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iPad Pro Some M4 iPad Pro's seem to brick with iOS 18
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No issues on my 11” M4 iPP. I had a 17.7 update I hadn’t done, so I did it, then did the update to iOS 18.
Bricked can mean a lot of things. Not turning on at all, turning on but crashing during boot, bootlooping, booting correctly but rebooting/crashing after login. All of those situations can be described as being bricked, if you cant fix it yourself.
From my understanding most people mean not turning on at all/not responding to the power button. Correct?
From my understanding most people mean not turning on at all/not responding to the power button. Correct?
Yes. Mine is bricked, black screen. Won’t turn on. Won’t go into recovery mode. Call it what you want. It’s bricked.
Did you try plugging it in a wall outlet? Do you have a Mac? Did you try connecting the iPad to the Mac and attempting a DFU and then Recovery?
If you are too sensitive just change the adjective for a different one, busy? pointless? i don't care.
Having said that nobody is obligued to perform a clean ios installation each time a major release take place.
I guess its a question of personal taste maybe?.
I just performed an OTA from ios 17 to ios 18, same device and again no issues.
Now i'm asking anybody here with issues tried to perform an OTA an failed? or everybody was doing a clean install like me?
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It's a shame that new M4 iPad Pro isn't a very good brick. Too thin.
It is only 4 or 5 posts out of 150.000 users on that subreddit.
You simply get trapped by the vocal minority thinking it is a much bigger deal than it really is.
It is no wonder that you bricked your iPad M4 if you update it with iOS 18 and not iPadOS. LOL
I love it when someone posts an update issue and then, without fail, someone always chimes in with “this is why I always wait” like they are an after the event Nostradamus.
Someone who has an bricked iPad and has the solution without going for a replacement?? Does DFU mode work?
So it’s not bricking if you can still communicate with/downgrade it.
I’m not going to lie most of the time I update I don’t do a clean install. I don’t care how many betas or new features they put out I at least wait till the .01 update. Usually I wait to .1.
When I first installed the iPadOS 18 beta on my brand new M2 13" iPad Air it bricked it. I couldn't get it to restore either so took it to Best Buy. They tried twice to restore it and said they couldn't fix it either but when I got home it started working. Don't know what those Geek Dudes did (and they don't either) but I'm just glad it decided to get out of bricked mode. Installing new software is risky business it seems.