When your iPad is wonky, the first things to do [before asking for help!] is:
1: Do the ipad reboot dance.
http://tech2.mountdesales.net/blog/2017/the-ipad-reboot-dance/
2: Check how much storage you have open.
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Black iPad Apps – what to do
If you have apps on your ipad that are “black” or “grayed out” or just “won’t work”, here are some things to try:
- First, make sure you have a live connection to the internet. Fire up a web browser and visit a website you’ve never visited before. Then plugin your iPad and wait a half-hour to see if anything changes.
- If nothing has changed, then do the “iPad Reboot Dance“:
Swipe out of all your running apps,
then press AND HOLD the power button on the top of your iPad.
Swipe to turn it off.
Wait 2 minutes, and power it back on.
THEN plugin your iPad and wait a while, to see if anything changes. - Try clicking on one of the dark apps – sometimes that gets the install process kickstarted.
If NOTHING works, then send an email to IPAD – listing what apps are dark.
The “iPad Reboot Dance”
- Double-click the Home button [the one at the bottom of the screen]. You’ll see all of your running apps as stacked windows.
- Swipe upwards to get rid of each window.
- Press and Hold the power button [top right corner of the iPad] until “Swipe to Power Off” appears.
- Swipe to power it off!
- Wait 20 seconds. Try humming the fight song twice.
- Power your iPad back on by pushing the power button until the Apple logo appears.