The loading wheel have been showing up for no reason on the home screen of my iPad Air running 7.1.2 that is not jailbroken. It use to only show up when I am downloading apps. Now it is stuck on the top left corner of the iPad home screen, beside the wifi connection strength sign. The only way I know how to remove it is by restarting the iPad, but it showed up again after a while. I also tried the hard restart ( pressing the sleep/wake and home button together and letting go when I see the apple logo) but it only removed it for a while and then it showed up again. Any idea how to fix this?
IOS – How to remove the loading wheel from iPad home screen
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Best Answer
Possibility 1: Bug in a third-party app
Third-party developers have the ability to turn this icon on and off in their applications. This is a problem when the app does not disable the icon appropriately when it is finished with network operations.
The spinning wheel is set based on the
networkActivityIndicatorVisible
property and is set like so:[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible:YES];
Restarting the device fixes this until the offending app enables the icon and, once again, does not disable it. Apple apps will handle the icon properly, but iOS leaves it up to the third-party developers to handle it on their own. Sloppy developers can definitely cause the issue you are seeing.
The explanation from Apple's developer page on this topic:
Because this is explicit, bugs in code may cause this to remain visible long after a network operation finishes. My suggestion to you is to track down the offending app and submit a bug report to the developers.
Possibility 2: Actual networking is happening in the background
The accepted answer from this Apple.SE question suggests that it may be actual network activity causing the spinning wheel to remain visible.
This is certainly possible. It may not be a bug in anyone's code and reflect actual networking that your phone is doing in the background.