaints [Updated]
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If you don't have the issue, and you post "mine is all well" ... doesn't help.
It's a QA thing in the kernel, but oddly only impacting 17.7 (which I have - and there were two releases of 17.7) to 18.
Why only M4 models? Shall I reference Crowdstrike...
Without proper multitasking it's a brick anyway.
It was the absence of intelligence that allowed this to happen.
Yup. Bricked mine. Did not do 17.7 update. Went right to Apple Store and luckily they had one in stock so I was out the door 15 minutes later w a new one 🤷🏻♂️.
My family members bought an iPad M4 updated iOS 18 with no problems. I wonder how many owners have nonapple-sanction apps that can cause this problem.
LOL ... 🤣😂 Apple are building a new flagship store. They need as many "bricks" as possible. 😜
Front page of Macrumours currently reads:
IOS 18 is out ! Upgrade now!
I never, ever upgrade new releases. I won't get 18 until they come out with the 18.1 Apple Intelligence, and even then I'll probably wait for the 1st revision.
Why is this banner still advising people to brick their devices?
IOS 18 is out ! Upgrade now!
I never, ever upgrade new releases. I won't get 18 until they come out with the 18.1 Apple Intelligence, and even then I'll probably wait for the 1st revision.
Why is this banner still advising people to brick their devices?
I doubt many Apple employees use their iPads for serious productivity especially considering they can probably have any system they want for free or substantial discount. How many "power users" are using an iPad for such intensive tasks that upgrading an M2 iPad pro to an M4 iPad Pro is even worth the time it takes to set up the new device?
Disappointing to hear this. Always better to wait for a few days before updating.
Pretty neat that Apple can filter out specific devices from their update mechanism… Is this a new capability? (Wouldn’t they previously have had to pull the update for all models until they had a revised version?)
Welcome to new Apple, everything is a mess and we're lazy designers.
For the record, I was able to update my iPad Pro M4 13” with no problem, apparently a few minutes before they pulled out the release. I skipped 17.7 and went straight for 18.
I feel like I dodged a bullet. I’m not going to be so lucky next time, better be careful.
I feel like I dodged a bullet. I’m not going to be so lucky next time, better be careful.
That is actually normal it will do a lot lot of things in background after the update forma while
Today I got my new iPad Pro M4 11" delivered. Now I can't transfer my old to my new iPad because of the iPadOS 18 can't be verified to install... I didn't had the choice of iPadOS17.7. So setting up my new iPad isn't possible at all at this moment... Unless I do it all manually, but hey that's not my normal iPad experience 
So I guess I'll have to wait....
So I guess I'll have to wait....
My 13 inch M4 did this also with first release or two of the 18.0 beta (went away). Never did this with the beta series of 18.1 however and I am on beta 4 of 18.1