How to Fix An IPad With a Black Screen of Death

So, I hope by the time you have discovered this blog that you have already contacted Apple Support, and they were not able to resolve the issue of your Ipad having  the black screen of "death". I say death in quotes, because if you plug your device into your PC you should see everything it contains, and it should be charging.

I discovered this fix when the same thing happened to my son's Ipad.  My son's tablet is very important to him. He takes it everywhere, and we have had it for quite a long time. So of course, I knew he would be very upset if he discovered that it would no longer work. I tried calling Apple support after I had tried a few minor things, such as powering the device on and off a few times, and then plugging it into my PC to backup any and all files.  It had been quite awhile since his device had been backed up and connected to our home PC. It needed some much-needed updates, but could not be done because it was loaded with apps, and had no space in its memory to upload the new OS. I have heard from other people that sometimes the case may be causing this weird glitch with the screen as well, and simply removing the case may get it up and running again. So if you have a protective case make sure you try removing this, and cleaning it out. I know ours had sand from the beach in it, which means there was probably sand inside our Ipad too.

The first technician I spoke with told me to try and hold down the power button along with the home button, which I may add I had already tried after I had searched online(other solutions), and this was given as a solution. Being a trooper I tried it again, and told the tech I was still not getting a response. The frustrating thing was that this tech seemed to have very little experience with this issue, and didn't offer any other solutions, but that I should mail it to them or go to my nearest Apple Store ,and pay them $240 to get it repaired. I don't know about you, but I do not have $240 just to spend on a repair, and if I would spend that much I may as well have bought a new tablet.

It was after this first call that it happened. On accident, I dropped the tablet on the floor. Now this device has been dropped many times by my son, but it was always in it's protective case. This time it was out of the case, and this time the screen came back on. Although it did flicker and was not entirely back on for good it was not an entirely blacked out screen. This allowed me the opportunity to re-connect the device to my PC, and try to update to the newest Operating system. Of course, I had to delete a few apps to recover the space needed. What I had learned from dropping the Ipad was that this rough movement had somehow "fixed" the black screen. So when it started to fail again all it took were a few raps on the back of the device to revive the screen. As crazy as this sounds it worked, and now the device has no more screen issues. If you doubt this please feel free to search online yourself for the phrase"Spank the Ipad".

This is one of the videos about this fix I found online.

Crazy, huh? It worked for ours. If you have had this same situation happen to you, and this worked for you as well please feel free to comment below. Thanks for reading this post, and I hope this solution or one I linked worked out for you.