Apple Pulls iPadOS 18 for M4 iPad Pro After Bricking Complaints [Updated]

[guzhogi]

I've been with Apple long enough to remember how iOS 2 bricked a bunch of iPhones.

 

[ssledoux]

My 11 M4 updated with no problem. But I skipped 17.7.

Mine updated with no problem, and I installed the 17.7 first because I was afraid it would mess up if I didn’t. Crazy how it doesn’t seem to matter, and some are affected while others have no issues at all.

 

[citysnaps]

Source?

Yes… please provide a source showing the claim up above that no flagship devices were used in testing is indeed true.

 

[GJSchaller]

My new 13" M4 iPad arrived today, with iPadOS 17.4 on it. Of course, it needs to update to transfer data off my current iPad, which is on 17.7 (and can't hit 18).

It took me a bit to figure out why the new one would not update to 18... but now I'm stuck, as I can't seem to get it to move to 17.7, either. It only sees 18 as being available, and then it can't install it.

Can anyone offer guidance on how to get 17.7 onto an iPad manually, so that I can at least get the new iPad working and update it when 18.0 is stable?

 

[jdclifford]

Apple Intelligence should have predicted this.

It will when Apple rolls it out in IOS/ iPad OS 18.1

 

[JuicyGoomba]

Informative, clever, brilliant, helpful, and well just out of this world. I'm just wondering what kind of gratification does someone get out of this kind of post?

By quoting him and making the front page comment section, you've just given him the gratification he was after.

 

[LavaLevel]

I like to always park & plug in my iPad Pro during scheduled system updates. Safety first kids!

 

[SVTmaniac]

How carbon neutral of them.

 

[FineWoven]

Were beta testers spared maybe? Because I was on the betas for my M4 iPad Pro and iPhone 15 PM all summer and the final RC version of both operating systems have been working fine for me.

 

[Neil Harrison]

I have been on developer and public betas since day 1 on M4 and not had any issues

 

[iMac The Knife]

The Apple apologists are on 🔥 today!! Hilarious!

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]

Thank goodness I’m on .1 beta 4


Hahaha


Who’s the sucker now, public release users??


#PuineaGigs

 

[JTK Awesome]

All QA will be done by artificial intelligence one day. And it will be bloody awful.

How can QA be done by a feature that isn’t available yet?

 

[AppliedMicro]

Apple Intelligence should have predicted this.

It did - and said everything would be fine.

 

[apunkrockmonk]

I did not upgrade to iPadOS 17.7 first, iPadOS 18 bricked my original 11" 256GB M4 iPad Pro, but the replacement Apple sent survived my second attempt, although I was hesitant to try.

 

[Tofupunch]

If you get a replacement for a bricked device, do they eventually wipe it? I'd be concerned as it’d be tied to my Apple account at the time of bricking.

 

[Kirkster]

Updated my 13inch iPad Pro to 18 yesterday. Went straight to 18 skipped the 17.7. Had a mail account issue, required me to delete the account and re-add it. Other than that it has been good.

 

[apunkrockmonk]

I like to always park & plug in my iPad Pro during scheduled system updates. Safety first kids!

My former M4 iPad Pro (running 17.6.1) was at 80% charge and plugged in during the iPadOS 18 upgrade attempt that took it to an early grave.

 

[Cosmo M3]

11” M4 here and no issues with my update (skipped the supplemental 17.7 update and went straight to 19), but noticed that my Fitness+ app would crash a couple of times when I try to open it.

 

[Abthevolfan92]

So wait is Apple going to make all of users that downloaded Ios 18 monday have to download it again or can they just release 18.0.1

 

[Sandrolini]

Yep. Happened to me this morning. Now it will be replaced. 17.7 wasn’t on yet, bought it a few weeks ago.

 

[TokyoKiller]

If you get a replacement for a bricked device, do they eventually wipe it? I'd be concerned as it’d be tied to my Apple account at the time of bricking.

They sell it as is with your information out of Tims trunk at the next tail gate for the 49ers lol

 

[Polinsky]

Yes… please provide a source showing the claim up above that no flagship devices were used in testing is indeed true.

He can't. He simply made it up and put it out there as a fact. This is our new society. Lies, exaggerates, etc are the new norms. And sadly way too many people believe it. Free speech now means fake speech.

 

[Polinsky]

So wait is Apple going to make all of users that downloaded Ios 18 monday have to download it again or can they just release 18.0.1

I highly doubt anyone here could answer that. Give Apple a call. Talk to an engineer and get the answer to your question.

 

[JohnC1959]

If you get a replacement for a bricked device, do they eventually wipe it? I'd be concerned as it’d be tied to my Apple account at the time of bricking.

I feel confident in saying that not only would they for your sake but that odds are high that the only way they can make it ever work again will require wiping.