ipad problem (grey bar at the bottom of the screen)

sobriquet

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Dec 10, 2013, 1:08:06 PM12/10/13

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Hi.

Recently I was working on an ipad and suddenly, there was a grey bar
at the bottom where usually shortcuts to the most used apps are available.

http://i.imgur.com/bKyaJ9F.jpg

Does anyone know what might cause this problem and how to resolve it?

I've turned the ipad off (by keeping the off button pressed for a while) and
on again, but that didn't seem to make any difference.

Greetings and thanks in advance for any advice, Niek

Antoine Vignau

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Dec 10, 2013, 1:36:58 PM12/10/13

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Dear Niek,
This forum is for the vintage lines of Apple computers, not with recent machines.
Contact your Genius bar or browse an ipad forum (I do not know if one exists)

Some Apple II users may be able to answer to your question.

Thank you,
Antoine

sobriquet

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Dec 10, 2013, 1:51:58 PM12/10/13

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Ah ok, thanks. I've searched for ipad-related groups via
groups.google, but somehow I couldn't find many groups and
this one (comp.sys.apple2) seemed about as close as I could get
to an ipad-related newsgroup. Any suggestions regarding newsgroups
where my posting would be more on-topic is most welcome.

David Schmidt

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Dec 10, 2013, 2:28:20 PM12/10/13

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On 12/10/2013 1:51 PM, sobriquet wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:36:58 PM UTC+1, Antoine Vignau wrote:
>> Dear Niek,
>>
>> This forum is for the vintage lines of Apple computers, not with recent machines.
>>
>> Contact your Genius bar or browse an ipad forum (I do not know if one exists)
>>
>> Some Apple II users may be able to answer to your question.
>

> Ah ok, thanks. I've searched for ipad-related groups via
> groups.google, but somehow I couldn't find many groups and
> this one (comp.sys.apple2) seemed about as close as I could get
> to an ipad-related newsgroup. Any suggestions regarding newsgroups
> where my posting would be more on-topic is most welcome.

https://discussions.apple.com/community/ipad/using_ipad

Sounds like you've got a hardware issue there, though. Probably not
something that can be fixed outside the genius bar (whose "fix" would be
to replace it, if it were under warranty).

sobriquet

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Dec 10, 2013, 2:54:11 PM12/10/13

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http://www.ipadforums.net/ios-7/114541-bottom-grey-bar-supposed-look-like.html

Hmmm, maybe somehow I've inadvertently cleared the shortcuts in the bottom area...

sobriquet

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Dec 10, 2013, 3:04:48 PM12/10/13

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On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:54:11 PM UTC+1, sobriquet wrote:
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> http://www.ipadforums.net/ios-7/114541-bottom-grey-bar-supposed-look-like.html
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> Hmmm, maybe somehow I've inadvertently cleared the shortcuts in the bottom area...

Though I think before the grey bar appeared, it looked more like this:

http://i.imgur.com/spPOK7x.jpg

So it's not just the icons that went missing, but also the 3d
appearance of the bottom area.

I was fiddling with the settings though (trying to get the
default notepad application to stop displaying numbers in a
yellow color, which isn't optimally visible on a white
background).

Sean Fahey

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Dec 10, 2013, 3:35:57 PM12/10/13

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On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 2:04:48 PM UTC-6, sobriquet wrote:

> I was fiddling with the settings though (trying to get the
> default notepad application to stop displaying numbers in a
> yellow color, which isn't optimally visible on a white
> background).

I've seen this happen on an iPad I support at work. Rebooting it fixed the problem in my circumstance. Hold down the on/off switch and the home button simultaneously until the iPad reboots (you'll see the Apple logo).

bill.martens

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Dec 11, 2013, 6:15:11 AM12/11/13

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I can concur with Sean's assessment. Reboot should resolve it. (had the same issue myself).