Due to using, lagging phenomena on your iPad 2 is usual, then you can easily reset it to improve and maintain the performance. Also, you may have experience situations where the iPad's screen is dark and refuses to turn on with the sleep/wake button. Well, don't panic as the hard reset will work on the iPad as well. This is called a hard reset because the user is physically pressing the button instead of resetting the computer or peripheral through software. So this method can easily overcome iPad's that refuses to turn on or reboot.
Hard reset steps due to irresponsive device:
- Look home button and power button
- Important to notice that you have minimum have 20 % power left on your iPad, if its not enough plugging-in your iPad first
- Then first you press and hold both power and home button simultaneously
- The Apple logo will appears and sign the hard reset is successful, the hard reset will takes a few minutes
Steps above are to hard reset due to irresponsive device, below are steps to improve performance your iPad:
- Hold press power button and home button
- Ignore the power off notification
- iPad will turn off and the Apple logo will appears