Two days ago this blue thing appeared on my iPad. I have no idea what it is or when it’s going to stop showing. Please tell me what it is if you know!
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Original Title: Blue thing next to battery parentage
iPad, iPadOS 18
The icon indicates that your iPad is performing synchronisation. Appearance of the icon is benign - and will disappear of its own accord when the task completes.
Yours is one of many reports seen in recent months. At present, pending confirmation by Apple, this appearance of the icon is believed to have some relationship to post-update synchronisation tasks performed by your iPad after updating to iPadOS 18.x (such as downloading Apple Intelligence LLM models) - or the icon appears while a download is being performed as a background task.
Apple have not yet provided a definitive explanation.
Apple's documentation is often slow to catch-up with new features. Here is another status icon - that appears briefly when connecting some USB-C hubs - that Apple have yet to add to their documentation:
Does tapping it reveal additional information? How about holding it for a second or two?
Tapping on it doesn’t help at all I tried that multiple times
Thank you so much. I thought there’s something wrong with my iPad I was so worried. Thanks!!
You're very welcome. Your iPad does not have a fault.
Identifying the blue icon next to my iPad battery percentage
