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Spinning Wheel Icon Next to Wi-Fi on iPad continuously rotating on my IPad, how to get rid of that.

iPad Air, iPadOS 14

Posted on Jul 27, 2021 2:50 AM

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LotusPilot

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Posted on Jul 27, 2021 2:55 AM

This is simply a network activity indicator. A background process (or App) is accessing your WiFi network. Network access doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem.

Perhaps you iPad is retrieving of synchronising email, synchronising to iCloud - or automatically backing-up to an iCloud backup.

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