A VERY weird problem with the screen?!!!
Ok, first of all, I apologize for the title of the question above, it was difficult to put my problem into words.
I use the Instagram app a lot on my 3 month old retina iPad. I have pressed the little thingy on the bottom right of the screen that reads ( x2 ) and always use the app in this bigger form.
When I brows the internet or read a book I have no problem, but today when I opened a picture with a dark brown color I noticed that there are parallel vertical lines on the screen that are of a lighter shade. I naturally though it was a problem with the picture so I checked it on another one and they are still there. Very faint and hardly noticeable but THERE.
Now to the big surprise.
I realized the vertical lines are a faint outline of the Instagram app!!!!!!! The lines match the lines on the popular page (or people's accounts) where the pictures are placed in columns, the parts that are black between the pictures? Those perfectly match the faint lines on my screen!!!
Guess what.
After a few minutes of shock I noticed that there is even a faint outline of the home button too.
WHAT is this?
What could have gone wrong?
My iPad has never been dropped, never in contact with water, never over heated, never opened....
WHAT?
I don't know if that will help at all. I just didn't realize that you had it turned on, that may have nothing to do with it, but its worth a try. At least it will be something that you can eliminate.
If rebooting the iPad helped at all, you can consider resetting all settings. When you do that though, you must re-enter all of the device settings again. It's sort of a pain to have to reset all of your customized settings and it will take some time, but it doesn't erase any data. It does mean that you have to re-enter WiFi passwords, turn Siri on agai, allow apps access to location services and photos .... All of that good stuff.
I hope for your sake, thatit's just some weird anomaly going on with the screen right now and that it will correct itself. You could try closing all apps in the recents tray, restart the iPad and see if the ghosting goes away. That's harmless enough to try.
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