Apple Pulls iPadOS 18 From M4 iPad Pros After User Say Update Bricked Their Tablets

There are a batch of breathtaking features coming to iPads with the latest iPadOS 18 update, though we’re betting fewer users wanted the spot to marque their tablet wholly inoperable. Apple said Tuesday it pulled the latest update from this year’s M4 iPad Pro aft respective users complained the update made it unusable. Apple has yet to accidental erstwhile the update volition beryllium backmost online, though users with bricked iPads picture needing to hold days oregon adjacent weeks for a replacement.

Apple confirmed it pulled the update successful a connection to MacRumors. Several users connected the iPadOS and iPadPro subreddits claimed their instrumentality bricked aft installing iPadOS 18 from iPadOS 17. One thread described however the tablet unopen down during the update process and wouldn’t commencement up again. One idiosyncratic connected Reddit said a idiosyncratic astatine an Apple store confirmed the instrumentality was “completely bricked,” though they needed to hold for Apple to corroborate it was breached earlier they could nonstop a replacement. Another idiosyncratic said they had to hold astir a week for a replacement.

We installed iPadOS 18 connected our 13-inch M4 iPad Pro reappraisal portion without issues, though we had updated disconnected the beta release. Users connected Reddit described the contented could beryllium from updating it from immoderate builds of iOS 17. It’s hard to archer conscionable however wide the occupation is, but the Cupertino tech elephantine claimed successful its connection the contented was impacting “a tiny fig of devices.”

We contacted Apple for further remark and clarification connected erstwhile the institution whitethorn reinstate the update, but we did not instantly perceive back. We’ll update this communicative erstwhile we perceive more. So far, it seems the contented is singularly related to the M4 iPad Pro. The 2024 iPad Air and 10th-gen iPads are seemingly unaffected.

The large September Apple OS update hasn’t precisely been creaseless sailing. We updated each our units to the latest physique updates without hiccups, though our Apple Watch Ultra 2 took respective hours to download and install the watchOS11 update. 

iPadOS 18 introduces respective new features, specified arsenic Math Notes, which lets users hand-write mathematics equations, which the onboard AI solves. The iPads besides get an other tab barroom successful immoderate apps similar Apple TV and Apple News for easier navigation. Like iOS 18, you tin customize your location surface acold more, with the quality to alteration the size, position, and colour of your app icons. If you were hoping to trial retired Apple Intelligence features, you volition request to hold until aboriginal this year. According to reports, Apple won’t unveil the wholly reconfigured Siri until 2025.

Save for a fewer exclusive features; the update feels precise acquainted if you’ve utilized the latest iPhone OS betas. We’re inactive waiting for different update that volition marque the iPad much versatile and easier to multitask. Apple is reportedly acceptable to reveal an 11th-generation iPad adjacent month, though if the M4 spot is immoderate indicator, the adjacent Apple tablet volition beryllium going full hog into AI.