What to do if iPad goes back to home screen randomly?
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If your iPad / iPad 2 or even new iPad 3 has started to go back randomly to the home screen after only a few seconds of the start of ANY application that is the app stops abruptly and returns to the screen with icons do the following:

  1. Open Multitasking Bar on t iPad by using four-fingers gesture (or by double clicking Home Button)
  2. Locate any icon on it , tap and hold on this icon until the red circles with white dashes in it appear on the top left corner of all wiggling icons located on Multitasking Bar.
  3. Tap consequently all red circles with a dashes. This will release the memory of iPad / iPad2 from those apps running in background.
  4. Close Multitasking Bar by touching the iPad / iPad 2 / iPad3 screen outside its area.
  5. Install a random free app from AppStore
  6. Do not open this app after installation, but delete it. (Go here for advice on how to remove app. )
  7. Power off your iPad / iPad 2/ iPad 3, then turn it on.

That is all, the “Back to home screen” issue should not bother you again.

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