i have an iPad 4 which is in fantastic condition, I can't even tell it's old tbh. Anyway, I never had this occur before but I was listening to some music and suddenly this super loud screeching sound started coming out of my speakers. I was caught off guard by how loud it is, and had to turn off the app. I thought it was the app. I opened Spotify to try it out and the same happened. I opened Safari to Google it and it started again even though there was no source of audio on safari. i restarted and reseted my settings and it's all okay now. I'd like to know what that was though, I don't want to leave my iPad at home when I'm out and have that thing go off until it explodes or something. Anyone know what's wrong?
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Loud screeching sounds coming off my iPad suddenly?
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I'm no computer whiz, but it seems to me the noise has to be either (1) something mechanical coming from inside the device, or (2) the by-product of non-mechanical software being blared out of the speakers.
If the noise stops when you turn off sound, it's definitely a software glitch rather than something inside in the hardware busted.
If the noise continues when even if you turn the sound all the way down, it's a product of something in the hardware on the fritz (which seems unlikely--iPads don't have all that many movable parts inside.) I suspect there was just a glitch in one of your music-playing programs that temporarily was spitting out noise, in which case shutting down the music-playing program and restarting it should fix the problem. If the music file itself has been corrupted, you might have to restore that song off iTunes or re-download it.
If the noise stops when you turn off sound, it's definitely a software glitch rather than something inside in the hardware busted.
If the noise continues when even if you turn the sound all the way down, it's a product of something in the hardware on the fritz (which seems unlikely--iPads don't have all that many movable parts inside.) I suspect there was just a glitch in one of your music-playing programs that temporarily was spitting out noise, in which case shutting down the music-playing program and restarting it should fix the problem. If the music file itself has been corrupted, you might have to restore that song off iTunes or re-download it.